Talk:Episode 178 - The Best Present/@comment-26432463-20160303233622/@comment-24848025-20160309165649

Didn't Love Live recently announce a new Arcade game based on the LLSIF mobile game? Wouldn't be so quick to say that Love Live won't be in the arcades.

Anyway, I don't agree with the "hard reset" needed to happen to Aikatsu. I think you could have had Aikatsu Stars within the Aikatsu universe, and not alienate your older fans. That said, perhaps Bandai (and make no mistake, this isn't a Sunrise/BNP thing, it's all Bandai who owns both Aikatsu and Idolmaster) wants to renew interest in the series, and that's best done with a "hard reset" and not a "soft reset" that we saw between Season 2 and 3. Bandai was able to renew interest in Idolmaster after the show got trounced by Love Live, so they're probably thinking doing the same thing for Aikatsu will be able to bring it back vs PriPara.

What I liked about Aikatsu is that it was able to transition it's show and really storyline-wise did well in doing that, but apparently doing a "soft reset" ends up not keeping interest and thus declining ratings. And I feel the "soft reset" would have worked if not for the terrible mistake Sunrise did in sending Ichigo off for a year between Season 1 and 2. It shortened the time they had with 1st Gen and to really establish STAR ANIS, so when it came time to reset - it felt like Akari came too quickly. I'd expect they'll take the mistakes and lessons learned from the original series and apply it to Aikatsu Stars, though maybe not because people are feeling this might be coming too quickly in much the same way Akari came too quickly and ultimately hurt her.

Anyway, I can never really be a fan of PriPara because they always do magic BS in THE MIDDLE OF THE DANG PERFORMANCE! I could stomach the Special Appeals in Aikatsu because ultimately they end up being important and they're short, but I can't stomach the time eating 30-45 second transformation BS that they do in PriPara that always happens mid-song.