Aikatsu Stars!

Yume Nijino has been accepted into Four Stars academy, home of the beautiful and talented S4 idol group. She and the other newcomers are determined to discover their talent, with a choice of specializing in beauty, singing, dancing, or drama. A tough road lies ahead of them, and they must rely on each other to overcome their weaknesses and develop their unique strengths.

At the first-years' opening performances, Yume performs stellarly but faints and is unable to remember being on stage at all. Struggling to find her talent, she meets Rola "Laura" Sakuraba, and the two develop a friendly rivalry, working together to learn and improve.

Though they have their differences, all the students share the same goal: to become the next S4 idol. But hard work and determination, along with teamwork, are needed if they want to join the elite S4.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Nijino, Yume Main

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Sakuraba, Rola Main

Asai, Ayaka Japanese

Saotome, Ako Main

Murakami, Natsumi Japanese

Kasumi, Mahiru Main

Miyamoto, Yume Japanese

Hoshimiya, Ichigo Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire Japanese

Kiriya, Aoi Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Oozora, Akari Supporting

Shimoji, Shino Japanese

Toudou, Yurika Supporting

Numakura, Manami Japanese

Shibuki, Ran Supporting

Hikami, Sumire Supporting

Wakui, Yuu Japanese

Hosoya, Nobuyuki Producer

Saga, Hayato Producer

Hara, Hirokazu Producer

Kimura, Hiroshi Assistant Producer

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Nov 28, 2021

starmiya_miyuki

Recommended

Thank you for Aikatsu Stars!
I enjoyed Aikatsu Stars very much!

I love original Aikatsu so I watched this series. This series are somewhat inferior to original Aikatsu but it is pretty worth watching.
Aikatsu series describe friendship well. Also this series do that well.
I like Yume and Raula's friendship, Yuzu and Lilly's friendship, Yozora and Mahiru's family relationship.

I like older S4 especially Yuzu and Yozora.
Yuzu is quiet tolerant person and she is always worried about someone, she has warm heart.
Yozora is always worried about her younger sister Mahiru. She is ideal sister, I think.
... I wonder Yozora failed against Mahiru on purpse or not??
Yozora tend to think that.

Anyway, all of older S4 are pretty wonderful people.
I wanted such person as my senior people.
I want to transfer to Yotsuboshi Academy XD

from now on, I am going to watch next season.
I'm looking forward to watch that too!!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 11, 2020

KincaidP

Recommended

Before I start I'd like to just state as of this I've only seen S1 of Aikatsu Friends so I'm still pretty new into the franchise.

Story Wise: 6.5
I may have given it a 7 in the but that's only because the rating system allows but I don't believe it deserves a 6.
To be honest I'm very mixed on aspects of Aikatsu Stars. The first season 1-50 was really enjoyable as we got the growth of all the characters who were more than just background characters. I tend to classify characters in to 3 groups. Main, Main Supporting, and Sub Supporting. Sub ... supporting being characters that show up but don't have any major impact on the story. S2 though is where I take major issue the story and it faces demerits in my book. S2 story pushes an antagonist with some very clear issues and this detracts as a whole the further you go into s2.

Art: 8
It's more of a 7.5ish just because you can tell times when they cut corners to save for bigger moments within the ep/arc. Only other issue is certain contrasting design aspects in a couple crossover EP.

Character: 7.7
Main character and Main Supports do get a lot of attention as you would hope in a 100 ep series. My only real complaints is a certain character and then how they seem to be more than willing to do other characters dirty in my opinion. There were a good few ep I watched where I felt they dunked on characters for the sake of it.

Sound: 9 as a whole
One of the things a friend kept going on about in previous Aikatsu was how the songs were more varied than in Friends. I can agree and disagree. They largely used the same formula as what I saw in Friends but we have a more varied cast in Stars. Music as a whole was great though.

Enjoyment: 8.5 in reality but again MAL rating system only allows by whole point intervals.
S2 has some really solid moments but again is drug down by a character and to be honest initially those around her but they all get their own great moments.

Overall: 8
I said what I had in each section. Would I recommend this? Depends to be honest. It's a franchise technically aimed at little girls on top of being an idol anime on top of being 100 ep. If you already like ani-idol stuff I'd say yes go for it, if not it's honestly a hard sell.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 5, 2023

wildheartz18

Mixed Feelings

Honestly, I had pretty middle of the road expectations. Previously I was watched a few episodes of Aikatsu friends when it debuted and it was very alright. It was honestly a surprise to be a lot more engage with it. With Stars, there's a focus given by the story and world building. There wasn't an episode where it felt force because the general plot help give the characters some focus, even if said episodes had nothing to do with the story.

I really appreciate the constant theme of having the girls lose, being able to grieve for their failures before trying again, usually by changing their ... goals. It's hard to describe but it's really comforting to see.

Despite how very generic the first half looks conceptually, I think it's better than the second half. There's a lot of new elements in the second half that aren't really explained well as the first half, like why there's even a moon star coord (and how Hime even got it) when Elza and the other girls busted their ass for their star coords. Elza also seems unnaturally cold. Maybe I had a different perception of what her was but once her backstory was revealed it was like "oh..." She's understandably very cold and goal driven but she's never really criticized by people outside the main group. I also wish Rei had more of a goal outside of Elza.

The 3D segments takes some time getting used to, my real gripe with them is how wide the mouths can get. I'd say the songs in the later half are better than the first half but mostly since I remember and enjoy those more.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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