Aikatsu! 10th Story: Mirai e no Starway (2023) Episode 1 Discussion

Well, I guess this is it, the last of Aikatsu in what used to be one of the best Kids Idol series that had actual "lessons" about working hard in life and doing your best.

This was a really great series and the first season will always remain the best season with Ichigo.

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I won't ever forgot about this series (at least the first few seasons, I stopped watching the series after Aikatsu on Parade, that was the last "full series" before they gone into mini-shorts and mixed with real life podcasts.)

Aikatsu on Parade is pretty much considered the "last of series" since it's a "multiverse of Aikatsu worlds" that connects all characters together.

But I wasn't that big on Aikatsu on Parade, the only good part was Ichigo making appearances. Otherwise the actual Aikatsu season that I liked was Aikatsu Stars.

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Tho I do agree that some parts of the art quality has dropped from the original.

The reason I believe is they wanted the hand-drawn/ digital-drawn to be similar to the 3D-models, which has less "lines" and "shadow/ depth".

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And yea, seeing everyone growing up and going their separate ways is always emotional. But I am glad Ichigo and Ran stayed together, at least until someone else barges into their life, unless they went full "Yuri". As for Aoi... seems as tho she's going to be a Teacher in America, since she's learning Teaching stuff in America instead of Teaching stuff in Japan. And Aoi only returns to Japan from time-to-time, probably only once a year judging by the looks of it.

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But the movie also makes me wonder, what are the other Aikatsu main character from other multiverse doing now... lol

It would be REAL interesting if they had a movie of Aikatsu on Parade grown up multiverse edition where everyone is a grown up now and meet each other to talk about what they've done or is doing as adults, LOL. (probably won't happen, cause from this movie, they went with "flash backs" to get musicals since the grown up Ichigo, Aoi and Ran seems to no longer do musicals as they're doing adult things... which means the other characters probably also stopped doing musicals as most Idol-time pretty much stops after you've reach age 20, and afterwards you just become a actor-Idol that rarely do musicals, some still do sing, but rarely actual quick movement dances unless you're in a specialized musical band, regular bands rarely moves that much)

(also, since this is 10 years later, and I am pretty sure Akari also graduates like 2 years after Ichigo (assuming they're doing Japan's 3 year high school system), what happened to Akari, what's she doing now?) (aka, to Akari, this movie would be 8 years later)

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Other note, after Aikatsu on Parade, I actually sorta stopped watching kids-Idol series, especially since "Pripara" (other kids-Idol series) stopped getting Subs in mid of season 2 so I didn't continue watching the later seasons of that series as I didn't want to just jump over like 30~40 episodes of previous season... (the later season was also only like 1/3rd subbed) This was like 7+ years ago when I stopped watching Pripara. I also haven't checked if any other kids-Idol that replaced Aikatsu.

(I am pointing at Kids-Idol series that incorporates Fantasy and future Tech with high episode counts, not realistic Idol series like Idolmaster, Love Live, BangDream, etc etc)