Web Anime of 'Dream Festival!' Announced for Summer 2016

by arsonal
Mar 27, 2016 8:01 AM | 23 Comments

The official website of Bandai Namco's Dream Festival! idol project has announced an anime production. The series will be distributed online on the Animate Channel platform and on the Chinese video sharing website Bilibili in Summer 2016. The debut CD single of the project's Dear Dream idol unit, titled "NEW STAR EVOLUTION," went on sale on March 16. The single sold 558 copies in its first week of release.

Synopsis
One day, second year high school student Kanade Amamiya is suddenly scouted by legendary idol Haruto Mikami. He now faces the life an idol with others in the same agency. He aims to make his CD debut in Dream Festival!, joined by the mysterious Shin Oikawa, the stoic Junya Sasaki, the kind but passionate Itsuki Katagiri, and the clumsy but smart Chizuru Sawamura. In order to receive the Dream Festival! Cards sent by fans, can Kanede and the others become the best on stage?

Staff
Original Creator: Bandai Namco Pictures
Original Plan: Bandai
Series Composition: Youichi Katou (Aikatsu!)
Sound Director: Hiromi Kikuta (The iDOLM@STER)
Director: Yuuta Murano (Brave Beats)

Cast
Kanade Amamiya: Shouma Ishihara
Shin Oikawa: Takuya Mizoguchi
Junya Sasaki: Kentarou Tomita
Itsuki Katagiri: Masaki Oota
Chizuru Sawamura: Kaoru Masaki
Haruto Mikami: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children)

"NEW STAR EVOLUTION" Music Video

Announcement

Source: Official site

Dream Festival! on MAL

20 of 23 Comments Recent Comments

character designs look bleh :/ well it might still be good regardless

Aug 27, 2016 4:42 AM by silverwalls

Anime looks so much great and this is less popular.
Rain of cards is ♥

Aug 27, 2016 4:35 AM by Shadow-Chan

PV out.

Song sounds great, everything looks alright too.

Aug 26, 2016 3:42 AM by Mayuka

I'm going to watch it which is very similar to Aikatsu.

Mar 30, 2016 9:20 PM by Sakurashoujo

Yyey! I like Idol anime!! ;3

Mar 28, 2016 4:38 PM by 5shin

The song from the PV is nice; I listened it all the way through. Idk most likely will watch for the music only; all these announcements lately about idol games receiving anime adaptations and sort of made me roll eyes so hard.

Mar 28, 2016 3:31 AM by removed-user

NaturalPerm said:
idol anime are bad. be it males or females

Unless its about statues and 7 minutes long...

Mar 28, 2016 3:20 AM by LoneWizzy

Announcement PV

Mar 28, 2016 12:12 AM by tsubasalover

I think the single sold enough considering the seiyuu are utter newbies and it hasn't had that much promotion until now.

Can't wait~

Mar 27, 2016 9:55 PM by phoenixalia

Dear god so many male idols for upcoming seasons.
Is 2016 anime theme fangirls?

Mar 27, 2016 4:38 PM by Chaldene

More male idols is always welcome! I'm in!

Mar 27, 2016 4:10 PM by Roloko

i think i'd watch it, the music's not too bad..lol

Mar 27, 2016 3:28 PM by momosemomo

At least they're still trying lol.

Mar 27, 2016 2:35 PM by Ramkec

"The single sold 558 copies in its first week of release."

KEK
China streaming :O gotta tap into that market.

Mar 27, 2016 12:53 PM by ichii_1

Oh god, another one.
Nope.

Mar 27, 2016 12:31 PM by DatRandomDude

I'm really excited for the game and anime. I need all the songs!

Mar 27, 2016 12:08 PM by Shadow-Chan

idol anime are bad. be it males or females

skip~

Mar 27, 2016 10:23 AM by NaturalPerm

An idol anime based off a unit that their music doesn't even sell whatsoever, Bandai Namco has lost it. Give me Million Live instead.

Mar 27, 2016 9:55 AM by Hoppy

moodie said:

Yukinekos said:
Another male Idol Anime Project, dammit xD
What is with this massive amount of Anime being announced in the last three days!? It's an overkill for me xD Anime please temporarily STOP.

There is a convention going called Anime Japan 2016, this is why we are getting alot of news.

So it's like this every year? It seems like it's fun for the news team on MAL to keep the news going haha xD

Mar 27, 2016 9:03 AM by Yukinekos

Gosh, all these male idol anime projects! Not like I can complain though, I'm overjoyed.
That cast is unknown for me except for Morikawa but I'm looking forward to see how it will turn out nonetheless!

Mar 27, 2016 8:46 AM by Heiize

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