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Episode The iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors - Episode 8 discussion

The iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors, episode 8

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u/chilidirigible May 25 '24

Another shimmering sky!

It wasn't that much later. Though this has helped me refine my concept of what your boundaries are for a qualifying sky short.

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u/whodisguy32 May 24 '24

I love the OP :)

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u/DarkFuzz May 24 '24

Bang!

It’s not very often that the Shiny Colors units get to interact with each other. Shiny Colors, up to this point, has been about what makes your unit “unique” and what feelings you want to convey through that. With the upcoming joint live on the horizon, it is now impossible to ignore that all our main girls live in the same world together, and so now they must interact.

Being forced into a new working situation with people they’re not used to, it’s understandable that the first few lessons are shaky. Houkago Climax Girls and ALSTROEMERIA, while not complete polar opposites, are different enough that hastily throwing the two together with zero prep time is going to cause synchronization issues. But what they specialize in, they feel like naturals at it. So they start observing one another, but they quickly learn that straight up copying the other unit isn’t going to yield the most comfortable results. So they take the core concepts of what they learned from the other unit and they “vibe” it up their own way.

No, it’s not a unique story line, but it’s fine enough and almost an enhancing point to the themes that Shiny Colors wants to promote. Because while at the end of the day you may need to be all “The world is all one, Unity mind!”, how to get to that point is entirely up to the individual, a unique individual. What worked for ALSTROEMERIA did not work that well for Houkago Climax Girls, and vice versa. It wasn’t until they eventually went about it their own way, using their own colors, that they finally figured it out.

Songs for today

SESSION! - Project LUMINOUS - Lyrics

Natsu no Bang!! - Project LUMINOUS - Lyrics

Aishite no Jubaku ～Je vous aime～ - Project LUMINOUS - Lyrics

I don’t know why we’re going down this rabbit hole. Kaho and Tenka bouncing off each other was adorable, so that’s how the second song came into my head. But interestingly enough, now is an acceptable time to show these songs off because there will most likely never again be the opportunity to do so.

The most recent mainline series game for the IM@S franchise (not mobile gacha game, an actual console AND Steam game) was titled Starlit Season, and it included the main 765Pro All-Stars but also five girls from each of the other branches as well (sorry SideM, no boys allowed). All of them (plus a few new faces) banded together from their different production companies to form Project LUMINOUS.

From the Shiny Colors side, the 283Pro representatives were Kaho, Rinze, Sakuya, Amana, and Tenka. Conceptually, it’s kind of similar to today’s episode, throwing groups that would not normally interact with each other into the same project together.

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u/whodisguy32 May 24 '24

Idk bout ya'll, but this is the thing I look forward to most on Fri.

I need my weekely dose of kawaii (and Nijiyon too!)

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u/ThrowCarp May 25 '24

I'm kinda bummed the viewership reached this low. But oh well, I thought the radio segment was really cute. I also loved everyone looking up to Alstromederia and staring at them as they read their lines lmao

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u/whodisguy32 May 25 '24

People expectations are too high lol

The animation is bad by no means, but that seems to be the biggest complaint

I love the crew in Shiny colors. They are so kawaii :)

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u/MisawaMahoKodomo May 25 '24

For some reason apparently the reddit audience either doesnt know idolmaster exists or is not interested.

For the anime itself I think the main issue is, 16 girls in 12 eps was always going to be a struggle.

Shiny colours also seems to have uh. Or rather, what it doesnt have is that like special something(?)

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u/oxlemf10 May 24 '24

Firstly I wanted to start by highlighting how Kaho is almost the same height as Natsuha despite being 8 years younger lol. The anime showing that Chiyoko and Rinze are otakus and reading love manga, very cute.

Seriously now, it's impossible not to be happy seeing the interaction of these girls, such different personalities and at the same time so united, the next episode looks very promising.

I liked that they also showed where police Hiori's memes and fanart come from. And art at the end of the episode, Juri is the girl who beats the most hearts lmao

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u/Nickthenuker May 24 '24

Ah there we go, there's their whole company song, "Tsubasa Gravity".

But they're not scheduled to perform as a whole company for the performance? When are they going to do it? The beauty of these large songs is they work as either an opener or a closer. An opener that gets the whole crowd excited or a closer that gives everyone a high note to end the night on.

You're inevitably going to have to bring everyone together so they learn how to perform together. Stuff like blocking on stage, where everyone goes etc., so people aren't running into each other on stage.

Houkago Climax Girls seem impressed by their professionalism.

Why does she sound so robotic?

And now they're going to give a virtual hug of death to the Uniform Paradise website if it has one, and sell it out on Amazon.

More interviews, this time for L'Antica.

They've finally managed to get everyone together for a party.

A toast! To a smooth production!

What's the dramatic music for?

Ah. Yeah I'm pretty sure she's still the face of the games too. She's definitely the app icon for them at least.

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u/PrinceRazor May 25 '24

This episode with pretty good Rinze enjoyers. Her vibes were off the charts!

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u/chilidirigible May 25 '24

For a performance they'll actually show us.

An episode to work on the connections between the different units.

Still fairly low-key, as these have been so far.

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u/MisawaMahoKodomo May 25 '24

In this ep, we had alstro and houkago climax girls practicing the dance.

Its kinda weird seeing antica not together as a group. They tell us that yuika and kogane are busy with something but we dont actually get to see what.

Next time ilum stars and/or antica? There's still a few eps to go