Dawn of the Final Day
The Wheel of Fate is turning. Will it remain upright, or will it invert?
By the way, I’m hosting two panels at Anime Boston this week! One is titled Idol Activities, Friday morning bright and early at 10 AM. The other is about Okada Mari, Sunday at noon. Come and check them out if you’re attending.
Do or do hot. There is no try!
The Starlight Queen Cup begins. We’ve got three high intensity episodes in a row. Are you ready?
Also, there will be no new episode next week. Two episodes, 175 and 176, will both air on the 17th. Prepare your hearts.
EDIT: Yes we’re aware the new episode aired. Blame whoever runs the Aikatsu site.
In the name of the moon!
Season 1 Quality™ episode. Well, you just enjoy.
Yes Aikatsu is ending and Aikatsu Stars is replacing it. Find your information elsewhere, I don’t want to be held accountable for anything. News about subs for the movie or otherwise have not changed from my previous posts.
Shoes inside? What kind of Japanese girl is she?
And now for the continuation of Akari’s last episode. Couple things after the break.
Oh, and we’re doing the Aikatsu Music Awards. I don’t know when, but it’ll be done.
ERRATUM: I dun goofed this line. Akari says “No, it’s not a seaweed bento, it’s a mega mega bento [from Hoshimiya’s place].”
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You know what they say about shooting for the moon
Delays brought to you by news SO IMPORTANT that every channel had to talk about it at different times with loud beeps. So this encode is part chimera. It also broke like three times in the making, so we missed Aoi’s birthday. I could’ve used my own miracle.
Maybe being a country bumpkin isn’t so bad…
This whole setup for the Starlight Queen Cup is the most intense train we’ve had since it happened in season one. The huge thing to note in this episode is what “May Queen” means in this context. Rather than being a title for the girl during May Day celebrations, as it turns out there’s a breed of potatoes from the UK originally named Walker’s Seedling, which were then imported to Japan and became famous growing in Hokkaido. Hence the confusion many native English speakers like myself will feel considering this episode is still in January.
The other minor thing to note, though you must be aware by now after four years, is how different the same song can be in different performances. The timing of today’s song changed in relation to the camerawork. Usually one lyric is sung for one or two cuts, and it’s very clean to time. However, today they decided to alter it such that each lyric starts at the end of one cut and continues onto the next, making it feel much more dynamic than usual. This is actually story-related, as you’ll see for yourself.
