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STARLIGHT STAGE:
>Event: 03/20 - 03/28 Token "Kiraa! Mankai Smile" (Uzuki, Momoka)
>Gacha: 03/23 - 03/27 (Seira, Miyabi)
>Party: 03/05 - 04/05
Cards: starlight.kirara.ca
Tracker: twitter.com/deresuteborder0

THEATER DAYS:
>Event: 03/20 - 03/27 PSTour "ZETTAI × BREAK!! Twinkle Rhythm" (Iku, Yuriko)
>Gacha: 03/23 - 03/28 (Noriko, Tsubasa, Mirai)
Cards: imas.gamedbs.jp/mlth
Tracker: twitter.com/imas_ml_td

LIVE ON ST@GE:
>Event: 03/22 - 03/29 "Labyrinth School" (Genbu, Sora)
>Event Gacha: 03/21 - 03/29 (Asselin, Daigo)

NEWS:
>Archive of : archive.is/c2Zpk
- ML Radio summary (Mar 23rd): - SS Update (Mar 23rd): - TD Update (Mar 23rd): - CG Update (Mar 23rd): - CG Theater 1065 raw: - SM booth @AnimeJapan: - LoS Upcoming (Mar 23rd): - CINDERELLA MASTER 051 Tomoe's "Onna no Michi wa Hoshi no Michi" preview: - STARLIGHT MASTER 16 Turn-ANSWER on April 18th + "Spring Screaming" preview: - CG Shimamura collab: - ML travel stickers: UPCOMING:
Mar 24th, 4PM JST: AnimeJapan stream: nico.ms/lv311733433
Mar 24th: iM@S Tokyu Hands collab begins, WWG volume 5 event @Akiba Gamers

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BELIEVE IN CHIE

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Second for babymaking sex with Ranko!

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>Tomoe's CM
>Master Seasons Spring
>∀NSWER
>Kotoha's solo that they didn't release a preview of
I can't fucking wait

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Character limit. It's at 1994/2000.

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4/4 CINDERELLA MASTER 049-051、MASTER SPARKLE 08
4/11 MASTER SEASONS SPRING!
4/18 STELLA MASTER 03、STARLIGHT MASTER 16
4/25 MILLION THEATER GENERATION 07

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What the fuck, I like enka songs now. Congrats, Tomoe, I'll probably shell out money to Chiho to buy that stupid boxset and ∀NSWER.

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>Spring Screaming
To be honest this sounds like some sort of experimental shit where it'd be just recordings of people getting tortured
But instead it's a song featuring the biggest bundle of joy Kaoru

I shrunk the OP image to make it easier to post, and also because it's Yuka's birthday and small things are more suitable.
But now that's it's the 24th, here's the full sized version of the OP image.

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PARIRA PASSION

And Spring Songs sound great too!

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School uniforms!

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*Yuzu

>you lived to see Tomoe get the best CM
Feels so good

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Why do CG and SM get more games than ML?

Kyoko and Anya are pregnant!

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Calm the fuck down, Arisu.

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Because ML will soon be incorporated as sub-idols for SC

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Surely nothing can go wrong, right?

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What's wrong with my Chiyoko roll. She somewhat seems more circular and less relevant.

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Has there been anyone of great fame who composes Idolmaster songs?

I know what I said you stupid nignog

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Because SM has two developers and CG is handled by a developer who can actually handle multiple mobile games at once.

It's Nina's chapter, something HAS to go wrong

She seems cuter too!

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I'll never be able to meet user dressed as Shiki and engage in an mutual benefit relationship.

>actually handle multiple mobile games at once.
And Bamco can't?

Fuck Answer, more X Japan covers when?

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And I corrected it so it actually reflects your opinion.

>Surely nothing can go wrong, right?

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Mai's flashbacks.

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U149 going to Mars to find the cure for ManletP's stunted growth?

I don't know whether they can't, but they don't. The vast majority of their mobile games are outsourced. In fact I don't know anything that they're running by themselves right now other than TD.

Thank fuck.

>Bamco
I'll be honest with you. Given their track record for the past couple of years, I wouldn't even trust them with a console game much less a fucking Mobile game.

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Best U149 and best arc

We don't actually know the reason why the original ML mobage shut down. Anything and everything you see said on the matter is purely speculation. The only things we know is that GREE's CEO fled the company shortly before the shutdown was announced, and that there's some sort of legal issue preventing the use of A-1's art of the original 13 idols in TD (which is why they're completely redrawn in all cards ported over to TD).

>my main keeps getting R dupes
>my alt already has 28/32

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Wait, who's dressed as Shiki, user, or you meeting him?

And in which Shiki outfit?

NO

>Spring Screaming
>They don't actually scream at any point

Great job correcting my opinion user. Say, I hear there's a picture of Jesus in Spain that needs restoring, you might do a good job with that.

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>The only things we know is that GREE's CEO fled the company shortly before the shutdown was announced
This has nothing to do with Bamco, though. They're still running some shit Naruto game on GREE just fine.
>and that there's some sort of legal issue preventing the use of A-1's art of the original 13 idols in TD (which is why they're completely redrawn in all cards ported over to TD).
We don't even know if it's an "issue".
Only thing confirmed is they only got rights to the new 39's art. This could very well be intentional.

You say it like scamco gave half a shit about GREE. TD is the reason why ML shut down. That's all there is to it.

>I hear there's a picture of Jesus in Spain that needs restoring
Oh fuck you for reminding me of this
It still makes me laugh

The apex of trash.

Fuck you, AC7 will be great
p-please bamco

What's his age?
Kotori and Misaki also look very young and they're possibly cakes

Eh, judging by the previews it seems like it'll be weaker than Fall and Winter.

I literally just said that we don't know anything on the issue, except for a couple of facts. How connected those facts are is unknown. That's why I said it's all just speculation.

And I said that it's not a problem between GREE and Bamco since Bamco still works with them.
Only game that was shut down was ML, which was actually one of GREE's heaviest earners. And this shut down really conveniently got announced only a few months after TD, the game that earns much more, released.

Not me, that's gay. Also they'd be using the Limited Shiki and not that Cinfes outfit.

And that's still just speculation.
I'm guessing this discussion isn't going to go anywhere productive anytime soon, huh?

Spring Screaming is great and there's a Shiina Go song coming.

At this point you're just resorting to semantics. But I agree. It's not really going to anywhere, especially if you want to entertain the idea that Bamco is free of fault here.

Do you know what does ZxB 's back chorus mean?

>Hey, it looks like one of our games earns more than a game which uses the same franchise!
>I know! Instead of churning out cash from both games, let's just shut one down so we will just have one cash cow instead of two!
What you just said doesn't make sense, does it?

>mai: p-please don't fight!
>chie: i-it's fine, they always get like this

Cute couple.

yeah mai and chie are a great couple

That's not what I said. You're not only speculating, you're drawing false conclusions from my own statements. So this REALLY isn't going to go anywhere productive.
My apologies for replying to you in the first place.

Maybe they graduated from the Mishiro School of Business.

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It's a case of directing the resources from the game that earns less to the game that earns more.

>not a single Hiori yet
[Muffled REEEEEEEE in the distance]

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Koharu's uniform looks cute.

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>one button gameplay and shit models too
now I can understand why LoS is shit, all male idol mobages are shit

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Games aimed at women are often pretty low quality. Maybe devs think they have low standards or something.

But it's nowhere near as good as tansaku

>a week later
>10 views

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So they can't pull a Cygames and like any sensible company would, and put your resources in *both* games? Are Scamco/GREE's hands full or something?

This must be the critical part where Arisu and Momoka decide to bare themselves for the good of the team.

There's no speculation here Bamco didn't shut down any other games on Gree along with ML.
The shut down got announced soon after TD released.
These are both facts.
Any conclusions you want to draw from them are a different matter.

Clearly there's only one solution.

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I'm not playing SS. Is it this one?

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Manlet's got the right ideas.

Shiki, your legs are dangerous

Or low skill cap. Whatever it is, devs probably do their research on what gives the best returns in regards to the target audience.

If innocent didn't work it's time to try a different approach!

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The way you said it implies a possibility that GREE's CEO being shady is somehow responsible for ML shutting down.

>So they can't pull a Cygames and like any sensible company would, and put your resources in *both* games?
I'm sure they would have if they deemed it worth it. But this was an old browser game with a ~20k playerbase.
>Are Scamco/GREE's hands full or something?
Gree didn't develop anything. They're just the platform ML was being hosted on. Game was fully developed by Bamco.

Those little pearl ankle straps are dangerous.

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Can't go one day without attention whoring, huh?

I am here again to announce that I really love my wife Takamori Aiko.

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We know, Mio. Good luck in the election!
Not that you're gonna need it.

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Oh no, Koharu's Cute type is showing.

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Can't possibly be Cute without brain problems.

Lucky Bunnies will get all the luck!

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Micro bikinis for the lolis?!

I like your wife's barrel body.

serika no

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No, I said that we don't know the reason, and then mentioned two facts: "GREE's CEO fled the building" and "Some sort of legal issue over art occurred". Other facts include "Theater Days launched" and "Million Live was never as popular as Cinderella Girls".
What connection any of these facts have to what actually happened is PURELY SPECULATION, and anyone who actually believes that they DO know the actual reason is full of themselves.

I said it before, and I'll say it again: This entire discussion has no good ending to it. It'll either slow down and stop eventually, or it'll turn into a big stupid pointless fight for no good reason. I refuse to engage further.