User blog:StrangelySmartGirl/Hopes for Aikatsu Friends and comparing AiSta with AiFu + "theories"

I know that it might be too soon for this since aikatsu friends starts only in 2 months but with the info we have i think it may be already enough to write something good. (Also it seems like they're trying to really hype us up for aikatsu friends by giving us early info.) Anyways, here goes:

The uniform already seems like a big step up compared to Aikatsu Stars, not gonna lie. I didn't like the AiSta uniforms (the blue ones, S4 uniforms are fine), it was like they were trying something new without having any idea of what they're supposed to make. This time around however, even though there's less details than before, the color scheme is something i've never seen and it blends well. I'm also a fan of the brown shoes for some reason, they really contrast the turquoise, red and pink pastel of the uniform.

I know that for some people the hair is kind of "too much". I personally don't mind the colors. The only one i don't like is Hime 2.0 i mean uh... Karen's hair. It's just too similar to a *certain* character from AiSta. (I mean come on, why??)

The clothes in general are... okay i guess. We didn't see much yet but from what i've seen there's nothing that makes me go "woah!" Or "aww!" Not even the Diamond Friends duo dresses. Tbh starting from AiSta there's only a few coords that i liked since then. Aikatsu in term of brands and originality is still the best.

Won't talk about the songs. Already left a comment on each anyway and we didn't even hear the full versions. My fav is "Believe it" like everyone's.

Character wise i'm really looking forward to Coco. Since she's the navi it seems like she has all the types, just look at her: all white with pink, blue, yellow and purple stripes. It would be great if she had 4 songs for herself and each type she has. I hope she won't be a side character like Koharu or Shion. We never had an idol with several types and they're already giving us one with all of them! Unless they decide to make much types which i hope they won't. I feel like it would be interesting at first but then there would be some who are too similar.

It was stated that this time around the protagonist is Aine AND Mio. Which i find to be really interesting, thus far it has always been "the cute protagonist" and "the cool rival". I'm honestly tired and bored of this coming up in every Aikatsu generation. The "we're friends but also rivals" speech won't work anymore. I want them to have as much equal screentime as they can and to join forces for a single goal: becoming Diamond Friends. In this storyline they're supposed to go against the same enemy not to fight amongst themselves. I don't mind if there's a short arc when they have an arguement but not a rivalry throughout the entire story.

If it comes to "rivals" i'd rather them be the Maika and Emma duo for a while (Ema? I don't understand which is correct, apparently Bandai wrote it as "Ema" but a lot of people are mad and confused about it??) Karen and Mirai are the final boss but once Aine and Mio beat Maika and Ema (which they probably will) i really want them to stay in the story and not to magically disappear once they get beaten. Maika and Ema while a lot of people said they were generic looking, i think they're decent. Nothing new for sure but i can't say that they're bad. No offense but i found Mahiru and Ako to be transparent, they had nice designs but personality wise not much... Ako was nice at heart and i honestly feel sorry for her, she didn't get anything in season 2 besides "happy punch" and the christmas episode. But all that tsundere persona, the "Subaru-kyun" schtick and whatnot made her feel really average. Mahiru she... had a "big sis, i hate but love you" arc. If you watched any anime ever you probably already saw one of those. And she helped some gyarus to change their style (i didn't like that, i felt like they were shoving in our faces "stay natural! It's not okay to be different and having different taste!" Ugh. I'm not a big fan of the gyaru style but it would've been funny to have gyaru fans of Mahiru who follow her around and cheer.) She was good at, what was it? Judo? Mahiru is pretty but i felt that they were trying to replicate Ran by splitting her in 2 characters: Mahiru and Yozora. She didn't stick with me.

Mirai surprised me! I already liked her design mostly because of her red hair but what really got me is that she's a cute type! I hope it's not a mistake, i really want her to be a cute type.

I wonder if they'll have the (what i like to call) hogwarts houses.

Flower song class= Gryffindor

Moon beauty class= Slytherin

Bird theatre class= Ravenclaw

Wind dance class= Hufflepuff

Also i wonder if Aine will stay in the "normal" division of the school or she'll change. It would be fun: a girl from the normal division of the school becomes one of the top idols.

I hope they'll have the designers back and the crazy trials you have to go through to have a... what do they call that? BFR or something? It means that both of them would have to go through it together by proving their friendship or something.

I know my ideas are all over the place, sorry (^w^)>

Thanks for reading and if you have some thoughts to share then do it! Even if it's long i'll read it!