Thread:Staraptor Kwan/@comment-25034020-20180222055703/@comment-25034020-20180410132744

Ok back to writing my thoughts lol. So yeah Aine seems to be like Akari, where she might have some failures along the way, unlike Ichigo and Yume who seemed a little too good at Aikatsu right off the bat.

Mio, my first impression of her before seeing episode one was kinda...er...I didn't like her. She just didn't seem interesting - she just seemed like a fusion of Mahiru and Laura. And I wasn't too wrong, but she is probably better than them to be honest. In all honesty, still not a huge fan of her, but she was better than I initially thought.

The dressing room scene is just unnecessarily long. I do not care if it's pretty to look at, but I hate when shows do this to fill in space when they could easily give us more story and character developement. Anyway, it's pretty but too long - longer than Aikatsu or AiStars' dressing rooms scenes. It's ridiculous! I don't like it and will definitely be skipping it all the time from now on unless I hear something happens during the changing scene that relates to the story somehow. The drawings of the girls when they're jumping through the cards tho to put on their outfits, are terrifying. I'm sorry, but that is just nightmare fuel.

The performance was very nice - the CGI being fluid and beautiful to look at. I swear Aine looked pretty unconfident at times, sometimes looking at Mio with a look that I swore said "I think I'm getting it...". That's why I think Aine is kinda like Akari - not very good at first. Luckily she made no mistakes but I'll take worried expressions that I'm positive are actually there.

I honestly prefer Aine's solo version of the opening. Mio sounds okay in the opening, but it's not her song, there is a reason why it was originally released as an Aine solo. Mio and Aine sound great together though. The visuals are pretty and I swear I am the only one who doesn't mind the lack of Love Me Tear in the OP XD The ED is nice, and I like how it's full on CGI. Not a fan of them using the performance in the visuals tho. It's hard to explain but I thought it came of lazy, like they had no idea what to do so they put the performance in there. However, the performance part is pretty nice too thanks to the how gorgeous the shots are when Aine and Mio look up to them. So not even sure if it's lazy or not.

I probably started sounding really negative toward the end, but trust me, I enjoyed the episode a lot. It was really nice. I just have my stupid nit picks XD