It’s been two weeks since my last post because I went for a vacation to Taiwan. It’s been a fulfilling family trip.
I did found some Pripara and Aikatsu arcade in Taiwan. First time when I found it in Tainan, there were kids queuing so I kinda gave up on that but when I reached Taipei, I finally obtained a chance to actually try them and actually got some Aikatsu N cards. As I am totally suck in rhythm games, the experience were just so-so, so I guess I wouldn’t actually play on them even though I have other chances in the future. Still a meaningful experience though.
Aikatsu Stars 80
As expected for weeks, the final planet Uranus SPR appears. From discussion with various people, the main controversy of this episode seems to be Rei’s reason for continuing Aikatsu: “Elza no tame ni”, rather for fans or for herself. As this post was being delayed due to me in Taiwan, I had some time to think through this. Personally I don’t blame Rei for doing this. Rather I believe that Rei knew that half-hearted attempts for fans or for herself will not bring her to obtain her wings, thus she focused her passion for Elza for the best results. I think Elza being a result-oriented person would have understood her ways.
Her performance atmosphere was slightly different from the DCD version to less of my liking though. I expected it to be more powerful, but it was softened down and made more feminine. With all the planet SPRs appeared, now we are moving on to the next arc though, which is the Sun dress obtaining phase. It remains to be seen what Bamco is planning for Ako though since she is not getting anything throughout this 30+ episodes. Still hope she gets a PR, if not SPR.
Idoltime Pripara 31
Falala has awoken and performed. Not a fan of this song though. The backstory for Galala was really suffering. Poor Galala being alone all the time. I do sympathize with Galala though. Falala is really biased with Yui though only giving Yui an extra Yume Rare coord to perform but it’s kinda time for them to change coords now. At least it was some change rather than carbon copy of the same performance again.