First encounter with THE iDOLM@STER?

[animagic4u]

My first encounter was a Nico m@d video on youtube of Haruka's "Daisuki!" cover.
Probably explains why I'm a huge Haruka fan

A video on youtube of Go My Way! with Yayoi.

I know I'm not the only one who shares this experience.

Yep. Related videos. It's madness.

[Neko-P]

Mine's an odd story.

 I used to play the game Space Channel Five a lot when I went over to a friend of my dad's house, so on a whim I looked up a playthrough of it. Towards the end, there was a comment that said "If you like this, check out iDOLM@STER" or something to that effect. I did and, well, I got hooked.

[Katsuyuki-P]

Ah, this is going to be a bit hard to remember, I do remember that it was through nico nico videos on Youtube. I just don't remember which one exactly.

Actually, I think it might have been that NicoNico Douga Medley where I first heard of it. Ami/Mami's version of Agent would be my first encounter with Idolm@ster in that case. Then it went all down/uphill from there.

[Kaminos]

I bought my Japanese 360 to play Blue Dragon and Onechanbara, and was looking for some other Japan only 360 titles.

And here appeared THE iDOLM@STER

[Cien Laguoire]

A friend of mine made references to it in a freeware game called GeneRally with certain tracks he made.
Initially, I wasn't into it at all, then I read something on Azusa's profile... :~)

[Neruibara]

I was looking on youtube for videos of Miku Hatsune. I found one of her singing go my way, which lead me to an all-star version of go my way, which lead me to Chihaya singing Positive, which lead me to Ami singing positive, and it all kind of blossomed from there.

[Raestloz]

Initially, I wasn't into it at all, then I read something on Azusa's profile... :~)

I wonder what it is

First time I saw XBOX 360 cover of iM@S in wikipedia I was, like, read a description of someone and point to a random girl and say "So she is this?" and such

Now they're all on the top off my head

[Chief Rampancy]

It must have been about a year or so ago (since "Half Life Full Life Consequences: Free Man" isn't that far behind it in my favorites).

I can barely even remember how I got to it, but I found a video of Mami performing "relations" with what I'm assuming are what you guys call "appeals" left in. I liked the song, faved the video, then forgot about it for a couple months. (Turns out it has nearly 830,000 views now)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/zsTvnwbqGqc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/zsTvnwbqGqc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0</a>

A while later, I found Iori, Mami, and Miki performing Do-Dai (again, I can't remember exactly how I found it).
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/hxmmfopVTTc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/hxmmfopVTTc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0</a>
Again, liked it, faved, then forgot about it.

Then I got a random message from OCRemix's Youtube account linking to this...
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5C942mWgbOc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/5C942mWgbOc?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0</a>

Then I got interested and started looking things up. Azusa became one of my favorite idols, "Tonari ni" became my absolute favorite Idolmaster song, and I started getting addicted to the music. The sad things is, I will probably never find a clear, full recording of Eminence's performance of "Tonari ni...". :'(

[azuyuki]

I really just was looking on a YouTube video on Rie Kugimiya's roles and one of them had her as Iori, then I looked into it and one thing lead to another and all of a sudden I was kinda hooked when I listened to Azusa's songs as I loved her songs and her singing voice being a singer myself.

[mastersteve89]

I was looking up Ace Combat Zero videos on Youtube when I stumbled across a video that had AC zero and Idolmaster in a badass mix.

I think it was this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xf3Sxvww2A

My curiosity setting in, I looked up the idolmaster and found this site.

[Cael K.]

Okay, well I mentioned this on my introduction thread, but why not?

... The first time I heard of Idolm@ster was one of those banner ads on Play-Asia. I thought about getting it at the time, but I decided against it, even knowing that it was the only thing keeping the XBox afloat in Japan.

But then, one of my friends mentioned Xenoglossia to me. I thought it was kinda cool/funny that a raiser would be made into an anime about mecha, so I thought I'd give the series a shot. I played the 360 game a bit, and pretty much have been an Azusa fan since.

I got my PSP and my copy of Missing Moon when Chiaki Takahashi came to ACen in 2008. It got signed, among other things, but I think I should've put some ita-sticker on my PSP because... marker doesn't hold well on the back of a PSP. Unfortunately, the SP ita-stickers came out as a magazine gift only after I saw her...

[kozu]

I liked Perfume at the time, then I went on Stage6 and stumbled upon Perfume IM@S MADs. The rest is history.

[Lushe]

I watched Xenoglossia in 2008, and liked it. I then researched more about it, and found out it was based on a popular game series called "The Idolm@ster." A few months later, I got my first im@s game, Im@s SP: Perfect Sun. Yes, Xenoglossia got me into im@s.

[Raestloz]

Yes, Xenoglossia got me into im@s.

I read this and I went, like, what the holy cow?

Since iM@S could get people into Xenoglossia (and possibly into rage because of it), I guess the reverse is true

[Maka]

On this one Yume Nikki board someone said that they always associated Cosmos, Kosmos with a certain character in the game and they linked to this vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-nhoUuTA0

And from there I found the honihoni62 full version [the one with the weird romanization lol]. I'd heard of idolmaster and seen Agent Yoru wo Yuku in the niconico medley so I was interested in it. I remember really liking Relations and listening to it like 10 times a day lol

I found this site by googling lyrics.