The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Anime Discussion

[Nargrakhan]

Yes, we're finally getting character episodes! !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJmHiSZifc

YES!!! Let the Darkness flow and drown you in fear! All hail Ranko! HAIL!

* Yuko Hori, Shizuku Oikawa, and Sanae Katagiri are in a unit called "Sexy Guilty".

Hmmm... I don't get it.

Shizuka has the largest... err... assets of all idols. Sanae is the shortest idol with the largest... err... assets.
Yuko lacks said assets. Why is she in the trio?

* Sachiko leads a unit on a variety show...

The name will totally be Sachiko-like.

[Ivan The Mouse]

Hooray for character episodes!

[Maka]

HUGE CINDERELLA GIRLS SPOILERS


RANKO IS ACTUALLY A GHOUL

also new ranko song that sounds really really cool

This episode was really cute. Seeing the girls bond with each other was a bonus, and Producer cultivating a weird little friendship with Ranko (down to keeping a journal with a "translation guide") was adorable since they're both kind of oddballs.

Next episode looks like a Kanako episode from the title alone?

[MetalPredat0r]

HUGE CINDERELLA GIRLS SPOILERS


RANKO IS ACTUALLY A GHOUL

also new ranko song that sounds really really cool

This episode was really cute. Seeing the girls bond with each other was a bonus, and Producer cultivating a weird little friendship with Ranko (down to keeping a journal with a "translation guide") was adorable since they're both kind of oddballs.

Next episode looks like a Kanako episode from the title alone?

I want Rosenburg Engel so badly right now, it's not even funny! I am surprised that Ranko's CD is being released before New Generation's. Maybe they're being saved for last because, ya know, main characters.

I also found it adorable and hilarious that Miria is the only one that knows what Ranko is actually saying!

[Saturos]

I'm sorry I could not put up with Ranko's antics. I'd say more worse things if it weren't for the fact that I (have to) respect this kind of thing i.e. getting to know a (fussy) female's feelings before getting to business which is paramount to progressing in any sort of relationship.
If I'm going to have to hear anyone call her superior over Takane though, I will flip a table.

[monomarquis]

I'm sorry I could not put up with Ranko's antics. I'd say more worse things if it weren't for the fact that I (have to) respect this kind of thing i.e. getting to know a (fussy) female's feelings before getting to business which is paramount to progressing in any sort of relationship.
If I'm going to have to hear anyone call her superior over Takane though, I will flip a table.

I don't see any problem in the way Ranko acted. She just wanted Producer to understand that her image wasn't horror and that she doesn't really like horror all that much. She just wanted him to understand her "theme" and how SHE wanted to debut but became shy when she realized producer didn't understand. She just needed Producer to initiate conversation with her because she was to timid to so herself. Producer taking the first step probably took a bunch of stress off her shoulders and her timidness melted away and let her show producer her ideas.

To some people Ranko is superior to Takane. Its just their personal tastes. But? The two are two very different characters, Ranko is more goth themed and Takane isn't goth at all shes just mysterious. Ranko really isn't mysterious at all the only thing "odd" about her is her speech. To compare them other than being "oddballs" is odd itself.

[ZetaFlare]

Sounds like my first CG crush (Kana-chan) will be the focus of the next episode considering the title and her sweet tooth. HNNNG, I'm already hyped!

I really like Ranko's new song. An angel with one white wing and one black wing...there is light within every shadow...

How in the world does Miria understand what she's saying?! Does she secretly understand the language and thought process of the chunnibyou? Has she been avidly watching Love, Chunnibyou, and Other Delusions or something?

[MetalPredat0r]

How in the world does Miria understand what she's saying?! Does she secretly understand the language and thought process of the chunnibyou? Has she been avidly watching Love, Chunnibyou, and Other Delusions or something?

Maybe its because little kids have wilder imaginations than anyone else and Miria is able to understand what its like to be in a personal la-la land all the time. Keep in mind she's an 11-year old little girl in an idol group of 14-18 year olds on average.

[ChocoCats]

Ranko's song was just taken down on Niconico lol.

Also the website updated on the character section.

[Nargrakhan]

Ranko! By the Dark Gods of the Fallen Light... YES!!!

I loved this episode. Ranko's outfits were incredible, and the animators loved showing closeups of her lipstick covered lips and beautiful red eyes in delicious detail.

Plus those subtle Producer x Ranko shipping moments. 

Also... Shoko and Koume. Good God I can't get enough of those two either. I was so hoping you-know-who would just snap and go crazy. She was so close to doing it.

I'm hoping that Zombie Girls also includes Nono. If anyone can get her to panic like there's no tomorrow, it's those two girls. 

I'm sorry I could not put up with Ranko's antics.

I love Ranko's antics. She's basically a younger, more innocent version of the Fairy Yui persona. I can't get enough of it.

If I'm going to have to hear anyone call her superior over Takane though, I will flip a table.

Well get ready to flip some tables then. 

Personally, I hate it when people compare Ranko to Takane. She isn't Takane. Ranko knows her fallen angel vampire persona is fake. She puts all her heart and soul into it, because she wants it to be real... but deep down she knows it's all an act. In-game the only person she ever admits this to is the Producer. Takane is a mystery because her past is so unknown and she gives cryptic answers. Ranko doesn't hide her past... nor is it unknown. She's revealed (in-game and drama cd media) that her home life is pretty mundane and somewhat embarrassing. There's no secret to that.

I really like Ranko's new song. An angel with one white wing and one black wing...there is light within every shadow...

Same here! Same here! She now has a song even more Yosei Teikoku than Dreaming Flower’s Bud Rhapsody ~Soul’s Guidance~! I was so hoping something like that would happen (or her actually covering one of their songs). I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THE FULL VERSION!!!

In fact the way Ranko goes under the persona of Rosenberg Engel for her song, is a lot how Yui Itsuki as the persona of Fairy Yui, undergoes yet another fantasy persona of Karen for Denkare.
Ohhh... how I love Namco-Bandai doing such a great homage like that!

How in the world does Miria understand what she's saying?! Does she secretly understand the language and thought process of the chunnibyou? Has she been avidly watching Love, Chunnibyou, and Other Delusions or something?

I'm thinking because chunnibyou is considered a childish immature thing, the most childish and immature person of the cast would understand her the easiest.

[Cael K.]

How in the world does Miria understand what she's saying?! Does she secretly understand the language and thought process of the chunnibyou? Has she been avidly watching Love, Chunnibyou, and Other Delusions or something?

There're a couple of people I thought could decipher Ranko-speak, but I didn't expect it to be Miria. Out of the 14, I was thinking Anzu. Out of the 100+, Asuka and Sana. I think they wanted something completely out of left field, though.

Personally, I don't know if it's guts or what, but there were multiple times where I thought, "Dang... and she still keeps it up." I liked her better in the anime, though when Ranko finally found out that Producer would listen to all her chuuni fantasies, I was thinking, "Get used to it, Producer. Get used to it reeeeeal fast." ^_^;;

Next episode Kanako, Rika, Riina unit or riot.

[ChocoCats]

Rewatched the episode again, it looks the next two CD debuts will each be in a trio unit, leaving the last ones to be debuted will be a duo unit.

Current Units

new generation: Uzuki, Mio, & Rin

LOVE LAIKA: Minami & Anastasia

Rosenburg Engel: Ranko

CANDY ISLAND: Anzu, Kanako, & Chieri

[MetalPredat0r]

Predicted Units

Trio Unit #1: Kanako, Chieri, Rika

Trio Unit #2: Riina, Miria, & Miku

Duo Unit: Anzu & Kirari

Sadly, jossed.

The newest revealed unit is Kanako, Chieri, and Anzu forming "Candy Island".

[ChocoCats]

Sadly, jossed.

The newest revealed unit is Kanako, Chieri, and Anzu forming "Candy Island".

Welp. That didn't last long. Though, that unit is super fitting.

[Maka]

I'm mostly just shocked that they ditched Ankira. I kind of expected Kanako and Chieri to end up together in a unit, though.

Placing my bets on Miku and Rika being the last to debut too lol

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