/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>13730822
Yukiho. End of thread.

damn haruka and iori look fuckin' retarded, dudes

Takan.

im@s2 art > im@s anime art > im@s 1 art = xenoglossia art.

>>13730822
Yayoi. She's basically a mother already. Just need to replace her siblings with your kids.

Kotori

massiv FUCKIN FORHEAD

>>13731132
What about arcade art?

>>13731290
I fucking knew it was this bitch's fault if it's this fucking hot.
If I get my hands on her I swear...

>>13734545
It's-
>Takane's hair
>Chihaya
>Ritsuko

>>13734588
Yukiho was called Megumi in some promotional material too

>>13731373
spend less on keros

It's been bothering me lately as to whether Yayoi has drill hair or not. If you look a bit closer at her wavy twintails, they usually kinda make a full spiral around like a corkscrew. I wonder if a loose spiral is enough to qualify. There's times where she twists her hair up like this too so it's not just wavy.

This one definitely looks like drills don't you think?

>>13730822
Why is chihaya the only one not for sale?

>>13735331
It looks like drills in the games

>>13730822
Makoto!!

There's a convo on iM@S 2 about how she thinks how good of a mother she'd be and she likes it when P says she'd make a pretty good one.

>>13735331
Is that supposed to be Yayoi? I thought that looked more like her sister.

>>13735470
Let's be honest: who would buy her?

>>13736394
Yeah even though it does look kind of like her sister, who just looks like a brown haired Yayoi anyway, the hairstyle, and presence of Iori and that bear hamburger thing suggests it's Yayoi, also the picture said so when it existed on pixiv.

Yayoi's hair ends up anything from red to orange to brown in arts and fanarts anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYZnKDsF4wA

I would marry Yayoi!
Iori is fine too.

>>13736495
Why do the idols insist on sexually harassing p-san?

>>13736512
P-san had a hard life.

>>13736519
Wow, dude, making out with a teenage girl?

>>13735470
Because Chihaya is the only idol with integrity and self respect. You can't buy Chihaya for any price.

>>13736743
How else is she going to get the record deal?

>>13730822
Just how old are these fucking bitches? Do they take hormones, uh?

>>13730822
Azusa!
Just look at that comforting smile

>>13736809
Long hair Azusa is just Chihaya with boobs.

>>13740592
so basically wildly better

>>13740614
Chihaya's flatness is her only good aspect. She should put her hair in twintails to maximize her youthful look.

>>13740633

>>13734545
>>13730822
how the fuck did such a big company allow art like this to pass in a final product?

>>13741065
To be honest arcade iM@s looked pretty crappy in still pictures, and before becoming popular some of the early promo pictures were pretty crappy as well.

In motion the arcade was much better, but pretty far from the actual standard https://youtu.be/_VM4gcUyQYw

>>13741124
How'd Chihaya get from cute emotional drawings to an 3D autist?

Why isn't Azusa's hair still brown? It looked better. Come to think of it, it's never bothered me that Makoto's and Hibiki's hair was black while Azusa and Chihaya's hair were comic-book-black. It kinda bothers me now.

Best idols

>>13741065
The idol game/anime market is huge but it was probably an experimental niche back when idolmaster started it which means small budget. Also it's worth to consider that it was a decade ago when they first started this thing.

>>13742021
How do the arcade games even work? How did they make enough money when it looks like it'd take so much time to play a game. Was a round like 5bux or something?

>>13742042
I think in the arcade version, the idol sends the player an email every now and then to keep them coming back, hence the '@' symbol. But I'm just passing secondhand info so I'm not sure how true this is.

>>13742042
You would have a producer data card and an idol data card that you would insert into the machine when you wanted to play. I don't know how much it cost to play though.

i think old imas art and in-game graphics have a certain charm to them that's missing from more recent materials. blonde takane is just weird, though.

>>13731132
Hahahahaha fuck no

>>13743092
Mirror twins are the worst kind of twins.

>>13743108
wanting them to grow up

>>13743192
I don't want them at all. I hate them both. Yayoi is superior.

>>13743261
Whoa..

Get a load of this fucking kuso taste.

Holy shit, dude.

You'd better, like, kill urself, kudasai.

>>13743261
Hey man, save your hate for the CGs. All of the 765 girls are wonderful except for Miki the slut.

>>13743269
CG is okay. It's ML that's the problem.

>>13742042
Don't know how much you pay for it but it's one of those save your game into a card kind of thing.
You can fail too if your idol didn't take off in popularity so a shitty producer would have a collection of failed idol cards.

>>13743903
None of you guys have answered how they get people on and off it really. It seems like one person would hog the machine all day and make everyone else who would play mad. How do they limit play time for a particular player?

>>13743959
I would imagine that there's tens of the machines in each arcade for people to play.

>>13743959
From blogs about the game which I've read online lines for im@s were pretty long and even going at night was no guarantee you'd get to play without a line.

Have you played the game? It would help if you have. Each play is one event/day, from what I read it costs 100 yen and it's courtesy to only play one round before handing it off to the next player in line or to give yourself a time limit for everyone else waiting.

Which gives you the option of 1 round of Lessons, 1 round of discussion, 1 round of auditions per play. If there were free plays earned for any reason I haven't heard of it.

Game made fucking bank.

>>13736519
Cute forehead.

I played the arcade for a while in 2007, when still was popular but most people jumped to play the newly released XBox version.

First you needed to buy a Producer Card and an Idol Card. Some shops had special events including cards with limited art with an extra "collect them all" metagame.

It was different from shop to shop, but the usual price was 500 yen/3 plays and later 100 yen/1 play. In 2007 it was not so hot to limit the number of plays per user, but usually the limit was 3 plays before giving your place to another user.

If you played the first iM@S game you'll note that there's no story per se. You'll intereact with your idol in the Communication events, getting progressively more familiar with you as her rank goes up. The game also e-mails you in name of your produced girl. Not an in-game e-mail but your physical phone, saying stuff like todays she feels great to do an audition, a lesson or whatever, or asking why you are not producing her lately. This made a bound similar to Love Plus, "forcing" you to play.

Unlike the console versions that have a 54 week cap, in the arcade you can play until you can't reach the next idol rank in the time limit. The game stops around week 64 for a top rank S idol, but is quite difficult to achieve since you are playing against human players most of the time (you play against the CPU if there's not enough humans players playing at the same time as you). It had a top 100 ranking of players displayed in special tv stands as well.

The original essence was mostly lost in the following games, but you really develop an emotional attachment to the game, borderline addiction.

>>13741623
The game was aiming for realistic colors at first. Note that originally all the girls have only different tones of black and brown for hair and a yellow-ish tone for the skin. Now are color coded to differenciate them easily.

>>13744828
>The original essence was mostly lost in the following games
How so?

>>13749925

I think the multiplayer aspect and the whole nagging you to play via e-mail thing is what he's referring to.

>>13749947
They had their chance with neopet puchidols.

>>13749947
The PSP games kinda had this where randomly when you saved your idol would ask you to come back tomorrow early and instead of minigames you could set up an alarm and she would self teach herself until you got back.

>>13749947
What do emails in the console game do? In iM@S 2 anyway, I don't know if the others have them. (the ones the dlc shop wanted you to purchase)

Also is is One For All worth getting or are they just selling 2 over again but this time with all idols?

>>13754080
So what, you left your PSP on and she would train or it used the clock and had it say she'd be doing something for x amount of time?

>>13744004
Foreheads aren't cute.

>>13730822
Haruka's face is the worst.

>>13762103
Iori's forehead greets me like the sunrise of a beautiful morning.