Movies with Great Songs and Music Video!!!

OK, readers. It has been a while since I've posted anything on my blog. Today, I will talk about Aikatsu two movies, as I didn't review the movie previously as it's too long to continue. Oh yeah, I will mention the other two movies that will come together(sort of). I don't want this post to be some ranting blog post like many people did. BUT, BUT, BUT I want to RANT about ALL OF THE HATE that is placed on OOZORA AKARI.

Working hard to produce something...

BTW, I'm currently preparing for a few anime reviews, maybe a HUGE amount of them. Perhaps all of the anime I'm currently watching and currently still airing or some of them. OR some of the anime that had finished airing and I'd watched. Who knows? OK. So, shall we continue?

Aikatsu!!!

WARNING:-

SPOILER ALERT!!! If you haven't watched it and plan to watch it without anyone being the spoiler, please DON'T CONTINUE READING!!!



P.S. If you want to be spoiled, well, go ahead and read it. You have been warned.

Well, I had mentioned that there are TWO movies for Aikatsu and 1 movie upcoming for Aikatsu Star. I will mention them here. Oh yeah, BTW, there is one more movie for Aikatsu. It will premiere together with Aikatsu Star 1st movie(I don't think that this will the ONLY movie for Aikatsu Stars, looking at Aikatsu having 2 movies already with 1 incoming). First, the first Aikatsu movie, which is named as Aikatsu! The Movie (or in Japanese, 劇場版アイカツ！)

Aikatsu! The Movie!!!

The movie starts by the performance of top idols of Starlight School: Ichigo, Aoi, Ran, Otome, Yurika, Sakura, and Kaede performing SHINING LINE*, with freshman Akari brought up midway and continuing the performance. After that, Orihime requesting Kanzaki Mizuki to work as the producer for the upcoming event: Ichigo Hoshimiya Project, but she rejected it and left  Later on backstage, the girls celebrate their success for the performance, and Orihime comes in and tells them the good news, deciding that Aoi will be the producer for the event. After telling some of the details of the event, Ichigo quickly decided that the event should be named as 大スター宮いちご祭り! (Big StarMiya Ichigo Festival!)

Title decided!

Well, later they had a press conference for the event, in which many scenes from the anime are used here. If you watched the anime, you know part of what happened there. Akari runs to them to ask Soleil, who was coming back from work, on whether she could help. She was called right away. Well, if I'm not mistaken, this scene is also in the anime, right? Later on back in Ichigo and Aoi's room, along with Ran and Akari, Powa-Powa Puririn suddenly comes in declaring their desire to help Ichigo to prepare for the event, and doing their signature pose, though Shion doubts the post is suitable. Kaede then flies in from the window as she always does, as does Yurika who appears from the door with her vampire cape, which was quite hilarious. Go and watch it yourself.

Yeah...everybody is doing something else...sorry.

They decided (or rather Ichigo herself) that she should get a new song for the occasion. Soleil goes to find someone to make songs for her. That person is Kanon, who is introduced by Naoto after they approached him to make Ichigo a new song and got rejected. Kanon accepted it although with some doubt. Later that night, Mizuki dropped a BOMBSHELL...she is planning to quit being an idol. This sends shock waves to the whole of Japan...NO, I'm just joking, BUT not the part where she said she plans to quit being an idol thing. BTW, only a few people knew about this, that is the members of Soleli only.

The sad atmosphere...

Well, OK, let's move on. later, all of the arrangement for the show is made. There are a lot of small details, and I won't go into it. So, that day comes, the shows with a bunch of songs and live performance (OK, aren't they the same thing?). Later, a SUPER HUGE DRAMA, special one some more!!! After the exhilarating drama, Ichigo sings the song, Etude of Radiance (in Japanese, 輝きのエチュード. read as Kagayaki no Echūdo). Oh yeah, there is also something that had happened other than just the show and performance.

The Etude of Radiance...

OK, there is quite a ruckus about Ichigo's dress arrival as it was finished at the last moment and gotten it at the final moment of the drama BUT I'm not talking about this. Instead, I wanna talk about Akari's own personal 'quest' to search for Mizuki. Akari decided to search for Mizuki as she wants Mizuki to come to see Ichigo's BIG SHOWTIME. Akari HAD a hard time finding for her after failed to find her in her office (She went to like 13 other places before she could find her). She brought to Ichigo's concert after she found her going for a bungee jump. They reached before Ichigo sings the song Etude of Radiance.

Mizuki just reached...

After that, Mizuki asked Akari to follow her to the stage after the Akari tell her that Ichigo wants her to be on the stage performing together after the performance is done. There is an ongoing 'encore' call from the fans below the stage. Akari doubted that she is fit to be on the same stage with Mizuki and Ichigo. After the advice from Ringo (who implied that she is Masquerade's Miya) and Orihime, she makes her way to the stage and received the Dreamy Crown's Sleeping Beauty premium dress from Tsubasa on her way to the stage.

The moment when she realized it...

Mizuki uses the "Shine Witch Coord" and went to the stage together with Akari, who uses her new dress for the occasion. Ichigo was surprised and happy when both of them, Akari and Mizuki, were on stage with her. Yeah, she responded to the encore and well onto the stage before Mizuki and Akari. They sang...You guess, what song is it?

Special appeal!!!

Right after their performance, the idol ranking of Ichigo and Mizuki switched places. THE END...no, just joking. Anyway, after the event, Mizuki tells Ichigo, who on the stage together with Akari that she has reached the top where she used to be, that she feels inspired from Ichigo's song...blah, blah, blah...Surprisingly, she decided to decide to continue becoming an idol and warns her that she'll surpass her if Ichigo ever lets up. Later, Ichigo turns to Akari and gives her the crystal mic as a thank you gift for bringing Mizuki, and has Akari to inherit her dream of becoming an idol.

Akari receiving the crystal mic from Ichigo

After that, everyone celebrated the success backstage, like literally every single person in Ichigo's circle of friends, and well, plus Mizuki. They decided to hold hands...that is the moment when Ichigo tells her that she is now waiting for Akari to reach the top where she is whilst holding Akari's hand. She promises that she'll be there soon, and everyone (while holding hands) to celebrate one last time. Ending song comes in...blah, blah, blah. The end. It was a good movie with some suspense. Overall, it feels quite normal. I won't say that it is the BEST movie but it was good.

Akari will be right behind you Ichigo...

OK, our next movie (which is actually a short film), that is アイカツ！ミュージックアワード みんなで賞をもらっちゃいまSHOW！(read as Aikatsu! Music Award Minna de Shou o Moraccha Ima Show!) For short, Aikatsu! Music Award. It's a really LONG title, right? OK, let's go!!!

Aikatsu! Music Award

Honestly, there is nothing much to talk about in this movie except it is actually like a music award show that you and I can watch every year. For example, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards...blah, blah, blah...etc. Well, this movie had one thing special...that is Kurebayashi Juri climbing Mount Fuji and glade and jog her way back to the academy. That is just it. Yes, the award is held in their academy somehow...OK, you wanna know who is the show's host (or hosts)? Watch it yourself. Honestly speaking, this one is what people would say...shouldn't have existed. BUT hey, if you love Aikatsu songs, you can go ahead and watch it. It is really...as the title said...a music award show. For me, I won't say that it is good but I enjoyed it since I like Aikatsu's songs.

The stage is set! For the award!

OK, I'm done reviewing here. So, let's break the hate of Ōzora Akari down. I believe it is just outright about the feelings, rather than proper reason. Some of them Akari is just not as hardworking as Ichigo and just by luck and chance. Although I won't deny that she is lucky BUT she is DEFINITELY NOT LAZY!!!! In Season 2, she got lucky?! Yeah, kind of, at first. Then she fades off, slowly finding herself lagging behind many of her peers. What she does when she got special advice of the headmistress to go to the boot camp? She takes it and starts to see some progress with the help of the members of Soleil. Without her taking the advice from the headmistress, would she move towards her stardom? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!

Akari's falling behind others...having a hard time in the boot camp

Akari had a hard time throughout the warm-up on Day 2 of the Boot Camp

A warming moment...like literally

Ōzora Akari is privileged. People said. Yeah, true. If she just sits down there and doesn't push herself to a different level, will she even become of what Ichigo saw in her? NO!!! ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! People say she doesn't deserve a premium dress from Amahane's former student, Tsubasa. I say again, NO!!! If you said that, you are either BLIND or an...you know what? You hater of Akari doesn't even deserve my insult. She works hard every day, in every of her task. You haters? You are just sitting down there and complain. Why don't YOU be the director of this anime? See what YOU can come up with. I'm not saying that the change of the main character is great but let me tell YOU one thing. Akari is WAY cuter than Ichigo. Period. That's just a FACT!

One of the efforts to get Tsubasa the colour he wants...

Using a HUGE fan to prepare herself for the weather girl interview...weird way to prepare

Honestly, I don't really like Akari AT FIRST. She is a direct copy to Ichigo, and people say she has no character of her own (which I disagree). Later, I started to like her. She is cute, and since everything about Ichigo has stuck to her since she is her fan from a very young age, she is REALLY hard-working (I admit she did A LOT of what Ichigo did before, which make me miss Ichigo even more) and is willing to learn. She reminds a lot of the people who decided to follow the footsteps of people that they admired. It takes A LOT EFFORT and A LOT OF COURAGE to jump into a world of the unknown or unfamiliar world, in this case. You Akari haters? What did you do? Sit down on your COMFORTABLE COUCH, COMPLAIN AND THROW TANTRUMS! CHILDISH! You have NO RIGHTS to complain about Akari. Fine, if you don't like her since it is individual preferences. BUT...DO NOT SMEAR Akari's character by giving UNREASONABLE REASONS to 'backup' your hate.

She is smiling...so cute!

This dress got a cat tail though...Me like it...

That's so CUTE!

That face...what happened?

Yeah, Akari in a swimsuit...I admit it. I love girls in swimsuit.

OK, done! I'm feeling MUCH BETTER NOW so enjoy the screenshots from Aikatsu...Oh, wait! I haven't talked about the other two movies yet. OK, without wasting my dear readers' precious time, I will first talk about Aikatsu Star 1st movie or Aikatsu Star! The Movie (in Japanese, 劇場版 アイカツスターズ！ Read as Gekijōban Aikatsu Sutāzu!). If you watching Aikatsu Star recently, you will see a preview of the movie at the ending song section, just like with the last two Aikatsu movie. Next, I will talk about another movie(which is actually Aikatsu second short film), Aikatsu! The Targeted Magical Aikatsu! Card (in Japanese, アイカツ！ねらわれた魔法のアイカツ！カード . Read as Aikatsu! Nerawareta Mahō no Aikatsu! Kādo). Both of them will air at the same date at the same time (kinda, not sure. Maybe it will be at the end of the Aikatsu Stars movie). About this film, I kinda know that it is a story within a story after Akari be...OK, STOP! That will a HUGE SPOILER for Aikatsu.

Poster for Aikatsu Stars! The Movie

You know what? Now I found out that this is the poster for the Aikatsu Magical Card movie. LOL.

So, yeah...Feeling a bit bored? Well, this post is a bit too long...I guess...Maybe not. Never mind that and let's enjoy the screenshots from both movies...and yeah, the PVs for all of the movies mentioned on this post.

Hinaki and Sumire coming to visit her after her performance with Ichigo and the co.

Poor Yurika...

Woah...the ALL-STAR GATHERING...

Thinking of a song for Ichigo...

Kanon's street performance.

Ichigo watches Mizuki walking off with a piece of heartbreaking news.

A special drama...very cute though

Poor detective...

So much thrill at the onstage drama

Ichigo's speech before singing Etude of Radiance

Invitation to perform with Mizuki and Ichigo

Ichigo thrilled to see Mizuki onstage. I'm thrilled too!

Yeah! Ichigo is officially number one!

Our Music Award HOSTS!!!

Oh...the special Aikatsu! Marathon

Juri will be running on a special marathon.

Guess who is our special guest?

Finally REACHED!!!

Exhausted Juri surrounded by the music awards hosts

OK, the preview for ALL of the movies. OH YEAH. BTW, the PV for the Aikatsu Stars movie and the Aikatsu's latest movie are in the same video.

Aikatsu! The Movie PV

Aikatsu! Music Award PV

Aikatsu Stars! The Movie & Aikatsu Magical Card Movie PV

Thank you for reading. God bless you and have a good day!

That is a cute costume.

P.S. If you smear Akari's character, you basically smearing Ichigo's character too. Haha! Not my problem. The rant is for people who want to know my stand on Akari. BTW, she had become one of my favourite character in Aikatsu, other than Shinjou Hinaki and Hoshimiya Ichigo (of course!). XD