History Trivia / AikatsuStars

* FollowTheLeader: Part of the reason for this sequel has to do with dropping sales figures for the Aikatsu franchise caused by fierce competition with ''VideoGame/PriPara'', a rebranding of the original ''VideoGame/PrettyRhythm'' series, which eventually did win out.

* FollowTheLeader: Part of the reason for this sequel has to do with dropping sales figures for the Aikatsu franchise caused by fierce competition with ''VideoGame/PriPara'', a rebranding of the original ''Anime/PrettyRhythm'' series, which eventually did win out.

* FranchiseKiller: ''Aikatsu Stars the Movie!'' being a BoxOfficeBomb and ''Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal'' flopping hard on the 3DS pretty much have seemingly stopped any further production on theatrical releases and development on home consoles respectively. The anime and arcade game have also been bleeding out revenue overtime, and in 2017, it finally fell out of Bandai Namco's top 10 profitable franchises, and has a poor forecast for 2018. After only two short years, it's scheduled to be replaced by ''VideoGames/AikatsuFriends'' in April 2018 as a second attempt at rebooting and reviving the series.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the beginning interviews, the creative director mentions that he wanted to take ''Stars!'' in a direction and tone more reminiscent of ShonenDemographic works.

* FranchiseKiller: While both the anime and the arcade game are able to chug along despite not being as popular as the original series, both ''Aikatsu Stars the Movie!'' being a BoxOfficeBomb and ''Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal'' flopping hard on the 3DS pretty much have seemingly stopped any further production on theatrical releases and development on home consoles respectively.

** ''Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal'' for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS completely had miserable first week sales (10k) due to being released while ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' was still riding hot in Japan, and its overall sales (17k) not even matching ''Aikatsu! My No. 1 Stage!'' first week sales a year prior (24k). Combined with the movie [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing in theaters]], mediocre ratings at best on television, the overall downturn in interest for idol media in general and the fact that ''Stars!'' has been [[LoveItOrHateIt very]] [[ContestedSequel controversial]] [[{{Sequelitis}} amongst the fans]], ''Aikatsu!'' is walking on shaky ground.

* FollowTheLeader: Part of the reason for this sequel has to do with dropping sales figures for the Aikatsu franchise caused by fierce competition with ''VideoGame/PriPara'', a rebranding of the original ''PrettyRhythm'' series, which eventually did win out.

* FollowTheLeader: Part of the reason for this sequel has to do with dropping sales figures for the Aikatsu franchise caused by fierce competition with [[VideoGame/PriPara [=PriPara=]]], a rebranding of the original PrettyRhythm series, which eventually did win out.

* NonSingingVoice: As with the original series, the characters' singing voices are provided by a specially formed unit known as AIKATSU☆STARS!, composed of Sena (Yume Nijino), Rie (Rola Sakuraba), Nanase (Koharu Nanakura, Lily Shirogane, and Tsubasa Kisaragi), Miki (Ako Saotome), Kana (Mahiru Kasumi and Yuzu Nikaido), Ruka (Hime Shiratori and Aria Futaba), and Miho (Yozora Kasumi and Kirara Hanazono). They are joined by unofficial member Risa, who voices Elza Forte.

* NonSingingVoice: As with the original series, the characters' singing voices are provided by a specially formed unit known as AIKATSU☆STARS!, composed of Sena (Yume Nijino), Rie (Rola Sakuraba), Nanase (Koharu Nanakura, Lily Shirogane, and Tsubasa Kisaragi), Miki (Ako Saotome), Kana (Mahiru Kasumi and Yuzu Nikaido), Ruka (Hime Shiratori), and Miho (Yozora Kasumi and Kirara Hanazono). They are joined by unofficial member Risa, who voices Elza Forte.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the beginning interviews, the creative director mentions that he wanted to take ''Stars!'' in a direction and tone more reminiscent of ShounenDemographic works.

** ''Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal'' for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS completely had miserable first week sales (10k) due to being released while ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' was still riding hot in Japan, and it's overall sales (17k) not even matching ''Aikatsu! My No. 1 Stage!'' first week sales a year prior (24k). Combined with the movie [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing in theaters]], mediocre ratings at best on television, the overall downturn in interest for idol media in general and the fact that ''Stars!'' has been [[LoveItOrHateIt very]] [[ContestedSequel controversial]] [[{{Sequelitis}} amongst the fans]], ''Aikatsu!'' is walking on shaky ground.

** ''Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal'' for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS completely had miserable first week sales (10k) due to being released while ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' was still riding hot in Japan, and it's overall sales (17k) not even matching ''Aikatsu! My No. 1 Stage!'' first week sales a year prior (24k). Combined with the movie [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing in theaters]], mediocre ratings at beast on television, the overall downturn in interest for idol media in general and the fact that ''Stars!'' has been [[LoveItOrHateIt very]] [[ContestedSequel controversial]] [[{{Sequelitis}} amongst the fans]], ''Aikatsu!'' is walking on shaky ground.

** ''Aikatsu Stars! My Special Appeal'' for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS completely had miserable first week sales (10k) due to being released while VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon was still riding hot, and it's overall sales (17k) not even matching ''Aikatsu! My No. 1 Stage!'' first week sales a year prior (24k). Combined with the movie [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing in theaters]], mediocre ratings at beast on television, the overall downturn in interest for idol media in general and the fact that ''Stars!'' has been [[LoveItOrHateIt very]] [[ContestedSequel controversial]] [[{{Sequelitis}} amongst the fans]], ''Aikatsu!'' is walking on shaky ground.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The series' first movie suffered this in Japan, due to it being released during a major holiday in Japan (Obon), the success of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' and five typhoons hitting Japan during the two months it was in theaters. It wound up making less money than the two previous Aikatsu! movies as a result.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The series' first movie suffered this in Japan, due to it being released during a major holiday in Japan (Obon), the success of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' and five typhoons hitting Japan during the two months it was in theaters. It wound up making less money than the two previous Aikatsu! movies as a result.