The Idolmaster

**The iDOLM@STER** Series (アイドルマスター), also known as **IM@S**, is a game franchise about recruiting and raising idols.

## Fanfic Appearances

*List your fanfiction here if this character appears in it:*

## Notes & Trivia

* As of mid-2023, the *Love Live!* series has no *SideM* equivalent. But considering how the franchise's appeal, it's for the better.

### Official Data & Canon

* *The iDOLM@STER* series had one anime produced by Sunrise, titled **iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia**.
* *The iDOLM@STER* franchise has been collaborated with the *Love Live!* franchise for multiple occasions:
	+ Muse performed at both the *Animelo Summer Live* 2013 and 2014, and they collaborated with 765 Production (Original/765PRO) in *Animelo Summer Live 2015 -The Gate-*.
	+ Aqours, Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, Liella!, and Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club collaborated with 765 (New/Million Live), 346, and 283 Production for the *Ijigen The Idolmaster Love Live! Singing Competition* concert on December 9 to 10, 2023.
* Kanako Takatsuki, the voice of Hanamaru Kunikida, is a fan of the franchise, notably 765 Production.
	+ Kanako also worked with Carin Isobe (**Kogane Tsukioka**'s voice) as part of "BlooDye", a dance and vocal group formed on June 10, 2019.
* Like Ritsuko Akizuki, Yu Takasaki is an idol manager (in that case, a "school idol manager".). Though unlike Ritsuko who did both singing and dancing, Yu is not a fully-fledged manager-and-idol, as she only performed the theme songs for *Nijiyon Animation*.

#### Voice-Actor related

* Nao Touyama (**Mizuki Kawashima**) voices Yukiho Kousaka.
* Mari Miyake (**Nana Abe**) voices Hideko.
* Nozomi Yamamoto (**Rika Jougasaki**) voices Fumiko.
* Natsumi Takamori (**Miku Maekawa**) voices the announcer.
* Rie Kugimiya (**Iori Minase**) voice Chika Takami's mother.
* Sayuri Hara (**Mio Honda**) voices Mika.
* Aimi Terakawa (**Julia**) voices Jennifer.
* Ayaka Suwa (**Matsuri Tokugawa**) voices a First year student in *School Idol Project*.
* M.A.O. (Mao Ichimichi) (**Fumika Sagisawa**) voices Kohaku.
* Kana Ichinose (the current voice of **Layla** since mid-2023) voices Sato Satsuki.
* Miho Okasaki (**Hinana Ichikawa**), Ru Thing (**Syuko Shiomi**) voices the minor schoolgirl characters from *Sunshine*.

### Meta and ***Out*** of Canon

* While *Love Live!*'s target audience is *everyone* (Male/female/Other, straight and LGBTQ+), *The iDOLM@STER* (which PROBABLY excludes *SideM*) was generally aimed for male audiences, though there are some female fans too.
* While the interactions between the fanbases are generally friendly, some of the *Love Live!* supporters had shown some beef towards the *iM@S* franchise due to parts of their concepts;
	+ One of the general offenders is the existence of the ***Male!***Producer characters (which likely excludes two of *SideM'*s Producers from the Anime (male) and Manga (ambigous gender) adaptations); While there are nice and supportive iterations of the characters (notably the 2014 TV Anime's), they're generally scorned as "pansy self-inserts" by the franchise's detractors (Love Live fans included), which pales in comparison with Yu Takasaki, a female manager/composer who is viewed as a "bigger badass" and a "superior producer" compared to them.
	+ Even though there are moments of a ship teasing between them, the female idols on this game were also ridiculed as "straight/heteronormative" in comparison with *Love Live'*s generally ambiguously lesbian statuses.