Aikatsu Academy, SRW Y DLC, Anime I Like, Bandai Namco in 2026 - Otaku Talk Show #35
New video, some random talk about Bandai Namco as a whole, old anime you should watch, Super Robot Wars, Aikatsu Academy, games and anime journalism in English, etc.
- 00:00 intro, self PR, thanking subscribers
- 03:42 All the anime in the Super Robot Wars Y Expansion Pack are masterpieces you should watch
- 08:36 Quick intro of the Master Difficulty in the Expansion Pack
- 09:20 I want my favorite series to be in SRW as main cast, not as DLC
- 14:34 Bandai Namco mishandling their series so bad nowadays
- 16:40 Unsurprisingly, no one is talking about Aikatsu Academy in English
As always my elocution is so bad and I'm hard to understand. Need to keep practicing.
I did make a script but I still ended up jumping around quite a lot. I didn't wanna go over 20 minutes, so I barely scratched the surface on most of the subjects, especially Aikatsu.
Like I explained, Aikatsu Academy streams have ended, but the idols will keep their activities going most notably via virtual concerts
I barely had the time to listen to their streams in these two years, but at least all the archives aren't being deleted or anything. Pink/Himeno Mieru was the one I listened to the most as she played ADV games I lot. Her Gyakuten Saiban / Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney playthroughs, especially Ace Attorney 3, were really fun.
Ever since Aikatsu Academy was launched two years ago, I said I want to make proper articles on the background of the project, analyzing what bandai Namco strove to achieve, relations with Pretty Series, the PriPara x Aikatsu movie etc. But never had the time to. Can't afford to do big projects like that till the day where I'll have a lot of ko-fi subs insha Allah.
FullMetalFukumi
FullMetalFukumi
It's a shame how Aikatsu is ignored in non Japanese discussion, despite being a huge part of japanese pop culture. And don't even get me started on Pretty Series, which is one of the most important and influential series of these last 15 years. With Aikatsu copying Pretty Rhythm copying Love & Berry. Or PriChan being one of the first anime talking about post 2015 (Virtual) YouTubers / streamers and Society. Or King of Prism revolutionizing cinema.
Joseimuke (series primarily aimed at a female audience) and kodomomuke (series primarily aimed at children) are often completely ignored in English discussion and it's always been this way. Sadly it doesn't seem like things will change anytime soon. Only shonen jump anime keeps getting more and more mainstream.
The ever-collapsing anime industry in Japan, and worldwide companies like Netflix, they all avoid making anything that isn't mainstream. So there's less and less people who care about older anime, about anime that isn't the new mainstream thing everyone is already talking about. Usual vicious circle that feeds itself. And nowadays, even mainstream things tend to get passed through the SEO mill, and only gets superficial coverage like "This Chinese boys band game is enrapturing women's hearts".
Despite the fact that there are now a few big independent journalists fully funded by paid subscribers, like Giant Bomb or Digital Foundry or Aftermath etc, most of them don't go out of their way to talk about nicher subjects to educate their audiences, etc. They keep hyping up Xbox games like Forza JAPAN in the midst of the BDS campaign targeting Xbox, etc. The exits of the SEO mines and of the hype machines are open to them, and yet they still stay inside. As I always say, it's one of the nth consequence of pop culture discussion in English being so White-minded. People have no idea how better everything would be if there were more varied Black people getting hired in these spaces.
FullMetalFukumi
FullMetalFukumi
Another thing I wanna write a proper article about: like I said in the video, I'm trying to stop using the term "VTubers" for SpiceandWolf Live and most corpo VTubers. It's not that I'm looking down on them or anything, it's simply that calling them "idols" is just much closer to reality and how things are.
Sources/info links
The Aikatsu Academy interview I mentioned. I barely read it yet lol, but yeah I assume even if the producers are saying like "we have future plans", if the 2nd anniversary virtual concerts don't work, Aikatsu Academy won't keep going much further.
FullMetalFukumi
FullMetalFukumi
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