Well, I mentionned it before but The iDOLM@STER is at the top of the list of games I wish to play.

At first, when I saw articles about this game on japanese blogs, it was just by curiosity. But since that time I eventually grew some sympathy for the characters, and finally became a iM@S fanboy. So, when this iM@S manga got released some weeks ago, I just couldn’t not to give it a read.

And this manga was cute. Really cute. Too cute. As in ‘innocent’.

In fact, I got the bad feeling that this manga was actually aimed at kids. orz

For god’s sake… BRING MY AWESOME SEKUHARA P BACK XD

I mean, dude, as far as I saw from the tons of vids which got posted on youtube, the game gets a pretty nice amount of service. And there is this ‘pai touch’ thing which made this game so famous on deh otaku internet… and there was nothing of these things in this book, and that’s kind of unexpected when you know that the author is Takuya Fujima, one of Ken Akamatsu’s (Love Hina/Negima) ‘disciple’.

But well, at least the art is cute. As I said, Fujima is one of Akamatsu’s disciple (he’s doing that negima spinoff manga, Negima-Neo) so the art is pretty ‘akamatsuish’,  and I always have been a sucker for Akamatsu’s easily imitable yet nice art.

Ok, now is the time for random scans and copypasta~

The 765 (Namco) Production’s shachou invites his beloved grandson, Yutaro, to a party for introducing him to ‘somebody’…
lol uber plain main guy~
He’s supposed to be 16, even if he doesn’t look like it… dunno, maybe it’s because the author is too much into Negima…

And the boy meets the girl~

Party with 765 Prod’s employees~
For some obscure reason, the manga features only 6 of the 10 heroines : Haruka, Miki, Yayoi, Chihaya (<3 <3 <3 <3 <3), Iori (<3 <3 <3 <3) and Yukiho… wait, NO AZUSA-SAN ?!
Makoto, Ritsuko and Ami/Mami are missing too… well, at least it gets Kotori, the very popular secretary girl XD

Shachou annonces, oh surprise, that Yutaro will be the future purodyusaa-san~
Side note : as if Iori didn’t get enough moe attributes already, the author added a fang… approved ! <3

Right page : in this manga, the idols are actually performing as a band. Well, that may explain why they are ‘only’ 6, the author surely wanted to spare us from another Morning Musume XD
Left page : haha Kotori luvs the manly shachou XD

That’s the kind of ‘service’ this manga delivers… :o

Chihaya is just the BEST <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
HAWT !
And that upper-panel on the left page, DEH LOVE <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 (did I mention that Haruka x Chihaya was one of my most wanted pairings ? a Iori x Yayoi is fine too~)

Random fantasy~
Chihaya & Iori : <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

That’s supposed to be the ‘hottest’ Yutaro x Haruka moment… XD
Ah~ the innocence~

I must say that Fujima–sensei’s Yukiho is damn CUTE

Yutaro : “Eh ? Sorry, your voice is too low, I can’t really hear you…”
Yukiho : “So- sorry, I’m not at ease when talking with boys… ///;;”
Yukiho : “Is it ok now, like this ?”
Yukiho~

oh man… DEH LOVE

Obligatory onsen service~
You still have lot to learn from Akamatsu-sensei, Fujima-san XD

This manga is going straight for the Haruka route…

Chihaya FTW

Finally get the chance to see a bit of skin thanks to Miki XD
Iori-chan kiiiick !!! XD

At the end of the book, the 2 original rival characters from the 3 im@s PSP games (the third rival being Miki, uragirimono ! XD) appear~

I’m done~

Well, in fact I wanted to write also a post about the Gurren Lagann Gakuen manga, but the thing got scanlated since a while already so it’s kind of late… man I want my internet back… orz

:beer:

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