There will be at least 6 of these, including a big concert, a tour and a popularity contest. Max: One thing that we didn’t show yet is special events. TechRaptor: Will the game be confined to the menu shown off in the screenshots, or are there other methods of interaction planned? One way to put it is that we’re presenting a “darker” take on the industry, but in a lot of ways I think that we’re just being a little bit more realistic than the games and anime that only present the cutesy idealized version of idol life. There’s something in that dissonance between the fun, cheery veneer that idol groups present, and the somewhat less cheery aspects of the industry that support these groups, that is just really fascinating to me, and I don’t think it gets nearly enough attention.
This kind of stuff is very much a part of the industry’s culture and yet it often seems to go overlooked, especially among outsiders who might find things to object to if they followed it more closely. Several years ago, there was this incident where one idol shaved her head and issued a public apology because she broke the “no dating” clause of her contract, and I saw a lot of comments on English-speaking message boards about how weird and problematic this was. Justin: Japan’s idol industry is such an interesting social phenomenon.
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