History VideoGame / TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls

** For the Cinderella Master Idols, there's always that DramaCD interviews, titled "Mezase! Cinderella No.1", found in track two of a Master Album.

** Want to learn more about idols' quirks? ''[[Manga/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsTheater Cinderella Girls Theater]]'' four-panel series and its animated adaptation might help.

** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Tons. Of. Manga. Series]]. We've got various one-shot compilations like DNA Media Comics' ''Comic Anthology'' series, the ''Shuffle!'' series, and the ''Ensemble!'' Series (The latter two were published by Creator/SquareEnix's manga division).

*** ''Rockin' Girl'' focuses on Riina, as well as supporting characters like Kanako and Rika. This was part of the Cinderella Girls x Square Enix manga deal.

*** ''[=U149=]'' has a lot of kid idols under 12 like Arisu, Momoka, Miria, Chie, Nina, Kaoru, Risa, Haru, and Koharu. Chika, Mai, Kozue, and Yukimi would later be added into the cast as more chapters go on. Available on Cygames' Cycomics division.
*** ''[=After20=]'' is the polar opposite of [=U149=], with mature, 20 years and up idols such as Kaede, Miyu, Sanae, Mizuki, and Shino are the main focus of the series. Available on Cycomics, just like [=U149=].

* {{Crossover}}: The "Year of Collabs" beginning in 2019 lead to various collaboration campaigns involving franchises such as ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', various Creator/KeyVisualArts games, ''Anime/CodeGeass'' and ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate''. These included room items and cover songs, as well as special introductory commus from collaboration characters.

''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]]'s [[Franchise/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]] franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''Shiny Colors'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, ten (7 numbered and 3 unnumbered) real-life Live Concerts, a growing number of songs, and of course, one more important thing: ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''.

An [[Anime/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls anime television series adaptation]] produced by Creator/A1Pictures aired in 2015. In addition, just as with the original franchise there are numerous manga adaptations including a set of anthologies. A [[Manga/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsTheater Cinderella Girls Theater]] anime adaptation aired in 2017 as part of the Spring2017Anime lineup, and has been renewed for four more seasons each year, totalling five seasons. An AllCGICartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuUDHz13Jg short]] produced by [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios Orange]] known simply as ''Spin Off!'' was released in 2019 as part of the 8th Anniversary.

This subseries also has quite a number of spinoff mangas; see AllThereInTheManual section of this page for more.

** Memorial Episodes. Whenever a new card of an idol is released, chance that you'll see her new memorial episode, both in Mobage game and Starlight Stage.
** [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Tons. Of. Manga. Series]]. We've got various one-shot compilations like DNA Media Comics' ''Comic Anthology'' series, the ''Shuffle!'' series, and the ''Ensemble!'' Series.
** Not only these three manga compilations, there are also a number of manga series focused on certain idols:
*** ''Rockin' Girl'' focuses on Riina, as well as supporting characters like Kanako and Rika.
*** ''[Wild Wind Girl'' takes a in-depth look of Takumi as the main character.
*** ''[=U149=]'' has a lot of kid idols under 12 like Arisu, Momoka, Miria, Chie, Nina, Kaoru, Risa, Haru, and Koharu.
*** ''[=After20=]'' is the polar opposite of [=U149=], with mature, 20 years and up idols such as Kaede, Miyu, Sanae, Mizuki, and Shino are the main focus of the series.

''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of Franchise/TheIdolmaster franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''Shiny Colors'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, five main real-life Live Concerts, a growing number of songs, and of course, one more important thing: ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''. All three games were developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} (yes, ''[[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy that]]'' Cygames you know and you love) and published by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]].

In 2015, a RhythmGame spinoff called ''THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage'' was released for Android and iOS platforms, with gameplay similar to fellow idol rhythm games such as ''VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival'' but using 3D models, and with five lanes as opposed to SIF.

An [[Anime/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls anime television series adaptation]] produced by Creator/A1Pictures aired in 2015. In addition, just as with the original franchise there are numerous manga adaptations including a set of anthologies. A [[Manga/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsTheater Cinderella Girls Theater]] anime adaptation aired in 2017 as part of the Spring2017Anime lineup, and has been renewed for four more seasons each year, totalling five seasons. An AllCGICartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuUDHz13Jg short]] produced by [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios Orange]] known simply as ''Spin Off'' was released in 2019 as part of the 8th Anniversary.

This subseries also has quite a number of spinoff mangas; ''U149'', about idol groups consisting of the child idols; ''Wild Wind Girl'', about the life of one certain sukeban idol [[note]]Takumi[[/note]]; and ''[=After20=]'', a SliceOfLife about the older idols bar hopping and exploring food.

An [[Anime/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls anime television series adaptation]] produced by Creator/A1Pictures aired in 2015. In addition, just as with the original franchise there are numerous manga adaptations including a set of anthologies. A [[Manga/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsTheater Cinderella Girls Theater]] anime adaptation aired in 2017 as part of the Spring2017Anime lineup, and has been renewed for five seasons each year. An AllCGICartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuUDHz13Jg short]] produced by [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios Orange]] known simply as ''Spin Off'' was released in 2019 as part of the 8th Anniversary.

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An [[Anime/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls anime television series adaptation]] produced by Creator/A1Pictures aired in 2015. In addition, just as with the original franchise there are numerous manga adaptations including a set of anthologies. A [[Manga/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsTheater Cinderella Girls Theater]] anime adaptation aired in 2017 as part of the Spring2017Anime lineup, and has been renewed for a second season as part of the Fall 2017 Anime lineup; A third season of the ''Theater'' anime aired in Summer 2018. An AllCGICartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuUDHz13Jg short]] produced by [[Creator/RoughDraftStudios Orange]] known simply as ''Spin Off'' was released in 2019.

This series also has quite a number of spinoffs; ''U149'', about idol groups consisting of the child idols; ''Wild Wind Girl'', about Takumi; and ''[=After20=]'', a SliceOfLife about the older idols bar hopping and exploring food.

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''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of Franchise/TheIdolmaster franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''Shiny Colors'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, five main real-life Live Concerts, a growing number of songs, and of course, one more important thing: ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''. All three games were developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} (yes, ''[[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy that]]'' Cygames) and published by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]].

** Miyo Harada's second SSR card has her performing the famous slide from ''Anime/{{Akira}}''.

** Miyo Harada's second SSR card has her performing the famous slide from ''Anime/{{Akira}}''

''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of Franchise/TheIdolmaster franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''Shiny Colors'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, five main real-life Live Concerts, a growing number of songs, and one more important thing: ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''. All three games were developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} (yes, ''[[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy that]]'' Cygames) and published by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]].

* CostumePorn: UpToEleven. It's been said Bandai Namco once hired fashion designers as advisers and it really shows.

** The original 765 Pro idols were initially featured in ''Cinderella Girls'' as already successful [[SempaiKohai sempai]] the cast hopes to emulate. However the original idols are used very sparingly (limited edition or special event promotionals) and not eligible for vote during popularity polls. They're in ''Cinderella Girls'', but technically not considered among their official ranks. As of now, there has not been any cards for the 765 Pro idols, maybe because the cast of ''Cinderella Girls'' have been more popular, surpassing the OG Idols... or maybe because the 765 Pro idols are busy spending time with the ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'' idols.

* GottaCatchThemAll: Well over 190 idols and all of them have card variants.

** Dozens of idol are not Japanese nationals. The majority of these are [[TokenWhite American and European]], but there are Brazilian, Chinese, and Korean idols too. However the series still lacks an idol of African decent or from the African continent, even when considering the AmbiguouslyBrown girls.

* AlternateContinuity: Explicitly described as having its own continuity, though many elements from the anime do make appearances.
* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: The game has two rooms available for the player to decorate, with a wide variety of items to use, many of which come in themed sets. Each event also has its own exclusive item, and pulling SSR cards will give the player posters.
* AscendedMeme: When the CD for ''Twintail no Kaze'' was released, one fan made a [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm32554365 hilariously memetic video]] of [[UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga "Nobunaga with Glasses"]]. Three months later, the ''Starlight Stage'' music video for the song actually features footage of a textbook page with the very same picture of Nobunaga that was used in the FanVid.

** "Overload" grants more powerful Score Boost and maintains your combo at NICE/BAD at cost of 15 Life Points, but it activates very often and you will more likely lose your HP by Overload more than missing your notes. It also poorly synergizes with Life Sparkle, who requires you to maintain HP at your highest for the best modifiers.
** "Encore" cards is either GameBreaker or this, since it will copy the last skill activates. Since you have no real control over what skill you should copy, often times they're copied something that's not beneficial to your current conditions whatsoever (like activating Overload twice) or copying skills that you don't want to.

* CastFromHitPoints: The Overload skill works this way. Every time it activates, it takes away a certain amount of your Life bar, but while it is active, it not only gives you a (slightly higher than the usual Perfect Bonus cards) boost to your score, it also keeps NICE and BAD hits from breaking combo.

* EarlyGameHell: Not as bad as in SIF, but it still takes some time (or cash) for the producer to accumulate enough [=SRs=] to get good scores on Master difficulty songs. Thankfully, a Pro-only player can still be competitive enough in events to get those [=SRs=].
* EmptyLevels: The higher Producer Level you have, the less frequently you receive increases in max stamina and friend capacity. After level 140, each of these increases only once every ''ten levels''.

* Crossover: The "Year of Collabs" beginning in 2019 lead to various collaboration campaigns involving franchises such as ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', various Creator/KeyVisualArts games, ''Anime/CodeGeass'' and ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate''. These included room items and cover songs, as well as special introductory commus from collaboration characters.

''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of Franchise/TheIdolmaster franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''Shiny Colors'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, five main real-life Live Concerts, and a growing number of songs, and one more important thing; ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''. All three games were developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} (yes, ''[[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy that]]'' Cygames) and published by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]].

* StylisticSuck: Pinya's design is 100% this.

''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of Franchise/TheIdolmaster franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''Shiny Colors'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, five main real-life Live Concerts, and a growing number of songs. Oh, and one more important thing, ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''. All three games were developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} (yes, ''[[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy that]]'' Cygames) and published by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]].

The first game in the subseries, ''THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls'', first started its service on November 28, 2011 through [=DeNA=]'s Mobage platform for feature phones; compatibility was extended to iOS and Android devices as a web application on December 16, 2011. In 2014 native apps for these devices were released. In addition, a Korean version was released with three exclusive idols, though service has since shut down.

* {{Mascot}}: Pinya Korata, the vaguely cat-like green creature that serves as the mascot for... heaven knows what. It's UglyCute enough to be practically a parody of the concept.

** Similarly, "Combo Bonus". All they do is grant you bonus score based on your capability of stringing and maintaining your combos, but their multipliers are pretty good on it's own and doesn't have any special conditions/penalties or requires specific synergy with other cards. They a lot more rare since they're limited, but an SR Combo Bonus works just as fine and can be found commonly on Events and LIVE PARTY sequences.

* EarlyGameHell: Not as bad as in SIF, but it still takes some time (or cash) to accumulate enough [=SRs=] to get good scores on Master difficulty songs. Thankfully, a Pro-only player can still be competitive enough in events to get those [=SRs=].

** ... And then there's these tricolor vocal/visual/dance cards that give you ''100% single attribute appeal boost'', only if you have at least three of different type cards.
** After that, what comes after tricolor attribute cards? Type Princess cards, giving you 50% total appeal boost when you have five single-type cards, a polar opposite to tricolor cards. And the card skills metagame will change again, and again, and again...
* {{Microtransactions}}: [[UpToEleven No wonder why Starlight Stage surpasses the original mobage game itself]]. Paid Star Jewels are what [[FanNickname Scamco]] keeps the sub-series alive, offering you to buy many things such as:

** Averted with some songs like Tulip, where you had the option to arrange the position of the original five singer as you like and they will sing with their voice arranged. Theoretically you can arrange them to make it sounds like the MASTER version of the song.
* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: SSR Perfect Support skills convert judgements from Bad upwards to Perfects. Skill Boost strengthens skills when it's active. When both are active, Miss judgements will be converted to Perfects, meaning the player doesn't even have to hit the notes while this happens.

** In-universe within the anime there isn't a store window, billboard, magazine cover, subway car, television set, public bus, utility pole, etc. without a Cinderella Girls idol somehow shown on them. The idol craze is taken to lavish extreme, and the general public worships them for every entertainment need.

* {{Mukokuseki}}: Used with ridiculous extremes with some Japanese characters. While there's many characters whose hair is either dyed due to their job, or they sport foreign ancestry, there's some Japanese idols who inexplicably had either blonde hair, lighter skin and either blue or green eyes and they couldn't reasonably had either foreign ancestry or legimately dyed their hair due to their age, being the biggest offenders Momoka Sakurai, Kozue Yusa, Koume Shirasaka and others.[[note]]This is especially notable with those already mentioned idols because they are elementary grade girls, and in Japan, unless you have foreign ancestry, you're not allowed to dye your hair at that educational level, assuming they're attending regular schools. Some of them, like Anzu Futaba, subvert this on the grounds she is OlderThanTheyLook as she is 17 and thus she could dye her hair without without problems.[[/note]]

** The DLC outfits are nicely detailed, too. However, with the exception of the ''Party Time Gold'' dress, only some idols can wear them.

* EmptyLevels: The higher Producer Level you have, the less frequently you receive increases in max stamina and friend capacity. If you thought SIF was bad about this, think again - after level 140 each of these increases only once every ''ten levels''.

** The MASTER+ difficulty became available as a separate folder for non-event songs (CINDERELLA MASTER solos and others), as well as event songs in one of the updates, which also added "slide" notes for the aforementioned difficulty. This folder uses MASTER+ tickets as oppossed to using stamina, and divides songs' MASTER+ difficulty into 3 albums (A/B/C), each rotating every week, with new song charts to be added on each album rotation. Certain event types such as Cinderella Caravan, Cinderella Road, and Token events will not reward points/tokens when playing MASTER+ charts.

* ScunthorpeProblem: Naming your units [=Pa/Vi=], [=Pa/Vo=], [[note]]short for "Passion/Visual" and "Passion/Vocal" respectively,[[/note]]or the alike isn't possible, since they contain the word "AV", which basically means ''adult video''.

** And then there's Nana in the ''Halloween Code'' event: "[[InTheNameOfTheMoon In the name of Planet Usamin,]] [[Anime/SailorMoon I will punish... huh?]]"

** Due to specific wording in a limited-time-release Hot Springs gacha's fine print, it was believed that the three particular cards from that gacha ([=SSRs=] belonging to Chieri and Riina, and an [=SR=] belonging to Shizuku) would never be rereleased, unlike cards from other limited gacha. Given that many players (especially whalers) poured a lot of money just to get once-in-a-lifetime limited Chieri/Riina/Shizuku, they feared that one day Bamco will rerelease the first Hot Springs gacha, making them feeling scammed by the company who insisted not to bring back these cards again.[[note]]Technically, if they refunded everyone who rolled the gacha, they could rerelease it, but it's highly unlikely, especially after so long.[[/note]] Eventually in 2019 they found another way to distribute the cards through the Memorial Gacha system.

An [[Anime/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirls anime television series adaptation]] produced by Creator/A1Pictures aired in 2015. In addition, just as with the original franchise there are numerous manga adaptations including a set of anthologies. A [[Manga/TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsTheater Cinderella Girls Theater]] anime adaptation aired in 2017 as part of the Spring2017Anime lineup, and has been renewed for a second season as part of the Fall 2017 Anime lineup; A third season of the ''Theater'' anime aired in Summer 2018.

This series also has quite a number of spinoffs; ''U149'', about idol groups consisting of the child idols; ''Wild Wind Girl'', about Takami; and ''[=After20=]'', a SliceOfLife about the older idols bar hopping and exploring food.

** The original 765 Pro idols were initially featured in ''Cinderella Girls'' as already successful [[SempaiKohai sempai]] the cast hopes to emulate. However the original idols are used very sparingly (limited edition or special event promotionals) and not eligable for vote during popularity polls. They're in ''Cinderella Girls'', but techincally not considered among their official ranks. As of now, there has not been any cards for the 765 Pro idols, maybe because the cast of ''Cinderella Girls'' have been more popular, surpassing the OG Idols... or maybe because the 765 Pro idols are busy spending time with the ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'' idols.

* PlayEveryDay: Daily login bonuses, frequent login campaigns daily missions, and of course ongoing events all encourage this.

** Due to specific wording in a limited-time-release Hot Springs gacha's fine print, the three particular cards from that gacha ([=SSRs=] belonging to Chieri and Riina, and an [=SR=] belonging to Shizuku) will never be rereleased, unlike cards from other limited gacha. Given that many players (especially whalers) poured a lot of money just to get once-in-a-lifetime limited Chieri/Riina/Shizuku, they feared that one day Bamco will rerelease the first Hot Springs gacha, making them feelling scammed by the company who insisted not to bring back these cards again.[[note]]Technically, if they refunded everyone who rolled the gacha, they could rerelease it, but it's highly unlikely, especially after so long.[[/note]]

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''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of Franchise/TheIdolmaster franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterShinyColors Shiny Colors]]'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, five main real-life Live Concerts, and a growing number of songs. Oh, and one more important thing, ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''. All three games were developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} (yes, ''[[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy that]]'' Cygames) and published by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]].

This series also has quite a number of spinoffs; ''U149'', about idol groups consisting of the child idols; ''Wild Wind Girl'', about Takami; and ''After20'', a SliceOfLife about the older idols bar hopping and exploring food.

*** ''[[TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsRockinGirl Rockin' Girl]]'' focuses on Riina, as well as supporting characters like Kanako and Rika.
*** ''[[TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsWildWindGirl Wild Wind Girl]]'' takes a in-depth look of Takumi as the main character.
*** ''[[TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsU149 U149]]'' has a lot of kid idols under 12 like Arisu, Momoka, Miria, Chie, Nina, Kaoru, Risa, Haru, and Koharu.
*** ''[[TheIdolmasterCinderellaGirlsAfter20 After20]]'' is the polar opposite of [=U149=], with mature, 20 years and up idols such as Kaede, Miyu, Sanae, Mizuki, and Shino are the main focus of the series.

** Since December 2016 there have been events where the 876 Pro idols from ''Dearly Stars'' can be obtained.

''THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls'' is one of the four subseries of [[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster THE iDOLM@STER]] franchise besides ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterMillionLive Million Live!]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterSideM SideM]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmasterShinyColors Shiny Colors]]'', spawning three games, two Anime adaptations, countless number of Manga spin-offs, five main real-life Live Concerts, and a growing number of songs. Oh, and one more important thing, ''[[{{Tagline}} Over 190 girls to produce]]''. All three games were developed by Creator/{{Cygames}} (yes, ''[[VideoGame/GranblueFantasy that]]'' Cygames) and published by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]].

** "Coordination" are basically Score and Combo Bonus in one card but with a smaller Score Boost modifier, and unlike the Combo Boost cards (sans the Riina Tada one) they're non-limited card and can be obtained at any time and any banner.