YMMV / Shining Song Starnova

• Alternate Character Interpretation: While Kamijou is pretty gung-ho to destroy Starnova on the common route, Quasar doesn't make further appearances on Mika or Julie's story routes. Since both characters have obvious issues as center, this could be interpreted as Kamijou deciding that he no longer has to lift a finger and choosing to sit back and let Starnova implode in on itself instead. Notably, on Julie's route, Kamijou does make a second appearance once scandal and controversy have put Starnova on the very brink of death, and makes a move to acquire all the idols from their parent company.
• Complete Monster: While the idol industry looks glamorous on the outside, this dastardly duo represents the very worst of the business:
  • Kenjiro Oda is the chairman of Golden Calf Productions, and the one who represents some of the darkest aspects of the idol industry. A pervert and pedophile, Oda, for at least four years, would use his position to molest and sexually assault any idol under him, even kids, and if they refuse he would destroy their careers as retaliation. This led to numerous idols receiving scarred psyches, which Oda cared very little about. In Sasami and Aki's routes, Oda takes over the role of main antagonist, where he tries to usurp the role of CEO of his company through illegal means in order to continue his crimes and further his reach with his new position. In Sasami's route, he goes as far as to attempt to rape her, and in the bad endings of both routes, he would succeed and begin forcing the women under him through "inspection". Sleazy and despicable, Oda is a chilling reflection of how horrible a human being can be in the idol industry.
  • Haruka Enokida is an idol who will do whatever dirty deed to get to the top. Cruel and sadistic, Haruka wears the mask of a sweet girl before striking. Luring other girls into her posse, she uses them to bully and humiliate her competition to permanently scare them from the industry, like stripping Mariya naked with scissors and suffocating her with a bag of feces when she was in Quasar or belittling Kana into a mental breakdown. At Aki's and Sasami's route, she shows the full extent of cruelty by attempting to run over Kamijou after her sex scandal was exposed and was fired in Aki's route, and in Sasami's route she assists Kenjiro Oda in his hostile takeover of Quasar. While letting Oda assault Sasami, Haruka goes on to attempt to rape her two group mates, Kaori and Stella, cutting their clothes off, beating them, taking photos of them naked, threatening them with a dildo, and attempting to force them to have sex on camera so that she can use it as blackmail to force them to leave the industry. When even the her accomplices think she's going too far, Haruka then threatens to rape them as well if they back down. Ruthless to the core, Haruka will stop at nothing, even rape and murder, to be the top idol.
• Nausea Fuel: How did Mariya develop a habit of calling out people who she hates "shit-eaters"? This is how she was kicked out of Quasar. After being demoted she was cruelly humiliated by Haruka by striping her naked and forcing her to eat human feces.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Mariya, as it happens. While she's among the farthest from centre on most routes and often treated as a side-lined joke for her age, her good route at the time of writing this entry has the highest achievement completion rate on Steam (40.4%), nearly 3% more than the next girls (Julie at 37.7%, Mika at 37.4% and so on.)