Follow TV Tropes

Following

YMMV / The iDOLM@STER 2

Go To

  • Character Perception Evolution: Jupiter got most of its vitriol in the first few years of 2. However, it's largely died down as time went on; fans are fine with the songs and the challenge they brought into the game, and the A-1 adaptation and later SideM fleshed them out to the point where they were even adored by fans. In fact, when they (or any of the other SideM idols) were confirmed to not be playable in the 15th anniversary game Starlit Season, there was an enormous backlash from fans, even from fans of the female branches.
  • Die for Our Ship: Part of the backlash over Project Jupiter being in the game at all (aside from very controversial business decisions coupled with their introduction into the franchise) was over the idea that a male presence besides the Player Character in a game full of cute girls would mean Token Romance with them is a possibility, and they'd rather not have that. When it came to the game itself there was very little romance in the main story, but that didn't stop people from hating the boys anyway. This has changed over time; Haruka and Touma in particular actually managed to become a rather popular ship after the A-1 anime came out.
  • Game-Breaker: Several amulets. Awanko, Rinkamo and Nikuwan (for rate slow appeal rate decrease), Sugamo and Mushaharu (for high voltage gain) are the most used ones.
  • Pandering to the Base: The advertisements since the fans' massive tantrum over Ryuugukomachi and Jupiter had placed a lot of emphasis on the fact that the RGKM girls can still join your idol unit onstage for productions that need five girls; meanwhile, those divisive boys have dropped off the radar almost entirely.
  • The Scrappy: Jupiter, especially in the beginning. After the disastrous 2010 conference, how rude the leader was to the girls, and because they were some of the few male idols in the franchise, certain fans fans truly hated Touma, Shouta, and Hokuto. Opinion on them started to lighten up over time, due to the anime and SideM expanding on their characters and also making Touma significantly nicer.

Top