The Idolmaster Million Live!

The Idolmaster Million Live!
CD cover art of "THE IDOLM@STER LIVE THE@TER DREAMERS 01 Dreaming!" featuring idols from Million Live! from left to right: Shizuka, Mirai, and Tsubasa.
アイドルマスター ミリオンライブ！ (Aidorumasutā Mirion Raibu!)
Genre	Idol[1]
Game
Developer	Bandai Namco Studios
Publisher	Bandai Namco Entertainment
Genre	Simulation, Social network game
Platform	GREE (iOS, Android, PC)
Released	JP: February 27, 2013
Game
The Idolmaster Million Live! Theater Days
Developer	Bandai Namco Studios
Publisher	Bandai Namco Entertainment
Genre	Simulation, Rhythm Game, Social network game
Platform	iOS, Android
Released	JP: June 29, 2017
Anime television series
Directed by	Shinya Watada
Produced by	Koichiro Tomita Yuka Takei
Written by	Yōichi Katō
Music by	Torine
Studio	Shirogumi
Licensed by	Crunchyroll
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 8, 2023 – December 24, 2023
Episodes	12

The Idolmaster Million Live (Japanese: アイドルマスター ミリオンライブ！, Hepburn: Aidorumasutā Mirion Raibu!, officially stylized as THE iDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE!) is a Japan multimedia spin-off series of The Idolmaster, starting with the game of the same name. The series follows a new group of idols working alongside the idols of 765 Production with a producer at the 765 Live Theater.

The original game is a Japanese idol raising simulation video game developed and managed by Bandai Namco Entertainment released on the GREE social network platform February 27, 2013^[2] for Android and iOS platforms and for feature phones. A rhythm game titled Idolmaster Million Live! Theater Days was released on June 29, 2017. The original game ended service on March 18, 2018,^[3] leaving Theater Days as the main game centered on Million Live. An anime television series adaptation by Shirogumi aired in October 2023.

Overview

Million Live! introduces 37 idols, working alongside the 13 idols of 765 Production; Theater Days adds two more idols and a secretary.^[4] Compared to other spin-offs in the Idolmaster series, the new idols work with and interact with the idols of 765. The general design and much of the visual elements are done by A-1 Pictures, the same animation studio responsible for animating several of the Idolmaster anime series.^[2]

Gameplay

GREE game

The game was a free-to-play idol raising simulator in which the player, as the producer, trained idols and sent them to work in various locations while also making the idols 765 Production Theater bigger.^[2] The idols were obtained through collecting cards ranked by rarity and divided into three categories, Vocal, Dance, and Visual, with a fourth category, Ex, reserved for special cards. Leveling up the cards made the idols stronger, with the higher rarities being able to reach higher levels.

The feature phone version was discontinued on February 2, 2016; a desktop client was released within the same month.^[5] The GREE game was shut down on March 19, 2018.^[3]

Theater Days

A second game titled Idolmaster Million Live! Theater Days was released June 29, 2017 for Android and iOS platforms. It is a rhythm game and simulation game, with 3D models, periodically released story missions, and multiple choice 'communication' events with the idols in the vein of the original Idolmaster games.^[6]

Many of the cards from the original game are reused in Theater Days.

Media

Animations

Seven of the idols from Million Live are featured in the anime film The Idolmaster Movie: Beyond the Brilliant Future!.^[7]

Special animation videos for Million Live have been created as anniversary celebrations. The first animation, a video featuring Mirai Kasuga, was created for the first anniversary and streamed in-game.^[8] A 10-minute animation was created for its fourth anniversary.^[9] Both were animated by A-1 Pictures.

TV Anime

An anime television series adaptation of Million Live! was announced during the Theater Days 3rd anniversary livestream.^[10] It is animated by Shirogumi and directed by Shinya Watada, with series composition and script by Yōichi Katō, and character designs for animation by Tetsuya Ishii and Kaori Tsuta.^[11] The series premiered on October 8, 2023, TV Tokyo and other networks.^[12] Prior to its television airing, the series is being released theatrically in three parts. The first part was screened from August 18 to September 7; the second part from September 8 to 28; and the third part from September 29 to October 19.^[13][14] Crunchyroll licensed the series.^[15]

Episodes

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Comics

Aside from comics available alongside the games themselves, Million Live! has several published manga.

A manga adaptation titled The Idolmaster Million Live! was published in Monthly Shōnen Sunday from August 2014 to October 2016, created by author Yuki Monji under the supervision of Bandai Namco Entertainment.^[16] The collected volume editions came with original CDs.

Another manga series titled The Idolmaster Million Live! Blooming Clover was published in Dengeki Maoh from February 2017 to October 2023, created by Kakuya Inayama.^[17][18]

Music

Million Live has image songs published by Lantis^[19] (later a label for Bandai Namco's Bandai Namco Arts).

The music was integrated into the gameplay of Theater Days.^[6]

Sales of the CDs and concert Blu-rays had surpassed a combined one million units by 2017;^[1] the CD The@ter Generation 01 Brand New Theater! received a Gold certification from the RIAJ.^[19]

References

External links

• The Idolmaster Million Live! (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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