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The IDOLM@STER Million Live! Game Gets TV Anime
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
A livestream event to commemorate the third anniversary of the The IDOLM@STER Million Live! Theater Days smartphone game announced on Saturday that Bandai Namco Entertainment's The IDOLM@STER Million Live! smartphone and browser game is inspiring a television anime adaptation.
Shinya Watada (Aikatsu Stars! film, Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE) is directing the anime at Shirogumi Inc., and Yoichi Kato (Aikatsu!) is overseeing the series scripts.
Namco Bandai Games released the game in 2013 as a spinoff of the main The IDOLM@STER game series. The game features the 765 Pro characters of the original series, as well as 37 new characters. The game allows players to manage their own idol production company, and raise their idols' skills. The game then ended service in March 2018.
Bandai Namco Entertainment launched a successor to the game titled The IDOLM@STER Million Live! Theater Days for iOS and Android devices in June 2017. The stage for the new game is a 765 Pro live theater, and it takes place in rooms such as the theater's office, waiting room, and greenroom. The game features the theater clerk character Misaki Aoba. In the game, players can communicate more with certain idols by touching them on screen. The game's solo and unit concerts feature rhythm games.
Sources: The IDOLM@STER Million Live! Theater Days 3rd Anniversary livestream, Famitsu.com
