IDOL×IDOL STORY! - Ch. 96 - Incompleteness

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Her biggest danger right now is getting too caught up in the image that the fans have of her and losing sight of herself.

The way I see it, the fans are seeing Mimi for what she really is. She does have the aura they see in her. She just never believed it herself because of her past experiences.

For Mimi to reach a middle ground where she can look at herself properly, she basically has to be humbled.

This implies that Mimi's losing sight of herself, but we don't know that yet. Even if what she's doing seem shocking, it's a reflection of her true talent. She always had the potential to be a star that can charm the people around her. Now she's consciously making use of that talent, which is not a bad thing per se.

In any case, it's still too early to claim this is a problem. So far, all I see is Mimi unlocking her self-imposed limiters. Nothing so far has made me think she's losing sight of herself or her friends. That still could happen but it's too early to tell.
 
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I hope Mimi doesn’t fumble, she deserves success after all her previous struggles.
What would fumbling mean anyway? Screwing up her dancing or singing? That's very unlikely to happen after being trained by Yuuri, right? Her level of skills increased so much she even got praised by Shuri if I remember correctly.

Maybe she's gonna draw so much attention she's gonna overshadow the others? That could be a problem in a different way. lol
 
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So, uh, is the public, Aria, and the Black Stars shocked (in a bad way) that Mimi is hushing the public?

Or are they just in awe of the bold move she pulled, deserving respect?
 
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That one motion from Mimi was pure aura farming. I'm uh... starting to feel a little bad for the Black Stars. I thought Aria's "nerf" (no being leader of the group) to Mimi was a bit undeserved but now she's just "cheating". Instead of her teammates, she's now leading the fans. Mimi has always done well with the fans and now she's their leader.

Uh oh...

I think she might be going super saiyan this arc...

"And with one finger raised silence fell upon the world"
-The Book of Mimi, Act 1
 
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I only just realized how stacked the white stars team is (yeah i'm slow). Switch suzu with shiori and you have (imho) the current most complete idols in the roster.
 
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I'm thinking it'll be a split elimination, one from each team. The rules were one elimination from the popularity votes, with each winner from the six contents earning +15,000 votes. (I'm assuming everyone on the team wins the bonus, not just the singers for songs with a subset.) Chapter 92 was the last time I could see the popularity rankings, and Hitoe is 26K from the bottom (above Koyuki and Hibana), though those numbers don't account for IdolFes popularity shifts. So it's possible she could lose via the popularity vote.

The second elimination was "whomever was deemed least fit for a potential group" (Ch 81, Pg 10) but I didn't see any obvious troublemakers in this round. Anon would've lost on this criteria in round 3, but she's not been much of a presence in round 4.

In terms of who is finishing their character arc (like Michiru did in round 3), I don't see a lot of obvious contenders here. My gut points to Hitoe who seems less into it than the rest of the White Stars, is young enough to have another shot, and also had that bit with her roommates leaving her. Attention on the Black Star side jumped around a lot more outside of Uraha and Karin getting a lot of focus - but I think that's prepping them for promotion more than anything given Uraha has done quite the U-turn from last round in going all-out to help her team this time. My guess would be Koyuki since she's had a few bits with ominous foreshadowing that her performance isn't going as well as she'd like. Amon, Tsumugi, and Shiori have barely been a presence this arc, so it'd be weird to axe them offhandedly. Hibana is a big question mark because she is technically ranked last, but I feel like she has more character development to come.
 

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