IDOL×IDOL STORY! - Ch. 49.6 - Bonus - After the Star Battle Test

[MangaDex]

 

[drmagma]

20 volumes!?
Let’s go!

 

[Tds-PdV]

Final round when there are 10 participants left is an important reveal.

Also quite crazy from a show of this kind.
Presumably a white star and black star showdown to determine the final unit or something like that (though at that point why not just debut both units….).

 

[ciera]

Thank you

 

[DeepReader]

We’re 1/4 of the way there

 

[luminary]

We are at 14 contestant left right? So four more stages before the final round.

Also the twenty volumes comment means that we'll have decent chunk of the story devoted post-competition right? I sure hope it wouldn't end right when the idol group is formed.

 

[Razsius]

Yea, thankfully, looks like we'll get idol stuff post ship arc. I was quite worried it might just end there. Going till 10 left then making a final choice after that sounds like a Black + White Stars face off with the winning group getting it all. Unless it's explained next chapter the individual rankings don't even seem to matter anymore.

I will legitimately lose it if some bs happens to Ritsu (yet again) and she doesn't debut on the winning team.

 

[MiniMarps]

Final round when there are 10 participants left is an important reveal.

Also quite crazy from a show of this kind.
Presumably a white star and black star showdown to determine the final unit or something like that (though at that point why not just debut both units….).

I'm pretty sure this is the first time it's been explicitly stated, but it's always been theorized (by myself and others in this forum, anyways) that that's how it was gonna go down. For one thing, if it were to continue whittling them off one-by-one all the way until they got to five, that'd make for a reeeally awkward final few rounds. (And I mean awkward both in-universe and narratively speaking.)

My guess? 5-on-5, Team Mimi/Ibuki vs Team Ritsu/Hitoe. (Or maybe, if he feels like being extra spicy: Team Mimi vs Team Ibuki.)

 

[MiniMarps]

I will legitimately lose it if some bs happens to Ritsu (yet again) and she doesn't debut on the winning team.

To me, Ritsu (along with Hitoe and Michiru) makes more sense as a "final boss" than as an actual potential winner. I'm confident she'll get to the final round. Honestly, if I had to guess, the "final battle" so to speak is going to be Mimi vs Ritsu.

 

[lilyloverxoxo]

20 VOLUMES?? i can't wait 😍

 

[Tds-PdV]

I'm pretty sure this is the first time it's been explicitly stated, but it's always been theorized (by myself and others in this forum, anyways) that that's how it was gonna go down. For one thing, if it were to continue whittling them off one-by-one all the way until they got to five, that'd make for a reeeally awkward final few rounds. (And I mean awkward both in-universe and narratively speaking.)

My guess? 5-on-5, Team Mimi/Ibuki vs Team Ritsu/Hitoe. (Or maybe, if he feels like being extra spicy: Team Mimi vs Team Ibuki.)

Ha! I don’t mind even if they lose, but not putting Mimi and Ibuki together in the final team sounds wrong especially if the story ends right after. But the author can do whatever he wants of course.

I still feel a final 5 v 5 makes sense from group building standpoint, but doesn’t from business/agency POV and could be an awkward finale from reality TV perspective if the teams are far apart in quality.

So, the compromise I can see happening is the final round would be something like a pseudo-debut for both units. After the results are out, the winning unit get to be produced by Aria (as initially promised), the losing unit will end up being produced by someone else.
Since otherwise letting them go would be a horrible business decision because all other agencies would be more than happy to sign them up.


Personally, rather than a 5 v 5 I think one possible (or better IMO) final round would be multiple mini-contests where Aria gets to observe the chemistry of each contestant with a few others. (Arguably, the rounds so far has this aspect partially in mind.) The 5 that form the best group (have best chemistry) win. This is because presumably at that point, the remaining contestants are all of high skill levels and good foundations. And, the goal is to get the best unit.
Further this emphasis of the final screening based on group chemistry nicely ties in with the beginning of the series with Mimi and Ibuki not meshing with their original respective groups.

 

[SatansBestBuddy]

 

[EggsNRice]

I wonder if this series shares a universe with New Game?

 

[Siete]

To me, Ritsu (along with Hitoe and Michiru) makes more sense as a "final boss" than as an actual potential winner. I'm confident she'll get to the final round. Honestly, if I had to guess, the "final battle" so to speak is going to be Mimi vs Ritsu.

Ritsu makes the most sense as a final boss because they all but said that only Mimi or Ritsu can make it to the end since they're the same kind of idol and would overlap as members of the winning unit.

 

[CommonTruth]

Big reveal in this little extra! I'd just sort of assumed we could continue with single eliminations, maybe shake things up with a double elimination in one round or have someone drop out for other reasons, until we got down to our final five. But doing it this way, starting the final round at ten contestants, makes a lot of narrative sense.

So there will be four more single eliminations before the final round:
1st Round: Mei
2nd Round: Yuuri
3rd Round:
4th Round:
5th Round:
6th Round:
Final Round:

If the series really does run 20 volumes total, then we're already around a third of the way through the series. Volume 1 was 5 chapters, vol 2 was 7 chapters, and vols 3-5 have all been 8 chapters. Continuing that pattern, volume 6 should collect chapters 37-44, leaving on the cliffhanger of the captain battle about to start, and putting us currently 5/8 of the way through volume 7.

 

[Rhin]

I'm pretty sure this is the first time it's been explicitly stated, but it's always been theorized (by myself and others in this forum, anyways) that that's how it was gonna go down. For one thing, if it were to continue whittling them off one-by-one all the way until they got to five, that'd make for a reeeally awkward final few rounds. (And I mean awkward both in-universe and narratively speaking.)

My guess? 5-on-5, Team Mimi/Ibuki vs Team Ritsu/Hitoe. (Or maybe, if he feels like being extra spicy: Team Mimi vs Team Ibuki.)

Actually, i have been interested in the idea that mimi/ibuki will lose the final round, and start a unit by themselves anyways.
It has already been stated by Aria that, even if you lose, just getting to the main rounds of the contest already gives you a lot of prestige and publicity.

 

[Razsius]

To me, Ritsu (along with Hitoe and Michiru) makes more sense as a "final boss" than as an actual potential winner. I'm confident she'll get to the final round. Honestly, if I had to guess, the "final battle" so to speak is going to be Mimi vs Ritsu.

We already had that "final round" in the 1st round. Team Mimi vs Team Ritsu and Mimi took it with the "worst" members at the time. Mimi has better leadership whether Aria wants to admit it or not. Ritsu herself said that there's only place for one of them but I think that's wrong as it's good to have a reliable second, her skills are well up there and they have great chemistry together.

Second, Mimi and Ibuki are not the dark horses that everyone makes them out to be. These are the only 2 members that have actual idol experience. They both had some idol training as well. As noted by the strict SSS trainer, he was surprised that Mimi had flown under the radar and muscle trainer commented that the only thing she might've needed was to be "blessed with a good teacher". With solid training, which they are currently getting right now, they will be absolute monsters. Mimi kind of already is.

Hopefully, the author does some good cooking and takes it in a direction that nobody truly expects.