Idolm@ster is the Xbox360, PSP and Nintendo DS game where you as a manager takes care of an upcoming idol. You make her practice singing, dancing and give her advice so that she can bloom and become a the best of the best. The original game is really really popular in Japan and there is a whole industry behind the downloadable dresses and other accessories. People are known to spend many hundreds of euros on this game… just to make the girls look their best.
This game… is now getting a real sequel on Xbox360!
There is a certain tension in the air today. It seems like nicovideo finally is removing some of the constraints on their platform and letting more people take part of the content available. There are for example plans to let people make apps for nicovideo (live) like the apps on facebook or mixi. We are recently also seeing more twitter integration on the site. Users of nicovideo have been able to twitter videos and live shows for a while now but they has finally taken a step forward and started to display the tweets.
There are a bunch of different anime orientated twitter bots online and I’ve recently been playing a lot with some Idolmaster ones. These girls live the lives of the different characters from the games and are quite good at it! There are different stories going on and the bots can even reference back to previous subjects and talking points.
It’s very particular when you notice that they all greet you in a special way. Some bot might come in a bit later in the conversation and wonder what’s going on and what the other girls are talking about. I think that these characters are mainly roleplaying bots with some automatic answers built in. They are very synchronized and their responses are what you expect from talking to the characters if they existed for real. They sometimes even comment on when a friend of theirs change their icon as if they changed their hairstyle. Sending messages to the girls also gets you the answers you’d expect. Be perverted and you get rejected (in a good way) but treat them as you’d treat them in the game and you’ll get awarded (as in the game).
Some of the girls stay awake longer than others and you can even notice some patterns in their lifestyle… or that’s at least what I’d like to imagine.
You can find them talking and being active mostly during the morning, lunch and evening. Check them out yourself!
That’s something to celebrate now isn’t it? Well, as you’d have it, the 10 millionth video got removed because of Fuji TV and their copyright of some footage. Instead, I have this for you:
April 11, 2010
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