User blog comment:Dorayaki/The Fallen Stars? --- What have been occured to Aikatsu Stars!/@comment-29843527-20180204140400/@comment-3487190-20180216123905

From my knowledge, I don't think it makes big difference in just titles. Still TakaraTomy promotes their PrettyRhythm/Pripara/Prichan under the general project "Pretty series", which is equivalent with Aikatsu! series. I think it more depends on changes in the actual story, characters instead.

For Aikatsu, yeah, it's kinda worrisome that this franchise is still rooted from the success of the the original season but the following seasons or series has not really popped out yet. In Pretty series case, Pripara turned out really popular so that the predecessor PrettyRhythm series also got some notice.

Although we've known the outline of AiFriends, I just hope that BANDAI can start a more original story that would interest more newbies.