User blog comment:Hielmiez/Aikatsu Friends! Next Aikatsu series?/@comment-29843527-20180125153026/@comment-26426093-20180126035931

True, it's literally absurd when you realise that Bandai could have put more work into improving Stars rather than just creating a new series from scratch as a quick cash grab.

What's even worse was that two years ago, Bandai were hyping up Stars as breaking new ground for the franchise, as a stepping stone towards a new and sustainable future.

Now fast foward to today and Stars is slowly chugging its way towards the series finale in order to make way for a Pretty Cure ripoff to take its place, which points towards the inevitable fact that Bandai is now geared towards creating new series every 2 years or so instead of generating stability as with the original series itself.