User blog:Dorayaki/Drefes! --- boys version of "Aikatsu!"? What's your thought?

It's probably not too relevant with the series (or one day this new series would have own wikia page?). But I feel surprised that nobody on this wikia (and the old one) really talked about Drefes so far. Or maybe the advertisings are not big enough in this circle, so I make some brief introduction here.

http://www.dream-fes.com/

Drefes, the new member of BANDAI's Data Carddass series, is an idol simulation game revolving around using collectible cards featuring various clothes to help aspiring idols pass auditions. Despite it's only an App game rather than arcade machine game, everything about it is almost the same as Aikatsu! series does. Players have to collect different cards with different types that correspond to their live stages.

Drefes has own different system of types and brands. So far it introduced PEACE PARADE!, GRANDE DIAMANTE, Alexandra Z and Flow Terrace.

http://www.dream-fes.com/about/

Due to that there are no arcade machines, the main ways to get Drefes! cards is from card packs, jumbo cashapon or commercial products (yeah, like Aikatsu! always does).

http://www.dream-fes.com/goods/goods_card_side-a.php

http://www.dream-fes.com/goods/goods_card_side-b.php

So far the game announced 7 characters and 2 group, the main group DearDream and the rival team KUROFUNE. The singer team is similiar with Aikatus!'s STARANIS and AikatsuStars, DearDream is also the realworld team consisted of new male singers and their albums would be published by Lantis too.

http://www.dream-fes.com/characters/

http://www.dream-fes.com/casts/

http://www.dream-fes.com/goods/cd_newstarevolution.php

And it just announced that Drefes! would also come with own TV anime series.

http://www.dream-fes.com/anime/index.php

The following part is my personal reflection about this series. Although there are just way too many male idol games and anime (Utapri, Ansanburu Stars... etc) and it seems like a big red ocean strategy, Drefes! also appears to be the very first 3D live male idol game featuring card collecting. Even though Idol@Masters and Pretty Rhythm series had done CGI lives for male idols before, they still haven't managed to do a real 3D live game for boys and this becomes BANDAI's big advantage.

Here is the negative feedback: since Drefes is almost same as Aikatsu, why BANDAI doesn't promote it as part of Aikatsu franchise? The mentioned Idol@Masters and Pretty Rhythm, despite not having 3D live games for boys, still at least include boys in their series. But the fact that boy idols are not part of the Aikatsu! series has been a really disturbing thing. Male idols/characters in the Aikatsu! series only serve minor roles alongside with the main girls.

M4, the newly announced male idol group in the AikatsuStars! series would be the main target for us to notice. But since compared with Drefes and DearDream, what is M4's position in BANDAI's commercial plans? It feels less possible that BANDAI would really do the same things for M4 as much as for DearDream. The worst case would be that girls would see DearDream as the real idols, while M4 are just nothing more than minor characters from anime story.

Personally, I would say it could be nice to set Drefes! in the same world with Aikatsu! or AikatsuStars! series by the following ways: 1) Johnny and Yotsuba are the senpais and instructors to DearDream and teach them how to perform. 2) DearDream, replacing M4, be the ones that interact with Yume and her friend and share opinios about idol experience (no shippings, though).

But knowing that the STAR series is irrelevant with Aikatsu! series, it wouldn't be too surprising to know that Drefes doesn't relate to both, though....

As for M4, I really hope that they could appear in the upcoming AikatsuStars! game, not as the playable characters, but could be actors in drama, or supporting male dancers in dance class. In previous Aikatsu! series game, Johnny-sensei served as the only male character to perform with the girl idols. I do believe that BANDAI can try abit more to include boys in the DCD game by different ways.

The best result is that M4 could also be part of the Drefes! game and compete with DearDream, but this could be a bigger dream.



Anime announced to be on TV since October 7th. The character voices sound not very skilled yet, but the scenes look okay at this point. The important part would be whether it would insert 3D CGI lives like Aikatsu! series.

Eventually it's no onfirmed that Data Cardass arcade version of Drefes is going to run