User blog comment:Dorayaki/The Fallen Stars? --- What have been occured to Aikatsu Stars!/@comment-26426093-20180206010328/@comment-3487190-20180228150507

I cannot say that Pripara dealt everything better than AiStars. It's also known for recycling lives in anime and unbalanced character development. But ultimately they do better in providing sufficient arcade content to beat down AiStars.

Anyway, although Aikatsu! season 4 was kinda rushed, BANDAI inevitably had to replace it with a new series in order to promote the new arcade machine type. And as pointed, AiStars season 1 actually did an average job in songs, story or coords, it's only in season 2 when things become obviously bad.

Now just hope that AiFriends could just stay simple like the original series but try to give more new content fans expect. After all a new universe means that there's no way to recycle old things from AiStars.