Talk:List of Aikatsu Stars! Episodes/@comment-27685482-20180217093350/@comment-26426093-20180221142214

Actually, there were a few members of the development team that did float the idea of creating a sub-series for the M4 along with a few new male characters (evidence is in the trope page for Aikatsu Stars), but since Drefes had already existed by then, well, Bandai wasn't going to expend its budget just to please a small portion of its fanbase.

@Hoshiimiki I find it sad as well, that all these ships won't ever come to fruition. Even if Stars had continued on for one more season, things still would have remained the same. Yume being Yume would still remain oblivious to Subaru's feelings, Koharu and Asahi will never have that many moments between them in contrast to the other pairs, and even though Ako and Kanata did make some progress, there's no indication that their status would change at the present. So yeah, it is Bandai's fault for raising our hopes and then crushing them. But then again, this only applies to fans who ship...