Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24288618-20180125112638/@comment-24848025-20180204134942

Okay, there is a lot to dissect here and I'm only someone who visits the wiki every once in awhile but...

1) Otaku's demands ACTUALLY aren't totally unreasonable - unofficial "extra" lyrics can always be put in with italic parenthesis. Moreover, while I'm not sure if it's possible, maybe code a button that not only adds the extra lyrics, but changes the BG from lighter to darker? I also assume this change would be for ALL Aikatsu Wiki pages, and not just this one (or a future AiFure one).

2) Otaku - you are a ****** - Seriously, do you speak for ALL of us? I never had issues with the use of the Aikatsu wikis, and the admins and higher level editors have done a great job in the past in cutting down my word clutter pasta when I've edited info into the wiki in the past. This kind of stunt is just divisive and pointless - you've literally made a major issue out of two minor issues. If you think splitting the Aikatsu community like this is going to work -- it's not. It's plainly obvious you are sitting on the wikia name, and in 2 months time if this isn't resolved, everyone will just switch to where ever the AiStars Wikia people are, which is likely not to be your page and you'll lose all standing (and likely banned from the new Wikia to boot.) This is not how you go about asking for changes...

3) Are we seriously going to re-litigate all the naming issues again? It was bad enough with Lisa/Risa, but also Lily/Lillie and Rola/Lola/Laura too? People had their arguments for each of these names, the admins chose which ones to go with and those are what we should go with (and technically, the wiki page for Lily/Lillie should actually have her name as "Lilianne" as that's her actual non-shortened name). Didn't people get banned over these issues? We all know names can change when they're localized to English anyway, so why is this any different? (Thank god AiFure doesn't have this issue with any names yet.) Lets not open this can of worms yet again please.

4) Goodbye DearStage - OMG, finally talking about the series itself instead of the community drama! Anyway, it seems like with the seiyuu announcements, the voices are combined now unlike Aikatsu & AiStars before it. This is a interesting change, which means that DearStage (which has provided the Vocal Seiyuus in the past) is out of the Aikatsu Franchise. This could possibly spell the end for STAR ANIS & AIKATSU STARS. This also means that Lantis now has complete control musically to AiFure, which could be good news for all of us as it may let the future AiFure group perform outside of Japan for once at concerts such as the Anisong World Matsuri series of concerts. It honestly would be a good thing if the future AiFure idol group ends up as a opener for established idol groups such as Aqours or Cinderella Girls.

5) The English License - This is probably the big one concerning all of us. Right now, it's assumed that the English License to release Aikatsu in English officially is in the dead hands of Daisuki (which, not surprisingly, was partly owned & run by Bandai Namco.) It's possible that the reason the original Aikatsu (which was officially released in English for a span of 2 months back in 2014) was pulled is due to music licensing issues -- something that could potentially be cleared up for AiFure with the ouster of DearStage. This could potentially pave the way for a company like Crunchyroll to swoop in and pick up the license. I wouldn't get my hopes up too high, but if we make our voices heard over at CR that we want this series offically licensed -- they may actually go out and get it (and finally say goodbye to pirate subs.)