User blog:Dorayaki/Are Aikatsu! dress outlines over-reused in AiStars Season 2? What do you think?

I sometimes think we might need some further discussion in this wikia, so I choose this one which I've been concerned about since Season 2 began.

I'm sure many of the fans here who've been supporting this series ever since the original Aikatsu! series (even better if since Season 1) would find out that many dress items from Aikatsu!Stars Season 2-- Wings of Stars--- are reusing the same outlines of the dress itmes from the original series.

In my point of view, I classify them into three categories:

Category(A) Old Brandless Items → New Brandless Items



The old itmes appeared as normal brandless cards in the arcade, and they're now in AiStars with new patterns.

Category(B) Old Brand Items → New Brandless Items



Originally they're part of the brand coords (either promotional or arcade coords), but they appear as brandless coords and you cannot use them to perform brand appeals.

Category(C) Old Brand Items → New Brand Items



Items that belonged to old brands are now classified as new brands.

Here's my reflections on the thee categories:

Category(A): well there's no need to discuss, or should say, complain. In marketing aspect, brandless items have been the least noticed part of Aikatsu! series. So BANDAI just directly reused them because card collectors don't really care.

But I would say that brandless items still kinda reflect on the real world casual looks, and perhaps there are still new looks invented everyday. So I still suggest that BANDAI should give us new normal looks sometimes. After all girls wouldn't just look exactly the same after two or three years.

Category(B): this is abit tricky. The hard part is that old Aikatsu! fans might feel upset that all the brand coords they'd been collecting before are now not precious anymore. Also that could mean the current AiStars! brand items would be treated like this in a further future?

The other problem for this category is, as they were originally designed as brand coords, they'd be very detailed visually and don't look like normal coords, which would confuse new fans alot. It could make sense if they can keep/change their brand instead of just becoming brandless....

Category(C): I would say this is the serious part for discussion. Please note that this category actually begins to appear only since Season 2, in other worlds, most brand items from Season 1 of AiStars were still original. Although I didn't like that there were only four/five brands in Season 1, I still have to admit that I liked the "theme" ideas because it does hasten many new ideas of dresses we never saw in the Aikatsu! series. However, now the new brand coords keep using old items, there's pretty impossible that old items can become a new invention with just pattern swaps.

It feels like Season 2 just wants to highlight the Star Premium Dresses and then put the schoold dresses and campagin brand coords secondary, and they don't care about the Rare items anymore. But I believe that they should also invent creative brand items from time to time.

Pripara, for example, it's know for having lots of recolors of old coords, but they do still invent several original rare designs in every part (such as their Baseball Game Coord in their current part). I used to not like Pripara that much, but now I hate to say that AiStars is beginning to fall behind,

My personal expectations:

1) All rare brand coords should be original.

2) Abit more original brandless items.

3) With the re-introduction of Angely Sugar, Futuring Girl and Spicy Ageha, I would expect them to do some re-colors of their brand coords, just like Pripara does. That's at least honest and also a better way of reuses than those bad recolored brandless items.

Hopefully you guys could also share thoughts or help indicate erros :)