User blog comment:Pochichi/Aikatsu Stars Season 2... CONFIRMED/@comment-3487190-20161231135500/@comment-30886579-20170102221847

@Hielmiez Yeah, the world is so sarcastic…

The Japan animation industry is much alike to game app industry, that the way to support their work is to buy product+play arcade game/in-app purchase, then nice story/visual can be made and have virtuous cycle. We can say that if there are not much crazy fans we will not be able to enjoy them. Luckily Aikatsu Stars still have some. It is OK for us to not have interest on goods/game. Just hope there are more insane fans.

Sometimes I think if the animation industry is like TV station industry that a company create a lot of TV drama all the day and earn tons of advertising profit, and fans of the drama need not to pay for them, and there are not much product as well. The real "free entertainment".

And some with good plot but without much fame like Aikatsu Stars, vs not creative plot LoveLive with huge fame…