The [email protected] (2017)

Yet to this day I have no clue what moved me to actually watch this series as it is totally not my genre, however after finishing it I thought it was quite a cute series. Acting was quite good, however the story was fair. Not too bad, not unique either and so now and then it was very cliché at certain parts, while there was a small twist at the end that threw me off, even though I knew what was going to happen to all these girls.

The good thing is that the producers decided to tell the stories of all girls and not only of the three major ones, which made it more interesting as other series similar to this have the tendency to just focus on the major characters within a series.

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The IDOLM@STER Universe

Back then when they were transforming the IDOLM@STER IP into all sorts of different media, including a Korean drama because why not? The drama itself played out exactly as you may expect and the first episode gave the necessary impression to set the expectations going forward. The cast members consisted mostly of idols so you may expect varied degrees of on-screen presence and performance. The drama explored one of the girls stories every 1-2 episodes but these were extremely predictable and bland, offering no variety, theming or appeal. You would expect this type of show to be much shorter but for some reason they went for full length, I guess they had the IDOLM@STER budget.

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