It's a video game! Specifically, a mobile game - one that is actually super popular in Japan, though it's never gotten an official English translation. It's spawned an anime (not very recommended, sadly), a manga, a light novel, a whole heap of stage musicals and concerts - it's a big franchise!
And for a brief summary, it's an ensemble piece all about teenage guys who want to become successful idols. But it has a weirdly dramatic plot with really in-depth relationships and enough ships to have you set for a lifetime, haha. The fandom is mainly on twitter and it has 6k works on Ao3 so it's of a decent size!
I wrote a post here explaining more if you're interested! (As you might expect from this meta, it's pretty long though haha.) It's out of date now, though - as of March this year, the old app was massively updated and now there are two versions, a tapping one like the old app and a proper rhythm game. There are also two new units! (Technically three buuut there are two sets of new characters anyway, lol.)
Otherwise, your best bet is definitely to check out the wiki. Since there's no official translation everything is done by fans, and everything is archived there, so any of the stories I cite in the meta can be found there. (...well there are one or two things I've referenced that don't have uploaded translations because I read enough to understand it but am not good enough at Japanese to translate it properly myself but there are only one or two like that, lol.)
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Date: 2020-11-03 09:01 am (UTC)And for a brief summary, it's an ensemble piece all about teenage guys who want to become successful idols. But it has a weirdly dramatic plot with really in-depth relationships and enough ships to have you set for a lifetime, haha. The fandom is mainly on twitter and it has 6k works on Ao3 so it's of a decent size!
I wrote a post here explaining more if you're interested! (As you might expect from this meta, it's pretty long though haha.) It's out of date now, though - as of March this year, the old app was massively updated and now there are two versions, a tapping one like the old app and a proper rhythm game. There are also two new units! (Technically three buuut there are two sets of new characters anyway, lol.)
Otherwise, your best bet is definitely to check out the wiki. Since there's no official translation everything is done by fans, and everything is archived there, so any of the stories I cite in the meta can be found there. (...well there are one or two things I've referenced that don't have uploaded translations because I read enough to understand it but am not good enough at Japanese to translate it properly myself but there are only one or two like that, lol.)