Peter Shillito @TheShillito@kirakiratter.com

Hello fellow Aikatsu fans. I just wanted to send you all a message to wish you, your friends and your family good health. There's a lot of news stories about "Coronavirus" (コロナウイルス) spreading around the world right now, particularly around Asia. Even the Aikatsu live "UniPare" (ユニパレ) is cancelled. I hope the virus doesn't affect you. Stay safe everyone. Love you.

Thank you so much to @MasterDalK for sending over the Star Light Funk Unit album 🙇‍♀️

I've been shopping!

Do you sell Aikatsu artwork? Send me your Melon Books page or Booth page! I do orders using a proxy every so often and plan to do an order in the new year (after the new Comiket works are added)

Just gone live on thisisthecat.com for my all night 10 year anniversary radio show. Going all the way through to 7am UK time (so for the next 10 hours). Feel free to tune in at any point as I'll be playing anime music, talking (in English sorry) and having fun! More information in Japanese: https://nekodesu.co.uk/index_jp.html

I'm in the local newspaper this week as my radio show is 10 years old next week, and we're raising money for Samaritans (a mental health charity in the UK). They cropped out the figures either side of me but they kept Aikatsu On Parade on the TV 😂

my friends and I are in the middle of our charity gaming stream marathon to raise money for Samaritans (the mental health charity)! You can donate at vscary.co/charity (the more you donate, the longer we stay awake) and watch at vscary.co/twitch

We have already raised enough money to make our stream 27 hours

Turns out you can set up wireguard VPNs on Amazon Web Services on their free tiers, so now I have a Japanese VPN and I can watch Clearness live 😍

I tried earlier and used my free trial

Does anyone know of any cheap or free Japanese VPNs I can use to access ch.ani.tv as they block access from outside Japan.

I missed Wonder Affection ;_;

Aikatsu music on Spotify!!! Even works in the UK 🤯

STAR☆ANIS https://open.spotify.com/artist/6AoELdE5lI3gQXrF1HOegI?si=62AGks0qS3uhfqfltHAF0w

AIKATSU☆STARS! https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Eg1d8jPvfK7IQJZKWcxwb?si=2tMYMWSpTJKjnSMrbzGnuQ

Thank you for letting us know @MasterDalK

I'm glad episode 3 of On Parade answered most of my concerns. Very little time passing in Friends universe while they're gone, and also you have characters from other universes travelling to the Friends universe i.e. it's not just Raki who can open the gate. However, I suspect that whenever Raki summons a gate, one appears in all universes?

I still don't like there being three performances per episode, especially since 2 of them are just archive 🤔

Sorry for lots of text.

It's only episode 2, I know, it's early days. First impressions are important though.

Also, and this is the big one, I'd like some reassurance that people in the Friends universe aren't panicking about Aine, Mio and Raki being missing. I'm assuming they'll return and very little time has passed, but it's a concern.

1) where have the transformation sequences gone? We heard the music from Friends briefly in episode 1 in the background.
2) three performances in a single episode? This is after two in episode 1. I am worried On Parade will be a "best of" and not do much story.
3) The travel between worlds hasn't been brought up since arriving except for a brief "I'm worried we can't get back" from Mio.

I have many more but not enough room.

Watched the latest Aikatsu On Parade episode on the train home 👌