On October 11, the official website of the Aikatsu! franchise announced the Aikatsu! ~Mirai e no Starway~ anime film will release in Japan on January 20, 2023.
The website also unveiled a key visual for the film and artists for the film’s ending theme song.
The ending theme song “Kōri no Mori” (Ice Forest) will be performed by Waka Kirishima, Furi Uebana, Yuna Ichikura, Remi Mitani, Eri Aino, and Risuko Sasakama. Kirishima, Uebana, and Ichikura will also perform the film’s opening theme song “My Starway,” which has been released on YouTube.
Aikatsu! 10th Story ~Mirai e no Starway~ is the franchise’s 10th Anniversary film. The Aikatsu! Planet series premiered on January 10, 2021 and ended in June 2021.
The story of the upcoming feature film focuses on the main characters’ graduation from Starlight Academy.
The synopsis of the anime as described by Crunchyroll is:
Ichigo, Aoi, and Ran, who are in their third year of high school at Starlight Academy, begin to realize that graduation is only six months away.
Even after graduation, their idol activities will continue. However, graduation is also a turning point. One by one, they carefully consider what path they want to take from now on.
Then, a new step toward the future begins. Beyond the thoughts they reveal on stage at the graduation live, the STARWAY to the future that has been spun out for some time continues. No matter what kind of dreams await us, we are sure that we will be fine on this road ahead…
The Aikatsu! franchise originally began in October 2012 with its original arcade card game. The arcade game inspired a television anime that streamed from 2012 to 2016. The game also led to the making of three anime films.
The second game in the franchise Aikatsu! Stars inspired a television anime that premiered on TV Tokyo in April 2016. The third addition to the franchise Aikatsu! Friends launched in April 2018.
About Aikatsu Stars!
Aikatsu Stars! is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai’s Data Carddass line of machines, which was launched in May 2016. An anime television adaptation by BN Pictures began airing in 2016. It was succeeded by Aikatsu Friends! on April 5, 2018.
The series will feature Yume Nijino. Yume aims to become a top idol, and she enrolls in the Yotsusei Gakuen (Four Stars Academy).
This academy has a special group called the S4, who are the top four active idols in the school. Yume and the other first-year students aim to become a part of the S4.
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