24 minSeason 4 • Episode 26
LatestAkari is invited out by Ichigo, who treats her to a special made bento to celebrate her victory. After her meal, Akari makes a request to have Luminas and Soleil hold a joint concert together. Following the performance, the other idols bring out a birthday surprise for Akari, pitting her in an obstacle course race against Ichigo for her present. Managing to catch up to Ichigo at the last second, Akari is treated with a spectacular view and is offered whatever present she'd like, which turns out to be a solo concert with Ichigo.
Ichigo Hoshimiya is a regular, ordinary middle school girl. But when her best friend Aoi invites her to join the idol training academy, Starlight Academy, her whole world is turned upside down. As she encounters all kinds of rivals and learns what it takes to be an idol, she uses her Aikatsu Cards to challenge countless auditions.
Cinematography
CGI idol sequences that aged weirdly but hit hard.
Score
Every song is a banger. Every. Single. One.
Costume
Card-based outfit changes: peak anime nonsense.
Sumire Morohoshi
Ichigo Hoshimiya (voice)
Ayaka Ohashi
Ran Shibuki (voice)
Azusa Tadokoro
Aoi Kiriya (voice)
Aya Suzaki
Mikuru Natsuki (voice)
Minako Kotobuki
Mizuki Kanzaki (voice)
Tomoyo Kurosawa
Otome Arisugawa (voice)
Sanae Fuku
Lisa Shirakaba (voice)
Shino Shimoji
Akari Ōzora (voice)
Kotori Koiwai
Nono Ōji (voice)
Kaya Matsutani
Orihime Mitsuishi
Kiyono Yasuno
Sakura Kitaooji (voice)
Makoto Yasumura
Johnny Beppu
Waka Kirishima
Ichigo Hoshimiya (Singing Voice)
Yuu Wakui
Sumire Hikami (voice)
Yui Ishikawa
Hinaki Shinjou (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aikatsu pioneered the 'card arcade game → anime' pipeline that dominated 2010s Japanese children's entertainment and influenced PriPara and Love Live's commercial strategies.
The voice cast was deliberately assembled from actual idol trainees—Sumire Morohoshi was 13 when she landed Ichigo, making her growth mirror her character's.
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