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1st The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Game Shuts Down After 12 Years in March 2023
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for Bandai Namco Entertainment's The Idolm@aster franchise announced on Monday that the first of The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls games will end service on March 30, 2023.
The game has been in service for more than a decade since 2011. The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls franchise began as a mobile phone social game spinoff of The IDOLM@STER games. Unlike the first The IDOLM@STER games, which focus on a group of 13 idols in a minor idol agency, The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls introduced the story of a larger set of entirely new characters in an idol agency in a large and well-funded multimedia conglomerate. The game later spawned multiple manga and its own television anime.
The franchise also has The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage rhythm game, which launched for iOS and Android devices in 2015.
Kyowno's The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 manga is inspiring an upcoming television anime.
Sources: The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls' Twitter account, The IDOLM@STER website via Otakomu
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