{"id":20476,"date":"2023-08-03T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T08:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=20476"},"modified":"2023-08-03T17:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T08:33:16","slug":"20230803-20476","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230803-20476\/","title":{"rendered":"Idolmaster Million Live campaign has fans pay to promote the series on their own\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recently announced commemorative campaign for <strong>The Idolmaster Million Live <\/strong>anime will consist of fans receiving official promotional car decals to decorate their cars and driving around in them to show their support for the series. Fans who wish to apply will have to pay a not-so-humble participation fee and will receive commemorative merch as rewards if they achieve certain mileages with the decals equipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfac\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30a2\u30a4\u30c9\u30eb\u30de\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc<\/a> \u30df\u30ea\u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\uff01\u300d<br>\u5287\u5834\u5148\u884c\u4e0a\u6620\u5fdc\u63f4\u30ad\u30e3\u30f3\u30da\u30fc\u30f3\u958b\u50ac\u203c\ufe0f\ud83c\udf89<br><br>\u30d7\u30ed\u30c7\u30e5\u30fc\u30b5\u30fc\u306e\u7686\u69d8\u3001\u611b\u8eca\ud83d\ude98\u3092 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u30df\u30ea\u30aa\u30f3\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6<\/a> \u4ed5\u69d8\u306b\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u30c7\u30fc\u30c8\u3057\u3066\u3001\u30c9\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\u3067\u5fdc\u63f4\u3057\u307e\u3057\u3087\u3046\ud83d\ude06\u2728<br><br>\u30b9\u30c6\u30c3\u30ab\u30fc\u30b5\u30a4\u30ba\u306f3\u30bf\u30a4\u30d7\ud83d\ude97\ud83d\udca8<br>\u8c6a\u83ef\u306a\u8d70\u884c\u7279\u5178\u3082\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059\ud83c\udf81\u2728<br><br>\u8a73\u7d30\u306f\u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oT6Eq3aZU2\">https:\/\/t.co\/oT6Eq3aZU2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2xQNdXmXt7\">pic.twitter.com\/2xQNdXmXt7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30de\u30a4\u30ab\u30fc\u5e83\u544a CheerDrive\uff08\u30c1\u30a2\u30c9\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6\uff09 (@cheer_drive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cheer_drive\/status\/1685248585783562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 29, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tweet translation:<\/strong> We are organizing a \u201cThe Idolmaster Million Live\u201d anime pre-screening support campaign\u203c\ufe0f You can now update your beloved car ? with #MillionLive decals and support the series by driving! ?\u2728&nbsp;<br>There are three different decal sizes ??&nbsp;<br>We have prepared special perks as well! ?\u2728 Details below<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-awaited TV anime adaptation of The Idolmaster Million Live will tell the story of the 39 new idols introduced in the series and of their activities and growth at the 765 Theater Agency, while focusing on the main characters Mirai Kasuga, Shizuka Mogami and Tsubasa Ibuki. The anime is scheduled to start airing from October 2023, but there is a three-part theatrical pre-screening planned in Japan starting August 18, over the course of which all 12 episodes of the anime will be shown in advance in movie theaters all over Japan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To commemorate the start of the theatrical pre-screening, a collaborative promotional campaign by The Idolmaster and Cheer Drive was <a href=\"https:\/\/idolmaster-official.jp\/news\/01_9178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> on July 29. The campaign will last from August 18 to October 31, while applications to participate are already open.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1710\" height=\"960\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001.jpg 1710w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-1068x600.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803-20476-001-748x420.jpg 748w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The campaign consists of applicants decorating their personal cars with promotional car decals provided by the campaign partner Cheer Drive and essentially just driving around to contribute to the promotion of the series. Those who wish to participate can choose from three available plans that vary in price and size of decals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cMini Plan\u201d that includes a small rear sticker has a participation fee of about $17.5 and achieving a mileage of 500 km in the campaign can win you an Idolmaster leather keychain. The full rear decal plan costs around $46.7 and the rewards for a 500 km mileage are a leather keychain and an original Idolmaster car sunshade. The same rewards can be obtained for a 300 km mileage in the \u201cthree-surface plan,\u201d which has a participation fee of about $57.8.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u300c\u5ba3\u4f1d\u3059\u308b\u6a29\u5229\u300d\u3092\u58f2\u308a\u51fa\u3057\u305f\u304bwwww <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jiQ2khYhWJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/jiQ2khYhWJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30da\u30cb\u30fc\u30ef\u30a4\u30ba\u306e\u4eba (@cfftoot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cfftoot\/status\/1686329760220315648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tweet translation:<\/strong> Did they just start selling the right to advertise (laughs)<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While many fans found the idea of the campaign interesting and the rewards attractive enough to want to try and participate, a portion of users felt that something was off about the idea, as it essentially boils down to fans of the series paying a fee to do the business the favor of advertising. One could argue that participants receiving the official decals and (possibly) the reward merch is enough to compensate them, but taking into account fuel expenses and time spent driving as well as the participation fee, a keychain and sunshade don&#8217;t seem like much of a deal. Perhaps a lower fee or prizes more valuable than a keychain would make the campaign more worthwhile.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently announced commemorative campaign for The Idolmaster Million Live anime will have fans supporting the series by decorating their cars with official Idolmaster decals, but the participation fee doesn&#8217;t have everyone on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":20478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-20476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Idolmaster Million Live campaign has fans pay to promote the series on their own\u00a0 - 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