Season 3

#idol #industry
^{This season starts with Aqua and Ruby in 2nd year and Akane, Kana in their 3rd year}

1. Down Bad

• B-Komachi is growing fast and stable with about 300k subs
• Saitou Ichigo teams up with Ruby as her advisor

2. Calculating

• Adivsed by Ichigo–Ruby crafts a persona, contrasting her ditziness with Aqua's coolheadedness in Deep Dig!
• AD of the show Deep Dig! is pushed around to find cosplayer for Tokyo Blade at the last minute
• Deep Dig!'s director is a bit old fashioned and casue of his inefficiency they don't get permissions for official cosplay. Due to which Shun Yoshizumi was forced to ask cosplayers change costume at the last moment

3. Compliance

• At cosplay event we see Ruby and other cosplayer one of which works in adult magazine
• In order to earn viewership director asks inappopriate quesion in a interview to the adult magazine cosplayer which later results in a mess on sns
• Ruby—with some intent looks sets up a stage at the show Deep Dig!'s where we see direct interaction between the adult magazine cosplayer and director and some drama..can't say what Ruby gained from this but there's something fishy but how Ruby has started behaving lately

4. Blind

• Ruby begins walking on a twisted path, full of lies and manipulation–all to gain fame at any cost—all for some twisted goal

After 6 months

• Ruby wins Newcomer of the Year award at Women's Idol Award—becoming a hot commodity to the industry

• Aqua and Ruby are making more appearances

• B-Komachi Yt channel hits 970k subs from 300k subs in just 6 months

• Shun Yoshizumi became Ruby's manager

• Saitou Ichigo clear up other possibilities for Aqua regarding the mastermind behind Ai's death

• Aqua's supposed father, which he found through DNA test is probably not his father. He died months before Ai moved to the new address and therefore he couldn't have leaked her address

  • With DNA test you can confirm that Aqua and Taiki Himekawa are brothers but we can't say they have same biological father
  • The DNA test was of Aqua and Taiki Himekawa not of their father
  • We can confirm they had same mother but not father
  • Also there might be someone else other than his father who might have been behind Ai's death

_{yaaaayyy finally}

• Ai's potential partner might be Kamiki Hikaru…he looks like Aqua and was part of Lala Lie Theater Co.
• When Ai was pregnant at 16, he was just 15 and that's the reason why Ai might have kept his identity a secret

5. Casting

• Even if Hikaru was behind Ai's murder, he probably won't be prisoned for his actions as he was just a minor at the time of incident…really??

• Arima Kana desperate to hit a role in acting industry again, meets up with director Masanori Shima and builds quite a relation with him—enough to go along a suspicious guy to his office which not so surprisingly turns out to be his home
  • There he tries seducing Kana—in an unsuccessful attempt
• aaahh paparazzi got our beloved Arima Kana!!!

6. Idols and Relationships

• “Idols can't date”–that's for consumers. If they end up dating someone…they just have to hide it and that's professionalism in the biz
• Arima Kana gets confronted by the paparazzi leaving her only one option—run away
  • Seeing Kana break down and then getting back to her usual self is the most beautiful thing
  • also Strawberry Productions receives an email from the paparazzi asking for interviewing Kana
• “Maybe I should've become a private eyes, not an actress” -Akane
  • Some blonde guys has her location, probably.

7. Bittersweet

• Saitou Miyako was quite lax about Kana’s scandle. Not very surprising considering Ichigo Productions, Inc. have dealt with Ai's mess
• I think Aqua could have given some other insider info to the papparazi but…
  • And finally Ai's scandle was made public by her own son—quite disappointing
  • This news will sure highlight Ruby and Aqua in probably positive way cause these kinda scandle in biz is suprising but common
• Seeing Akane break and cry and snap when she found out that Aqua was always tracking her… it was divastating.

Some blonde guys has her location, probably [ep6]
–and that turns out to be Aqua

8. Plan

• Now that Ai's secret is public, Aqua and Ruby are getting more recognized in industry–positive negative both
• Kana is in the safe
• Gotanda Taishi was asked to document original B-Komachi by Ai
  • It seems in this documentary we'll get to see the more real side of Ai
  • The 15-Year Lie–is what Aqua and Taishi came up with. A Documentary which will be produced by Masaya
• Yura Katayose–the person who will take on the role of Ai in this documentary is suspiciously resembles Akane
  • She seems close with Kamiki Hikaru as she calls him miki
  • When Yura Katayose tells him that she's go mountaineering–Kamiki Hikaru asks her to watch her steps

9. Greed and Passion