I blame DiGiKerot. His gendoesque gaze compels me to buy IM@S merch. This time it's the combo of COCX-35247 and LACA-5736. The former is bought without sampling first, as I swore to do previously.

It wasn't a mistake, I'm happy to report. Master of Master turned out to be a fake "concert" with song tracks punctuated by talk segments where idols introduce themselves, announce upcoming songs, and generally kid around. Musical performances were pretty neat too (nothing new for gamers, I'm sure).

One especially curious musical number is "Danketsu" ("Unity"), where idols rap their short intorductions, some are rather goofy. Haruka says that her main quality is hair ribbon, I think. Yayoi proclaims that she's poor but does her best, which is at least understandable.

The talk tracks weird me out somewhat, and in the same way live videos and drama CDs. Clearly I'm too used to familiar and comfortable visual language and mores. Graduation from anime didn't come a day early, it appears.