Im@s Corner: Mobile iDOLM@STER Games

Among all the Idolm@ster-related mobile applications, the Taiko no Tatsujin series has received songs from the three most recent social mobile games: THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls (November 28, 2011), THE iDOLM@STER: Live For You! (February 27, 2013) and THE iDOLM@STER: SideM (July 17, 2014).

From 2017 onwards, the series also started to receive tunes from the spin-off rhythm games THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage (September 3, 2015) and THE iDOLM@STER Million Live!: Theater Days (June 29, 2017).

All the three social games share the same core aspect/gameplay that is nowadays common to most of the always-online iOS/Android games: idols are collectible as cards/sprites and the player has to spend stamina in order to play/interact with the idols through the three games' modes. For DeNA's Cinderella Girls and SideM, this means train the idols for concert/stage events and interact to the player, while in GREE's Live For You! the idols are used to be part of a 60-deck card to battle other players in Rival Event performances to establish whose unit is the best one.

The Million Live! titles and Starlight Stage, on the other hand, are music games for Android and iOS, following the trail of the SHINY FESTA games for PSP. In Starlight Stage, the player is called to clear songs with a unit of 5 idols by tapping many different kinds of markers on screen; according to the chosen idols and their rarity, many positive effects can trigger in order to have positive effects during the performance and other perks. A similar formula is applied to the Million Live! titles, where both the GREE-app exclusive Million Live from 2013 and the iOS/Android-available Theater Days from 2017 share a similar play style and gacha-related idol recruit mechanics to Starlight Stage, only with a different story setting as one of 765 Productions's many idol producers.

The five games feature full voiced performances of the returning idols from the arcade/home console games, with Cinderella Girls and SideM boasting the introduction of a high number of idols from 341 Production's "Project Cinderella" (CG) and 315 Production's ranks of male talents (SideM). Aside from the 'special events' made to increase the drop chances of particularly rare/exclusive idol cards, the DeNA games have also boasted a number of popularity polls in order to add voice acting to the most popular idols in both games, which in turn will lead to future projects with the winning idols, including cameos in other Idolm@ster media and the formation of special units with their signature song.

Considering all the Idolm@ster media, the mobile-spawn Idolm@ster songs are the only ones which are not featured in any of the Idolm@ster Must Songs twin games (up until the games' release), although if other Taiko console titles claimed some of the following tracks subsequently after their console debut.

For the sake of grouping the mobile games media all in one page, the Cinderella Girls and Starlight Stage songs are all listed on this page as made by performers/idols from the CG apps, despite the fact of some of the songs actually making their debut either on albums as exclusive tracks or as part of the Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Anime series.

	-Im@s Cinderella Girls songs-

	Onegai! Cinderella Star!! GOIN'!!! Shine!!

	-Im@s Million Live! songs-

	Thank You!

	-Im@s SideM songs-

	DRIVE A LIVE

	-Im@s Starlight Stage songs-

	S(mile)ING! Never say never Mitsuboshi☆☆★ Anzu no Uta Tsubomi Yumemiru Rapsodia ~Alma no Michibiki~ TOKIMEKI Escalate Tulip

	-Im@s Million Live!: Theater Days songs-

	Brand New Theater!

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Im@s Corner: THE iDOLM@STER ONE FOR ALL

ONE FOR ALL is the last title of the series made for the Playstation 3, released on May 15, 2014 as an exclusive title. Like for the SHINY FESTA games, it was also made available as a digital-only expansion to the IM@S CHANNEL free application.

Taking inspiration of the Three Musketeers' 'All for one and one for all' motto, the game focuses on the everyday life of the 765 Pro idols, as they struggle to grow both as popular idols and as good people. For this extent, the game is structured around a main mode which allows to produce from 1 to 3 idols at a time from the 765 Pro studio's affiliated artists by training, acquiring fans and rising your Idol Rank by performing well in rhythm-based challenges against many rivals in the idol world.

Downloadable content for the game mainly comes in form of additional songs, clothes and Story Mode scenarios for each of the 13 girls, most prominently featuring the rival 961 Pro idols and the newcomer 341 Pro girls from Dearly Stars and the Im@s Cinderella Girls/Million Live!/SideM mobile games.

Being the latest home console Idolm@ster title, there weren't a lot of songs from ONE FOR ALL in Taiko gaming at first, although both the first tracks made their debut in really recent games. Thanks to the popularity of the mobile music game THE iDOLM@STER: Starlight Stage, even more tracks from ONE FOR ALL managed to make their debut on Taiko arcade grounds.

	-Im@s ONE FOR ALL songs-

	ONLY MY NOTE Accelerator Tsubomi Yumemiru Rapsodia ~Alma no Michibiki~ Anzu no Uta Mitsuboshi☆☆★ S(mile)ING! Never say never

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Im@s Corner: THE iDOLM@STER SHINY FESTA

Originally launched on October 25, 2012 for Playstation Portable, this is the 2nd Vision generation's first game trilogy, consisting of the titles Honey Sound (ハニー サウンド), Funky Note (ファンキー ノート) and Groovy Tune (グルーヴィー チューン).

The SHINY FESTA titles are arguably considered the first full-play rhythm games of the genre, as the customization/dancing aspects of the series take a back seat in favor of a main rhythm-based activity involving the player hitting notes with the PSP's buttons on its two sides, raising the Popularity of the idols' performance and thus clearing the stage. In Stage mode, each of the songs can be tried indidually, while the Star of Festa mode plays them all in succession as part of the game's Story mode. While a handful of songs are shared between the games, SoF storylines and selected tunes from past Im@s games are exclusive to one of the 3 versions.

On April 22, 2013, the SHINY FESTA titles were localized in other Asian areas (Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea), North America and France as iOS games, thus becoming the first games of the series who got a Western localization. Later on, the three games could be downloaded through the Playstation 3's  IM@S CHANNEL service from October of the same year, as THE iDOLM@STER Shiny Tv.

The SHINY FESTA games have had their own share of newly-made songs, with MUSIC♪ being the only pre-Must Songs released track on Taiko games.

	-Im@s SHINY FESTA songs-

	MUSIC♪ edeN Vault That Borderline! Visionary

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