Im@s Translation Q&A 

As a former manga translator, I deeply understand how time consuming the whole translation process is. You guys rock.

Happy birthday Shizuka Mogami!

3:00 I think it makes a lot more sense to leave them as it is since they have no direct translations in Indonesian. There are however verbal tics in some traditional laguages like "euy" and "cuk". The problem is Indonesia has more than a thousand of ethnic groups with their own languages, each languages with their own dialects. I can imagine scenarios like a Minahasan reading Im@s manga where "Nano desu" is replaced with "Euy" and they think "What the heck that's supposed to mean?!"

In terms of popularity, IdolMaster is in this really weird "both popular and unpopular" area that is quite confusing. While the mainline titles initially sold relatively well (on top of the franchise popularizing NND and such), they've started to drop off after One For All (likely due to the fact that it's essentially the same game over and over again with a couple songs that were nearly a decade old at the time, as well as some predatory practices in the games after that). I don't have any of the numbers on the gacha games, but I imagine those are probably performing well simply because gacha. Yet, when you have collabs like the Azur Lane x IdolMaster one, you get really poor numbers... AND YET, at the same time, the IdolMaster franchise has a colossal doujinshi scene, almost always having a high presence at events like Comiket (and a ton were really high quality too, oh the memories).

I'm surprised none of these videos ever mentioned Kirari

1:39 Mika Jougasaki in a different anime.

N1 means No.1

Didn't bamco translated Starlit Season into English but region blocked it except SEA region? That along with the TGS2021 announcement which mysteriously got English voiceover are the most kek and sad moment we might have ever encountered in idolmaster history.