CATDOLL: Public toilet idol? A knockoff version of Love Live! 18X game appears in Japan

On January 14, D:drive game company opened the official website of a Japanese 18X game. Soon after the official website went online, keen Japanese netizens discovered that the characters in this game have a full sense of déjà vu.

The game is called "ツゴウノイイアイドル", and the English name is "THE CONVENIENCE IDOL" (Editor's note: CONVENIENCE means convenience and comfort, and also means public toilet). It literally translates to "Convenience Idol", but as for what the extended meaning is, considering its 18X nature, it really makes people think in a strange direction~~~Looking at the personalities of the three female characters in the game, you can see at a glance that they are all surprisingly similar to Yazawa Nico, Sonoda Umi, and Ayase Eri in "Love Live!"!

Game Cover

The plot of the game is roughly like this: the player will be the president of an entertainment agency who changed his career from a rock singer. In order to make the entertainment company on the verge of bankruptcy come back, he found three cute girls to form a group "φ's" to enter the idol industry. In "Love Live!", a group of high school girls formed μ's to revive the traditional high school "Otonokizaka Academy" that was about to close down... It seems that not only the character image, but also the story background and group name are very similar to "Love Live!"! Is this really okay?

Promotional image

The decision to produce this game was announced last year, but it has been silent since then. As soon as the official website was announced, it immediately attracted the attention of a large number of Japanese netizens. Many people posted on Twitter, "I seem to have seen this before," "It's exactly the same," "This is not okay," and other comments expressing doubts and criticisms. However, there are also a few gentlemen who said, "I really want to play it..."

Below is a comparison between the protagonist of this game and three characters in Love Live! You can directly feel how similar they are. It seems that there are many copycats in Japan itself!

Yazawa Nico

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Sonoda Umi

Eri Ayase

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