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This story focuses on Sakurai Anjyu who is a former underground idol from an idol group called Aisu Beverage or short, “Aibiba." Her other members are Kuretani Tomoko and Mizusawa Jiu. Tomoko is a gyaru college student, who eventually dyes her hair looking for a job. Jiu does her own thing with Sushi.
However, Anjyuu, who eventually works at a dog and cat girl cafe isn’t giving up her idol dream. She eventually gets into contact with a 12 year old Vocaloid producer who refer herself to Black Camellia P (her actual name: Tsubaki). after listening to her song that gained popularity. Anjyu manages to meet her during work She eventually decides to help after watching Anjyuu’s former idol group performance. With that, She and Tsubaki work to convince Tomoko and Jiu to come back and stage a comeback, with a new producer and a another debut.
As expected, the characters are interesting. Sure, Tomoko seems very reluctant to do the idol thing, but she eventually goes to the performance to perform with Anjyu and Jiu. Sure, it took a some convincing for Jiu, but she eventually gives it another try when Anyu almost lost hope. Tomoko didn't want to do it, until she recalled the memories, she decides to give it another try.
Sure, we see the inner workings of idols, as in handshakes and Chekis Tsubaki takes them. In Anju writing on Yupipi (who Anju is her Oishi) Cheki writing “Idol Be Back!" on it, and Yupipi seems to like that name, thus Anju and her members adopted the new name (also the title of the Manga). The abbreviation of the idol group’s name kind of makes it obvious.
The question is, can Anju and her friends make it big from an Underground Idol world to the bigger idol world and perform in a big arena. I guess we'll find out eventually. Also, it's interesting that it takes place in the same world as Comic Girls (yes, there is a cameo of Moeta Kaoruko being a patron at the Maid cafe Anju works at).
Despite being serialized in the Manga Time Kirara Max, while it's a Yonkoma, it uses wider panels and does kind of feel a little more like a Manga Time Kirara Forward title since a bit more story driven..I guess it's serialized in Max since Comic Girls was serialized in the same magazine.
I do wonder, is most Underground Idol groups thing only lasting an average of two years before disbanding is actually a thing or not.