Hello!
Seriously the story update is amazing but I have some bug on the chapter 5: summer festival committee, I can't unlock the committee preference even when I have points. And something the committee pop up doesn't load at all

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Bugs collected over the weekend:
= Mental stamina loss announced for idols not using mental stamina. At least, except for bullying, this feels like a bug to me.
= Idols who have lost mental stamina are picked up for auto heal by physicians that are set only for physical and being then treated for physical.
= Played the "No Critical Failure" card, still got hit with 30% loss of hype.
= Idol hired from "buyout copycat group" event not gaining fame.
= Bug: Idols nearing graduation have their physical stamina crash... This crash is not detected by physicians and not picked up for auto heal.
Bug in the free play mode:
- my old saves doesn't show up in the new version
- I can't save anything in this mode, after saving and restart the game, the save slot will disappear.
-No events or dialogue in this too, like the policies dialogues, fujimoto, rival intro and more...
-Auditions pop up keep freezing for me or when I'm trying to change the idol name, the screen will be blurry
Hello! Loving the new update so far, though I haven't gotten very far in the story yet ^^. A few minor issues I've noticed:
- The Photogenic trait still lists as applying a bonus to Random Photo marketing, even though this marketing strategy has been removed.
- Occasionally Idol Portraits in the results screens of launched shows(I personally haven't noticed it on singles yet, had this happen for a few shows on older builds) will be white flashing squares instead of remaining blank/showing images. When this happened to me on the current build only the three Idols showing up were actually hosting the show.

Love this game a ton! Looking forwards to the official release, and I'll update with any more bugs I find as I play more
I experience this a lot, too- from what I understand, it happens when you go from releasing something with that many idols to releasing something with only a few. It'll put white boxes where everyone else was in the last single/show. Happens all the time when I put out solo songs (I know that's probably bad strategy, but don't judge me, I've got a storyline going and I want to keep it up sdlfkjsdlfj). Doesn't seem to affect anything other than the visuals tho
Not sure if already reported by other users or not. Can't seem to find a search feature here so I will post some new things I've found.
1. Theatre income always shows 0/w when hovering the cursor over current balance.
2. Under individual idols' auto practice menus, all styling options (Cute, Cool, etc.) are unclickable. They are not dark blue but clicking will not activate them.
3. After loading a saved game, subscriber counts in theatres go down dramatically for a while.
4. This is more of a suggestion but it's related to #2. Can we have an option to force or prioritize auto practicing for a specific idol? Would be really helpful for maxing out an idol's stats in order to upgrade to promotion level 10.
5. When I learned that an idol is bullying another, I tried to influence her not to. It won't let me because it says required influence level 2, while in fact I already had max level influence on her. Not sure what's going on.
6. Story disappearing as other posters here also pointed out.
7. If I click and drag an idol for a task and said idol got selected by auto-practice before I can drop it off, the icon of the idol will be permanently stuck to the cursor, and the stats on the employees will also persist indefinitely.
8. Auto salaries won't update the salaries correctly when changed. And sometimes changing this setting will not update the display of this option (in fact all policy options are affected by this issue).
9. Sometimes, during late game every single one of my idols get random mental health increase/decrease, every week. That's not 5% chance, that's 100%. Restarting the game might fix it temporarily.
Something interesting as I was playing through, but I'm just now updating to the new version so not sure how much is still valid - it seems like when I make major decisions (whether to stay with the show or not, the route to go with, etc) it somehow changes which one I went with partway through. For example, I chose to pull out of the show - at first everything was normal, but then a few days after the immediate effects of that choice, I met with my rival and she started talking about how I'd "changed the narrative" and I was confused but kind of went along with it. Then a day or two later, the girl who had encouraged me to pull out left the group, while the girl who'd wanted us to stay stuck around. I eventually chose Fujimoto's route (had also qualified for Aya's), but barely heard from Fujimoto after that, and the end credits scene included a cute drawing of me and Aya, so I'm assuming something similar happened there. The task to lock into Aya's route never disappeared after I chose Fujimoto's, either.
EDIT: NVM, seeing that at least the first time that happened was a known issue that's been fixed. Not sure if the same for the second, but figured I'd leave this up just in case.
Now playing through the newest update - during the Nation of Idols arc, when I was supposed to have one girl supporting us staying in the show, it showed a blank white box on the screen and no name in the dialogue box. Later, Fujimoto came to my office and referenced the girl who quit, but he used the wrong name and referred to a girl who's still in the group.
The rival's route is really bugged, too - I've had to use the f7 debugger thing a few times because the next part of the story wouldn't trigger after I completed the task.
These bugs might have been fixed because I recorded them a few weeks ago, but here are some bugs I noticed.
1) 76 stats
2) Hiatus until (Hiatus end date not showing)
3) Idols don't seem to be using break rooms very often. I've only seen them use them a few times despite having over 50 idols and multiple break rooms.
4) Loan glitch: suddenly began paying 100x week payment and was paying well over debt amount
5) Genre/lyrics/choreo not changing; the most popular never or rarely changes. Releasing most popular also doesn't work for award show.
6) Stamina cost not working (don't quite remember what this means)
Hello,
I am currently experiencing 2 glitches/bugs.
1. ) The story of the rival crashes when loading the event. (The event where she asks for a favour).
The sprite of her is still transparent and the game freezes even before the text appears.
2.) When I pressed the button for a Phantasm event, the button disappeared but the scene was not triggered.
Keep up the great work =)
- I don't know if this is a 'bug' per se, but it's a little funny and probably unintended. Yy idol group is really boring- nothing is going on, no one's bullying each other, and only a few of the girls are in relationships, so I always get the same few responses when I ask for 'gossip'. Okay, sure, cool, that's arguably good for my run. Occasionally, the girls will tell me about their own relationships,,, as if they're gossiping about other people. Several times I've done a double take like "oh, Yamato Rina's in a relationship with Yoshida Akane... wait hold on, you're Yamato Rina."
- Idols will talk about friendships with graduated idols that stayed on as staff members, but they don't show up in the bonds part of their profile. I feel like one of these is a bug, but I'm not sure which.
-I have no idea whether or not I'm stuck on the Phantasm events, or if I just haven't encountered them all yet. (Most recent one I saw was the rival dialogue about the bird statue at the awards show.) If I have... how do I get myself out of it? If I haven't, maybe a counter on the task to show how many I have left to see? I'm kind of just stuck, I want to unlock all three routes before I pick one (so I can make branching saves at the last possible moment).