The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls

A mobile social game about training idols to stardom.

The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls is a Japanese free-to-play simulation video game co-developed by Cygames and Bandai Namco Studios for the Mobage social network platform. First released on November 28, 2011, for feature phones, it later expanded to iOS and Android devices. The game is part of The Idolmaster franchise and introduced a new cast of idol characters, ending service on March 30, 2023.

Quick Facts

Genre: Idol
Creator: Bandai Namco Entertainment

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Did You Know?

The game's story takes place at the 346 Pro talent agency, where a producer raises idols in the Cinderella Project.
An anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired from January 10 to October 17, 2015.
A short chibi slice of life anime series by Gathering has been running since 2017.

Development and release

Cygames developed Cinderella Girls for DeNA's Mobage platform. Announced on October 14, 2011, under the tentative title Idolmaster Social Game, pre-registration opened on November 16, 2011. The game launched on November 28, 2011, for Japanese feature phones, with Android and iOS compatibility added as a web application on December 16, 2011. Native applications for Android and iOS were released on November 17 and November 25, 2014, respectively, to mark the third anniversary. A Google Chrome App version appeared on October 28, 2015. In May 2012, the Consumer Affairs Agency determined that the complete gacha mechanic used in social network games violated Japanese law and requested its removal. Cinderella Girls was cited as an example of a game employing this tactic, and the mechanism was later removed following announcements by DeNA and Bandai Namco.

Related media

Several manga adaptations have been produced. A five-panel comic strip, Cinderella Girls Gekijō by Kuma-Jet, began serialization within the game in March 2012 and was collected into tankōbon volumes by ASCII Media Works, with the first volume on January 27, 2015, and the 11th on September 26, 2019. The first manga series, The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls New Generations, illustrated by Namo, focuses on Uzuki Shimamura, Rin Shibuya, and Mio Honda. It ran in Square Enix's Gangan Joker from October 2012 to November 2013, collected into two volumes on April 25 and November 25, 2013.

A second series, The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Rockin' Girl by Hamachon, centers on Riina Tada, Kanako Mimura, and Rika Jōgasaki, serialized in Monthly Big Gangan from October 2012 to April 2017 with frequent hiatuses; its first volume was released on April 25, 2013. Two four-panel strips by Saya Kiyoshi for Big Gangan, The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls: Idol of the Day and Honjitsu no Dereradi-san, were serialized from volume 12 of 2012 to volume 8 of 2013 and collected into one volume on November 25, 2013.

Another four-panel series, The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Dereradisan by Ajiichi, began on Gangan Online on September 12, 2013.