Being in the game for days now, I tried many ways to really enjoy the game and always turns bankrupt or the idol got injuries and on hiatus.

Had read other guides as well that was posted on Steam and the Web, but mostly seems unrealistic and feels like cheating, might as well use cheat engine for that. Rushed progress on the first month, reload when you had bad idol RNG, Loan, 10,000 yen ticket sales, and production line with 4 staff to produce single like printers.

So, this is my way of playing the game, that i like. A slow pace business grinding and realistic way of financial, employment, and MANAGING people. This method i write is for the story mode without tutorial, in the first year it will take one month to complete 1 single at best, and fast forward button is your friend.

1. Start the game with your office, and one breakroom (put it on the rent free floor)

2. Immediately do audition and recruit one trait that the batch is in common with. i usually goes with CUTE since the hardcore fans usually produce most of cash flows.

3. Do research and socialize with your members one at a time, at least do it twice for each members (for the story progression)

4. <b>At the same time</b>, put your idols to promotion every day, and if you want to, add 1 or 2 day in between for performance, at least to cover the idol salaries per week which is your only expense at the moment.

5. When you manage to reach 430 research points, BUY (500) x 3 research on Marketing, Choreography, and Music (Invest around 330,000 yen instead of renovating and hiring staffs)

6. On Marketing, choose Digital Release Only

7. On Lyric, Choreography, and Music, choose whatever traits your team is common with.

8. YOUR character can do 4 tasks needed to produce singles, so start creating single lyrics, then marketing, song, and finally choreography.

9. Don't forget to do STEP 4 to keep the cash flow in balance and increasing the fan base.

10. By the time you ended august, you should already have one crappy single. And this is a gamble, sometime it will be crashed (bad sales) but mostly it will at least sell around 80 copies. But that is not the goal here. We need the single to level the promotion up.

11. Make another single, this time the lyric quality should be slightly better.

12. Keep doing all of those promotion and performance, and since there is a break room you won’t have a problem with injury risk and doesn't have to give a spa treatment to the idols, Every Yen is counted.

13. By the time the second single ready, you should already had 1000 fans.

14. Keep doing step 11 and 12 until you published 5 singles, <i>you can add an internet show and radio if you want to level up promotion (but be wary of the idols stamina)</i>

15. For my play through, at 5th months my cash flow is stable and never less than 4 million yen in account with only idol salary on expense (20,000 yen per week) which is worth two days performing, the idol payed for them selves.

<b>From this step, you can do whatever you want though and play managing game instead following my guide.</b>

16. Now its about time to spend, lets prepare for a concert. (you can still do everything yourself, but for me now is the time i hire specialist) Basically at this moment, you already had a stable income if you repeating step 12, but to gain more fans, promotion is not reliable and slow. Your idols will also start to demanding more salaries, so this is a sign of a RAT RACE, you need to step out and continue the next step soon or you will drown in looping priorities.

17. Renovate a dance room on rent free floor, and one manager office on a new floor. Hire instructor for Production, and Manager for Job finding.

18. Start preparing for the concert. If the expected revenue of concert and fans is not ideal, do a better single and/or increase the fan base.

19. When you reach full capacity (500 seats) then you had a decent steady cash flow. Audition a new and better team, keep the original team as a cash maker.

20. Enjoy the game.