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The game features updated graphics, new musics, costumes and acessories, aside from bringing back several of the ones from the other games.

The gameplay also get several changes. You can't normally produce only one or two idols anymore, always a Unit of three. The old tension of an individual idol doesn't play much of a part anymore, but the mood of the Unit as a whole has to be taken care of. There's only three types of lessons now, one for each stat, instead of five. The stage performance mechanics is also changed. There's no more stars to be aware of, instead there's the appeals multipliers.

 

 

 

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* [[Emoticon]] - The smileys that show fan awareness in each region.

* [[Establishing Character Moment]] - All the girls get one before and after you select them.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]] - For some of the idols in The iDOLM@STER 2. in particular Mami (who can now be differentiated from her sister Ami), Makoto (her hair now cover her ears), Azusa (cut it short) and Miki (hair over her shoulder instead of all on the back).

* [[First-Person Snapshooter]] - You can take pictures of the girls during the stage performances after the Auditions or during the encore during Lives and Festivals.

* [[Fixed Camera]] - On stage performances and auditions, during the gameplay, the camera keeps bouncing from side to side, but doesn't change its distance nor height. Only when you use a Memory or Burst Appeal is that the camera changes.

* [[Follow the Leader]] - The introduction of the Jupiter trio is probably thanks to Ryo's popularity boom. Apparently, however, the male part of the fanbase is less pleased with male characters who aren't moeblob traps...

* [[Forced Tutorial]] - The first three weeks are always the same sequence of events.

* [[Full Set Bonus]] - If you use a full set of acessories (doesn't matter wich), the chances of getting a Break, Revival or Keep are exponentially increased.

* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]] - Several, specially the starry ones.

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] - Yayoi. She's so naive that during communications, if you touch her chest (intentionally or otherwise) she immediatelly assumes your talking about her heart. {{spoiler|That doesn't mean that she's any softer when negotiating deals for the 765 Pro girls during her True End.}}

* [[I Will Protect Her]] - {{spoiler|During Chihaya's True End. The Producer promises this on her [[Dead Little Brother]]'s grave.}}

* [[I Will Wait for You]] - {{spoiler|If you get a True End, after the Idol Academy Grand Final, the girls will say that they'll continue forth with the Unit waiting for the Producer to come back a year later to resume his work as their producer. This, of course, happens before the leader's True End, which depending on the girl, is somewhat different from what actually happens.}}

* [[Jail Bait Wait]] - Some of the routes end up having this feel after {{spoiler|the producer goes to Hollywood and comes back a year later.}}

* [[Jiggle Physics]] - Takane and Azusa bounce quite a lot in the promo videos for 2. Somewhat frustratingly, the girls' hair is still animated far less realistically.

* [[Joke Item]] - A few of the acessories. The pacifier, carrot...

* [[Kirk Summation]] - The Producer during the final confrontation with Jupiter delivers this, wich in turn...

* [[My Eyes Are Up Here]] - {{spoiler|From Hibiki's end, when the Producer is pulling a [[Male Gaze]] on her.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Hibiki''': Hey Producer, where are you looking?!}}}}

** Still played straight with Jupiter though.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] - A bit of [[Fridge Logic]] and exposition to understand this. One of the requirements to get an Rank S when playing on Hyper is to have a Single on the top of the DoTopTV music chart at least one time. During the Extra Episode, the producer suggests that the RK change their song and outfit before they enter the Idol Ultimate competition. Each week on the Extra Episode equals ten weeks on the normal storyline (judging by the girls increase on Image Level from week to week). The Extra Episode starts at week 25, when the RK is beaten by Touma (on the normal storyline). Now fastforward to week 45 (week 3 on the Extra Episode). Guess what is the song that starts rapidly gaining terrain on the chart until it tops it? Yep. If you didn't get to the first place before then, the only way to top the chart after week 45 is getting a Break on the latest release or a Revival of the second-to-last single, and even then, might be hard to top it. All because the Producer decided to be a nice guy and helped Ritsuko revamp the Ryuugu Komachi.

* [[Reality Subtext]] - One of the possible reasons Ryuuguu Komachi girls cannot be produced is that the seiyuus were too busy and could not record the full routes.

** To elaborate, [[Naomi Wakabayashi]] (Ritsuko) and [[Asami Shimoda]] (Ami/Mami) were available, but [[Rie Kugimiya]] (Iori) and [[Chiaki Takahashi]] (Azusa) were already with their schedules packed by the time the game was in production, so as to not outright cut their character from the game (and receive a huge backlash from the fandom) they used this to create the Ryuugu Komachi. That is the reason Ami and Mami are not [[Tag-Team Twins]] by ''iM@S2'', and only Mami has a route, otherwise it would double the workload (read paycheck) of their voice actress. Comparatively, Ritsuko interacts much more in practically all the other girls routes, compared to Iori and Asuza.

* [[RPG Elements]] - Stats and Image Levels can be increased by lessons, costumes and acessories.

* [[Save Scumming]] - Rather easy to do it too. Didn't get a question in the morning that raises all the girls Danketsu? Quit and Reload. Failed an audition/live/festival? Quit and Reload. Some go as far as reload because of a failed evening communication.

* [[Score Screen]] - Two different ones, interconnected. The Stage Performance score screen (with Total, Chain and Burst points), the Job screen (with the number of Fans and money you gain). Three if you consider the evaluation at the end as one.

* [[Scrolling Text]]

* [[Ship Tease]] - In some of the girls routes. Hibiki x Touma, Makoto x Hokuto and Yayoi x Shouta.

* [[So What Do We Do Now?]] - In Miki route, {{spoiler|after your unit defeats Ryugu Komachi, Miki no longer has the goal to become an idol and wants to quit. Fortunately, the Producer manages to change her mind.}}

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]] - You are on the receiving end of this during the first storyline festival against the Ryuugu Komachi. On Hyper, the RK girls can get almost 100.000 points easily while you get stuck watching Iori's burst appeal again and again and again and again...

* [[Throwing the Fight]] - {{spoiler|During Hibiki's route, Touma tries to convince the Producer to make Hibiki quit the bussiness because it would be too hard on her, and so she could go back home. The producer led him to believe he would do just that, but in fact supports Hibiki even more after what Touma said, which leads to some of the most hilarious dialogue between him and the Producer in the entire game.}}

* [[Training From Hell]] - The 765 Special Training. If you lose to the RK on week 21 or the Jupiter on week 54 the game goes back a week and your idols are forced to enter this special training. Also happens if you don't have enough fans by week 40 and is forced to participate on the Idol Academy audition.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Haruka's route. {{spoiler|She gets a cold before a Festival against Jupiter, but instead of treating it right away, she continue going to lessons and working, until it backfires on her in the middle of the stage performance.}}

* [[Twin Switch]] - Ami pulls this on the producer during Mami's route. How she managed to grow her hair is anyone's guess.

* [[Visual Pun]] - All 9 playthrough trophies/achievements are like this. 1 is '''ichi'''go (strawberry), 2 is '''ni'''njin (carrot), 3 is '''san'''dē (Sundae), etc.

* [[Worthy Opponent]] - The Jupiter Trio. All the girls acknowledge this after the Festival on week 54.