music under her name. The growing number of idol groups active in the late 2000s and early 2010s led to an era that the media named the "Idol Warring Period." Due to the idol fan culture being connected to anime fan culture, around this time, media properties starring fictional idols also became popular, the earliest ones being The Idolmaster, Love Live!, and Uta no Prince-sama. Some may prefer fictional idols due to them never disbanding, leaving groups, or getting into scandals. List of idol anime and manga References Japanese idols in anime and manga