Pretty Rhythm
Pretty Rhythm | |
Cover of the first manga volume | |
プリティーリズム (Puritī Rizumu) | |
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Genre | Romance, Comedy |
Game | |
Pretty Rhythm: Mini Skirt (Season 1 – 3) Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream (Season 4) Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future | |
Developer | syn Sophia |
Publisher | Takara Tomy |
Genre | Dancing, Fashion |
Platform | Arcade |
Manga | |
Written by | Mari Asabuki |
Published by | Shueisha |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Ribon |
Original run | July 2010 – 2012 |
Volumes | 3 |
Manga | |
Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream | |
Written by | Rio Fujimi |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Ciao |
Original run | April 2011 – March 2012 |
Volumes | 2 |
Anime television series | |
Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream | |
Directed by | Masakazu Hishida |
Written by | Deko Akao |
Music by | Seikou Nagaoka |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Network | TV Tokyo |
English network | |
Original run | April 2, 2011 – March 31, 2012 |
Episodes | 51 |
Anime television series | |
Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future | |
Directed by | Masakazu Hishida |
Written by | Deko Akao |
Music by | Seikou Nagaoka |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Network | TV Tokyo |
English network | |
Original run | April 7, 2012 – March 30, 2013 |
Episodes | 51 |
Anime television series | |
Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live | |
Directed by | Masakazu Hishida |
Written by | Deko Akao |
Music by | Seikou Nagaoka |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | April 6, 2013 – March 29, 2014 |
Episodes | 51 |
Anime film | |
Pretty Rhythm All-Star Selection: Prism Show☆Best Ten | |
Directed by | Masakazu Hishida |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Released | March 8, 2014 |
Anime television series | |
Pretty Rhythm: All-Star Selection | |
Directed by | Masakazu Hishida |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | April 5, 2014 – June 14, 2014 |
Episodes | 11 |
Anime film | |
King of Prism by PrettyRhythm | |
Directed by | Masakazu Hishida |
Written by | Jou Aoba |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Released | January 9, 2016 |
Pretty Rhythm (プリティーリズム Puritī Rizumu) is a Japanese Taito Type X2 arcade game by Takara Tomy. It has been adapted into a manga series by Mari Asabuki. An anime adaptation by Tatsunoko Production, titled Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream (プリティーリズム・オーロラドリーム Puritī Rizumu: Ōrora Dorīmu), aired in Japan between April 2011 and March 2012.[1] This was followed by a sequel, Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future (プリティーリズム・ディアマイフューチャー Puritī Rizumu: Dia Mai Fyūchā), which aired between April 2012 and March 2013.[2] A third series, Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live (プリティーリズム・レインボーライブ Puritī Rizumu: Reinbō Raibu), aired from April 6, 2013 to March 29, 2014.[3] A film was released on March 8, 2014.[4][5] A fourth anime television series, Pretty Rhythm: All-Star Selection (プリティーリズム・オールスターセレクション Puritī Rizumu: Ōrusutā Serekushon) aired from April 5, 2014 to June 14, 2014.[6] The first season is licensed by Animax Asia in Southeast Asia. The series was succeeded by Pripara in 2014.
Story
The franchise takes place in a world where Prism Shows, performances that are a combination of singing, dancing, fashion, and ice skating, are popular. The skaters, known as Prism Stars, use Prism Stones to coordinate their dresses and perform Prism Jumps to appeal to their fans.
Aurora Dream
Main Article : List of Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream episodes
Aurora Dream revolves around a girl named Aira Harune who, along with a girl named Rizumu Amamiya, is scouted to become a Prism Star. At the beginning, Aira has no idea what a prism show is, and Rizumu is centered on her dream of performing the mysterious, legendary prism jump, "Aurora Rising", which her mother once performed. While forming a friendship, Aira and Rizumu are joined by a veteran Prism Star, Mion Takamine, a stubborn idol who is one year older than the two. As their friendship grows, the three girls form a group called as MARs and work towards performing an "Aurora Rising".
The girls face rivalry with the comedy and prism idol duet, Serenon. They encounter a younger girl named Kaname Chris who is able to copy others' prism jumps, including the "Aurora Rising".
Dear My Future
Main Article : List of Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future episodes
Dear My Future takes place three years after Aurora Dream where all member of MARs have been Prism Queen. The series follows a new idol, Mia Ageha, who aspires to become a greater idol than Aira. Forming her own group, Prizmmy☆, alongside her friends Reina, Karin and Ayami, she works hard fervently to reach her goal and fulfill her dream. In addition, Mia encounters her Korean childhood, Hye In, who has formed her own idol group with four other girls named as Shi yoon, Jae yoon, Chae kyung and So min they named the goup as PURETTY.
Meanwhile, a shop named "Dear Crown" opens and rivals "Prism Stone". The owners of the two shop compete for Aira's heart. Later in the series, the legendary Symphonia dresses appear, and the prism act "Road to Symphonia" slowly affects all the characters in someway.
Rainbow Live
Main Article : List of Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live episodes
Rainbow Live has nothing much said about the past characters.
Naru Ayase is an 8th grader who can see the colors of music when she listens to it. For Naru, who is extremely good at decorating Prism Stones, becoming the owner of a shop like "Dear Crown" was her dream. One day, she finds out that the manager of a newly opened shop is recruiting middle school girls who can do Prism Show and immediately applies. Naru begins to do a Prism Show at the audition and an aura she's never experienced spreads out in front of her. At that moment, a mysterious girl named Rinne asks her if she can see the "Colors of Music".
She later befriends Ann Fukuhara and Ito Suzuno known as 'Cross'. Ann becomes the charge of the cakes and sweets section while Ito becomes the charge of the make up section at Prism Stone along with Naru as the manager. Upon doing Prism Live their kappas Lovelyn, Poppun and Kurrun get turned into instruments: a guitar, keyboard and drumsticks respectively.
Later the three girls form a group called Happy RAIN, but they are constantly irritated by Bell, Wakana and Otoha who are students of Edel Rose, the famous school for education in Prism Shows. Later it is shown that these girls become good friends and the three of them also find their kappas Seshini, Ethini and Femini. Here it is shown that Rinne is a messenger from the Prism World.
It is to be noted that the Rainbow Live story is later revealed to be happening in a different world from Aurora Dream and Dear My Future. Penguin-sensei encounters the Yamada equivalent Tanaka in an episode near the end of the season, but Tanaka is not the Yamada of the previous two series.
The Amou June backstory reveals that Prism World messengers go to different worlds to bring the Prism energy, and Penguin from the first two series was assigned to make sure June did her job and returned, but she didn't.
All-Star Selection
All-Star Selection features a girl named Laala Manaka, who desired to become a Prism Star. To further her debut the best, three main protagonists from the previous Pretty Rhythm series, Aira Harune, Mia Ageha, and Naru Ayase, give her lessons about how to be the best Prism Star. In addition to the lesson she's learning, the series also retells the events of the previous Pretty Rhythm series.
PriPara
Main Article : PriPara
PriPara is spinoff of Pretty Rhythm featuring Laala Manaka from All-Star Selection. She is a young fifth grade of Paprika Elementary School where they are forbidden to having any PriTicket until they are reaching Paprika Junior High School. But things suddenly change when Laala receives a PriTicket from top of her hair with the help of a Prism Idol, Mirei, she became a Prism Idol and also unknowingly she possesses a 'Legendary Prism Voice'.
Media
Anime
Aurora Dream
Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream, produced by Tatsunoko Production, aired on TV Tokyo between April 2, 2011 and March 31, 2012. The English dub aired on Animax Asia from January 31, 2014 to April 11, 2014.
Opening themes
1. You May Dream by LISP
2. "I Want to Fall in Love 1000%" (1000%キュンキュンさせてよ♥ 1000% Kyunkyun Sasete yo ♥) by Pretty Rhythm ☆ All Stars
Ending themes
- Happy GO Lucky! 〜ハピ☆ラキでゴー!〜 by SUPER☆GiRLS
- We Will Win! -KOKORO no BATON de PO·PON no PO~N☆- by Tokyo Girls' Style
- Pretty Rhythm de Go! by MARs
- Everybody's Gonna be Happy by Prizmmy
Insert songs
- "Callings" (Takashi Kondō, Kenn & Nobuhiko Okamoto): "1/1000永遠の美學"
- "MARs" (Kana Asumi, Sayuri Hara & Azusa Kataoka): Mera Mera Heart ga Atsuku Naru
- "Harune Aira" (Kana Asumi): Dream Goes On
- "Amamiya Rizumu" (Sayuri Hara): Kokoro Juuden!
- "Takamine Mion" (Azusa Kataoka): Switch On My Heart
- "MARs" (Kana Asumi, Sayuri Hara & Azusa Kataoka): Hop! Step!! Jump!!!
- "Serenon" (Madoka Yonezawa & Satomi Akesaka) : "Never Let Me Down 〜がんばりやぁ!〜"
- "Callings" (Takashi Kondō, Kenn & Nobuhiko Okamoto): Itoshii no Tinkerbell
- "Chris Kaname" (Kanae Itō): Shall We Go!?
- "Toudou Kanon" (Satomi Akesaka): Don't Give Up
- "Jounouchi Serena" (Madoka Yonezawa): Wonderful World
Dear My Future
A sequel to Aurora Dream, Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future, aired between April 7, 2012 and March 30, 2013. The English dub for Dear My Future premiered on April 14, 2014.
- Opening themes
- Prizmmy☆: "Dear My Future ~Mirai no Jibun~" (Dear My Future ~未来の自分へ~)
- Prizmmy☆: "BRAND NEW WORLD!!"
- Prizmmy☆ (Rumi Ōkubo, Natsumi Takamori, Minami Tsuda & Ayane Sakura): "Life is Just a Miracle" (Life is Just a Miracle ~生きているって素晴らしい~)
- Prizmmy☆: "Pump it Up!" (パンピナッ! Panpina!) Ending themes
- Prizmmy☆: "my Transform"
- PURETTY: "Cheki☆Love" (チェキ☆ラブ)
- Prizmmy☆: "Body Rock"
- PURETTY: "Shuwa Shuwa Baby" (シュワシュワBABY) Insert songs
- Mars (Kana Asumi, Sayuri Hara & Azusa Kataoka): "You May Dream (オーロラライジング Ver.)"
- Prizmmy☆: "Party Driver"
- Prizmmy☆: "Summer day"
- Aira Harune (Kana Asumi): "Dream Goes On"
- 東京女子流: "LolitA☆Strawberry in summer"
- Dream5 : "EZ DO DANCE"
- Pretty Rhythm ☆ All Stars: "I Want to Fall in Love 1000%" (1000%キュンキュンさせてよ♥ 1000% Kyunkyun Sasete yo ♥)
- Callings (Takashi Kondō, Kenn & Nobuhiko Okamoto): "1/1000永遠の美學"
- Serenon with Kaname (Madoka Yonezawa, Satomi Akesaka & Kanae Itō): "Never Let Me Down 〜がんばりやぁ!〜"
- Kaname Amamiya (Kanae Itō): "Shall We Go?!"
- Sprouts (Natsumi Takamori, Ayane Sakura & Madoka Yonezawa): "Mirage JET"
- P&P (Minami Tsuda, Kanae Itō & Kaori Kane): "Thank You!!" (サンキュッ!! Sankyu!!)
- LOVE-MIX (Minami Takayama & Motoko Kumai): "LOVE♥MIX"
- COSMOs (Rumi Ōkubo, Marie Miyake & Satomi Akesaka): "cheer! yeah!×2"
- Prizmmy☆: "BRAND NEW WORLD!!"
- Serenon with Kaname (Madoka Yonezawa, Satomi Akesaka & Kanae Itō): "Yoi Nakaso" (よいなかそ)
- MARs (Kana Asumi, Sayuri Hara & Azusa Kataoka): "Que Sera"
- PURETTY: "Shuwa Shuwa Baby" (シュワシュワBABY)
- Prizmmy☆ (Rumi Ōkubo, Natsumi Takamori, Minami Tsuda & Ayane Sakura): "Life is Just a Miracle" (Life is Just a Miracle ~生きているって素晴らしい~)
- MARs (Kana Asumi, Sayuri Hara & Azusa Kataoka): "You May Dream"
- Prizmmy☆: "Dear My Future ~Mirai no Jibun~" (Dear My Future ~未来の自分へ~)
Rainbow Live
- The third sequel, Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live, premiered on April 6, 2013. The English dub of Rainbow Live premiered on Animax Asia on June 24, 2014.
- Opening themes
- Prizmmy☆: "BOY MEETS GIRL"
- Prizmmy☆: "EZ DO DANCE"
- Prizmmy☆: "CRAZY GONNA CRAZY"
- Prizmmy☆: "Butterfly Effect" Ending themes
- Prism☆Box: "RainBow×RainBow"
- i☆Ris: "§ Rainbow"
- HAPPY RAIN (Emiri Katō, Yū Serizawa & Mikako Komatsu): "I wannabee myself!! ~I want to be myself!~" (I wannabee myself!! ~自分らしくいたい!~ I wannabee myself!! ~Jibunrashiku Itai!~)
- Prism☆Box: "Happy StarRestaurant" Insert songs
- Rinne (Ayane Sakura): "gift"
- Prizmmy☆: "BOY MEETS GIRL"
- Naru Ayase (Emiri Katō): "Heart♥Multi♥Colored~Dream" (ハート♥イロ♥トリドリ~ム Hato♥Iro♥Toridori~mu)
- Ito Suzuno (Mikako Komatsu): "BT37.5"
- Ann Fukuhara (Yū Serizawa): "Sweet time Cooking magic 〜胸ペコなんです私って〜"
- Prism☆Box: "RainBow×RainBow"
- Kōji Mihama (Tetsuya Kakihara), Hiro Hayami (Tomoaki Maeno) & Kazuki Nishina (Toshiki Masuda): "BOY MEETS GIRL -Prism Boys ver.-"
- Kōji Mihama (Tetsuya Kakihara): "Reboot"
- Otoha Takanashi (Saori Gotō): "Vanity♥colon"
- Wakana Morizono (Maaya Uchida): "Blowin' in the Mind"
- Bell Renjōji (Haruka Tomatsu): "Get music!"
- Hiro Hayami (Tomoaki Maeno): "pride"
- Prizmmy☆: "EZ DO DANCE"
- Bell Rose (Haruka Tomatsu, Saori Gotō & Maaya Uchida): "Rosette Nebula"
- Satomi Akesaka: "Throbbing Days" (と・き・め・きDays To・Ki・Me・Ki Deizu)
- HAPPY RAIN (Emiri Katō, Yū Serizawa & Mikako Komatsu): "Downpour HAPPY!" (どしゃぶりHAPPY! Doshaburi Happī)
- Satomi Akesaka: "FreeDreamin' "
- Kazuki Nishina (Toshiki Masuda): "FREEDOM"
- Juné Amou (Rumi Shishido): "nth Color"
- Ann Fukuhara (Yū Serizawa) & Wakana Morizono (Maaya Uchida): "cherry-picking days"
- Ito Suzuno (Mikako Komatsu) & Otoha Takanashi (Saori Gotō): "ALIVE"
- Naru Ayase (Emiri Katō) & Bell Renjōji (Haruka Tomatsu): "Little Wing&Beautiful Pride"
- Rinne (Ayane Sakura) & Juné Amou (Rumi Shishido): "Sevendays Love, Sevendays Friend"
- Over The Rainbow (Tetsuya Kakihara, Tomoaki Maeno & Toshiki Masuda): "athletic core"
- Opening themes
All Star Selection
- Opening themes
- "You May Dream" by LISP
- Prizmmy☆: "Dear My Future ~Mirai no Jibun~" (Dear My Future ~未来の自分へ~)
- Prizmmy☆: "BOY MEETS GIRL"
- Prizmmy☆: "Pump it Up!" (パンピナッ! Panpina!)
- Prizmmy☆ (Rumi Ōkubo, Natsumi Takamori, Minami Tsuda & Ayane Sakura): "Life is Just a Miracle" (Life is Just a Miracle ~生きているって素晴らしい~)
- Prizmmy☆: "CRAZY GONNA CRAZY"
- Pretty Rhythm ☆ All Stars: "I Want to Fall in Love 1000%" (1000%キュンキュンさせてよ♥ 1000% Kyunkyun Sasete yo ♥) Ending themes
- "Happy GO Lucky! ~Happy☆Lucky de GO!~" (Happy GO Lucky! 〜ハピ☆ラキでゴー!〜) by SUPER☆GiRLS
- "my Transform" by Prizmmy☆
- "RainBowxRainBow" by Prism☆Box
- "Shuwa Shuwa BABY (シュワシュワBABY;Fizz Fizz BABY)" by PURETTY
- "We Will Win! -Kokoro no Baton de Po Pon no Po~n☆-" (We Will Win! -ココロのバトンでポ・ポンのポ〜ン☆-) by Tokyo Girls' Style
- "Body Rock" by Prizmmy☆
- "I wannabee myself ~Jibun Rashiku Itai~ (I wannabee myself〜自分らしくいたい〜)" by Emiri Katō & Yū Serizawa & Mikako Komatsu
- "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy" by Prizmmy☆
- "Happy StarRestaurant" by Prism☆Box Insert songs
- "1/1000 Eien no Bigaku" (1/1000永遠の美学) by Callings (Takashi Kondo, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Kenn)
- "Blowin' in the Mind" by Maaya Uchida (ep 6)
- "cheer! yeah! X2" by Cosmos (Rumi Ookubo & Marie Miyake & Satomi Akesaka)
- "Dream Goes On" by Kana Asumi
- "gift" by Ayane Sakura
- "Life is Just a Miracle ~Ikiteru tte Subarashii~ (Life is Just a Miracle ~生きてるって素晴らしい~; It's Wonderful to be Alive)" by Prizmmy☆ Voice Actress
- "Never Let Me Down ~Ganbari ya!~" (〜がんばりやぁ!〜) by Madoka Yonezawa & Satomi Akesaka
- "Reboot" by Tetsuya Kakihara
- "Rosette Nova" by Haruka Tomatsu & Maaya Uchida & Saori Goto
- "Sweet time Cooking magic ~Hara Peko Nan Desu Watashi tte~ (Sweet time Cooking magic ~腹ペコなんです私って~;I'm So Hungry)" by Yū Serizawa
- "Switch On My Heart" by Azusa Kataoka
- "You May Dream ~Aurora Rising Ver.~" by LISP
- Opening themes
See also
References
- General
- プリティーリズム・オーロラドリーム (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. Retrieved June 12, 2011.
- Specific
- ↑ "Takara Tomy's Pretty Rhythm Shōjo Game Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. January 18, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
- ↑ "Pretty Rhythm Dear My Future Anime to Premiere in April". January 30, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-01-21/pretty-rhythm-rainbow-live-anime-to-premiere-in-april
- ↑ "Pretty Rhythm Shōjo Anime Gets Its 1st Film Next Spring". Anime News Network. 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ↑ "プリティリズム劇場版". Retrieved 2014-01-13.
- ↑ "New Pretty Rhythm Shōjo TV Anime to Premiere on April 5". January 22, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
External links
- Official website at Takara Tomy (Japanese)
- Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream official anime website
- Movie Official website (Japanese)
- Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia