#aipri merch

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Cover art for Himitsu no Aipri Character Song Mini Album Verse In Song 01 that releases August 21.

Songs included:

P.O.P.P.Y

Secret Dream

Unbeatable Duo Energy

But That’s Just A Secret, Right? (Ending 1)

Instrumental versions are also included.

[mirukiamauri]

To my surprise, Takara Tomy updated their site a few hours ago with Tsumugi merch that will be released on June 6th. This probably means Tsumugi is going to debut sooner than we might have expected. Her brand is still unknown but if you zoom on her binder's cards you can see on the top right corner that she has a solo song.

[lunawings]

While I was in Japan during March 2024, I was able to visit the Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live 10th Anniversary Exhibit. This is my favorite anime of all time, so it was an incredible honor.

Unfortunately, you could not take pictures in many areas and I always try my best to be respectful and follow the rules. So, I will describe it.

The walls of the first room were covered in several tapestries depicting each individual episode of the anime, so you could reminisce about everything that happened as you slowly walked through the room. In the middle of the room, there were several exhibits perfectly recreating every single paper, notebook, sketch...

Hokkaido itinerary? Wakana and Bell's test scores? Momo's Happy Rain costume sketches? Naru and Bell's manager applications? The score to pride? Any piece of paper you can think of that appeared in PRRL, it was all HERE! Recreated with meticulous accuracy...

The next room was the photo room where you could take pictures in Prism Stone or in front of Rinne's feathers.

Something else they had here which was really neat, was all of these mini photo ops of various scenes from the anime that you could put your plushies or figures into! As I rarely have someone with me to take photos of myself at events like this, and I rarely post them even when I do, NGL I loved it. I wish I had brought something! I did have a PAF Naru on my bag I could have used, but it would have taken time to unpin her so unfortunetly I did not.

The next room contained an exhibit of various merch from throughout the years.

Unfortunately, there wasn't really much merch to look at in the classic section. Just the guitars, some stones, and the Smart Pod Shot. But I definitely think there was more than that back in the day! There has to have been because I own at least one thing that was not in here (a pool bag) haha!

They also had a REAL prism guitar on display, which apparently they are actually going to sell at some point!?

The last part of the exhibit before going to the gift shop, was a hallway with messages from all the voice actresses and the director. This was also a zone where photos were banned, but I remember in the director's he acknowledged Rainbow Live as being the only Pretty Rhythm season to achieve a 10th anniversary celebration and ended his commentary with "Glorious Pretty Rhythm" hahaha. Next was the gift shop...

Which was honestly super disappointing... I was prepared to spend a lot of money here, but in the end, I barely bought anything. Everything, EVERYTHING good was blind and the stuff that wasn't was just so expensive.

Like, they had this set of Hiro cards with his magazine covers and debut poster and I really wanted them but when I actually saw them it was like... 2,000 yen? FOR THREE CARDS!? Those tiny little cards you can see up there below the keychains?

????????????

Am I missing something!?

In the end I bought two Wakana boards and two clear files. And the one blind thing I couldn't resist was the Prism Stone badges... which turned out to be Otoha x2 and one Ann. Gah.

I also might have bought a Wakana plush doll, but she was sold out. Out of all the Rainbow Live girls she was the only one sold out both here and at Tokyo Station Prism Stone.

And here were the bonuses I got. Including, yes, the AiPri card. So for people who saw me posting it over on @pretty-idol-hell, this was where it came from.

I also got a very special letter, which I am saving to translate at a later date...

Outside the event was an up and running Pretty Rhythm machine, or so I thought. Wow, no line! I said to myself as I happily bounced up to it only to find the coin slot taped over and a sign reading it could not be used. Darn. (I know there's no prism stones left in the wild, but come on, there's no free play mode...? Well, I guess even if there was they wouldn't want people loitering around the exhibition.)

Anyway, as you read I did have a few complaints, but it still makes my heart happy that this event existed at all. I loved all the time and effort that went into making all the recreations of things!

[curejiraiya]

What do you guys think the King of Prism announcement is going to be? I'm coping really hard but here's the facts

The actual event is a nationwide showing of all the King of Prism media (twitter pointed out to me that they're showing best 10 before SSS which is out of order and they've also never done it in that order before)

After the first showing (March 22nd) there will be an announcement presented by the director + Shin's VA (Junta <3333). According to twitter this is the first public greeting by Hishida (the director) since 2019!

The announcement is said to be "fitting for the 8th anniversary"?

The 7th anniversary had multiple kuji/merch lines and none of them had a public announcement like this, which leads me to believe it'll be bigger than that. The vark virtual lives ALSO did not begin with a public announcement though going that far back it may have still been pandemic related, unsure.

The Prism Rush setting materials released a few months back, very very late like years after the game shut down. Could be coincidental or could be pandemic related, or could be announcement related.

Junta himself retweeted the announcement (duh) but also TWO separate former King of Prism composers and a choreographer retweeted the announcement with excitement.

None of the VAs have posted about the announcement yet (which honestly could be a sign in itself because Minato's VA (Igarashi Masashi) is known to post about KinPri every once in awhile).

Shoutan (Louis' VA) has been posting about an unrelated event called the King Super Live and it's caught me off guard more than once lmfao. Also if you really want to reach Shoutan posted a twitter photo of him with the caption "dubbing" without any other context lmao.

The Rainbow Live 10th anniversary event is happening RIGHT NOW and lots of Rainbow Live VAs and Staff have been posting about it. This is kind of unrelated to KinPri but who knows?

Last year Hishida marked March 25th as Pretty Rhythm day and promised some sort of campaign to raise money for new Pretty Rhythm content. He had no more details than more content and money however.

King of Prism was on NHK World Japan in a segment with Idolish7 (A still VERY active male idol franchise) in January, the first time Hishida and KinPri has been on the segment in years.

This is only tangentially related but I feel like it should be mentioned in the fact section, last summer the official King of Prism account searched for people to help with One Piece cheer screenings which is wild to me, but apparently because of the help the cheer screenings themselves did pretty well.

Also related to that PolPri (same production company) has been doing really well and itself has plenty of cheer screenings. There's rumors that Tatsunoko has their hands full with more PolPri and the CG for the IRIS movie, but I mean no one really knows about their inner workings lol. Regardless they DIDN'T take the new season of the Pretty Series anime AiPri, leaving them open for new projects.

Ok now that we have all the facts (that I know of lol) what do we think the announcement is?

Things the announcement could be in order of how likely they are in my opinion, and why:

Merch Kuji (if you don't know what a Kuji is (I didn't until recently) it's a merch lottery where you put in some money and are guaranteed to get a piece of merch but the character or design is random. Most modern anime merch is like this ;-;) Let's be honest, KinPri was dead for almost the entire second half of 2023. But between May and September I can count 6 different King of Prism merch lotteries (LOL?). There's also a Kuji running right now that's astrology themed that will be over by the time of the announcement. Leading me to believe that it would be the perfect time for them to open a MEGA merch lottery, one fitting of such a big announcement. Of course I would want more than this lol, but I think given the current precedent the franchise has given us this is the most likely outcome.

Regular around the country screenings. (the country is Japan btw sorry fellow Americans) I'm on the fence on whether or not this will be the announcement because why would they announce more screenings at a screening? But ever since Hiro's birthday in October the amount of King of Prism cheer screenings have shot up dramatically and they don't seem to be stopping. It would be a pretty huge announcement for them to say that the screenings are continuing at this accelerated pace for the time being. If this is the case I would also assume something bigger is coming over the summer lol because they wouldn't just increase the amount of screenings for no reason.

Ok now we get to the fun stuff

3. New Music!! I'm trying to keep my expectations low, but it feels slightly strange that the only staff talking about this are composers and choreographers, no? And the way they're wording the announcement makes me think it's supposed to be BIGGER than the two options above because those are the two things we already have, leading me here to the next step. With Prism Rush we were getting regular singles, and I think it's about time we get a new Septentrion song!!!!

4. Something like the Pretty Series VLives. The VLive format seems to be doing really well for PriChan, and King of Prism has dabbled in the format before, something more but not a ton of work would be something akin to the PriChan highschool live. where there's a shallow story but it can be rebroadcast over and over (at future cheer screenings?). Bonus that the PriChan one was crowdfunded, and there's nothing stopping them from attempting that again (though idk if they would if whatever is happening on 3/25 is also crowdfunded.) I think if we're getting any new content content this is the most likely because of it's cost to profit ratio AND the uptick of them being made for the Pretty Series, but of course I can dream about getting more, as in:

Anything past this point is not very likely but I want it anyway

5. PRISM RUSH 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok I cannot lie, I really want this one just because I want to play a mobile rhythm game and SIF2 is approaching end of service lmao. But it feels kinda weird that the Prism Rush 1 setting materials came out so late, right??? Plus maybe all the composters retweeting were hinting at new music, and what needs a bunch of new music if not a rhythm game! SynSophia has finally gotten out or announced all their backlogged projects (Idol Land though they didn't do much of that one, Fashion Dreamer, and TWO AiPri arcade games) leaving their dev team open to work on a brand new game. Yeah??? :) Plus people complained that most of the Prism Rush story wasn't in the setting materials, maybe this is their chance to re-release the event stories :) (coping!)

6. Another Super Live! Every time I watch one of the Pretty Series Lives where they bring back the VAs from now dead franchises (rip PriMagi) I wonder why they stopped doing these for King of Prism (other than like the pandemic). There's still plenty of Prism Rush songs that have never been done live, plus everyone wants to hear the SSS songs again. And I mean they're getting Junta for the announcement, it would make sense for Shin to announce something like this! I don't think this is very likely, rather it would come if there was new media with new music that was doing really well, but it is something I'd enjoy a lot.

6. A NEW ANIME!!!!!!!!! Ok we save this one for the bottom because it's the least likely, especially for an 8 year old anime and one that hasn't had a new movie in 4 years. But I mean, this is what we all want right? Director Hishida, save us all 🙏

I considered taking this entire post and making it a Youtube video lmfao but I don't think I'd get an audience who wants to listen to me ramble about King of Prism news. But uhh what do you think, I'm so so so so so so so so so so so excited! aaaaaaaaa

[kukinayumi]

Okay idk how to post like in a fancy way so, spoilers for last episodes of idol land Pripara

That

Was

AMAZING

I really love Pripara, this just made my love for it bigger and I wanna get more merch LOL

Thank you to all creators that worked on this for creating such a gentle and magical world

Amari became my favorite character too (sorry Mikan…)

I’m sick and I’ll never be able to become an idol, I hate that part of me that’s sick, but that’s okay

It’s hard sometimes to love oneself

I think that’s all my thoughts, I hope for a season 2, or an arcade game again (Aipri is also looking nice) (or Ai…KATSU!?)

[pretty-idol-hell]

Speaking of the the multiverse, do you think this is possibly the pretty all friends project they mentioned back before prichan back in 2017/18? (but probably waited till now till it was fully incorporated in the game, crossing my fingers that this will make it into the switch) btw I remember all of the unique interactions before lives between idols you could do during duos in the pripara arcade. It would be cool to have different interactions in duos between pretty series idols in aipriverse

I'm afraid to tell you this, but Pretty All Friends already happened. It was a brand of merch sold at Prism Stone Shops featuring characters from multiple series represented in a specific art style. Nothing else was ever teased or promised, and anyone who told you otherwise was jumping to conclusions.

That being said, AiPri Verse could have been influenced by Pretty All Friends but it's not the same! Especially since they have chosen to represent the characters in different styles.

I'm not sure what the latter half of your ask is referring to... like the special Making Dramas during Zuttomo? Yeah that would be cool!

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Aipri Rubber Mascot Collection gachapon keychains are out now. Vol 2 is in production.

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The Aipri Bracelet DX set Princess Model releases mid November for 4950 yen and includes an Aipri Bracelet with Chamomile scented lip balm, a charm, stickers, hair clip, ring and the Aipri Verse Flower March Princess Coorde card.

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The Ruby=Lazuli Aipri Card Album will release August 1 for 1100 yen.

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The Himitsu no Aipri Heart Pod & Aipri Mic toy will release October 3 for 9350 yen.

In Mic form, you can play various mini games:

Roleplay Concert: Lyrics are displayed onscreen and you can sing to 9 instrumental versions of songs from Aipri.

Voice Lesson: Sing along to the piano notes.

Shaking Buzzlume: Shake the Mic to the music.

Dance Gestures: Dance to the music while imitating the moves on screen.

In Heart Pod form, you can play these various mini games:

Piano Lesson: Press the notes as they fall.

Dance Lesson: Press the notes that light up.

Snapshot: Press the button to take a picture at the right moment.

Music Player: Listen to 9 songs from the Aipri anime and game.

Coorde Stage: Collect over 70 outfits and choose a Stage.

Password Mode: Collect codes from online to get gifts.

Coorde Roulette: Use coins collected to get Coordes and background wallpapers.

In both forms, you can access the Letter Box where you get letters from Aipri’s and can read their profile info.

Along with collecting coins, you collect Aipri Points which raise your Aipri Level. Highest level is 5.

Songs included are:

All Out Girls Revolution (OP 1)

P.O.P.P.Y

That’s Just A Secret, Right? (ED 1)

Unbeatable Duo Energy

Secret Dream

Words of Light

Let’s Aipri (arcade song)

Himari’s Secret My Song (arcade song)

Mitsuki’s Secret My Song (arcade song)

The toy contains the following:

Aipri Mic

Heart Pod

3 Aipri Cards (Secret Friends ♾️ Buzzlume Purple)

USB Cable

Strap

Lyrics sheet

Instructions

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The Aismirin Aipri Card Album will release August 1 for 1100 yen.

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Himari’s nail cologne will release August 10 for 2640 yen. It has a “floral pink scent” and includes the Nail Polish Lovely Coorde card.

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Aipri A3 merch collab runs from October 17.

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Tsumugi’s nail cologne will release August 10 for 2640 yen. It has a “fresh yellow scent” and includes the Nail Polish Natural Coorde card.

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The "Aipri Bracelet Mitsuki Model Fanbook Limited Color" will be included in the Aipri Fanbook that releases in August.

(From the Aipri Arcade Game loading screen).

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The Aipri Nail Cologne (above) compared to the previously announced Aipri Nail Polish. The cologne will release this summer (the included cards will be the same).