#himitsu no idol time yui

[prismstonearchives]

ひみつのアイドルタイムゆい - Himitsu no Idol Time Yui

[mirukiamauri]

My☆Dream will join in the AiPri Verse arcade during the August update! Yui, Nino and Michiru are going to be playable characters and will get 3 new super dreamy cute coords (i adore them!!!). Otome Puzzle ~Koisuru Everyday~ by Yui, Summer Night Evolution! by Nino, StarLight★HeartBeat by Michiru and GoGo! PripaLife by the Idol Time idols are going to be playable as well. Yui Eyes, Nino Triangle Decor and Michiru Hair are going to be added as well for your mychara!

[prism-stone-planet]

Art to celebrate My Dream being added to the Aipri Verse arcade game.

[leopauldelr]

もう一回、可奈ちゃん先輩！

[cerinelle-stellarium]

Hey there? On the search for genuinely good classic/modern magical girl/boy series without any problematic subject matter (age-gap romances, incest, heavy sexualization of minors/fanservice, petty in-fighting (I'm looking at you, Wedding Peach)), heavily tears down the reputation/ideals of the genre or going into grimdark territory/kills off the main character/multiple characters for pointless shock value (I'm looking at you, Minky Momo)? Then you've come to the right post!

AK Magical Girls

Akazukin Chacha

Alice 19th

ArtisWitch

Ask Dr. Rin!

Balala the Fairies

Bokura wa Mahou Shounen

Brat Hunt Chu!

Catch! Teenieping

Classicaloid

Corrector Yui

The Demon Girl Next Door

Earth Maiden Arjuna

Fairy Idol Kanon

Fairy Navigator Runa

Flip Flappers

Floral Magician Mary Bell

Flower Angel/Fairy

Flying Witch

Full Moon

Fushigi no Fan Fan Pharmacy

Galaxy Fraulein Yuna

Hana no Ko Lunlun

Harbor Light Story Fashion Lala

Hey! Yo Yorang

Hime-chan no Ribbon (and its' manga reboot)

Himitsu no Akko-chan (and its' manga reboot)

I.O.N.

Jewelpet (Just avoid the Sunshine season and you're good)

Kaitou Saint Tail

Kamichama Karin

Kilala Princess

Koi Cupid

Kung Fu Wa

Lan Mo De Hua

Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko

Little Witch Academia

Magical Angel Creamy Mami

Magical Angel Sweet Mint

Magical Idol Pastel Yumi

Magical Meow Meow Taruto

Magical Stage Fancy Lala

Magical Star Magical Emi

MajiLumiere Co. Ltd.

Maho Girls Pretty Cure

Mahou Shoujo Lalabel

Mahou Shoujo Taisen

Majokko Tickle

Mao-chan

Mei Company (Before anyone asks, the plot is actually about retired magical girls opening up a cleaning company)

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

Mewkledreamy

Mink

Miracle Girls

Miracle Shoujo Limit-chan

Nana Moon

Ojamajo Doremi

Onegai My Melody

Persia the Magic Fairy

Petit Petit Muse

Petite Princess Yucie

Phantom Thief Jeanne

Pixie Pop

Powerpuff Girls Z

Pretear

The near entirety of the Pretty Cure franchise (Just be sure to avoid Yes! PreCure 5 and Hugtto Precure if you don't want be squicked out by the age gap romance th those two series)

Pretty Sammy

Princess Comet

Princess Tutu

Rainbow Ruby

Saint October

Sakura Hime Kaiden

Sasami: Magical Girls Club

Secret Jouju

Shamanic Princess

Shining Star (CG Korean cartoon)

Someday's Dreamers

Sophie Ruby

Spellbound! Magical Princess Lil'Pri

Star College

Sugar Sugar Rune

Super Doll Licca-chan

Super Pig

Sweet Valerian

Sweets Fairy

Tamagotchi: Yume Kira Dream

Tea Tea Cherry

Telepathy Shoujo Ran

Time Stranger Kyoko

Tokyo Mew Mew (and its' anime reboot, New)

Tweeny Witches

Twin Princesses of Wonder Planet

Umi Monogatari

Urahara

Wedding Apple

Wish Upon the Pleiades

Witch Hat Atelier

Witch Watch

Yadamon

Yume no Crayon Oukoku

Z Squad

Zodiac P.I.

[magicalgirlagency]

Hey, So I was on DA and apparently some user made a post called "What Standard Magical Girl shows are like" and I'm curious to here your thoughts on it. (Just a warning, the person who made that post is a Madoka stan.)

And holy cow, that post was a wild ride from start to finish…

It’s just some dude complaining about how people have a “erroneous understanding” of how a Standard Magical Girl Show™ works out, and they proceed to talk about how clichéd, shallow and empty they are, and how the thing that saves the day for magical girls isn’t friendship and teamwork, it is “Stock Footage” that does the job.

They also blab about how a Standard MG Show™ is basically Power Rangers without the action scenes with a dash of Disney Channel Teen Sitcom/Valley Girl. And with that statement, I can evidently see that they have never ever ever heard of Pretty Cure (or any other MG show before Sailor Moon, for that matter).

Then they proceed to blab about how clichéd, shallow and empty a SMGS™ actually is, by using teen sitcoms as the base for their (useless) argument.

It’s funny how they say that all that the girls think about are boys, make-up, shopping and other “traditionally feminine stuff”…

…oh, yeah… apparently, Pretty Cure doesn’t really exist. It’s just some wild fantasy that I came up with so I could feel better about myself and disconect myself from reality.

As for the “stock footage” thing, it’s only there for two things:

To save time and money;

To entertain little children (because they are the genre’s FREAKING DEMOGRAPHIC?!)

Look, I’m not an animation expert or something, but I try my best to not be bothered by such details…

And as for this whole Standard thing, there is NO Standard. The MG genre wasn’t born already on fighting and action scenes; it went through lots of phases and themes:

Majokko/Little Witch (Mahoutsukai Sally, Majokko Megu-chan, Ojamajo Doremi, Sugar Sugar Rune);

Magical & Mundane (Himitsu no Akko-chan, Sarutobi Ecchan, Pastel Yumi);

Sci-Fi (Cutey Honey, ESPer Mami, Moldiver, Musumet, Corrector Yui);

Magical Idol /Performer (Creamy Mami, Magical Emi, PriPara, Aikatsu);

Magic Academy (Winx Club seasons 1-3, Little Witch Academia);

Phantom Theives (Saint Tail, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne);

Magical Animals/Partners/Non-human Creatures (JewelPet, Onegai! MyMelody, RiluRilu Fairilu);

Live Action (Himitsu Senshi series. Poitrine);

Isekai/Other World (Flip Flappers, Star Vs. during season three);

Tragical Girl (Madoka Magica, Raising Project, Yuki Yuna);

Parody/Meta (Tonde Buurin, Machikado Mazoku);

Magical Warrior (Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure);

Any combination of those themes above;

…and so on…

I won’t even bother to check out the rest of that post, because WOW, What A Load Of Bullshit™.

…at least they were smart enough to know that Sailor Moon wasn’t always pretty and elegant…

…but they forget that Sailor Moon wasn’t the only MG show to present intense moments…

Minky Momo had their main girl lose their transformation trinket and be ran over by a car (or was it a truck? Can’t remember very well…); Fushigi na Melmo had their main girl lose her mother at a early age and finding herself on her own to grow up and take care of her younger brothers (literally and figuratively speaking); Mahoutsukai Chappy had their main girl hiding her magical powers from others or else she’d be burned at the stake; HeartCatch PreCure had a magical girl almost giving in to hatred and revenge because she has seen her father and mascot die; Ojamajo Doremi has dealt with themes of depression, miscarriage, racism, cancer and divorce; Star Vs. The Forces of Evil had this subplot about discrimination and heart-shattering family secrets (despite the fact that it had a shitty ending…)

Like, come ON, man! You didn’t gave a solid argument about the MG genre! Like, zero! Zilch! Nada!

If you were a tad bit more knowegdable on the genre, you’d know that there is no standard, and that not every MG show follows the Monster Of The Week/Day formula.

And it’s funny how OP is a MadoMagi stan, and yet I’ve seen NO mention of MadoMagi on their post!

[leopauldelr]

The beginner's guide to the Pretty Series

With the recent announcement of the new Pretty Series installment titled Himitsu no AiPri, it's about time the Pretty Series returned after over a year since the Waccha PriMagi! series finale. In celebration of the newest installment, let's take a quick history lesson about the Pretty series.

The Pretty Rhythm Saga (2010-2014) - The Pretty Series saga began on July 15, 2010 with the arcade game titled Pretty Rhythm Mini Skirt. Made by Takara Tomy and developer SynSophia, this arcade game pits players in the role of Prism Stars, performing Prism Jumps, and collecting Prism Stones.

While the one that started it all made a slow start, the folks from Takara Tomy wanted to do more with the Pretty Rhythm saga, and with that, a TV anime titled Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream was made. Aired in TV Tokyo on April 9, 2011, for 51 episodes, this anime is the fruit of Japan-Korea collaboration thanks to Japan's Tatsunoko Production and South Korea's Dong Woo Animation. The TV anime is all about Aira, Rizumu, and Mion in their quest to take on the prestigious Prism Queen Cup.

As Aira Harune's journey to become Prism Queen is completed, Mia Ageha takes the baton as the star of the next Pretty Rhythm story; Dear My Future. Aired in TV Tokyo on April 7, 2012, for 51 episodes, Dear My Future centers on the rivalry between Prizmmy☆ and the K-Pop group PURETTY. Believe it or not, there are real-life versions of the groups as seen in the anime. There's even a live-action segment featuring Prizmmy☆ as well.

As Mia Ageha's road to Grateful Symphonia is well and truly over, Naru Ayase steps to the spotlight in the third and final chapter of the Pretty Rhythm saga, titled Rainbow Live. Aired in TV Tokyo on April 6, 2013, it features an original storyline unlike the previous two. It's about Naru, An, and Ito, who are working together at the Prism Stone Shop while trying to take good care of a mysterious girl named Rinne.

Although the Pretty Rhythm saga ended, the story continues with the KING OF PRISM spinoff films featuring male characters from the Pretty Rhythm saga. They even got a 2019 anime show as well showcasing the rise of the boys who would be Septentrion.

The PriPara saga (2014-2018, 2021~) After the end of the Pretty Rhythm saga,  the folks of Takara Tomy prepped up what it seems to be the second generation of the Pretty series. It's called PriPara and it aired on TV Tokyo in the Summer of 2014 and lasted for three seasons, four if you count Idol Time PriPara of course. This anime series centers on the life and times of Laala Manaka, a little girl who wants to be the best PriPara idol. Together with Mirei Minami and Sophy Hojo, they became SoLaMi Smile and they fought their way against the best idol teams of PriPara, especially Dressing Pafe consisting of Dorothy, Reona, and Sion, Tricolore, and Gaarmageddon, among many others. PriPara is a huge win for the people behind it and such success prompted the show to spawn four movies and outrageous merchandising rights.

In the spring of 2017, the next chapter of PriPara begins with three new main characters penning the final pages of this saga. Titled Idol Time PriPara, it's all about Yui Yumekawa, whose fateful encounter with Laala Manaka changed everything following an accident. With Nino Nijiiro and Michiru Kouda joining alongside, the MY☆DREAM trio made the best closure to this saga.

Although the PriPara TV series is finished, the story continues with Idol Land PriPara. First announced in December 2020, it was originally slated to be released in the spring of 2021 until it became subject to long gestation and delayed launch dates. It was released on August 17, 2023. It is the second official PriPara app game after the defunct PriPuz puzzle app game. This app game also features an original anime series set moments after the events of Idol Time PriPara. It introduces new characters such as Amari Katasumi, Mario, and Pololo, among others.

The Kiratto PriChan years (2018-2021) - Aired in TV Tokyo since April 2018 for three seasons, Kiratto PriChan is set in a world where fame comes from social media just like in the real world. It's about a group of girls who called themselves the Miracle☆Kiratts who are striving to become the best PriChan idols above the rest. For three seasons, we watched Miracle Kiratts taking on big challenges such as heated competition with rival teams such as Meltic StAr and Ring Marry, the jewel idol competition, saving the world, the road to the Queens Grand Prix, and saving the world...again, while they do what they do best; showcasing the world that they're the best PriChan sensations ever known.

PriMagi (2021-2022) - Waccha PriMagi! is the fourth installment of the Pretty Series that revolves around the lives of Primagistas striving to become the best of the best. The show is about Matsuri Hibino, a middle-schooler who dreams of being the best just like her idol, the legendary Jennifer Sumire Sol.

AiPri - After over a year of void, the Pretty Series has returned with the newest installment coming to TV Tokyo this April 2024. Titled Himitsu no AiPri, the new series stars Minori Fujidera as Himari Aozora and Sae Hiratsuka as Mitsuki Hoshikawa. For the first time in Pretty Series, the animation sequences were provided by OLM, the studio behind the Pokemon and Yo-Kai Watch anime series, while South Korea's Dongwoo A&E returned to cooperate for it.

Welcome back, Pretty Series! The world can't wait for the franchise's comeback show this April.