An anime television series adaptation by Tatsunoko Production and DongWoo A&E began airing from April 8, 2018.[1] On April 30, 2021, it was announced the anime was officially ended on May 30, 2021.[3]
Plot
PriChan is a video streaming platform where idols can stream original content and perform as an idol. Using a special device called PriCast, they can self-produce and broadcast their own sparkling, exciting channel, and become a PriChan idol.
Season 1
Mirai Momoyama and Emo Moegi, ordinary first-year students at Kirarigaoka Middle School, end up making their PriChan debut to succeed their selfish, arrogant classmate Anna Akagi, a renowned PriChan idol. Wanting to upgrade their content, they soon find a new friend who ends up being their producer, a knowledgeable straight-A student, Rinka Aoba, who joins their group as their manager. The three girls form an idol group called Miracle Kiratts, producing content of all types while dreaming about becoming top Pri Chan Idols.[4]
Season 2
With the popularity of PriChan streaming channels having gone viral on the internet, the PriChan idols are given a Jewel Pact to compete against a virtual idol named Dia. She also announces the opening of the Jewel Auditions, an event where idols with a jewel-like shine are chosen to become Jewel Idols. Idols who only pass the audition with a sparkling heart can make their Kiratto Jewel shine, allowing them to receive their "Jewel Coords". The one titled Jewel Idol can wear the long-admired Diamond Coord, a legendary Jewel Coord that will make them a Diamond Idol.
Season 3
Kagayaki Corporation, a company that manages Pri Chan Land, announces that it will host a Princess Cup to determine the next generation's top PriChan idol. Mirai and friends try to raise their mascots using the new item called PriTamaGo that was given to them. The PriChan idols must become the princess of most areas to become the Illuminage Queen and receive the Castle Coord to perform for the greatest parade in PriChan Castle.
Mirai is a first-year student in Kirarigaoka Middle School in Season 1, later turns into second-year in Season 2 and third-year in Season 3. She is energetic yet clumsy girl filled with curiosity who is often dragged into things by her more lively friend, Emo, due to her desire not to be an imposition on others. Mirai has the ability to find traits in other people that make them shine.[1]
Mirai's clasmate and childhood friend, Emo is headstrong and good at sports. She is well-informed and updated on the latest trends, but can also be fickle.[1]
Rinka is Mirai's calm and intelligent classmate with a vast knowledge of PriChan. When Rinka was little, she and her brother often pretend to have PriCasts and record each other, as if they had their own PriChan to post on. Once Yuzuru started to hang out with other kids, they eventually stopped doing this, which caused Rinka tends to cry a bit due to the rift between them. She later debuted as the third member of Miracle Kiratts.[1]
Anna is Mirai's schoolmate in the same grade but different class. She comes from a rich family and is the heiress to her family business, The Akagi Property. She is charming on the outside but selfish on the inside, often disturbing Emo's business and arguing with her.
Mel is hot-blooded and intelligent girl who has completed her bachelor's degree in the United States despite being in the same class as Mirai. She returns to be Anna's classmate and forms Meltic Star later in the series after a five-year absence.
Anzu is a top idol who normally wears disguises and often spends her time wandering through town and frequently indulges in various activities the girls are partaking in. In Season 3, she is judge of the Queen's Grand Prix.
Maria is Mirai's classmate in the second-year of middle school. She likes everything cute and owns the program Cutie Committee to introduce all kinds of girly activities on Earth.
Suzu is Maria's junior and friend and the owner of a dancing program in PriChan. Although she thought that Maria was troublesome in the first place, she actually cares about her. Suzu was initially reluctant to form a duo with Maria, but happily agreed later.
Dia is Mirai's schoolmate in her second-year of middle school. She is the creator of the virtual idol Daia and together they are judges at the Jewel Auditions. Dia was initially was reserved and timid with a tendency to run away when someone talked to her, but gained more confidence after befriending the other PriChan idols.
Daia (だいあ)
Voiced by: Rico Sasaki
Daia is the bright and cheerful virtual idol who is the host of the Jewel Auditions.
Alive
Alice Peperoncino (アリス・ペペロンチーノ, Arisu Peperonchīno)/Alice Kagayaki (輝 アリス, Kagayaki Arisu)
Alice is a cheerful and lively girl who is a part-time worker of PriChan Land. She comes from a foreign circus troupe, and came to Japan only to find her long-lost family.
Eve is a quiet and sweet girl who ias CEO of the Kagayaki Corporation as well as Alice's twin sister. She is also responsible for organizing Princess Cup and the opening of the PriChan Land in Kirajuku.
Manager of Dear Crown and the mentor to Ring Marry, Naru is the parallel version of Naru Ayase from Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live. She is also the author of The Princess of the Jewel Kingdom book, which inspired Nijinosaki to create Jewel Auditions.
Kiracchu is Miracle Kiratts' mascot. Originally designed by Mirai, she gained the power of the virtual world from Daia and also became a navigator in the Design Palette. When Kiracchu moved to the PriTama GO and evolved further, she works hard to support them.
Luluna is Eve's stoic and serious mascot who is always by her side and acts supportive like a secretary.
Anime-only characters
Devi Fudo (歩堂デヴィ, Fudo Devi) and Luu Asuka (明日香ルゥ, Asuka Ruu) (Voiced by: Saki Yamakita (Devi), Azuki Shibuya (Luu)) are a troublemakers of Oshama Tricks. They always put pranks on their fans, often taunting them with curses.
Laala (らぁら, Raara) (Voiced by: Himika Akaneya is Yui's mascot based on Laala Manaka from PriPara. She cares about Yui, going as far as to hide the unfriendly comments made about the Rice area's rice and encouraging her to not give up.'
Bugcchu (バグッチュ, Bagucchu)Voiced by: Tomori Kusunoki is Oshama Tricks' rogue malware bug mascot created from the virtual world. A troublemaker, they display great joy and little terror in causing bugs in the virtual world's system to going out of control.
Silk (シルク, Shiruku) is Rinka's self-created mascot that was originally designed for the purpose of creating a mascot for the Cute Festival in episode 33.
Hakuccho (ハクッCHO) (Voiced by: Suzuko Mimori) is Anju's mascot as well as assistant. She is also the designer of the brand Little Princess Egg and the member of Designers Thirteen.
Others
Meganee Akai (赤井 めが姉ぇ, Akai Meganee) {{animevoices|Kanae Itō}) is the recurring manager of Prism Stone Shop.
Yuzuru Aoba (青葉 ユヅル, Aoba Yuzuru) (Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga; Sora Tokui (young)) is Rinka's older brother who works at the Prism Stone Shop as a cameraman before becoming manager of Dear Crown is Season 3. He was also a member of Arrows, but silently left the group.
Meganii Akai (赤井めが兄ぃ, Akai Meganii) (Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe) is Meganee's partner who works as a tour guide in PriChan Land before switching to be the announcer of the Princess Cup in Season 3.
Konomi Arakaki (新柿 このみ, Arakaki Konomi), Tamaki Kurihara (栗原 たまき, Kurihara Tamaki), Hokuto Imozaki (芋崎 ほくと, Imozaki Hokuto) (Voiced by: Narumi Kaho, Yurina Amami, Yui Fukuo) are Mirai's classmates in the third-year of middle school.
Takaya Saigusa (三枝 タカヤ, Saigusa Takaya), Hanakura Ayumi (花倉 アユミ, Hanakura Ayumi) (Voiced by: Wataru Urata, Amatsuki) are Yuzuru's former teammates who are members of male idol group Arrows.
Episode 68 featured a crossover television special with Secret × Heroine Phantomirage![5][6] Episode 118 is a special episode to honor ten years of the Pretty series featuring Pretty All Friends idols. On April 25, 2020, it was announced certain episodes from Episode 107 onwards would be delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[7] On June 26, 2020, it was announced that the anime would resume on July 5, 2020, with episode 107.[8]Crunchyroll licensed the series.[9]
