This J-anime series I
would like to recommend is called “Pretty Rhythm”. It is adaptation from the game and same name manga series. The story is about a 3 high school girls
have formed as a pop idol group to perform ice-skating to the audience by dancing and singing. All 3 of them have characters respectively. One is in love of fashion, one is good in dancing and one is good in singing.
Title : Pretty Rhythm
Genre : Dancing, Romance, Shoujo, Fashion, Comedy
Episodes : 51
Status : Completed
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 revolves around a girl named Aira Harune who, along with a girl named Rizumu Amamiya, is scouted to become a Prism Star. Joined by a veteran Prism Star, Mion Takamine, they form a group called as MARs and work towards Rizumu's dream of performing the mysterious, legendary Prism Jump, Aurora Rising, that her mother had once performed. Prism Stars are performers on the new popular ice show, Prism Show. They are superidols whose techniques, singing and fashion sense are a cut above all others. Aira and Rizumu are two Prism Stars whose goal is to become the best, the Prism Queen. However, the road to success is bumpy.
Charascters Description
Aira Harune 
Aira is a junior high school girl who one day was scouted by a man named Jun to be a Prism Star. She was born on September 3, 1997. She is very clumsy, naive, and not very good at sports, but she is very optimistic and considerate of others. Also, Aira is a huge fan of Mion, calling her "Mion-sama" for quite some time. She has a younger brother, Itsuki, who teases her and two little twin sisters, Uru and Eru, who always cheer her on. Aira's strongest suit is fashion, being very good at coordinating clothes and having the ability to hear them "sing", and she may have gotten her talent from her mother, Omi Harune, who formerly was a Prism Star Stylist. She is a fan of clothes from "Prism Stone", a store run by Shō from Callings whom Aira has a crush on. She claims that she loves Shō's designs, not him, though it is obvious to Rizumu and Mion that she does indeed like him. She had gone on a date with Shō to the fireworks festival.
Rizumu Amamiya/ Rizumu Tōdō
Rizumu is a student who goes to the same school as Aira. She was born on September 3, 1997, the same as Aira. She has horrible grades and even says that getting a 70 would be a miracle for her. But she is very good at dancing and attends a dance school for Prism Stars named "Pretty Top". She always tries to do her best and wants to become the Prism Queen to perform the "Aurora Rising" thinking that it will bring her mother back, the legendary Prism Queen Sonata Kanzaki, who disappeared after performing the legendary jump. She sometimes tries so hard that she forgets what the Prism Show is really about. She has orange hair and light brown eyes which is noted by Aira's mother to look exactly like how Sonata looked like when she was younger. She seems to be knowledgeable about love from a certain book of hers. It is very obvious that Hibiki is the one she thinks about, since she has feelings for him. She can easily become jealous and is interested in romance. She loves to eat basically anything and absolutely loves meat and chocolate.
Mion Takamine
Mion is a popular idol and model and is headstrong not an honest person, like Aira and Rizumu. Her father Pietro is an Italian-Japanese. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 3, 1997. At an early age she had been with her parents and wandered the world, and is currently home to live alone away from home in Japan. She doesn't stop at saying her thoughts out loud and can be stubborn sometimes too. She tries to act like an adult most of the time. In the beginning she thought that the Prism Show was a waste of her time until she saw Aira and Rizumu perform in the Tiara Cup. She got her motivation back. She is actually very lonely without her parents but tries not to show it. She has, however, warmed up to Aira and Rizumu after losing the Summer Queen Cup. She seems to like and admire Jun even though he is 10 years older than her. She has become great friends with Aira and Rizumu. She is actually afraid of dark places and ghosts or monsters. She had thought that Wataru was unreliable and depended more on Jun until he proved to her that he would protect her (looks like she is starting to see Wataru more as a man). Mion's song is called "Switch On My Heart" .
Shō
Shō is the leader of the boys idol unit group Callings. He has brown hair and violet eyes. He is also the designer of "Prism Stone", Aira's favorite shop. He is a reliable leader and tends to give Aira advice from time to time, even though he can snap sometimes. He is in his first year of high school along with Hibiki and Wataru. He finds Aira interesting. It is shown that when under pressure he can snap, like he did at Aira when she talked about his design for his upcoming deadline. He had asked and given Aira advice on what her dream really was. Shō kissed Aira's forehead in the first episode after she performed her very own Prism Jump, then fell on him, also in the last episode they kissed in He is impressed by Aira's fashion sense and likes to tease her. He is actually afraid of dark places that surprised Aira and made her laugh.
Hibiki Tōdō
Hibiki is a part of the idol group Callings together with Shō and Wataru. He has blue hair and brown eyes. He is in his first year of high school. He likes to tease Rizumu and give her advice. It is revealed that his younger sister is Kanon Tōdō, who beat Aira and Rizumu in the Summer Queen Cup. He also gave Rizumu advice when she wanted to win the Tiara Cup and stopped having fun. He is very nice to everyone and is seen to be with Rizumu when she is eating. He and Rizumu even have a secret place (later in the episodes at the same spot proposed Rizumu's dad). Hibiki is the only member of Callings to have his surname revealed, since he is the biological brother of Kanon. He also shows love interest in Rizumu and said that he liked Rizumu better with a smile. He is always stuck with Rizumu and Kanon arguing over him (love triangle).
Wataru
Wataru is also a part of Callings together with Hibiki and Shō. He is in his first year of high school. He has red hair and green eyes. He thinks of himself as Mion's older brother. Despite his cute appearance, he is actually very good at studying and helped Rizumu to overcome her problem with her schoolwork. He enjoys working as an idol with Shō and Hibiki which he has told Mion. He told her that he would protect her when they went into a dark place on Halloween together which Rizumu thought was the beginning of their love. He develops a lot of feelings for Mion throughout the series. He tells her to depend more on him, despite his childish looks, he can be serious, trustworthy and knows when Mion is having troubles (so he always comes and cheers her up). He's not shown so much in the anime but when he is, he's always shown together with Mion. He sees himself as Jun's rival.
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| Hibiki (L), Sho (C), Wataru (R) |
Jun Takigawa
Jun is the person who scouted Aira. He seems to know about what will happen in the future and can see star aura. Jun believes that Aira, Rizumu and Mion were all destined to be with each other. He is usually seen with President Asechi. Jun recites poems that Aira and Rizumu are clueless about while only Mion seems to understand what they stand for. He is 24 years old and seems to be the object of Mion's love. Jun seems to have understood why Aira was doing so well in Episode 3's Prism Show by calling it "youth". He seems to like to hint that something will happen later on.
Kyōko Asechi
Kyōko is the president of "Pretty Top" who usually forces Aira and Rizumu to do Prism Shows when they don't want to or when they least expect it. She is 34 years old and it is later revealed that she was planning on getting married with someone before but he ran away before the ceremony. It is unknown about who the man was though. It is also revealed that she too once participated in the Prism Show and fought against Sonata Kanzaki. Kyōko won the first round but couldn't do the Aurora Rising which made Sonata the Prism Queen. She usually tries to raise the amount of money "Pretty Top" makes and doesn't actually let Aira and Rizumu rest often. Kyōko was very worried about what would happen to Rizumu if she had done Aurora Rising. At first it was said that Kyōko is half siblings with Jun, born by the same mother but different father.
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| ASechi & Jun |
Rabit-chi
Aira's mascot who is a pink colored rabbit and is good at Japanese comedy.
Bear-chi
Rizumu's mascot who is a brown colored bear. In Episode 13, he went to the past with Andy (Rizumu's bear that her mom made for her before she was born) when Rizumu was a baby.
Neko-chi
Mion's mascot who is a purple and grey colored cat. At first she was just like Mion, selfish but later on she got used to the others and became friends. She is just like a normal cat that likes the batons.
I like this anime series due to the it involves fashion and ice-skating. All the clothes are beautiful and ice-skarting is my favourite since I was young but I could not perform it well. Thus, by watching this anime series, it makes me recall my childhood dream as I wish to become an ice-skater! :P
The characters of this anime series, Aira, Rizumu are very cute and the male character I prefer Hikibi than Sho. Jun is not bad too as he is cool sometimes! :)
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anime series at below.
The part that I like the most in this anime series is the performance of the Prism Stars, especiallly when they do the jumping respectively. I think it is beautiful and very skillful! :) Personally I am yet to read the manga series, I think I will try to read it when I have the time. :P Moreover, there are many songs available in the series.
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