AiPri - Aikatsu and Pretty Series

It would be interesting, but what references to Korea do we have? These are the ones I remember at the moment:
Puretty, Yunsu, Yong hwa and Mishiru.
The Samsung mecha.

Sometimes a nice message does help, a small gesture can go a long way! Hope it works out for her

ainons are so soft, nice, and kind

The media tab becoming basically unusable over the past few months is enraging

yasachii

Dongwoo animation

reminds me of the big red dork keeping all the fanmail sent by kids
glad they seem to be resonating with the show a lot

Yeah, everyone involved with the show seems to be really happy that it's a hit with the intended audience.

On the bright side, as a registered Pripara Nurse, he'd be able to treat your horrifically lacerated body. I'm not sure he'd be smiling during the procedure, thoughbeit.

No I'm evil and mean!

t. Mirei.

Something to ignore in favor of Mii-tan.

The tour of Mascot Hell will be a fun one.

The big red dork really can't appreciate the succubus in front of her.

im hoping they break mario out of mascot hell to bring him back to full power life or something
go full interconnected clusterfuck and have the ending of idle land season 1 be resolved in kinpri of all places

I apologize to Tamaki for almost forgetting about her.
My head was struggling to parse who this was

dang mahiru sure looks cute in this coord

I really wouldn't want to have to watch a fag spinoff of RL to know what happens next in Pripara.

I'm not a big fan of KinPri (more because the series themselves are rushed), but whenever something is released I have the feeling that Pretty Series has a future with many possibilities and the passion of the team and its fans always makes me happy.

I'm kinda afraid of Kinpri because it might lead to Ensemble Stars - Ensemble Girls situation one day

What are you talking about?

Could it be the fear that Rainbow Live will be forgotten like Ensemble Girls?

This, Enstars overtook Ensemble Girls as the "main franchise" despite initially being just a side project

if they start making kinpri arcades and children's merchandise, than sure maybe that might be a founded fear, but that seems like an awfully silly fear when pretty is at the best selling its ever been and kinpri has no overlap with their target demographic at all

If we take RL by itself then this has already happened. So thankfully the pretty series is larger than just RL.

doomposting Kino of Prism

For what purpose?

I don't know, but KinPri has a very different target audience than Pretty Series. I don't think Hishida wants KinPri to completely replace Pretty Rhythm, I feel like he wants to promote Pretty Rhythm through KinPri and thus be able to make more Pretty Rhythm material.
I think it will be something like Idolmaster SideM at the very least (without Scamco treating the series in the worst possible way).

I think these male side projects are fine when there's no crossover with the main series, at all. Either that, or go all the way catering to both sides from the start like Show by Rock (and just like in that show, how about writing guys that are actual believable characters and not fujo sex objects)

go all the way catering to both sides from the start

...that's what Pretty Series did.

my favourite boy character in pretty series is amamiya

Nope, the girls having love interests is not the same as the guys getting half the focus. Pretty Series is about girls.

oi, subaru is so cool, ya gits

Such good friends.

Mii was conditioned since childhood to be suited for cat coords

Wanko-sensei was a visionary.

I think Rainbow Live handled the male characters very well. Although KinPri has fanservice for fujoshi, aren't most of Alexander's fans men?

Mario was also a very good character.

I don't really like when they divide a series with only boys and another with only girls, but again, having KinPri is interesting because it opens up a future with many possibilities for Pretty seires.

If you're afraid that a spin-off will be more popular than Pretty Rhythm, it's worth remembering that PriPara itself is a spin-off much more popular than Pretty Rhythm and KinPri, maybe you're just being very pessimistic and paranoid. Pretty Series and the story of how KinPri came to be works very differently from Ensemble Girls or Idolmaster.

Why Pretty x Yugioh crossover it's so good you guys?
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They've been doing it for a long time, see the iconic Laala x Kaiba x Mega Shark doujin.

that dude is very active about organizing ygo events with the elites which is pretty cool, its always nice to see the community bonding over shared interests
my favorite is the Non! itasha dude organizing plarail events

Galactic idles.

I think Rainbow Live handled the male characters very well

This is part of my problem with Kinpri. Why not have only new characters and a new setting for their new project? Why use existing characters who were decent and turn them into fanservice bait (and other travesties such as making Naru grow taller)
This was almost as bad as that time Toei made their old cures canonically grow up into heavy alcoholics.

Because the Japanese don't see it that way and are excited to have this opportunity to see their favorite characters again, especially the Primagi fans for the new one.

Dang I guess the japanese are correct since they are japanese, I retire my argument, desist and dogeza /w apology.

IS EVERYONE EXCITED FOR IDOL PURI, CHOMPY CUTIES, PURI-O, ICHIBAAAANS AND AIPRI!?

YES
can't wait to see a grown woman pretending to be a little girl online

OF COURSE!

If you watch OTR's performance in the final episode of Rainbow Live you will notice that there is a sex appeal to their prism jump. It's not like it doesn't exist.
Naru in RL was still 14(?) years old, she was still growing, not everyone who is born premature stops growing early, I say this as someone who was also born premature.
This is much more something related to genetics than anything else.

This was almost as bad as that time Toei made their old cures canonically grow up into heavy alcoholics.

Please, KinPri is at least more aware of what they are doing, being purposefully exaggerated to challenge Avex Pictures. With Adult Precure I just feel like everyone was forced to do that for the sake of profit, there is not a shred of passion between fans and producers.

i have to miss the livewatch today...

Genetics don't apply to Naru, because she is an anime character. Naru was BORN to be small.
They way Prichan treated Naru's character was so much more respectful.

Oh shit, all this KinPri talk is taking me back to 2015-2016.

Naru still seems to be short in this image. The frame where she appears with the other girls is a bit confusing, I don't know if the producers commented on it.
But anyway, they are just frames. It's a bit unfair to compare it to any other mistake Toei has made.

Frankly, I was in the opinion KinPri is really bad and had been complaining a lot about it. But nowadays, it just feels like refusing to have fun when they're all having so much fun.
I unironically think the movie this time will be good.

Why not have only new characters and a new setting for their new project?

Because they didn't want to. KinPri is a project that Hishida wanted to do, and he did almost as he wished (the time slot of 1 hours for the movies are still a problem for everyone involved).

This was almost as bad as that time Toei made their old cures canonically grow up into heavy alcoholics.

I fail to see what was bad about it though, sincerely. Feels like just the way the staff saw the adult life themselves. Idk

To me it all boils down to the same thing: These franchises are for children and they should be respectful of that. If the characters are going to grow up they should still remain good examples and something you can show to your children (Toei redeemed themselves with Maho S2 at least)

are we getting more DV this episode??

Eru

What is it?

I forgot to turn off the oven

Why the hell did this become KinPri vs Adult Precure?

Anyway, it's going to be interesting to ask even though they're different things: Do you prefer Adult Precure or KinPri?

If the characters are going to grow up they should still remain good examples and something you can show to your children

So, Naru is no longer a good example because... she's taller? Seriously?

The Naru issue is unrelated but still important.

something you can show to your children

...they literally had family screenings of the first 2 episodes of AiPri + KinDra in theaters.

How is that unrelated if you have spent multiple posts equating it to Otona? You can just say that you don't like Naru's design and that would be perfectly fine, but you just seem to be very upset about a completely unrelated franchise and are sperging about it here.

KinDra was less sex appeal than its predecessors, so there were fewer problems in showing children. (Except for the honey commercial, but that was so stupid it was funny, if I'm not mistaken even Hishida commented on it)

You can see KinPri more as a parody of Pretty Series, sometimes it feels a lot like that.

I'm complaining about KinPri turning PR into a fanservice franchise, the topic of Naru was only elaborated on because this response wanted to elaborate on it.

RL characters and setting becoming the subject of a franchise aimed for fujos full of sexual overtones = as bad as otona precure turning heroes into alcoholics. Both are disrecpectful.

It's a celebration of everything Pretty Series, no one loves the franchise more than Hishida which is why he was promoted to general director/manager (however its supposed to be translated).

they should still remain good examples and something you can show to your children

What a Christian line of thought huh... anyway.
The demographics for Pretty were pretty much variable from start. Both Shinoba and Hishida talked about it a lot, but even "for kids" are something a bit vague for limiting what a kid could or not see.
In my opinion, I wouldn't give Rainbow Live to any children below at 14 to watch. That thing is a mexican soap opera.
Now, about Precure itself. The adult ones were made specifically for grown up demographics, not for children. They were pretty clear in that (with even the time slot being changed to avoid children watching it. Like, Maho 2 did air at 2am). They didn't nothing really wrong in this aspect, and arguing the characters drinking are not exemplar in the Japanese culture feels like disrespectful by itself I assume.
Otona is terrible and Maho 2 is just more Maho (that's still bad but somehow an improvement)
I'm a bit of Tsun for KinPri. Sometimes I hate it with all of my strength. Others, I see myself looping some episodes like an addicted.

I honestly think KinPri is more fun and authentic. And as I mentioned before, unlike Precure Adult, it is made with the passion of its producers and fans. Also, seeing all the references and how the staff cares makes me think about the future possibilities of Pretty Series.

Adult Precure is a nice idea, but it feels more like a table-filling obligation than anything else.

I don't care about that, I'm not that ainon. I'm just really curious about why you're so hung up on how an older Naru being taller is an attack on her character. For example, in :

They way Prichan treated Naru's character was so much more respectful.

This inherently means that you find her depiction in KinPri to be disrespectful. Combine that with your statement of

If the characters are going to grow up they should still remain good examples and something you can show to your children

And you seriously seem to be suggesting that Naru's depiction in Kinpri is harmful and disrespectful because she is taller.

Alcohol and Sex are not evil by itself ainon. Losing yourself for that is what sin is about.
But it's not even like I dislike with you this much. I prefer Aurora Dream over Rainbow Live because I was not in synergy with the themes that Tsubota Fumi wanted to convey (And I will never will, apparently).
But this and what you think are our problems, not from the shows themselves. They're separate entries for a reason, ainon.

I'm not hung up on it, it seems to me that you're the one that really wants to discuss it (Which is fine, anyways). I just said it was a travesty, but it's nothing I lose my head over.

No, you didn't "just" say it was a travesty, you said:

They way Prichan treated Naru's character was so much more respectful.

That's your quote, mate.

I said that but only as a response to ainon. And it the truth isn't it? Besides I already clarified what I meant when I said KinPri is not something I'd show to my children, and that Naru growing taller is not the reason, so I think it's time you let that go.

heres a completely nonsensical statement

Can you explain it?

its the truth and you should let it go

Yup, I will. Cheers, retard.

The boys in Show By Rock are also quite appealing to fujohis in terms of design and personality.
Although Show By Rock is more aimed at the male otaku audience, Sanrio made a point of casting the boys as bishounens (and I don't doubt that some of them are gay) because they know that their main audience is women.

Yeah but they're also actual characters who don't exist for the sake of women.

The best thing from Pretty Series is how each individual series feels like a conflict between the staff wanting to push it out a bit forward and Takara Tomy/Avex having to eat up the consequences.
What I mean is... for a franchise that took 10 years for deciding their own name, the whole structure is not really well defined and each part is having their own fun playing around and pushing it off limits when they have the opportunity.
KinPri wasn't something planned after RL ended. Hishida wanted it since RL ever started. He was pushing the story into this direction.
Pripara became the perfect sandbox. No more comments.
Prichan got some cool stuff too and the staff loves to revisit it a lot. I believe something nice will come for them someday
Primagi though...

It wasn't "completely nonsensical", you were confused about some of the wording and I clarified it just for you, why can't you accept that?

They way Prichan treated Naru's character was so much more respectful.

You have not explained this in the slightest. Interesting that you keep replying even after telling me to "just let it go," though.

That is my opinion about Naru's depiction in KinPri, I believe it's true, nothing much else to explain.

Her depiction of being taller. Yup, got it. Glad we're on the same page. Actual fuckwit.

They do not represent the romantic interests of the female characters, but exist to please the female audience, which is Sanrio's target audience.
The original characters from KinPri (so I'm excluding OTR) are also made to please the female audience, and do not represent the romantic interests of the girls in the series.

The show by rock boys were really a problem though, because they stole 75% of screen time from the show first seasons and the girls just got the left 25%...
I just wanted more Cyan and Moa, but got a shitton of boys instead. Kuyachii!

Actual fuckwit.

?

ainon needs to relaxu

Eh, I think the cake was evenly split.
I'm normally not into pretty boys but I think the guys in SB69 were the sort of guys I could actually cheer for, they had that kamen rider appeal (Who similarly are cast with the female demographic in mind but it's not the *only* thing they have going for them as characters)

STYLISH

gosh I wonder who could be sperging about precure and boys

Eh, I think the cake was evenly split.

Believe me. It wasn't. The distribution of time was really around 75/25 for the groups.

but I think the guys in SB69 were the sort of guys I could actually cheer for

Hence why I agree on this too. They were really well written, sincerely. Far better than the girls by a margin even.
The problem is that I felt like fooled by some fake marketing, due to that.
The best example I can think of was in S1. About ChuChu arc of being corrupted by Dagger starting and concluding in exactly 5 minutes just after boys got about 2 episodes dedicated specially for them.

... I blame ainon for the incoming Cyan posting by the way

saturday (sadder day)

*sitcom laugh track*

I was wondering where he could be.
Took a week off or something?

that's hot

I will believe you because it's been so long since I watched this.
Post more cyan.

I started a debate I did not participate in, not realizing the chaos I unleashed. I'm sorry ainons

What matters is that I won.

Chii's Jobber Life was filmed before a live studio audience.

I suspected something like that. I would even tell Rolafag to wait in line at the SUS for a continuation of Aikatsu or would cry for a sequel to Stars focused on M4, since they were even worse used than any Pretty boy in the series.