Anime like Kiratto Pri☆Chan Season 2

Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live

Studio: TV Tokyo , Tatsunoko Production , Dongwoo Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Sports

Naru Ayase is an 8th grader who can see the colors of music when she listens to it. For Naru, who is extremely good at decorating, becoming the owner of a shop like Dear Crown was her dream. One day, she finds out that the manager of a newly-opened shop is recruiting middle school girls who can do Prism Dance, and immediately applies. Naru begins to Prism Dance at the audition, and an aura she's never experienced spreads out in front of her. At that moment, a mysterious girl named Rinne asks her if she can see "rainbow music".



Tags: Female Protagonist , Idol , Ice Sports , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , CGI , Kids , Fashion , Coming of Age , Love Triangle , Cars , School , Amnesia , Aliens , Urban

PriPara

Studio: Tatsunoko Production , Dongwoo Animation , TV Tokyo
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The anime is set in the PriPara world, filled with girls' dreams and yearnings for fashion, dance, and music. Seemingly every day, there are auditions that send top idols to worldwide fame on television and online. Laala and her friends are all fascinated with this world. However, Laala's school prohibits PuriPara for elementary school children. An unexpected chance leads Laala to make her first entrance into the world of PriPara, where she just might make her debut.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Idol , Female Protagonist , Surreal Comedy , Virtual World , Dancing , CGI , Transgender , Fashion , Kids , Henshin , Slapstick , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , School , Crossdressing , LGBTQ+ Themes , Rock Music , Twins , Magic , Alternate Universe , Go , Centaur , Isekai

Aikatsu!

Studio: Sunrise , TV Tokyo , Bandai Visual , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Music

Ichigo Hoshimiya is a regular, ordinary middle school girl. But when her best friend, Aoi, invites her to join the idol training academy, Starlight Academy, her whole world is turned upside down. As she encounters all kinds of rivals and learns what it takes to be an idol, she uses her Aikatsu Cards to challenge countless auditions.



Tags: Idol , Primarily Female Cast , School , Female Protagonist , Dancing , Fashion , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Henshin , CGI , Work , Kids , Outdoor Activities , Fitness , Primarily Teen Cast , Boarding School , Augmented Reality , Acting

Aikatsu Friends!

Studio: Bandai Namco Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Music

"Let's go, together! Head for the goal, Diamond Friends!!"

The new anime will have a theme of "Aikatsu with your friends!" and will center on a new protagonist named Aine Yuuki, who is good at making friends, and is enrolled in Star Harmony Academy's general education track. She befriends Mio Minato, the school's top idol, and becomes an idol herself.



Tags: Idol , CGI , Primarily Female Cast , School , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Henshin , Female Protagonist , Lacrosse , Kids , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Augmented Reality , Twins , Cars , Artificial Intelligence , Work , Full CGI

Himitsu no AiPri: Ring-hen

Studio: OLM , Dongwoo Animation , TV Tokyo , Nihon Ad Systems , Dongwoo Animation , Shogakukan , OLM , KYORAKU , Avex Pictures , Takara Tomy
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Slice of Life

It's a new semester! Himari and Mitsuki have become second-year students of Paradise Private Academy! Their school lives become more and more lively with the introduction of new underclassmen full of individuality and personality.

In the AiPri-Verse, new AiPri are appearing one after another! Everyone tries their hand at a brand new, never-before-seen Buzzrium Change! In the midst of all this, the mysterious Princess Ring Clover and her butler, Shimitsuu, are holding an Aipri contest. They say the winner will become an admired "Eternal Aipri." Himari and Mitsuki are all ready and full of fighting spirit! But it appears Princess Ring holds a very large secret...

As their friends increase, so does the mysteries of the ring. The Ring arc finally begins!



Tags: Idol , Yuri , Virtual World , School , Kids , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Ensemble Cast , Boarding School , Henshin , Primarily Child Cast , CGI , LGBTQ+ Themes , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things

NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE

Also known as NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE.

Studio: Yostar Pictures , Aniplex , Yostar , TOKYO MX , BS11 , WOWOW
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

OMGkawaiiAngel, affectionately known as "KAngel", is the top streamer girl with 10 million subscribers, and not a day goes by without seeing her in action. Whether online, on TV, or at a live show, she is always surrounded by her cheering fans.

Striving to catch up with KAngel's popularity is a three-girl streaming unit called Karamazov.

And far removed from the world of these streamers is Kache, a girl who lives with her freeloader boyfriend while working at a theme cafe.

The story of the "Internet Angel" who captivated the world, woven by a girl who shines like a star and girls who reach for that brilliance, and the story of "you" on the other side of the screen, begins here.



Note: Prior to broadcasting, "NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE -OVERTURE-" — a theatrical pre-screening of the first 3 episodes rearranged and edited together— debuted in Japan on March 6, 2026.

Tags: Female Protagonist , Denpa , Otaku Culture , Philosophy , Drugs , Idol , Body Image , Tragedy , Suicide , VTuber , Mixed Media , Yuri , Urban , Bullying , Psychosexual , CGI , Crime , Angels , LGBTQ+ Themes , Work , Disability , Nudity , Masturbation , Polyamorous , Yandere , Tomboy , Video Games

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica

Also known as Ave Mujica - The Die is Cast -.

Studio: Bushiroad , SANZIGEN , TOKYO MX , Good Smile Company , Horipro International , Ultra Super Pictures
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Psychological

"Will you give me the rest of your life?"

After losing everything in a single night, Sakiko Togawa reaches out toward an even deeper abyss, one that will drag everyone around her down as well. Gathering the lives of girls burdened with their own troubles and desires, Sakiko raises the curtain on a perfect masquerade.

"Welcome to the world of Ave Mujica."

On a stage where sorrow, death, fear, love—even the solace of forgetting—are stripped away, will their masks be torn off and shatter into oblivion, or will they….



Tags: Band , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Dissociative Identities , Estranged Family , Full CGI , Metal Music , Yuri , Acting , LGBTQ+ Themes , Incest , Rock Music , Musical Theater , Disability , Ensemble Cast , Urban , Orphan , Ojou-sama , Adoption , Anti-Hero , Yandere , Kuudere , Tsundere