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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 , Fashion , Dancing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Henshin , CGI , Work , Kids , Fitness , Primarily Teen Cast , Boarding School , Acting , Outdoor Activities , Card Battle

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 , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , School , Crossdressing , Rock Music , Slapstick , Twins , Card Battle , LGBTQ+ Themes , Magic , Alternate Universe , Go , Centaur

Waccha PriMagi!

Also known as Waccha PriMagi!.

Studio: Tatsunoko Production , Dongwoo Animation , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Mahou Shoujo , Music , Slice of Life

Matsuri Hibino spends her days in middle school dreaming about PriMagi, the sparkling stage show that combines song, dance and fashion with actual magic. She’d love to star in the PriMagi one day, and when the spirited troublemaker Myamu appears from another, magical world to scout Matsuri as her PriMagi partner, the pair takes to the stage to become the top stars of PriMagi hand in hand!



Tags: Female Protagonist , Magic , Idol , Primarily Teen Cast , Dancing , Primarily Female Cast , Kids , LGBTQ+ Themes , Henshin , Fashion , Card Battle , Witch , Animals

Kaleido Star

Also known as Kaleido Star.

Studio: GONZO , Production I.G , TV Tokyo , Hal Film Maker , ADV Films , Funimation , G&G Entertainment , Horipro , MediaNet
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports , Supernatural

Sora, a young girl from Japan, comes to America in search of her dream. She wants, with all her heart, to be a member of the Kaleido Stage, a world famous circus, with a combination of musicals, acrobatics and magical effects. With the help of her friends, she struggles to make this dream come true.

Tags: Circus , Female Protagonist , Foreign , Acting , Coming of Age , Acrobatics , Work , Fairy Tale , Ghost , Dancing , Animals , Primarily Teen Cast , Musical Theater , Idol , Police , Cosplay , Bullying

Kirarin☆Revolution

Also known as Kirarin Revolution.

Studio: Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , SynergySP , Viz Media , G&G Entertainment , MediaNet , Sony Music Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Music , Romance

Kirari Tsukishima, a gluttonous 14-year-old beauty, is a girl who does not care about idols and the entertainment world because her mind is occupied by food. Her obsession with food only causes her to be clueless about love.

One day, after saving a turtle that is stranded in a tree, Kirari meets with a handsome and gentle boy named Seiji, who gives her ticket to a SHIPS (a popular idol group) concert to show his gratitude for her saving his pet. Kirari then storms off to the concert and runs into another boy, who tears up her ticket and warns her to stay away from Seiji because she and Seiji live in different worlds. The outraged Kirari then sneaks into the concert, only to discover that Seiji and the boy who tore her ticket, named Hiroto, are actually members of SHIPS.

Finally understanding the meaning of "different worlds" (Seiji is a popular idol while she is an average middle school student), Kirari refuses to give up. Filled with determination to be with Seiji, she declares that she will also become an idol.

Tags: Shoujo , Idol , Female Protagonist , Musical Theater , Love Triangle , Primarily Child Cast , Crossdressing , Fashion , CGI

Kiratto Pri☆Chan

Also known as Kiratto Pri☆chan.

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

First-year middle school girls Mirai Momoyama and Emo Moegi are two aspiring idols who decide to use the "Pri☆Chan System," a system used by famous people and companies to broadcast content. Like many girls starting their own channels and uploading content, the pair decide to become their own producers, starting their own channel in an attempt to become Pri☆Chan idols.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Idol , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Kids , Surreal Comedy , Fashion , Primarily Child Cast , Henshin , CGI , Virtual World , Educational , Baseball

Glass no Kamen (2005)

Also known as Glass Mask (2005).

Studio: MediaNet , Sentai Filmworks , TMS Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama

Two Girls. One Dream. And the entire world for a stage.

At 13 years old, Maya Kitajima seems destined to spend the rest of her life toiling in a crowded restaurant alongside her bitter and unstable mother. But when her incredible acting talent is discovered by the legendary diva Chigusa Tsukikage, Maya finds a new future filled with both golden opportunities and terrifying risks.

For Ayumi Himekawa, success has always been assured, yet she longs to be recognized for her own talents and skills, not her famous parents' connections.

For both, the ultimate prize is the role of The Crimson Goddess in the play of the same name, a part created by Chigusa. To achieve this goal, both Maya and Ayumi must seek out and conquer every acting challenge, pushing the limits of their talent and endurance to the utmost, until they are worthy of the part…

But for one to win, the other must fail!



Tags: Acting , Work , Shoujo , Coming of Age , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Age Gap , Tragedy , Idol

Mermaid Melody: Pichi Pichi Pitch

Studio: SynergySP , Actas
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy , Mahou Shoujo , Music , Romance

As the mermaid princess of the North Pacific (one of the seven mermaid kingdoms), Lucia entrusts a magical pearl to a boy who falls overboard a ship one night. Lucia must travel to the human world to reclaim her pearl and protect the mermaid kingdoms. Using the power of music Lucia is able to protect herself and the mermaid kingdoms from a growing evil force.

Tags: Musical Theater , Shoujo , Mermaid , Female Protagonist , Urban Fantasy , Tragedy , Magic , Primarily Female Cast , Idol , Primarily Teen Cast , Suicide , Animals , Surfing , Swimming , Coastal , Kuudere , Primarily Child Cast , Revenge

Medalist

Also known as Medalist.

Studio: ENGI , KADOKAWA , Kodansha , TV Asahi
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Sports

Tsukasa, whose dreams were crushed. Inori, left to fend for herself. These two share a dream...and their tenacity may be the only thing that sees them through. Their destination? The ice...on the world's stage!



Tags: Ice Skating , Athletics , Female Protagonist , Coming of Age , Seinen , Found Family , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Primarily Child Cast , Work , CGI , Parenthood , Time Skip

Hime Chen! Otogi Chikku Idol Lilpri

Also known as Spellbound! Magical Princess Lilpri.

Studio: TV Tokyo , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , TMS Entertainment , Half H.P Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Mahou Shoujo

The Fairytale World is in trouble. Its princesses and their respective worlds are disappearing, causing a ripple effect in the human world where their stories are popular. In order to save the Fairytale World, the Queen sends three magic animals, Sei, Dai, and Ryoku, to the human world with magic gems to find three girls who can become the "Super Miracle Idols," the princesses Snow White, Cinderella, and Kaguya-hime. Those "princesses" end up being three little girls: Yukimori Ringo, Takashiro Layla, and Sasahara Natsuki. But the gems transform them into older singing superstars, and after their accidental debut at the singer Wish's concert, they become known as "Little Princesses," or "LilPri." Now they must collect Happiness Tones from humans in order to restore the Fairytale World.

Tags: Idol , Magic , CGI , Fairy Tale , Card Battle , Primarily Female Cast , Primarily Child Cast , Female Protagonist , Kids , Henshin , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Fashion