Welcome To Kagura City! The Perfect First Song!

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**Welcome To Kagura City! The Perfect First Song!** is the first episode of *Pretty Pink Princess PopStars!*.

## Summary

Sometime after the events of *New Life*, twins Kanami and Kumiko Hojo wake up in a shared bedroom with each of their decorations and treasures, and when they look out the window, they discover that they are in an urban neighborhood. While they head down the stairs, they are shocked to see their family in whole new looks and even five human servants who look familiar to Kanami. When they come outside, however, they see that they are indeed in the city of Kagura, much to Kumiko’s ever-needed joy, just when they find out that they had been reincarnated there together after they had put their differences aside and had been gifted with the ability to transform into magical girls representing happiness, music, and love, especially when chosen to defend the city from the Forces of Sadness led by Queen Mizari, the ruler of a kingdom of sadness.

## Plot

The episode begins with a beautifully decorated fairy tale book in a cute and elegant scenery opening to show the tale of a king and queen of a distant land of happiness, who have a daughter named Mizuki with an unnamed son of her own, complete with narration. Together, the three rule peacefully with villagers and citizens adoring them with awe. That is, until Mizuki’s son accidentally comes across her vampire cousin Hisan, who offers to help bring more than happiness, but once they return to the palace, something strange seems to happen that results in the deaths of both Mizuki’s parents, who were originally going to marry her to her fiancé, who is later found dead as well. While her son develops a stoic look, Mizuki begins to cry, now knowing that her dream of marriage had been broken. However, she had been crying so much that she is overtaken by a curse that changes her to the opposite of herself, with the same going to her son, who finally names himself Kohai. Mizuki, addressing herself as Mizari, takes over and becomes queen before putting her curse on the entire kingdom, saying that if she can’t see her dream, no one can see theirs as well. Seeing what happened, Mizuki’s former mascot Neka escapes with three magical necklaces in a jewelry box and goes off to find three angels in pink who are fit enough to return the happiness as Mizari assembles henchmen and appoints Hisan as Chancellor. As the book closes, the narrator states that the mascot had found the perfect angels as the scene fades to show the city of Kagura.

Later, Kanami is seen waking up in a shared bedroom and wondering why, before going to wake Kumiko up as well to let her know. The two then see each of all their decorations and treasures as they are going to look out the window together. When they do, however, they find out that they are in an urban neighborhood. After hearing their parents call out to them for breakfast, the twins get ready by brushing their hair and teeth, putting on their best dresses, and applying makeup, especially without a maid coming to check in them, before going downstairs to see what the chefs had made for them for breakfast, but come to a shock to see their family in new looks. A maid and five human servants who look familiar to Kanami greet the family and bring them their breakfasts, especially her usual strawberry pancakes. During breakfast, Kanami and Kumiko each ask their sisters politely if they have any idea where they are, so Koharu suggests going out of the mansion to see for themselves after breakfast, much to Kanami’s curiosity and the excitement building within Kumiko. Within thirty minutes, the twins are done with their breakfasts, followed by Natsuki, Nozomi, and Maeko. When they go to the front doors, the two can see that they’re too hard to push open, so Amon (Angu as a human) and Kuroudo (Kurogane as a human) help them with impressive strength. Just when Amon goes outside with them after Tohru and Kyouko have him watch them wherever they go, Kanami and Kumiko find out that they are indeed in the city, to Kumiko’s ever-needed joy as she keeps squealing about the dream she has had for years finally coming true. Kanami tells her that she too had alway wanted to live in an urban dream too before they run off to explore with Amon having to run off after them.

Later on, Kanami, Kumiko, and Amon are seen walking around Kagura, where the twins are awed and amazed by how many skyscrapers and cute-looking buildings and interiors there are until they stop at a cafe they feel like taking a break in. Inside, Kumiko excitedly tells Kanami that there’s so much to see and do in Kagura as long as the fun lasts when Amon helps bring their lattes in, but when a stray pink cat claiming to be Mizuki’s former mascot Neka comes in with a jewelry box containing two of the necklaces she took with her, the twins introduce themselves and gladly receive them. This reminds Kanami to realize that she and Kumiko are two of the angels Neka was looking for and asks Amon about it, so he explains that he and his fellow warriors were reincarnated into human servants for the twins’ family due to the fact that they had helped them become human again, while the twins themselves had been reincarnated as rich city girls with rising fame *in the city* together since they had put their differences aside to help defeat Akuma and his henchmen. Neka also adds that she gave the twins their necklaces because she was looking for two angels who represent happiness, music, and love to defend the city from the Forces of Sadness, and help purify Mizuki and her son and restore the kingdom of sadness she now resides in to its former happiness glory. When Kumiko asks of an example, Neka leads her, Kanami, and Amon outside to the location of a problem involving two young siblings named Tatsuki and Maruko having a never ending dispute over what theme their best friend Reika wants for her birthday party tomorrow, with said best friend crying from hearing their constant shouting. Neka states that it’s the work of Mizari’s Creatures of Sadness that caused it and prompts Kanami and Kumiko to put on their necklaces, and use them to transform into magical girls for the first time and take action.

Elsewhere, the five Creatures of Sadness are seen watching Tatsuki and Maruko’s argument and Reika’s despair with glee as they contemplate how proud Mizari would be and hope she hires them into her Forces of Sadness, but just when they are about to claim their negative energy, the newly transformed Kanami and Kumiko interfere and demand they get away from the three children. One of the Creatures greets them and tells them that he and his “friends” were about to get the girl’s sadness, but the twins say they came to stop him from doing so. The Creature cues his lackeys to form an attack stance they are about to unleash when the twins retaliate by using some of their newfound powers to fend them off. After minutes of fighting the enemy in front of them, the girls use their happiness magic to purify the five Creatures into cute birthday party princes and princesses before moving to stop Tatsuki and Maruko’s argument by suggesting a magical fantasy party for Reika, who had already cheered up upon hearing the idea. The next day, Kanami and Kumiko go out to surprise Reika in their magical girl forms and dub themselves the Pretty Pink Princess PopStars. Their performance, as well as their first song–their version of the traditional happy birthday song–are a big hit in her birthday party. Afterward, they once again return to their mansion and tell their family about the good things they did the past two days, much to the family’s delight. Just then, Neka shows up, saying that she is here to be the twins’ guide for the time being.

The scene then shows the birthday party scene shown in a crystal ball being overseen by Mizari herself, who is angered to see her recent plan foiled. When Hisan asks her what she will do next, she tells him and her new henchmen that she is always full of surprises, ending the episode on a cliffhanger.

## Trivia

* This is the series premiere of the Devil Beats! magical girl spinoff.