PriPara

* Season 1
We already did Kiratto Pri☆Chan, so why not do its younger sister?

Kashikoma!

**The Opening Arc (Episodes 1-4):** Laala is a teenager who loves watching PriPara concerts. She then becomes an idol singer... and she's actually pretty good for her first try! So Laala decides to make a team. She tries to get Mirei on board, but it seems that Laala's school hates PriPara with a passion. Thankfully, Laala survives the wrath of Gloria (this season's antagonist) and gets to perform with Mirei. Then Mirei proceeds to train Laala very hard, to the point where Laala thinks about disbanding her alliance. They pull back together, and Laala and Mirei are friends again. Laala even has a number one fan, and her number one fan wants to see her perform at a tennis match... but uh oh! Gloria is on the prowl! Better watch out!

**The Sophy Arc (Episodes 5-13):** After Laala performs at the tennis match, she and Mirei set their sights on a cool lookin' girl with long, flowing, rose-colored hair, named Sophy. But Gloria is visiting Laala's house! You know what that means? SLEEPOVER TIIIIIME! Afterwards, Laala finds out that Sophy is actually sweet, but weak. Gotta go find a red flash/pickled plum, so that Sophy is cool again! Beach episode time, and Laala's best buddy Nao is looking foward to swimming in the pool! But Laala has an audition, and she can't forget about that! But if she does that, then Nao won't be her friend anymore! She does manage to do both in the end, however. Afterwards, Laala and Sophy go on a game show, and then following the game show fiasco, Laala and Mirei try to find a third member, to which they see a girl who looks like a man, named Love Tochiotome. They try their best to convince her to join Kuma's team (in case you're wondering, Kuma is Laala and Mirei's manager), but Love refuses. They then meet Sophy again, but Sophy is not interested in joining Mirei and Laala's team. Time to find a new team member! But... it seems that none of the possible teammates are good as Sophy is! Time to free Sophy from her manager! (her manager (at the time) is a bunny named Usagi) They succeed, and thus, SoLaMi Smile is born!

**The Dressing Pafé Arc (Episodes 14-19):** Usagi is determined to find another team, so he sets his eyes on a young girl named Sion Todo. Sion is just so EPIC! Sion decides to become a PriPara idol and join Usagi's team. Do you remember episode 11, back in the Sophy Arc? Well, in that episode, there were 2 idols who were twins, known as the West twins consisting of Dorothy and Reona. In episode 14, they join Usagi's team, which is named Dressing Pafé! Mirei takes an instant disliking to Sion and challenges her to a series of challenging challenges! After that's taken care of, Laala's idol career ends up being threatened by a girl named Nene Tokuda, who wants to report Laala's idol career to Gloria. After nearly having her idol career ruined, Laala realizes that it's spooky month! (does the Spooky Month dance) Laala meets a girl simply named Ran, who is just the cutest lil' spookabl- EEEEEK AAAAAAAAH TOO SCARY TURN IT OFF! Moving on, we get to learn more about Reona... and the fact that he's a guy. Yes, you heard that right! Reona, in spite of his girly voice, is a guy! Oh, and we also learn that Sion and Dorothy sometimes don't get along. Afterwards, Mirei tells Laala that she was an idol ever since she was in elementary school! Gee, that's interesting, but I sure don't care!

**The Gloria Arc (Episodes 20-25):** Gloria found out more about Laala's idol career, which causes Laala to become weary of her. Oh, and there's also a omonoyaki shop, which causes competition towards Papa's Pasta, which is owned by Laala's father. After ***that*** fiasco, Sophy's bodyguards (yes, Sophy has bodyguards) realize that because Sophy is such a badass, they can't help her anymore. Luckily, they come through in the end, and after that, Laala's school bans events from PriPara, causing Laala to take action. After the festival was done and over with, Gloria decides to ban PriPara to everyone! ***YOU MONSTER!!*** Luckily, they convince Gloria otherwise and she joins in on the PriPara fun. It was at that moment when a voice sang out: "***IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEEEEAAAAAR!***" Laala finds out her mother knows Gloria very well, and Laala and her friends win a piece of the ultimate coord: The Paradise Coord!

**The Falulu Arc (Episodes 26-38):** Oh, hey! Look! A new character! She's an android named Falulu! She makes her debut, and impresses the PriParaians! Afterwards, it's the new year, and Laala... HOLY JESUS!! ***CODE FLU! CODE FLU! WE HAVE A SITUATION ON THE GRITTLE! LAALA HAS COVID-19!!*** Oh? It's just a cold? Okay... ***THAT'S EVEN WORSE!! CODE FLU! CODE FLU!! WE HAVE A SITUATION ON THE GRITTLE!! LAALA HAS A COLD!!*** It's up to Laala's little sister (whose name I won't reveal until Season 3) to nurse her back to health! Later, we see Sion competing against an old rival of hers to see who can top Falulu! After ***THAT*** fiasco, SoLaMi Smile trains at Gloria and Love's idol training camp from hell, which causes the girls great suffering. After having survived the Training From Hell, SoLaMi Smile and Dressing Pafé go head-to-head to win the Paradise Prize! Falulu joins in to make sure that she wins the Paradise Prize! To which Falulu succeeds in doing so. Forget Gloria, Falulu is the TRUE main antagonist of Season 1! Afterwards, Sophy's sister Cosmo performs for the first time! After both that and a Valentine's Day episode, Falulu wants to learn more about Laala and eventually become her friend. After which, SoLaMi Dressing (yes, SoLaMi Smile and Dressing Pafé are working as a team) win the Paradise Coord! Laala and Falulu snap Friend Tickets and- HOLY JESUS OF THE REVEREND AUDREY'S ULTIMATE HOLY GRAIL OF GLORY FROM THE COMING OF MANKIND IN THE PREHISTORIC STONE AGE WHERE THE DINOSAURS ATE MARVIN! ***FALULU JUST STRAIGHT-UP DIED!!*** Luckily, Laala resurrects her, and they all celebrate her birthday!

Moving on to the songs...

#### **Songs**

Likewise with Season 1 of PriChan, Season 1 of this show had a hit-or-miss track record when it comes to music.

* Make It! - (jaw drop) WHAT'S THIS?!! A MAIN THEME PERFORMANCE?!! ***THIS EARLY OOOOOOOON?!!*** Anyways, this is the first song in the anime. This song is very iconic!
* Solar Flare Sherbet - The first solo song (and also the first ***actual*** insert song) in the anime, and also Sophy's first solo song. Pretty good sounding.
* Marble Make-Up Ah-ha-ha! - The first duet in the anime, which also counts as Laala and Mirei's first insert songs. It's okay. The anime really needs to step up its game...
* Pretty Prism Paradise - ...to which it does, by a somewhat big margin. The first group song in the anime, and SoLaMi Smile's first group song. This song (and Make It!) has the notable distinction of being given English lyrics by a company named William Winckler Productions. Other than that, it's also pretty good.
* No D&D Code: But then Dressing Pafé arrived and they decided to one-up SoLaMi Smile. Dressing Pafé's first group song. It's a very good song! Y'know the rival team is better when their song is better than the protagonist team's song!
* Happy Pa-Lucky: SoLaMi Smile weren't going down without a fight, so they made another song, which is this one! SoLaMi Smile's second group song. Just as good as their previous one.
* Change My World - Hey, slow down! Anyways, Dressing Pafé's second group song. Is slightly inferior to No D&D Code, but is still pretty good.
* Realize! - ANOTHER MAIN THEME PERFORMANCE?!! Anyways, SoLaMi Dressing's first group song. It's pretty good, but not as iconic as Make It.
* 0-Week-Old: Falulu's first solo song... and it's a very weak one. You see why some of the more "orchestral" sounding songs are worse than the others?!!
* Your 100% Life: Cosmo's first solo song, and also the worst song of Season 1 in my opinion. Cosmo's supposed to be a Cool-type idol, so when I heard this very cheerful sounding song, I was let down immensely.
* Love Friend Style - SoLaMi Dressing's first actual insert song as well as their second song overall. It's pretty good!

### Best moments

* Anytime Sion (or to a lesser extent, Sophy) manages to look sexy.
* Episode 27, for being more of a breather episode.
* Mirei sounding so goddamn cute!
* SoLaMi Dressing winning against Falulu, and later resurrecting her with the power of PriPara.

It ain't much, but it's honest work.

### **Final Thoughts**

Overall...

Season 1 of PriPara was pretty good, but the later seasons will top it!