Prism Jump: The Prism Jump has always been an expression of the girls themselves. Especially in Rainbow Live, they reflect the girls feelings and experiences
Aurora Rising: The greatest Prism jump. Achieved by spreading the Aurora's light through a prism (a clear heart). For this reason, characters who abandon everything/everyone(have a clear heart) can perform it
Butterfly wings: The butterfly wings in DMF represent evolution. It often appears when characters make individual progress at the expense of teamwork (neglecting those they climbed over)
Grateful Symphonia: A massive tree surrounded by butterflies. A collective act that can only be accomplished through collaboration. The series view of competition: winners and losers coming together to make something greater than themselves
Pair Friends: The penguin mascots. Each only hatches in response to the girls chasing their desires e.g Wakana letting of the fear of failure let Ethni hatch
Celestial symbols: the rainbow represents connection and collaboration. The moon represents individual temporary brilliance. The sun(DMF) represents a warmth that draws people in. The star?(DMF) potentially overlaps with the butterfly/ the competitive urge to rise above others
Prism Live: This only happens when the girls open their heart to others: e.g loving someone, forgiving someone
This is based on my experience rewatching. Feel free to add your insights You can watch the in-depth reviews here and here
Pretty Rhythm: The anime where redesigning a dress could literally kill you.
(I have started summarizing the episodes which did not get subbed. It starts from episode 40 so please scroll down on my blog or search the Dear My Future tag to start there.)
Puretty is back from Korea! Prizzmy was worried they had gone to stay, but Hye In reminds them that since Serenon w/K and LoveMix are gone only Prizzmy and Puretty remain to protect Pretty Top.
Meanwhile, Kyoko is worried about sacrificing the girls to protect the school…
Prizzmy and Puretty are discussing how they can jump a Prism Act good enough to beat Aira when Sho and Yunsu come to ask for their Symphonia stones so they can Pretty Remake them for everyone.
However Kyoko won’t allow Prizzmy and Puretty to compete against MARs in Road to Symphonia anymore. When they protest, Kyoko laughs it off saying it won’t make her any money.
But Jun knows it’s more than that and confronts her. Kyoko is holding her father’s sketchbook. She says she used to look up to the Grateful Symphonia because it was her father’s dream. She had believed it was the key to her family’s happiness… but now…
Jun calls her out for lying to the girls to protect them. But Kyoko would rather disband Pretty Top than lose more people in her life. Jun grips her shoulders and says he will always protect her. Kyoko thanks him for being her little brother. Prizzmy, watching from a balcony above, sees all.
Prizzmy are troubled over what to do, but Mia definitely won’t give up on getting Aira back. Suddenly Ayami notices a special note about today in her notebook.
In the Prism World Meganee tells Sho and Yunsu it’s dangerous to remake Symphonia dresses because the original designer’s soul is in them. She looks at the two of them and says “I cannot guarantee your safety.”
Kintaro is on TV with MARs. He says MARs will be performing a new Road to Symphonia Prism Act. Mion and Rhythm are hesitant but Aira agrees immediately. They are getting closer to Grateful Symphonia.
Kyoko turns off the TV and wonders how she can protect Aira and the others. She gets a knock on the door where the PairChams (what are they called again…) tell her Prizzmy is in all sorts of trouble. When she doesn’t react immediately they just throw a mask on her and kidnap her anyway.
Prizzmy and the others have thrown a surprise party for the 8th anniversary of Pretty Top!
Prizzmy talk about all they did to put together the party, and Mia asks Kyoko to believe in them. She looks around the room to see Prizzmy, Puretty, Sho, Yunsu, and Jun before bursting into tears. She apologizes for losing the ambition to chase her dreams and allows Prizzmy to participate in Road to Symphonia again.
Yunsu and Sho bring their Symphonia Pretty Remake designs to Meganee, insisting that they won’t lose to the emotions contained within the stones. Meganee grudgingly agrees to accept their designs.
At the ongoing performance Kintaro is frustrated that Aira’s Prism Act isn’t evolving like it’s supposed to.
Sho and Yunsu grip the Stone Make machine and be all manly men and fight the magic butterfly magic rays together to complete the stones.
Based on their roles from earlier, Reina gets the Symphonia Tops of Intelligence for organizing the party, Karin gets the Symphonia Tops of Friendship for inviting everyone, Ayami gets the Symphonia Tops of Kindness for decorating the room with flowers, and Mia gets the Symphonia Dress of Passion for moving Kyoko’s heart.
For some reason Mia’s dress is the only one where the Pretty Remake failed. Even Meganee is confused, but Mia is not discouraged because she still has passion in her heart.
Kintaro underestimates them at first, but with their Symphonia dresses Prizzmy are able to get through the door and perform the Road to Symphonia Prism Act. They enter the Symponia World, which is outer space with butterflies, and find MARs. But Aira still won’t leave as she wants to go farther in to get to the Symphonia radiance. A great storm comes and thrusts Prizzmy out. As they leave, Mion and Rhythm beg them to take Aira to that distant world.
MARs wins. But only just barely this time.
After the show, Mia is shaking. She tells Puretty that the Road to Symphonia Act isn’t enough. They have to go beyond the stars to where the Symphonia radiance is. Prizzmy, having lost, is taken away in the Symphonia blimp while Kyoko and Puretty can only watch.
Kintaro is enraged that Prizzmy can use the same power as his original designs with remade stones as the episode ends.
Is it terrible that during these last two episodes I kinda started shipping Sho and Yunsu.
But.
their faces
in the opening are so cute.
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