So it's not the old days anymore, and I have significantly less to talk about not having been watching this movie on repeat in theaters for months. But I have been pulling it apart little by little since getting the DVD and I do have stuff to talk about.
So I hope someone, anyone, still enjoys my spoilers, screenshots, and scattered thoughts on the latest King of Prism compilation movie.
First of all, I'll explain the concept of this movie to people who might not know. It's the PRISM.1 competition from SSS, but framed as if you are viewing it from your TV at home, commercials and all!
We find out that Over the Rainbow was the opening act before the show, and of course they have a new prism jump...
Continuing to grow older with Over the Rainbow, you've now moved in together. Hiro gives you a beautiful night sky...
Kazuki gives you delicious meals (not Kouji? I'm surprised Kouji didn't get the food scene for once)
Kouji gives you a lot of space even though he just wants to be close to you. (Haha I think that's what he said.)
Over the Rainbow Hills Grand Opening! Five minutes from the station, parking garage. Nijinosaki Real Estate!
The TV broadcast continues by showing the earlier Prism Shows (Yukinojo, Taiga...) as "highlights." (This is an excuse not to show the Shuffle boys solo performances ppffft but really they couldn't even put in still images of what their solos looked like? I've always been so curious...)
Then another commercial break.
Stay weird, Kouji.
Then the live portion begins and here he is. The legend.
He is more hat than man.
Really they did not plan on making him CG when they designed this outfit and it's hilarious pppfffhghghg.
I have a lot of emotions about this performance, actually. First of all, I gained even more respect for Joji watching it from an audience perspective. How he just kept going without missing a beat even though he didn't know what was going on. (Or maybe he didn't even notice haha... still. He's a true performer.)
Second, I DIDN'T KNOW. I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS.
I PROTECTED MYSELF FROM THE BIGGEST SPOILER AND IT WAS SO WORTH IT.
I had my hand over my mouth the whole time. I was like shaking. I HAD NO IDEA JOJI GOT A CG LIVE THIS ENTIRE TIME. HOLLLYYYYYYYYY FFFFFFFFFFFF
AND IT WAS SO GOOD
Ahaha the heart. I loved this jump. I loved this performance.
Despite adding in announcer commentary for other parts of the show where there wasn't before, nothing was said about Ace's sudden appearance. HMHMMHMHMH.
pFFFT I did not fully digest this until now, but like... The natural gas was not discovered while Kakeru was still on his original trip in Africa? It was discovered randomly while he happened to be performing during the PRISM.1!? Wait was it? I don't feel like popping in my SSS DVD right now, someone tell me it makes sense. Actually, maybe this was just a very delayed news bulletin.
Judging by this commercial, Over the Rainbow is going into the real estate business for real!? (Sumo sounds like "let's live here" in Japanese.)
The amount of times viewers at home had to see this "Please wait" (technical difficulties) screen during the PRISM.1 gets slowly more and more hilarious as the movie goes on.
Surely I discussed this in the SSS era, but the idea that Shin just immediately collapses after his show and no one is there to catch him still breaks my heart... (At least Louis had Jin...)
So that's it. For viewers at home, both Shin and Louis just collapsed at the end of their shows and that was that. Cut to the technical difficulties screen.
And for some viewers that was LITERALLY the end. The text at the top says, "The program time has ended, but this broadcast will continue into overtime for some regions."
However, even though they were allowed to broadcast into overtime, the technical difficulties leading up to this point meant that as soon as the Shuffle finally took the stage, they needed to cut to commercial. And what a commercial it was.
So like, I knew there was a new song called "From the cradle to the grave" in this movie, but I had just been assuming it was a new Kakeru solo or something. The morning I unboxed my DVD and looked at the CD it came with I was like... JIN!? THERE'S A NEW JIN SONG ON HERE!!!?!
The Juuouin group owns a star called MaRs Fan. They own Hiro's rose satellite.
They own the Pretty Rhythm universe version of Starbucks. (Irony is the famous Shinjuku location shown in this is closed now I think...)
THE GRASSHOPPER IS A PESTICIDE SPRAYING DRONE OWNED BY JUUOUIN GROUP
Anyway, we return from commercial break to catch the Shuffle just finishing up their show. No wonder nobody noticed Ace and Joji sound the same. Ace was barely on TV at all haha... ha...
Like in universe, you would think that Schwarz Rose is a big deal. Like you would think that right!? But according to this they are constantly getting cut or pre-empted and it's kind of hilarious.
The viewer at home turns on the second audio channel, allowing for the arena audio to be heard and thus all of Shin's speech. (It makes me wonder what the announcer was saying during that time.) It also feels even more awkward and sad knowing that all of that was broadcast LIVE. And we don't see the part where Shin notices the girls who are still sad, so from the audience perspective he just bursts into tears randomly... uuguu...
This part right here is probably the only part inconsistent with this being a TV broadcast. The "Live" in the corner cuts out here at the same time the prism sparkle was lost. So was it on TV? Was it not? Do the cameras run on prism sparkle too? I checked the commentary track for answers and found none.
The viewer at home finally switches back to the regular audio channel here.
Just in time for the announcer to cut Joji off and end the show pppffffghgg. Even though they went into overtime already, SEPTeNRION's antics went just too far and they could not give Joji literally even one more second AHAHAHA srsly this part kills me I love it.
The top reads something like, "Due to overtime, 'Joji Takadanobaba and The Shuffle's Local Bus Line Connection Dreamy Eating Lots of Food Time' will not be seen today."
So The Shuffle's solos didn't make the highlight reel, The Shuffle's performance was during a commercial break, Joji's speech was cut off at the end, and their silly reality show that was supposed to air afterwards was pre-empted. Pffffhfhf.
The winning team, everyone.
"How many times in a row did you win?" asks Shin about the rock-paper-scissors game that occurs during the credits. It also still kills me they brought back this ancient Pride the Hero era art for the ending of their brand new movie. (But then again, Shin in his lil' inner tube is peak.)
And then there's this. I honestly don't hate that they are wearing their school uniforms here. Yeah, they deserve new outfits, but it reminds me of Start Dash from Love Live. And after all, this was their start. We finally get to go back in time and see the infamous (sort of) Christmas Party Dramatic Love performance that was referenced at various times throughout King of Prism's history and included in the Prism Rush story.
So I was going to keep going with the uhhh the... other stuff, but I think I'll end here for now. Not like I'll have a better idea what's going on if I delay it but eh who knows maybe.
Hello King of Prism fandom! :D I brought you all a gift!
I finally found my scanner so I did a scan of the King of Prism Kirameki coloring book! It's not a PERFECT scan because I didn't want to rip anything out of the book or break the spine.
The book is mostly images from the first movie, with a few that seem older? I only included the actual coloring pages, there's a lot of filler pages that I skipped lol.
I have a backlog of KinPri things I want to scan, but they're all MUCH longer than this lol and I .......... struggle with long projects. But if you know I own a book and you want a scan, or you want a specific interview or something scanned let me know! I REALLY want to get the prism rush setti I would 100% scan that if I got it; but lol no money as usual ;-; not being able to keep a job for long is TOUGH.
Feel free to use, edit, color, etc! If you want to credit me link to here or KouHiro999 on twitter; but it isn't necessary as long as you don't claim the coloring pages or scan as your own. AND IF U DO COLOR SOMETHING SHOW ME!!!! I wanna see!
To promote the upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of King of Prism Dramatic Prism 1 on March 19, the Kinpri twitter account uploaded a preview of the Dramatic Love CGI performance which also teases some stuff for a future Kinpri instalment, including showing off a new Prism Messenger!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Happy King of Prism Prism Tours release day! I'm excited to see the (likely small, but still) bits of lore it brings to the table, particularly about interactions between Prism Messengers and worlds that don't necessarily have Prism Shows like... well, literally any world that isn't a Pretty Rhythm world. It seems like there could be a lot of potential for neat interaction there!
I didn't have any ideas for a King of Prism fic (I will. One day.) to celebrate the occasion so I decided to finish up a Primagi fic I'd meant to post for Valentine's Day this year, since TrutH is featured in Prism Tours as well :) Hopefully it suffices for a celebration.
