The series follows the female idols and the producer and staff of 283 Production (283プロダクション, Tsubasa Purodakushon) and their activities as idols, including concerts, events, and stage productions. There are a total of 25 idols in 283 Pro as of the 3rd anniversary update, grouped into seven units. Each of these units comes with a unique gameplay trait, for example illumination STARS uses two stats for their appeal strength instead of just one.
Development and release
The browser game, which uses HTML5, was announced during a presentation in February 2018.[3] It launched on the browser game platform Enza on April 24, 2018, reaching over 800,000 pre-registrations ahead of its release.[4] A mobile game version was released on iOS and Android on March 13, 2019.[5]
A new mobile game for iOS and Android, titled The Idolmaster Shiny Colors: Song for Prism,[b] was announced in April 2023. A demo version was released to testers from May 19–23.[6] The game was released on November 14, 2023.[7]
Related media
Radio show
The Idolmaster Shiny Colors: Habataki Radio Station, an Internet radio show featuring voice actors from the game, premiered on Bandai Namco's Asobi Store [ja] service on June 14, 2018.[8] Bonus content, titled Habataki After Radio Station (originally Kyūkeishitsu), are released for premium members of the service.[8][9]
Manga
A four-panelmanga series by Gimmy began serialization on the game's website and Twitter account in February 2018.[10] It is published in print under the title The Idolmaster Shiny Colors: Shinymas Everyday!.[11]
A manga adaptation by Akira Shinozaki was serialized on Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Newtype website from July 23, 2019,[12][13] to August 26, 2022.[14] It has been collected into five tankōbon volumes, published from March 2020 to December 2022.[15][16]
A third manga series by Hiroki Ohara, titled The Idolmaster Shiny Colors: Coherent Light, began serialization on Comic Newtype on September 26, 2023, and focuses on the idol unit Straylight.[17] As of October 2024, two tankōbon volumes have been released.[18]
The Idolmaster Shiny Colors: Jimuteki Shinography, a fourth series by Gūtarō Yorude that focuses on character Hazuki Nanakusa, began serialization on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry service on October 21, 2023.[19][20] As of October 2024, two tankōbon volumes have been released.[21]
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on March 19, 2023.[22] It is produced by Polygon Pictures and directed by Mankyū [ja], with Yoichi Kato [ja] writing the scripts, and Takeshi Iwata serving as assistant director, as well as CG director along with Susumu Sugai. Ryōhei Fukushi is designing the characters for animation, and Yasuhiro Misawa [ja] is composing the music.[23][24] The 12-episode series was screened in Japan in three parts; the first on October 27, 2023; the second on November 24, 2023; and the third on January 5, 2024.[25] It later aired on TV Tokyo from April 6 to June 22, 2024.[c] The opening theme song is titled "Tsubasa Gravity" (ツバサグラビティ).[25]Crunchyroll streamed the series.[27]
A 12-episode second season was announced during "The Idolmaster Shiny Colors 6th Live Tour Come and Unite! Brilliant Bloom" concert on March 3, 2024. Like the first season, it was screened in Japan as three films which premiered on July 5, August 23, and September 20, 2024.[28] It later premiered on television on October 5, 2024.[d] Takeshi Iwata co-directed the season along with Mankyū.[29] The opening theme song is titled "Prism Flare" (プリズムフレア).[30]
"A Single Feather in a Sky for One" Transliteration: "Hitoribun no Sora, Ichimai no Hane" (Japanese: 一人分の空、一枚の羽)
Takeshi Iwata
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Takeshi Iwata
April 6, 2024 (2024-04-06)
The newly formed idol agency 283 Production begins hiring new idols under the direction of the Producer, who organizes them into the groups L'Antica, ALSTROEMERIA, and Houkago Climax Girls. 283 Productions president Tsutomu Amai instructs the Producer to have all of the idols ready for the upcoming Wonder Idol Nova Grand Prix (WING) event. However, two of their idols, Meguru Hachimiya and Hiori Kazano, are yet to be assigned to a unit. While wondering how to organize Meguru and Hiori into a unit, the Producer comes across Mano Sakuragi in a park and is impressed with her singing voice. He offers to recruit her into 283 Production, and while she initially refuses, Mano is intrigued by the Producer's promise to show her a "new world" and she ultimately accepts. The Producer introduces Mano to Meguru and Hiori and organizes into 283 Pro's fourth unit, illumination STARS. He then informs them they only have 3 months to prepare for WING.
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"The Flames Called Song" Transliteration: "Uta to Iu Honō" (Japanese: ウタという炎)
Takeshi Iwata
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Yuki Tamada
April 13, 2024 (2024-04-13)
Kogane Tsukioka suggests to her fellow members of L'Antica: Mamimi Tanaka, Sakuya Shirase, Yuika Mitsumine, and Kiriko Yūkoku that they should make a music video to show off what L'Antica is. The Producer lets them know that he has managed to secure the award winning director Katsuhiro Takamiya to work on their music video, but they need to come up with an idea of what it will be about. Meanwhile, the Houkago Climax Girls try to promote themselves by endorsing a local business that sells horse meat sausages while ALSTROEMERIA take publicity photos. L'Antica decides to make their music video, titled "Babel City Grace", tell a story about girls trying to understand each other through song. While Takamiya is tough on them at first, his directing style is able to draw out their acting talent. However, their biggest challenge is to film the final scene outside a castle, but a storm suddenly hits. Not content to let filming end prematurely, Kogane convinces L'Antica to perform outside in spite of the bad weather. The filming ends up being a success, and the Producer concludes that L'Antica's "color" is "Igniting fires with songs".
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"Hopes for the Future" Transliteration: "Mirai e no Akogare" (Japanese: 未来への憧れ)
Takeshi Iwata
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Mankyū
April 20, 2024 (2024-04-20)
The Producer meets the members of ALSTROEMERIA, twin sisters Amana and Tenka Osaki and Chiyuki Kuwayama, and advises them to focus on a specific vision for their group to move forward. Meanwhile, L'Antica's music video becomes a big hit, earning the group many new fans and firing them up for their upcoming performance at WING. That night, Amana, Tenka, and Chiyuki reflect on what exactly their hopes for the future are. The next day, illumination STARS continues their training a, Mano is inspired to work harder to follow Hiori and Meguru's examples. The Producer then assigns ALSTROEMERIA to host the Spring Flower Festival, the members agree they all to focus on becoming better idols. As the Houkago Climax Girls continue to try to promote themselves by running a lottery booth, ALSTROEMERIA takes the stage at the Spring Flower Festival. However, as they host the events, they notice a young brother and sister in the audience not getting along. Amana decides to intervene and helps the siblings make up. Tenka makes the observation that the siblings' smiles were like blooming flowers, which inspires Amana to make ALSTROEMERIA's focus on "making smiles bloom".
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"Real Heroes!" Transliteration: "Hontō no Hīrō!" (Japanese: 本当のヒーロー！)
The Producer announces to the Houkago Climax Girls, consisting of Kaho Komiya, Chiyoko Sonoda, Juri Saijō, Rinze Morino, and Natsuha Arisugawa, that they will be performing in a hero show. Kaho is excited, believing that they will be performing for her favorite hero group Justice V until the Producer clarifies that the show will be with a local hero group called Pastel Nice, instead. Meanwhile, ALSTROEMERIA begins hosting their own livestream show while L'Antica continues promoting their music video. illumination STARS continues their training, with Hiori recommending that Mano practice by herself she notices Mano struggling to keep up in the dance choreography. On the day of the hero show, the Houkago Climax Girls are shocked to learn that due to a scheduling error, Pastel Nice are actually at a different event and cannot attend. The girls suggest that they take Pastel Nice's place and stage their own hero instead, which the Producer and the show staff agree to. The hero shows proves to be a huge success, with the girls performing their signature song "Yumesaki After school". Afterwards, the girls declare that they will befriend everybody in the world on their way to become the top idols.
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"Our Very Own Formation" Transliteration: "Sannin Dake no Fōmēshon" (Japanese: 3人だけのフォーメーション)
Takeshi Iwata
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Mankyū
May 4, 2024 (2024-05-04)
As the Houkago Climax Girls, ALSTROEMERIA, and L'Antica continue promoting themselves, the Producer informs illumination STARS that their debut concert will be occurring in one month. While Mano and Meguru are excited, Hiori begins to feel anxiety as she fears that she isn't good enough yet, and is falling behind Mano and Meguru as their skills improve. This causes her to push herself in her training, which causes the Producer to grow concerned about her. He arranges for all three girls to train together again, where Hiori finally admits her fears of Mano and Meguru hating her, as well as not being good enough to keep up with them. Mano and Meguru forgive Hiori and promise that all three of them will become idols. illumination STARS then spend the next month training and preparing for their debut concert, but they still are unable to completely perfect their formation by the eve of the debut concert. The girls then go the park, where they reflect on and talk about their desire to become idols, inspiring each other to continue. On the day of the festival, the girls decide to go ahead with their formation and perform their debut song "Hikari no destination" which proves to be a huge success.
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"Everything We Have Now" Transliteration: "Ima no Subete o" (Japanese: 今のすべてを)
Susumu Sugai
Yoichi Kato
Masahiro Takata
May 11, 2024 (2024-05-11)
With all of the 283 Pro idols ready, the Producer enrolls all of them into WING. In order to help their improvement and development, the Producer also asks the idols to film themselves during their training. Meanwhile, the Producer also approaches the WING staff and suggests that they film and air a documentary focusing on all of the 283 Pro idols preparing for WING, which they agree to. All of the idols spend the next month rigorously training and preparing for Wing up until the final day where illumination STARS takes the stage. In the meantime, the Producer and the rest of the 283 Pro staff are shown working hard behind the scenes to support their idols.
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"Road to W.I.N.G." Transliteration: "W.I.N.G. e no Kiseki" (Japanese: W.I.N.G.への軌跡)
Takeshi Iwata
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa, Mankyū & Takeshi Iwata
May 18, 2024 (2024-05-18)
After the conclusion of WING, the documentary "Road to WING" covering the 283 Pro idols airs on TV with all of 283 Pro watching. During the airing, the idols from all four groups reflect on their performances in WING, and despite none of them managing to win the competition, all of them decide to keep working hard to improve themselves. Meanwhile, the 283 Pro idols' performance at WING has increased their fame, with the Producer noting that their schedules are now full with requests for appearances on various shows and events. However, he continues to think on how to take his idols to the next stage. Later, he gathers all the idols together and announces that he is preparing for all four groups to perform together in 283 Pro's first live concert, which excites everyone.
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"Shining Upon Each Other" Transliteration: "Terashiau Keshiki" (Japanese: 照らしあう景色)
Susumu Sugai
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Takeshi Iwata
May 25, 2024 (2024-05-25)
The Producer informs the idols that at the 283 Pro First Live concert, they will performing a new song called "Tsubasa Gravity" and advises that they all practice the song together. However, the Producer is concerned that the idols will have difficulty practicing together since all of their schedules are different. ALSTROEMERIA and the Houkago Climax Girls practice the new song together and then go on a radio show, with both groups learning new things from each other. Mano and Meguru help Hiori practice for her upcoming role as police chief for the day. The members of L'Antica attend various interviews. At the end of the day, all of the idols gather together for the concert's kickoff party and celebrate. After the party, the Producer approaches Mano in private and informs her that he wants her to be the center for the new song.
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"The First Source of Courage" Transliteration: "Saisho no Yūki" (Japanese: 最初の勇気)
Takeshi Iwata
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Takeshi Iwata
June 1, 2024 (2024-06-01)
Mano is uncertain that she is qualified to be the center, but Meguru and Hiori promise to support her. They then attend a practice session with L'Antica, and are impressed how each of the individual members are able to split up to take on solo work. illumination STARS and L'Antica then meet back up in the evening for a recording session for "Tsubasa Gravity". Mano sings the song first, which inspires everybody else to try their best. Later that night, the Producer meets with Mano privately again and she informs him that she is willing to accept the position of center. All of the idols then continue practicing for and promoting the 1st Live, when the Producer gathers them all together and reveals that he has just finished a brand new song called "Spread the Wings!!". He distributes the lyrics to the idols and informs them that despite the short amount of time left before the 1st Live, he is willing to include the new song in the concert if they agree to it. Inspired by the lyrics, Mano endorses the song, which leads to the idols unanimously agreeing to include it in the concert. The idols then spend the rest of the night practicing the new song together.
10
"Like a Rainbow of Colors" Transliteration: "Irotoridori no Imēji" (Japanese: 色とりどりのイメージ)
Susumu Sugai
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Takeshi Iwata
June 8, 2024 (2024-06-08)
The idols all attend a two day training camp which will be their last opportunity to be able to practice together to perfect "Spread the Wings!!". On the first day, they manage to memorize the choreography of the song, but their instructor reminds them that need to have fun while performing as well, otherwise they won't be able to convey their feelings to the audience. That night, Mano heads outside to stargaze and wonders if she really is cut out to be the center. On the second day, Mano takes the lead in the practice session as the idols train to sing and dance "Spread the Wings!!" at the same time. On the second night, all of the idols head outside to stargaze together, and they imagine what the concert will be like. The Producer then provides them with fireworks to play with, and watching the idols enjoying themselves, decides on the name "Shiny Colors" for the whole group. After the conclusion of the training camp, the Producer brings the idols to the stage they will be performing on.
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"Passing the Baton" Transliteration: "Baton o Tsunaide" (Japanese: バトンをつないで)
On the day of the 283 Pro 1st Live, all of the idols prepare for their performances. As fans gather in the arena hall, illumination STARS, ALOSTREMERIA, Houkago Climax Girls, and L'Antica all perform their signature songs. Once all four groups have completed their performances, they prepare for the 1st Live's finale with Mano taking her place as the center.
The idols start off the final with their performance of "Tsubasa Gravity", with all of them recalling the memories of how they became idols and making it to this stage. After the conclusion of the song, the audience requests an encore. The idols return to the stage and ALSTROEMERIA, Houkago Climax Girls, L'Antica, and illumination STARS each make heartfelt speeches to the audience thanking them for their support. They then perform "Spread the Wings!!" The concert proves to be a huge success, and Shiny Colors continues their idol activities afterwards. To celebrate the success of their 1st Live the idols have a picnic together in the park as they look forward to the future.
In the wake of the successful 1st Live, the 283 Pro idols all experience a surge of popularity. The Producer then tells them he is organizing a second, Halloween-themed live event that both the idols and the audience can participate in. He also reveals that a new unit he has been training, Straylight, will be joining the agency. While heading to her next job, Mano encounters one of the Straylight members, Asahi Serizawa. Asahi asks Maho what kind of idol she wants to be, but Maho finds herself struggling on how to answer. On the night of Straylight's debut, Asahi takes the stage on top of a tower along with her teammates Mei Izumi and Fuyuko Mayuzumi. They then perform their debut song as the rest of 283 Pro idols watch.
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"Straylight.run() // Playback"
Susumu Sugai
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Takeshi Iwata
October 12, 2024 (2024-10-12)
Prior to Straylight's debut, the Producer starts recruiting the idols he needs. First is Fuyuko, who is obsessed with putting on a cute act in public for maximum appeal. However, she is frustrated when she is paired with Asahi, who she feels is not a good match due to her energetic nature. Mei then joins the unit and the Producers shows them their upcoming schedule leading up to their debut. While most of the schedule is practice sessions, there is also an audition for a popular music show. As the idols practice to determine who will be the group's center, the Producer asks Fuyuko why she insists on putting up her cute act in front of Asahi and Mei, but she claims she is showing her true self. After practice, the Producer decides to appoint Asahi as the center, much to Fuyuko's frustration. At the audition, Fuyuko overhears that another group has already been selected to win due to their connections. Regardless of this, Asahi tries at ad lib her performance but still fail to be selected. Asahi apologizes to the group, but Fuyuko finally breaks character and encourages to Asahi to continue being the center. They then prepare to go to their debut.
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"A New Light Through Unity" Transliteration: "Mazari Aeba Atarashii Hikari" (Japanese: 混ざりあえば新しい光)
Susumu Sugai
Yoichi Kato
Ryō Ogawa & Takeshi Iwata
October 19, 2024 (2024-10-19)
With their debut complete, Straylight formally joins the other idol units of 283 Pro. The Producer then announces that for the Halloween event, he plans to have the idols performed in shuffled teams so they won't be performing in their traditional units. Mano is teamed with Fuyuko, Kiriko, Chiyoko, and Chiyuki. Hiori is teamed with Asahi, Kogane, and Natsuha. Meguru is teamed with Yuika, Kaho, Juri, and Amana. Sakuya, Mamimi, Mei, and Tenka form the final team. The idols all begin brainstorming exactly how they want to perform at the Halloween event, and come up with the concept of surprising, and then making the audience happy. Mano's group decides to hand out candy to the audience as part of their performance, and Mano confides to Chiyoko and Chiyuki that she's unsure of what kind of idol she wants to be. Chiyoko and Chiyuki admit that they also have the same thoughts, but conclude that they need to find the answers within themselves. Later, the Producer distributes each group's new songs. Mano's team works on their costume design, Hiori struggles to keep up team's dancing, Meguru's team decides to use large balloons as pumpkin props, and Sakuya's team thinks up of lyrics for their song. In order to maintain surprise, each of the groups keep their preparation secret from each other until the day of the Halloween event.
283 Pro's Halloween concert begins, and all of the shuffled teams perform their respective songs. However, right before the final performance, 283 Pro makes two surprise announcements: the release of 283 Pro's first album featuring all of the idol groups as well as their first national tour. Both the idols and audience are pleasantly surprised by these announcements, and the 283 Pro idols perform the concert's final song. After the concert, the idols celebrate their success and Mano feels that she has gotten much closer to the audience now. The Producer thanks the idols for their hard work and prepares to inform them of a new announcement as four girls wait nearby.
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"When We Said 'Let's Go,' It Was Already Decided" Transliteration: "Ikō tte Ittara, Sore wa Mō" (Japanese: 行こうって言ったら、それはもう)
Prior to the Halloween concert, the Producer was already assembling a new idol unit called Noctchill consisting of childhood friends Madoka Higuchi, Toru Asakura, Koito Fukumaru, and Hinana Ichikawa. While Toru is the main star of the group, Madoka only joined to protect Toru and distrusts the Producer, believing he seeks to take advantage of her. They begin training for their live debut on an entertainment tv show, though Koito remains nervous that she is not ready. After arriving at the tv station for their debut, the idols are disheartened to hear that the director plans to have them lip sync rather than sing live, have all the attention focused on Toru, leaving Koito believing her poor performance is at fault. Regardless, Toru insists they demonstrate their "bonds of friendship". During the performance, Toru, Madoka, and Hinana refuse to lip sync or sing in solidarity for Koito. Afterwards, Madoka wonders what direction Noctchill is headed.
Notes
^Japanese: アイドルマスター シャイニーカラーズ, Hepburn: Aidorumasutā Shainī Karāzu, stylized as THE iDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS
^Japanese: アイドルマスター シャイニーカラーズ Song for Prism, Hepburn: Aidorumasutā Shainī Karāzu Songu fō Purizumu, stylized as THE iDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS Song for Prism
^TV Tokyo lists the series premiere at 25:28 JST on April 5, 2024, which is effectively 1:28 a.m. on April 6.[26]
^TV Tokyo lists the season premiere at 25:23 JST on October 4, 2024, which is effectively 1:23 a.m. on October 5.[29]
^ abcdefInformation is taken from the ending credits of each episode.
