Tsukipro The Animation

At the Budokan, an annual event known as the Tsukino Concert puts Tsukino Entertainment Production's best and brightest idol units on the stage. The leaders of idol groups SolidS, SOARA, QUELL, and Growth must compose four unique and distinctive songs for their respective units, which they will perform on the second day of the festival.

Composing four new songs proves to be a difficult task for SolidS's leader, Shiki Takamura, as he struggles to find inspiration. Sora Oohara must learn to overcome past mistakes while propelling his unit, SOARA, to the top. Wanting to escape his past stardom, Shuu Izumi is determined to push his unit, QUELL, up to the level of popularity that his previous one had. Growth finds themselves working together with a rival group, ZIX, prior to their debut—something that leader Kouki Etou is reluctant to do.

Tsukipro The Animation tells the stories of these four units simultaneously as they go through their daily lives while preparing for the Tsukino Concert.

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Background

Tsukipro is based off of a multi-media franchise under the same name by Movic (credited as Tukino Talent Productions). It is a collaboration project between popular Japanese voice actors and Vocaloid producers. The franchise has spawned multiple music CDs and drama tracks, as well as a mobile rhythm game, entertainment app, manga, online radio shows, 2.5D dance live shows and a live action movie. Tsukipro was created following the success of Tsukiuta., another project under the same company.

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Alternative version:	Tsukiuta. The Animation, Tsukiuta. The Animation 2
Sequel:	Tsukipro The Animation 2

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Characters & Voice Actors

Fujimura, Mamoru

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Terashima, Junta
Japanese

Oohara, Sora

Main

Toyonaga, Toshiyuki
Japanese

Takamura, Shiki

Main

Eguchi, Takuya
Japanese

Sera, Rikka

Main

Hanae, Natsuki
Japanese

Sakuraba, Ryouta

Main

Yamashita, Daiki
Japanese

Murase, Dai

Main

Umehara, Yuuichirou
Japanese

Etou, Kouki

Main

Toki, Shunichi
Japanese

Izumi, Shuu

Main

Takeuchi, Shunsuke
Japanese

Okui, Tsubasa

Main

Saitou, Souma
Japanese

Yaegashi, Kensuke

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Yamaya, Yoshitaka
Japanese

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Motonaga, Keitarou

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Matsumura, Juria

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Ebina, Yasunori

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Hanae, Natsuki

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Opening Theme

	1: "Burny!!!" by SolidS (eps 1,5,9)
	2: "Aliel (エリアル -ALIEL-)" by SOARA (eps 2,6,10)
	3: "Because you are" by QUELL (eps 3,7,11)
	4: "Mahou no Kizuna (魔法のキズナ)" by Growth (eps 4,8,12)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Ouka Ranman (桜花爛漫)" by SolidS
	2: "FRIEND" by SOARA
	3: "Chiisana Sekai (小さな世界)" by QUELL
	4: "one day..." by Growth
	5: "Back On Track" by SolidS
	6: "Startline ~Boys, Be Mighty (スタートライン～Boys, Be Mighty~)" by SOARA
	7: "Above the best" by QUELL
	8: "Parallel Lineage (パラレル・リネージュ)" by Growth
	9: "Unmei wo Koeru 'Venga' (運命を越える "Venga")" by SolidS
	10: "Mirai e no Okurimono (未来への贈り物)" by SOARA
	11: "Arigatou (ありがとう)" by QUELL
	12: "Hidamari ni Saku (陽だまりに咲く)" by Growth
	13: "DearDreamer" by SolidS, SOARA, QUELL, Growth

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Dec 27, 2017

tachibanahotarou

Recommended

TsukiPro The Animation is a fan-service kind of anime. Its difficult for new fans to understand the anime if you don't have a prior knowledge of the groups that were introduced and its targeted audience is the fans themselves obviously. But don't let this hinder you to watch it and to try to know about the groups' music: SolidS, SOARA, Growth, and QUELL

The characters are easily likable as the story is kept simple. Although character development is sacrificed this way, the anime tries to give glimpses of the TsukiPro characters' personalities, "daily lives" and their past. Each episode tackles different problems and challenges to make ...

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Oct 5, 2020

Nelya

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Okay, a word about this reviewer, since it's important. I enjoy books even if I start reading it from the middle, or by reading the end, and only then start reading from the beginning.

Why I'm mentioning that? Because that's what getting into Tsukipro franchise through anime would be like- starting from the middle.

Tsukipro is a multimedia franchise that started in 2012 with Tsukiuta project (you can find the anime of it in related category, and the above disclaimer applies to that anime as well) drama CD series, that then moved onto 2.5d (aka the stageplays), and then, in 2015, added three new groups to the ... roster - Soara, Growth and Solids- under two new projects, named ALIVE and SQ. A year later, Quell joined as Solids counterpart, thus making SQ a two-band project, and SQALIVE projects an officially four-element ensemble.

Now, what did I even give you that briefing for? Well, it's pretty important, since most characteristic trait of any unit produces in Tsukipro is that they "live" real-time. You get to know what they did, if not through the official drama cds, then through the short stories respective accounts post on Twitter and other soc meds, and recently, also through the two new stageprojects. And that means, the events of the anime, aired in 2017, are just excerpts of their lives, cut out and packed nicely into animated format. That means, if you're joining the franchise through the anime, you're entering through the middle of the book.

Now, you might be a person like, me, who isn't bothered AT ALL by the mess the lack of plot, or the timeline that starts in the middle of some unexplained event causes (there's a reason why I enjoyed Haruhi Suzumiya and Hetalia), but, I just find that the franchise (or at least, its' western promotion management group) does a VERY poor job of highlighting the 'real-time' aspect of that anime. It stands to a reason normal people don't reminisce every other day about how they've met, or what caused them to be in a position they are in now, or why their relation with that person is this or that. And that's the MAJOR lacking point of the Proani. You didn't hear the first drama? You will have no idea how dramatic the flashbacks of ep 11 are for Quell. Didn't heard another album? It will remain a mystery why two characters of the units that in general get along pretty well pick on each other constantly, and why their teammates insist they're similar (I have doubts about that, but ok).

Okay, so, after this longass introduction, let me go for dismantling the anime, The story is slice of life, as I mentioned, with a slice taken out and set on a separate plate so that we don't see rest of the cake, and can't figure out the decorations on top of it. That doesn't mean it's not tasty, and if you enjoy schematic male idol groups' tropes, you will enjoy this one quite easily. We have the hot and sexy type, the kindergarten type, the princely, cool and definitely gay (okay, that's my opinion, but, everybody simp for that leader), and finally the family-like one that literally has children being adopted by their older unitmates and you probably won't convince anybody that's into the franchise otherwise. All in all, the tropes are easy to see, the characters are build on certain matrix that you've most certainly has seen somewhere in the other franchises, but still are fresh enough to enjoy them (plus, let's be real, those seiyuus are dope, and practically carry the series on their backs). In short, if you're looking for new oshi, you will find it here (and if you're looking for a shipping material, well. As I've previously said, there is an unit with a 100% traditional family household dynamic, and all those units are all-male, so...)

Since I've mentioned seiyuus, let me mention music: that's the only part I can unabashedly recommend to anyone, whether you're a fan of the franchise or not. The music is adjusted to the band or unit's characteristic trait, so you have experimental rock-pop-rap-everything that can sound cool mashup for Solids, electronica pop and lots of feels for Quell, male k-on 'it's all about youth!' pop feel for Soara, and the 'I don't even know if this is even pop anymore, it sounds so otherwordly' harmonies of Growth. I swear, I don't think there's a person who's heard all of the openings and endings and said 'nope, I don't like any of them'. It's just this good. Hama Takeshi and Takizawa Akira (aka John Zeroness) did an amazing job. I just want to say, a music in an idol's show is one of the two pillars that can make or break a franchise, and with the first one being characters, that are likeable even without previous knowledge of their backgrounds (or without knowledge of their seiyuus), the music is what makes this series.

Art...okay, when they wanted to highlight something, the artists could go all out, I haven't seen this gorgeous backgrounds in an idol anime in a looong while. Characters are eye-candies so what else can I say (bonus points for making twins recognizable by the different clothes they wear), and if there's a question where the budget of a certain episode went, there's always that one scene that you can point to and say 'there. All money went there'.
Because of that, the animation is inconsistent, unfortunately, and I don't mean the 3d CGI that is used for final performance and openings. Those are actually highlights of the correct uses of motion capture to portray your characters (plus, the backgrounds. Don't start me on the backgrounds, and camerawork, because it's actually amazing, and I'm saying that in the year of 2020, when Hoseki no Kuni and Beastars are already out). With motion capture at work, you can see the character's traits in their movement, thanks to which you don't feel like the movements were copy-pasted from one model onto the other (which, considering the cast including twins, would be a solution some other franchises would implement). However, the animation throughout the episode is usually inconsistent, jumping between quite decent and 'only still picture could be worse'.

In short, there are better places to start your journey with this franchise (like the ton of slideshows that fans compiled on all characters, making you much more invested in their lives), but, just as the premise of the show says- you can open this glittering box of treasures, you just need to be prepared not to know where the heck those treasures came from.

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Aug 13, 2019

inochinopan

Recommended

Tsukipro is a fairly popular multi-media series focused on the music industry, idols, and rich, engaging stories. However, this anime is targetted towards people who know about it and are familiar with both characters and their backstories. Keep that in mind as you read this review.

Story: 7/10

The plot is kept simple - daily interactions and gimmicks between the characters who usually don't get to spend much time together in a normal setting. For a fan, it's truly a joy to see your favorites come to life animated and to get to know them even better, but someone who wants to watch a consistent show with ...

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