Puraore! Pride of Orange (PuraOra! PRIDE OF ORANGE)

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Japanese: プラオレ！～PRIDE OF ORANGE～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 6, 2021 to Dec 22, 2021

Premiered: Fall 2021

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 22:30 (JST)

Producers: CyberAgent

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: C2C

Source: Mixed media

Genre: Sports

Theme: Team Sports

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.29¹ (scored by 8,626 users)

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Ranked: #8243²

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Popularity: #4290

Members: 26,745

Favorites: 98

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Third-year junior high schooler Manaka Mizusawa is tasked by her teacher to put a poster up about a trial ice hockey class sponsored by the Dream Monkeys, their city's local professional team. Interested in attending the class herself, Manaka also persuades her younger sister Ayaka and her clubmates Kaoruko Yanagida and Mami Ono to join her.

When the four gather at the gymnasium where the tutorial is held, they meet fellow third-year students Riko Saginuma and Naomi Takagi. As the girls practice their hearts out, their fascination for the sport increases, motivating them to play on a competitive level. Wanting to experience the unique and exciting memories that ice hockey can offer, the girls gradually form a team that has the potential to reach the top.

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Puraore! Pride of Orange is a part of a mixed-media project of the same name by CyberAgent and DMM Games. The series was released on Blu-ray from December 22, 2021 to February 23, 2022.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Mizusawa, Manaka

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Masuda, Riku
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Kiyose, Yuu

Main

Hongou, Satomi
Japanese

Yanagida, Kaoruko

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Moriyama, Yurika
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Saginuma, Riko

Main

Kitamori, Saika
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Takagi, Naomi

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Shioiri, Asuka
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Mizusawa, Ayaka

Main

Sagara, Mayu
Japanese

Ono, Mami

Main

Aoyama, Yoshino
Japanese

Fujishiro, Mona

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Takase, Kurumi
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Yamanaka, Eri

Supporting

Mimori, Suzuko
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Matsunaga, Youko

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Komatsu, Mikako
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Yamada, Noboru

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Murakami, Takashi

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Hayasaka, Kazumasa

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Tanaka, Hiroyuki

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Opening Theme

"Fight Oh, Fight! (ファイオー・ファイト！)" by Smile Princess

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Ending Theme

"Orange (オレンジ)" by May’n

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Dec 22, 2021

ijavi

Recommended

Short Review!

This show had very strong start but after 6 episodes it start to fell off, the story just like other sports anime (a newbie become a champion) i mean they didn't even try to hide the winner in the very first episode

it would be really great if we didn't know who's going to win in the final but they decided to play it safe and gave us mainstream ending.

it's still enjoyable to watch, the characters friendships is very strong and yuu development who became more open after meeting with dream monkeys members

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Dec 23, 2021

Mcsuper

Mixed Feelings

Now, first of all, I'm a huge hockey fan, so I know enough about hockey to understand hockey terms. Let me just say, I appreciate that hockey got some love and got some kind of anime for people to enjoy. Maybe Canadians got into this anime because of their love for hockey. However, this show wasn't ever advertised as a "Slam Dunk" or "Haikyuu", so I never had that kind of expectation.

My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Characters: /20 Enjoyment /15 Comedic/Romance themes /20

STORY: 5/25

Felt very messy and lacking in many ways. Not enough development of opposing hockey teams, and not enough ...

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Dec 22, 2021

KANLen09

Not Recommended

PuraOre!'s the very first anime to have the distinction of featuring ice hockey, and yet still, fail to hit that mark, much less intentionally butt-hurting the one sport that Canadians are most famous and can be proud of. The progenitor anime that did anything and everything wrong from the get-go, marred from yet another CyberAgent and DMM Games' mixed-media project who's trying too hard to match the brillance of CyGames's Uma Musume, only to then ask: "May I copy your homework? Not to worry, my expertise is in ice hockey, nothing will be similar alike!". Look where we are now, and I wish I can ... forget this show to nothingness that left a sour taste in my mouth.

This is yet another CGDCT show that features ice hockey and idol segments, written by the abominable writer Touko Machida, because she is THIS bad, legit. More power to you, but wow have you managed to one-up your efforts at being so lazy as to just literally copy-paste existing entities that did the formula that you wanted to feature. And God bless the cringe that PuraOre! tries to be an ice hockey show for one, then subvert to being a CGDCT, and yet again into an idol clusterfish of a mindless monkey-leaping rhetoric. Like come on, make up your mind, don't "Monkey see, Monkey do".

I'm not surprised to say that I don't really care for the large cast of girls which exhibit the same wash, rinse, repeat happy-go-lucky, "don't mind!" subpar "feelings" teamwork that's a work in progress to only then etch out a W at the last critical spot, especially for one rooted in a sport-centric setting. I've seen too much CGDCT anime do the same thing, and more times than most, affix the setting and environment to eke out a decent execution. PuraOre! just knows that well, and proceeds to treat the audience like we're all brain-dead dimwits to be easily lured into the charming and female-centric munificence of happiness and laughs combined. It's not wrong to like a CGDCT show for what it is, but the execution is what matters, and in PuraOre!'s case, unless you don't really care about the wishy-washy story plot then you'll find enjoyment. Which in my case, is a definite thumbs down.

But what matters is the production side of things, which in this case, after the relative success of Idoly Pride, CyberAgent's CAAnimation is back to produce yet another show with the help of C2C, and it really shows that at the very least, it honours the art of ice hockey and its frenetic play. Any Western fan can immediately tell that there is heart in the overall animation when it comes to the actual ice hockey matches, but the sin is that these matches are too far few in-between that's put aside to curry favour for more of the CGDCT-cum-idol action. Even for a glance, I'd thought that this would improve, but nope, it's clear where the priority's at.

To nail the idol segment in the coffin, the OP which was sung by the Newcomer Set of the Nikko Dream Monkeys under their group name "Smile Princess", that should immediately clue in that the idol segment will somehow overshadow the actual ice hockey game, and it's just as decent as expected. And I don't know why, but May'n's songs are getting more and more average-sounding in quality, it's a far cry from her early days where most of her songs sound better than we actually think it is.

Call this a fumbling "promotion" if you wish, but I'd think we all know what we came here for and expecting the most out of it: the actual ice hockey segments (which definitely look pristine overall). Sadly and most frustratingly, the CGDCT has to take precedence and with Touko Machida's haphazard writing calibre, PuraOre! could've been so much more with making a name for themselves with the one unique sport establishment that would have defined its place in anime history. So another call again, go open-minded if you're thinking of watching this show to enjoy the downtime moments, but otherwise, not being Pura and definitely not Ore!, this show is wilfully misconducted in its Pride that's not orangey-orange at all.

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