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PriPara Film's New Video Features Comments by Guest Stars
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Avex Pictures began streaming two more videos for the PriPara Mi~nna no Akogare Let's Go PriPari (PriPara Eeeeveryone's Longing Let's Go PriPari) anime film on Thursday. The first video features comments by the film's guest stars Dewi Sukarno and Rina Kawaei.
Sukarno is playing the film-original character Ploria Ōkanda, headmistress of Paprika Private Academy and older sister of Gloria Ōkanda. Kawaei plays Mini-Falulu. The main cast members of the television anime series and previous films are reprising their roles.
Idol group SKE48 will perform the film's theme song. The film will open in Japan on March 12.
The third film is the franchise's first to feature a completely new story. In the story, Falulu is far away in the heart of the PriPara world in Puransu. The sparkle is disappearing from the idol sacred ground PriPara, and Falulu sends an SOS message to Laala and her friends. If the sparkle doesn't return, the PriPara world itself will disappear. Laala and her friends try to help Falulu, and they work together to save the PriPara world.
Makoto Moriwaki is returning from the first film and television series to direct the new film at Tatsunoko Production. Kazuyuki Fudeyasu (Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, Monster Musume) is writing the script. Masafumi Sato is serving as assistant director and is in charge of continuity and production. Shōji Hara is the chief animation director and is again designing the characters. Kunio Okawara (Mobile Suit Gundam, Armored Trooper Votoms) is providing mechanical designs. Yoshihiro Otobe is returning from the previous films as CG director, and Yukio Nagasaki (One Piece Film Z, Asura) is serving as sound director.
