, also known as ''Anime de Training EX'', is a Japanese
anime
is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...
television series produced by Rising Force and
Earth Star Entertainment
is a Japanese publisher previously based in Shibuya, Tokyo. They have moved to the neighbourhood of Kamiōsaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo. Accounted by the equity method of Culture Convenience Club, it was founded on June 5, 2006. In addition to publishi ...
. It debuted on October 12, 2015. It is
streamed
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via
Niconico
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and is also available on
Crunchyroll
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. A second season , has begun airing in October 2016.
Plot
The series follows six young aspiring
idols as they train and teach the audience using various exercise routines.
Characters
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Age 16. 1st year high school girl. The lead girl. Known to her friends as "Asamichi". Does very well at sports, but not too well in her studies.
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Age 14. 2nd year middle school girl. A little blonde girl with
pigtails
file:braided pigtails.jpg, A woman with long pigtails and braids.
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who wishes she can grow her breasts like the other girls. She hates
natto, unlike Asami. Before the arrival of Sakura in the second season, she was the youngest of the original five.
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Age 17. A wealthy, well-mannered girl with the temperament of a princess. She is the oldest of the six girls. She has a pet weasel, Andalucia.
She chose to train and become an idol, despite her father's opposition, but she is fortunate to be among Asami and co, who have the same aspirations she has.
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Age 16. Her real first name is Akiko. She is a
chuunibyou girl with
heterochromia iridum
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(different colored eyes), claiming to be the "Princess of Denebrae" and using her talent as an idol to "bring doom to the world". She worked part-time at the MINI-SPOT
convenience store
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in the first season. In the second season, she part-times at the TOMONI convenience store near a train station. She often tries to convince her friends (and the viewers) that her part-time work is a facade.
NOTE: In Episode 1 of the original series, Shion was first credited as "Convenience Store Clerk" as she appeared in a flashback of Asami's.
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Age 15. A bespectacled girl who thinks negatively and is mainly shy, but over time while training with the others, her confidence grew. She constantly ends her sentences with "desu".
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Age 14. 2nd year of middle school. The new girl. She rides a
hoverboard
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and carries a plush toy killer whale. She talks old-fashionably and behaves like a spoiled little girl. She has a lot of toys in her room. She refers to herself as "Emperor Sakura".
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Shizuno's pet weasel, known to be constantly naughty around Shizuno and her friends!
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Eri's best friend from her school. She appears in Episode 2 of the second season, and for some reason, she thinks that Eri and the viewer are a couple.
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She appears in Episode 4 of the second season briefly to deliver a pizza to Shion and the viewers, as thanks to the latter for looking after her daughter.
Anime
Season 1
Season 2
Notes
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ani Tore! EX
Anime with original screenplays
Earth Star Entertainment