Kirarin Revolution

Kirarin Revolution

Kirarin Revolution is a Japanese shōjo manga by An Nakahara. The series' title is the supposed name of Kirari's debut single. As of August 2007, it runs in the shōjo magazine Ciao published by Shogakukan. It won the 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. The anime adaptation is a Japan and South Korea coproduction, and it premiered on 7 April 2006 in Japan on TV Tokyo and ran for 153 episodes until March 27, 2009. Starting from episode 103, this show aired in High-Definition 16:9 with 3D animation. Its airing time was 18:00-18:30 on Fridays.

Genre: AnimationComedy

Cast:Chigusa IkedaAkio SuyamaTakuya IdeSoichiro HoshiShikou KanaiTakafumi KawakamiMasako JoNoriko ShitayaRyoka Yuzuki


1Season 2

Season 2, Episode 1

April 6, 2007

Kirari learns how to play baseball.

2Season 2

Season 2, Episode 2

April 13, 2007

Kirari's dad opens up a new cafe using Kirari's name. While everyone enjoys Kirari's dad's entries, Roccomari, a famous French food critic, gives a low grade. Kirari's dad looks for the best ingredients and perfects the ultimate taste for Roccomari.

3Season 2

Season 2, Episode 3

April 20, 2007

Na-san saves Myu-san from a group of bullies. Myu-san falls in love with Na-san and tries to convince him to be with her. However, Na-san refuses, already being loyal to Kirari. Kirari thinks of a great idea, a relay course between Myu-san and Kirari.

4Season 2

Season 2, Episode 4

April 27, 2007

Kirari enjoys manga by Himiko Saotome. Seeing that Fubuki published her own manga, Kirari decides to do it too by visiting Himiko Saotome. However, Himiko Saotome is very tired, rushing to complete her manga just in time for the SHIPS concert. She needs every help she can to bring her next manga to completion.

5Season 2

Season 2, Episode 5

May 4, 2007

Izumi, recently hired by Higashiyama, suddenly kisses Hiroto in front of a big crowd during a relay competition. Kirari is heartbroken, thinking that Izumi and Hiroto have both committed love. To make matters worse, the media about this kissing event spreads very quickly.

6Season 2

Season 2, Episode 6

May 11, 2007

Izumi and Kirari compete as pastry chefs. Like previous rivals, Izumi finds every method to cheat by intentionally hurting Kirari. Meanwhile, tabloid reporters reporters are capturing illegal photos and spreading reports about the triangle battle between Hiroto, Kirari, and Izumi.

7Season 2

Season 2, Episode 7

May 18, 2007

Izumi and Hiroto now star in a new drama. Kirari spies on them, ensuring that Izumi does not go overboard with Hiroto. After failing to find a place to live, Kirari suddenly meets an old lady, who lets her stay for the night and invites her to a kimono competition. Izumi, rivaling Kirari, will enter the competition as well.

8Season 2

Season 2, Episode 8

May 25, 2007

The kimono competition finally begins. Izumi steals a marker and doodles all over Kirari's kimono, ruining her entry. Although Kirari was able to make a new submission, both Izumi and Kirari's entry becomes overshadowed by Fubuki's entry. Izumi becomes infuriated and chases Fubuki only to reveal her true identity: Hyoutaro, a guy who Hiroto vowed to form an idol unit with until he moved away.

9Season 2

Season 2, Episode 9

June 1, 2007

The world is coming to an end and only Kirari can save the world with her voice. Erina joins in unexpectedly.

10Season 2

Season 2, Episode 10

June 8, 2007

While Kirari discusses a new drama she has been cast in with her family, a boy comes into Kirarin Cafe and passes out. Once he wakes up, he tells Kirari about how his younger sister, a musician with respiratory disease, is in the hospital and wants Kirari to visit her.

11Season 2

Season 2, Episode 11

June 15, 2007

Kirari meets a new idol girl named Hikaru, but maybe they got off on the wrong foot.

12Season 2

Season 2, Episode 12

June 22, 2007

Hikaru will be performing on stage, but has a nervous case of stage fright. Kirari has to help Hikaru in time for the show.

13Season 2

Season 2, Episode 13

June 29, 2007

A familiar cat comes back from Na-san's graduation, and holds a severe grudge against him.

14Season 2

Season 2, Episode 14

July 6, 2007

Hikaru experiences what Kirari's stardom life is like.

15Season 2

Season 2, Episode 15

July 13, 2007

A childhood friendship between Hikaru and a boy begins to crumble as both put each other aside to pursue their individual dreams.

16Season 2

Season 2, Episode 16

July 20, 2007

Kira☆Pika is doing an audition for a movie, and their rival is SUPERNOVA, a new idol group.

17Season 2

Season 2, Episode 17

July 27, 2007

Kirari and Hikaru star as superheroes in a new horror movie. Meanwhile, Muranishi's manager thinks he's been cursed from trying to renovate the office. Kirari and Hikaru decide to intervene.

18Season 2

Season 2, Episode 18

August 3, 2007

A comedy competition is coming up for idols, so Arashi shows up and puts Kirari and Hikaru through harsh training. But will SUPERNOVA steal the show?

19Season 2

Season 2, Episode 19

August 10, 2007

Kirari and hikaru want to create their own perfume, but can't come up with any good ideas.

20Season 2

Season 2, Episode 20

August 17, 2007

The Muranishi crew goes to Cresent Island for a day at the beach, and the Higashiyama crew shows up as the same time. While the idols unwind and Kumoi and Higashiyama's director fight over Muranishi director's attention, an island "secret" appears...

21Season 2

Season 2, Episode 21

August 24, 2007

Kirari and Hikaru are going to be starting their new clothes line called DOUBLE CRESENT. However, they can't seem to come up with any good fashion ideas.

22Season 2

Season 2, Episode 22

August 31, 2007

Kirari and Hikaru work together in a department store to help work on their designing for their clothes line. However, every match they come up with doesn't work out with the customers. How will Kirari and Hikaru be able to learn from their mistakes, and will they be able to do it in time?

23Season 2

Season 2, Episode 23

September 7, 2007

Kirari and Hikaru are going to be in a musical, but Kirari loses her focus from only thinking of food.

24Season 2

Season 2, Episode 24

September 14, 2007

SUPERNOVA is desperately trying to ruin the sisterly relationship between Kirari and Hikaru as an important concert is only days away.

25Season 2

Season 2, Episode 25

September 21, 2007

After many days of perseverance, SUPERNOVA finally tears Kira☆Pika apart.

26Season 2

Season 2, Episode 26

September 28, 2007

With an emotionally distressed Hikaru on the sidelines, Kirari must figure out how to end Kira☆Pika's stardom with a bang.

27Season 2

Season 2, Episode 27

October 5, 2007

Tina comes to Japan with the duo GEPS, who teach Hiroto the true meaning of dance.

28Season 2

Season 2, Episode 28

October 12, 2007

With the fall of SHIPS, Hiroto is leaving to New York to study. Kirari becomes lonely and she doesn't know what to do.

29Season 2

Season 2, Episode 29

October 19, 2007

Kirari's mushroom theme is all the rage in Japan.

30Season 2

Season 2, Episode 30

October 26, 2007

Na-san has a robotic toy made just like him. But what will happen when a glitch in the robots takes control of the situation?

31Season 2

Season 2, Episode 31

November 2, 2007

Hiroto is in New York while Seiji remains in Japan. Muranishi's director asks Seiji if he would like pursue a solo career, but Seiji doesn't want to sing without Hiroto. Meanwhile, Kirari helps to design male clothes and she asks Seiji to be her model.

32Season 2

Season 2, Episode 32

November 9, 2007

SUPERNOVA, now without interference from Kira☆Pika, is trying to find a new athletic trainer, but is being turned down by all the trainers they come up with.

33Season 2

Season 2, Episode 33

November 16, 2007

Love is in the air, and Erina has been lovestruck...with Kirari's brother! With Kirari's help, will Erina be able to impress Subaru?

34Season 2

Season 2, Episode 34

November 23, 2007

Seiji's parents originally never wanted Seiji to be an idol. One day they draw the line by severing their consent and telling Seiji has to come home and get married. Now Seiji must introduce a girl to his parents if he's going to save his career, and that girl is...Kirari?!

35Season 2

Season 2, Episode 35

November 30, 2007

Blackwood becomes a popular idol company, and many idols "decide" to be sponsored by it.

36Season 2

Season 2, Episode 36

December 7, 2007

Blackwood is having a great start, but there is trouble ahead...

37Season 2

Season 2, Episode 37

December 14, 2007

The director of Blackwood threatens Kirari to join his company or else he will ruin the careers of her and everyone around her.

38Season 2

Season 2, Episode 38

December 21, 2007

Kirari has had enough of Blackwood's manager, and stands up to him. In response, he pulls the company's sponsorship. Now Kirari must continue her idol career without credibility or sponsorship.

39Season 2

Season 2, Episode 39

December 28, 2007

Hiroto returns from New York and becomes SHIPS with Seiji again, and Kirari is accepted back into Muranishi with open arms.

40Season 2

Season 2, Episode 40

January 11, 2008

Hiroto and Seiji both ask Kirari out on a date. But she's followed by two tabloid reporters and both of her dates are featured in a magazine.

41Season 2

Season 2, Episode 41

January 18, 2008

Kirari meets a hairdresser with very bizarre methods. When she arranges Na-san like a moikan, Kirari decides to challenge the hairdresser. Who will win?

42Season 2

Season 2, Episode 42

January 25, 2008

Aoi says she is retiring as an idol, and receives an explosive goodbye from her idol friends.

43Season 2

Season 2, Episode 43

February 1, 2008

Kirari and the other idols will make a show on ice, but Kirari can't skate, and there is a special guest star with them.

44Season 2

Season 2, Episode 44

February 8, 2008

A likeable reporter will pass a day with Kirari to admire her style of life, and is about to learn that the idol life has less perks than the tabloids appeal to others.

45Season 2

Season 2, Episode 45

February 15, 2008

Kirari and SHIPS will enter a video game, but a glitch runs amok endangering them all.

46Season 2

Season 2, Episode 46

February 22, 2008

An actress comes to Japan from America.

47Season 2

Season 2, Episode 47

February 29, 2008

All the top idols are invited to do an audition.

48Season 2

Season 2, Episode 48

March 7, 2008

Luna spends the day with Kirari and her manager then later goes out with Kirari to an amusement park. Meanwhile, Kirari's mother in the Tsukishima family portrait looks very familiar, like a certain actress... Kiari realised that Luna-chan is her mom?

49Season 2

Season 2, Episode 49

March 14, 2008

Kirari and Luna film a movie on an island.

50Season 2

Season 2, Episode 50

March 21, 2008

Luna confesses to Kirari that she is Kirari's mother.

51Season 2

Season 2, Episode 51

March 28, 2008

Emotionally damaged from Luna's confession, Kirari holds one last concert. A series reflection takes place. This is the last episode in 2D. Episode 103 will start the series in 3D avatar figures.