Idol Bu Show

Idol Bu Show is a Japanese multimedia project centered around competing Japanese idol groups. An anime film adaptation was released in June 2022.

Concept

The project is about idol groups who, after the dissolution of idol group Fool's End, compete for music and merchandise sales, concert audiences, and other things. Each group operates under the leadership of a music producer reincarnated from a general from the Sengoku period.

Cast and characters

No Princess

No Princess is a "dance and vocal" idol unit whose music is produced by.

Machico as Hikaru Fuwa
Reo Kurachi as Shiho Hoshino
as Ami Akise
as Love Kurumizaka
Junji Majima as Shigemichi Saitō, the unit's music producer and a reincarnation of Saitō Dōsan, the head of the Saitō clan of Mino Province.
Sachika Misawa as Yuika Hanazono. She was replaced by Hikaru.

Lunatic Eyes

Lunatic Eyes is a "high tension" idol unit whose music is produced by.

Ibuki Kido as Futaba Ayase
Miho Okasaki as Mirei Wakatsuki
Yuki Nakashima as Yui Kongōji
Shinji Kawada as Munehito Date, the unit's music producer and a reincarnation of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai Domain.

X-UC

X-UC is a "new-generation" idol unit whose music is produced by.

Nanaka Suwa as Risa Umino
Maki Hanatani as Sakura Saruno
Moe Toyota as Koharu Hoshizuki
Rena Hasegawa as Kokoro Kakegawa
Misano Sakai as Aki Anna
as Misaki Yurigaoka
Yuna Kitahara as Shiori Kirino
Sakurako Aoyama as Kawori Hachimura
Yui Ninomiya as Erina Isayama
Erika Ishitobi as Misao Kiyomi
Ryūnosuke Kawai as Kōnosuke Sanada, the unit's music producer and a reincarnation of Sanada Yukimura, a rebel general in the Siege of Osaka.

It's Your Cider

It's Your Cider are a band of five girls. Their in-universe producers, QTarō Mōri, are a quartet of reincarnations of western Chūgoku region daimyō Mōri Motonari, while is their real-life music producer.

Chihaya Yoshitake as Ichika
Misuzu Yamada as Nina
Haruka Yoshiki as Mina
Wakana Ōhara as Shion
Maki Yamamoto as Isuzu

Other characters

Aoi Yūki and Ayana Taketatsu as Shinobu Sakuma and Nagaho Mori, the two members of Fool's End, the idol unit whose dissolution is the catalyst for the idols' competition. Their real-life music producer is.
Reina Kondō as Mashiro Honma, an idol who operates solo. Her in-universe producer, Kenji Uesagi, is a reincarnation of Uesugi Kenshin, while is her real-life music producer.

Production

In September 2019, the project was announced, as was a 26 October concert, Senran! Idol Bu Show: Toyosu no Jin. The screenwriter is and the characters and key visual were designed by NOB-C. In July 2020, Yuika Hanazono was replaced by a new character, Hikaru Fuwa.
Two days before the 2022 release of the project's film, the voice actresses for Mashiro Honma and It's Your Cider were announced.

Media

Film adaptation

In February 2022, it was announced that an anime film adaptation from ORENDA and Amineworks would be released that year. In March, it was announced that the film would be released on 24 June, and that part of the film would also be concert footage. The film was directed by Shingo Kobayashi, written by Kotsukotsu, produced by Ryō Aizawa, and supervised by. The three primary idol units' music producers produced the music.