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Phantom of the Idol

2022 · 1 season

A breezy, silly backstage comedy where a lazy idol gets hijacked by a chirpy ghost, keeping things goofy and light.

Created by
Toru Hamasaki, Tatsuya Fujinaka
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Starring
Fumiya Imai, Nao Toyama, Shun Horie
Overview
Yuya is part of the idol duo ZINGS, but his laziness and disdain for fans puts him in danger of getting blacklisted. That is, until he meets Asahi, the ghost of a former idol who’s eager to stage her own comeback by possessing Yuya's willing body!

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Created by
Toru Hamasaki, Tatsuya Fujinaka
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Starring
Fumiya Imai, Nao Toyama, Shun Horie
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • celebrity
  • identity
  • ambition
  • friendship
  • media
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • animated
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour7
Realism3
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
animation, comedy
Created by
Toru Hamasaki, Tatsuya Fujinaka
Written by
Yasuko Aoki
Starring
Fumiya Imai, Nao Toyama, Shun Horie, Eri Kitamura, Hitomi Ueda, You Taichi, Manaka Iwami, Show Hayami
Music
myu
Cinematography
Ayako Honma
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 24 min each
Network
TV Tokyo
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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