Kirari (voiced by Koharu Kusumi of Morning Musume!) is a middle schooler who LOVES her food. So much so that it's scary! While girls her age swoon over idols, Kirari swoons over her dad's cooking, and couldn't care less about the life of a celebrity. But when she saves the pet turtle of Seiji of pop group SHIPS and falls in love, she decides to become an idol herself so that they can be together (or so she hopes).
Episode 27:
Because Kirari won the Hot award, she has been bombarded with phonecalls, faxes and emails from people who want to do business with her. The chairman relies on the director (who, you may remember, is a mouse) to make the decision on what to pick out first. After a strange message is left on a piece of toast (since, you know, mice can't talk), it is decided that Kirari will now appear on the talk show, Y Star. But one particular regular on the show, Haruno, is a blabbering chatterbox who won't let guests get in more than two words at a time. This is bad, since they air only the most interesting parts of the recording. An idol is expected to tell jokes and be entertaining, so if Kirari can't capture the attention of the audience, there will be trouble (as Kumoi-san says, "Variety shows are a competition between idols"). It certainly doesn't help that Haruno hails from the same company as Fubuki, and is set on ruining Kirari's publicity attempt. What will Kirari do?
Episode 28:
Mya-san has appeared in the local cat newspaper as a result of auditioning for an animal show. Jealous and yearning for stardom of his own, Naa-san decides he will be a famous somebody, too. When he hears about an audition that guarantees an instant debut (and doesn't have strict requirements - they say even cats and aliens can come!), he's very eager to try. Kirari is working on her first concert at the same time, and so doesn't have time herself to help, but wishes him luck. When Naa-san is more than a little crushed after his attempt fails (he's laughed out of the building before he can even do anything), Kirari has to show him just how much he means to her, and give him a risk-free moment to shine.
Haruno really wasn't very funny. Could be a Japanese thing, could be a Kirarin Revolution thing - it could even be the lousy subtitles. But she was more irritating than anything else. And the Naa-san episode was very sweet :3
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