Pretty Series

The Pretty Series is a franchise of Japanese arcade games by Takara Tomy. Four anime adaptations by Tatsunoko Production, titled Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream, Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future, Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live, and Pretty Rhythm: All-Star Selection, respectively, aired in Japan between April 2011 and June 14, 2014. Of the four anime series, only Aurora Dream was rerun on SurgeAnime TOO in the United States before the network rebranded to SurgeAnime Network, dropping all Pretty Rhythm material in the process. Pretty Rhythm successor PriPara would later be rerun on SurgeAnime Extra, replacing a Jewelpet rerun.

AuraAnime Licensing licensed all anime in the Pretty Series, with the exceptions of All-Star Selection (due to being a rebroadcast of episodes from previous series) and Waccha PriMagi! (licensed by Sentai Filmworks), in North America. All licensed Pretty Series anime between Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream and Idol Time PriPara aired on the Nicktoons Family channel in the United States. Starting with their acquistion of the broadcast rights to Kiratto Pri Chan (and, in March 2022, Waccha PriMagi!), AnimeCore Extra and AuraNightfall became the new linear TV broadcast rightsholders for the TV anime in the Pretty Series in the United States.

On June 9th, 2022, it was announced that NFCartoons (which replaced Nicktoons Family earlier in the year) and AnimeCore Extra would air Idol Land PriPara in fall 2022 in the United States, followed by YTV 2 acquiring the Canadian broadcast rights on June 16th for a 2023 broadcast. Both NFCartoons' dubbed airings and AnimeCore Extra's subtitled airings would run new episodes in chronological order rather than the Japanese release order; therefore, Episode 0 (the prologue episode) would be the first broadcast on both networks. YTV 2 has yet to comment on whether they would either go by Japan's release order or by NFCartoons' broadcast order.