Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! is a Japanese tokusatsu TV drama series that airing from April 7, 2019 to June 28, 2020. It is the third installment of the Girls × Heroine! Series produced by Takara Tomy and OLM, Inc. with the assistance of Shogakukan and EXPG Studio. The series is directed by Takashi Miike and stars Minami Hishida, Kira Yamaguchi, Toa Harada, and Ran Ishii. Additional cast members include Mandy Sekiguchi, Tsubasa Honda, and Takumi Saitoh, with narration provided by Toshiyuki Toyonaga. The plot is centered on Phantomirage, a group of middle school gentleman thieves who fight the Gyakugyaku Police and steal the treasures in people's hearts. The show launched a brief idol career for the main cast, who hold music activities as the Japanese idolgirl group Mirage² and Girls² to promote the show.
Plot
Kokomi Sakurai is a cherry tomato loving first year middle schooler. One day, she encounters, Kumachi, a bear-like fairy who was being chased by the Reverse Police for searching for comrades of justice. When Kokomi's father is turned into an Ikenaier by the Reverse Police, a group of bad cops who use the Reverse Jewels to reverse arrest "cool people" into "Ikenaiers", an evil polarized versions of themselves, she is chosen by the Phantomi Wristy to transform into Phantomirage. Becoming mass media sensations the Phantomirage are warned to conceal their identities from the public or something bad will happen.
Characters
Phantomirage
Phantomirage is a group of phantom thieves recruited by Phandy to recover the Secret Keys. In order to do so, they steal Reverse Jewels from people's hearts to purify them into Himitsu Keys. Each girl owns Secret Keys and a Phantomi Ring, which they can use to transform using the lock-shaped bracelet, a Phantomi Wristy. Each girl uses a Phantomi Trick, a key-like baton that extracts and purifies Reverse Jewels into a Secret Keys. The Secret Keys allow them to use different spy and stealth capabilities with their Phantomi Wristy. After meeting Phangry, they are given the pocket watch/compass-shaped Phantomi Time and the Kizuna Key, that will allow the girls to power up into a mode called "Kizuna Style" and use the gun-like weapon Phantomi Final. They are given another item by Phandy called the Phantomi Coffret, where they have to collect the sweets-like artifacts Phantomi Perfumes. ;Kokomi Sakurai ;Saki Asumi ;Yotsuba Shizuki ;Seira Kureha
Reverse Police are an illegal police group from the Reverse World who "Reverse Arrest" a nice and cool person, using the Reverse Jewels to polarize their hearts and turn them into an evil, uncool Ikenaiers. ;SakaSama ;Chief Gyanne ;Officer Magyakku ;Detective Abekobe ;Chief Summer
Production
In 2018, LDH held a casting call for child talents through an audition titled LDH Presents The Girls Audition, with results later broadcast on an episode of TBS's Gekidan Exile, which aired on November 6, 2018. Minami Hishida, Kira Yamaguchi, and Toa Harada were announced as winners in the actress category. Phantomirage was trademarked in December 2018. The full cast and details about the show were unveiled during its first press conference on February 26, 2019, where Hishida, Yamaguchi, and Harada were announced as the main cast. Prior to debuting as an actress, Yamaguchi had been part of EXPG Studio's female U-14 trainee group, Kizzy. The supporting cast consisted of Mandy Sekiguchi, Takumi Saitoh, Nicole Ishida, Kodai Kuroishi, and Pee, in addition to Tsubasa Honda providing the voice to Kumachi and Toshiyuki Toyonaga providing the narration. Ran Ishii was announced as a new cast member on June 13, 2019. Kodai Asaka, Keiko Inoue from the comedy duo Nitche, Takeshi Nadagi, Masumi Yagi from the comedy duo Savanna, Koyuki Takahashi from the comedy duo Nihon Electric Rengo, Yui-P, and Ryo Kato were announced as upcoming guest characters. Yuki Miyoshi, Momoka Sumitani, Misaki Tsuruya, Youka Ogawa, and Kurea Masuda reprised their roles from Magical × Heroine Magimajo Pures! in episode 7, while Yuzuha Oda reprised her role from Idol × Warrior Miracle Tunes! in episode 11. Shun Oguri guest-starred as Phandy's older brother, Phangry, in episodes 25 to 27. Episode 17, which aired on July 28, 2019, was a crossover episode arc with episode 68 of Kiratto Pri Chan. Phantomirage features the Miracle Kirats and Anju wearing their outfits, while Kiratto Pri Chan features a crossover episode with the Phantomirage members appearing in animated format. During the show's run, Hishida, Yamaguchi, and Harada performed as their characters at events and released music under the name Mirage². Their first single, "Jan Ken Pon", served as the show's first ending theme song and was first performed at a baton touch event with Magical × Heroine Magimajo Pures!. Ran Ishii later joined the group, debuting in their second single, "Doki Doki" which served as the show's second ending. On November 17, 2019, the series was renewed for a second broadcast year, as well as a movie.
Episodes
Secret × Heroine Phantomirage! is broadcast weekly from April 7, 2019 on TV Tokyo at 9:00 AM. Episodes were also uploaded onto Takara Tomy's YouTube channel one week after its original broadcast date, with each new episode available to Japanese residents only for up to one week.
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Film
On November 17, 2019, a theatrical film titled Gekijōban: Secret × Heroine Phantomirage!: Eiga ni Natte Chōdaishimasu was announced. The film's theme song is "ABCDEF Girl" by Girls² and the remaining five members of the girl group will be making a cameo appearance. The Kizuna Perfume is distributed as a theater gift. The movie was originally scheduled to release on May 1, 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the movie has been postponed to July 23.
Other media appearances
The May 2019 issue of Pucchigumi, which released on April 4, 2019, came with a Collab Pri Ticket for Kiratto Pri Chanarcade game machines containing Kokomi's Phantomirage uniform to use for the playable characters. As part of their summer collaboration with Kiratto Pri Chan, Seira's Phantomirage uniform will be available for the arcade game beginning July 11, 2019 as their third collaboration jewel coordinate event. The September 2019 issue of Pucchigumi, released on August 1, 2019, also came with a Collab Pri Ticket featuring Seira's Phantomirage uniform for Kiratto Pri Chan arcade game machines.
