Chariot
King of Anime
Since: Jul, 2014
King of Anime
#2: Aug 7th 2014 at 5:47:51 PM
It is a spiritual successor. We just don't know why things are different but with RL being in a different world or timeline from AD/DMF and knowing what we know about the PR universe PriPara could easily be its own world or timeline. Honestly I'm content to sit back and let the show explain things in time.
murazrai
Since: Jan, 2010
#3: Aug 9th 2014 at 6:26:56 AM
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But from what I have read RL is actually set a few years after DMF. MAL considers it as an "alternative setting" with AD, though. Hopefully an actual explanation would exists.
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It's 5 episodes in and I'm totally hooked. I wondered what is exactly the relationship between this series and Pretty Rhythm. It can't be spiritual successor since that Otoha got recolored, the prism world still exists and the characters from Pretty Rhythm no longer have ice skates. Could it be an alternative continuity?