Pole Princess!!

is a Japanese ONA shorts series about pole dancing animated by Tatsunoko Production and produced by Avex Pictures. It is directed by Hitomi Ezoe and written by Touko Machida, with Yoshihiro Otobe serving as CG director, and Shūji Katayama and Kenta Higashiohji composing the music at Avex Pictures. Original character designs were provided by Tomari. KAORI of STUDIO TRANSFORM was the pole dancing supervisor. A prologue ONA episode was streamed on YouTube on December 23, 2022. The series began streaming on YouTube on January 13, 2023. An anime film adaptation is set to premiere in Q4 2023. The theme song, titled Starlight Challenge and sung by the talented cast of the anime, was released on July 26 in Japan.

Plot
The story centers on Hinano, a very normal and mild-mannered 17-year-old girl. Since she was very young her grandmother ran a planetarium that Hinano loved, but one day Hinano found out that the planetarium would be closing down. Hinano worried about whether there was anything she could do for her grandmother and for the planetarium, and she coincidentally one day catches sight of a woman dancing on a pole under a starry sky. She gathers her friends and together they set up a stage in the planetarium to perform shows, and they jump into the world of pole dancing. - ANN

Official

 * Official anime website (in Japanese)

Other Sources



 * ONA


 * ONA series