5 /10 1 Votes
Number of episodes 8 | 5.1/10 First episode date 12 January 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original run January 12, 2004 – March 1, 2004 Genres Adventure, Comedy, Magical girl, Mecha, Romance Film, Science Fiction, Slice of life Cast Similar Love Love?, Battle Programmer Shirase, Divergence Eve, Burn‑Up Scramble, Ultimate Girls |
The Cosmopolitan Prayers (超変身コス∞プレイヤー, Chō Henshin Kosu∞Pureiyaa) lit. "Super Transformation Cosmopolitan Prayers" (or CosPrayers) is an eight episode anime series that aired in early 2004. It was co-produced by Master of Entertainment, Imagin, and Studio Live. It is closely related to the anime Love Love? and Smash Hits.
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Plot

17-year-old high school student Koto Hoshino wants nothing more than to be as courageous as her favourite game character Misuzu. On a school excursion, she visits the Izumo temple, where a ceremony for Misuzu is being held, and is attracted to the temple's tower top when she finds a strange watch. When she gets to the top, she performs a strange ritual, but does not seem to realise. Suddenly, a portal of evil appears. Luckily, she is saved by a boy named Kurusu, who tries to overcome the mirror, but is sucked inside. A girl named Scarlet arrives, but he tells her to protect Koto. The next moment the holy ground shakes tremendously, and Koto is knocked out. When she regains her consciousness, everything has changed. Koto finds herself in what seems to be a parallel world, where Earth does not have a single soul except her and the Cosmopolitan Prayers, priestesses who combat evil. The daughter of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu appears, and explains that Koto was tricked into performing the sealing ritual and imprisoning her mother Amaterasu, who is being held prisoner by the forces of evil. Now, as part of the 'Cosprayers', Koto must fight the evil forces that sealed the Earth. The Cosmopolitan Prayers, a team of seven beautiful girls, pure in heart and body and skilled in spiritual seals, must use their skills to purify the dark towers. But can they overcome heartache and betrayal to become the White Goddess of Light? And can Koto overcome herself to save her new friends and the world?

Each episode in CosPrayers runs for twelve minutes and has a color in its title. The continuity of many episodes is sporadic which may be due to editing of the original material to fit into the twelve minutes.
Characters
Koto Hoshino / Miko Rayer
Koto always wanted to be a heroine, but the fact that she is easily scared prevents anything of the sort from happening. She loves cosplaying. When she finds a strange bracelet at the Izumo temple, she gets the chance to be a heroine for real. She is guilt-stricken when she learns that she has sealed away Amaterasu (even though she was tricked). At first, she cannot transform like the others, no matter how hard she tries, leading to severe punishment from Scarlett. When she sees In-chan and You-chan severely hurt, she becomes so angry she transforms and destroys a monster by herself. She is the only one who does not believe Kurusu about the towers, and regrets it when she destroys the final one. She is the second-in-command, but the field leader. At the end, she realises that all the girls must sing in order to defeat the Woman of the Night.Her colour is red and she uses a sword to battle. Her theme is based on Japanese culture.An actress playing Koto Hoshino is Natsumi Yagami.
Scarlett Church / Sister Rayer

Iko Sue / Dian Rayer

Remuria Sharia / Rabian Rayer
Priscillaria Shamaran / Sari Rayer
In-chan and You-chan
Priest Kurusu
Takitsu-hime
The Dark Mikos
A group of four guys who possess dark magic, and the ability to turn into a huge monster. They appear to want the girls.The White Goddess
A powerful mecha summoned when the girls remove the Limiter on their bracelets when they transform. They are connected to her by cables.Himiko
The Miko Reiya before Koto. She tried to seal Takitsu, but failed. She is the one who led Koto to the top of the temple. She and Kurusu sacrifice themselves in order to defeat the Woman of the Night.Hit o Nerae!
Hit o Nerae!, or Smash Hit! in English, has the lead character Mizuki Ikuta as a producer of Houchiku Corporation's anime CosPrayers. Mizuki is a drama otaku and is often teased for this and for her size, being called Oko-chama which means little girl. She longed to produce a detective series and did not want to work on CosPrayers. Her only producing experience is with R-rated films and she has difficulty with her staff as the storyboard and the script do not match. Mizuki consults the writer of CosPrayers, Naoto Ooizumi, who is the main character of another sequel, Love Love?.
Love Love?
Naoto is the protagonist of the third installment of the trilogy, Love Love?. The first male main character of the series, he is a quiet high school student that suddenly finds himself involved with five girls in typical harem anime fashion. This anime also has many scenes of nudity and sexual references.