Japan’s anime event scene has delivered some properly unhinged programming before, but this one is next-level: King of Prism is being paired with The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time for a special double-feature screening.
Yes, bro, the idol anime franchise and the final Sharknado movie. In one cinema. Back-to-back. With audience shouting encouraged.
The event will happen on June 7 at Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas in Tokyo, with entertainment site Eiga Natalie sponsoring the screening. The featured films are King of Prism -Your Endless Call- Miinna Kirameki! Prism☆Tours and The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time, which is also known in Japan as Sharknado 6: Last Chainsaw.
So why this cursed-but-genius combo?
According to the original report, the idea came from Eiga Natalie’s column “Subete no Michi ha Same ni Tsuzu (?)”, which roughly means “All Roads Lead to Sharks (?)”.
The connecting tissue here is not idols, chainsaws, or flying sharks — it is time travel. Both films apparently use time-travel elements in their stories, which is honestly the funniest possible excuse to build a double bill like this.
The event is also designed as a participatory screening, meaning fans are encouraged to cheer, shout responses, and do call-backs during the films. If you’ve followed Japanese anime cinema culture, this kind of “support screening” is a whole vibe. Instead of sitting silently like it’s an exam, fans can react together, almost like a mini live event.
Screening schedule
The double feature starts with King of Prism -Your Endless Call- Miinna Kirameki! Prism☆Tours, running from 3:00pm to 4:00pm.
After that, there will be a 30-minute talk show, before the programme continues with The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time from 4:40pm to 6:06pm.
Tickets went on sale on Tuesday through the Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas website, priced at 3,500 yen, which is about US$22 — roughly around the RM100 range depending on exchange rate.
Why SEA fans should care
For Malaysian and SEA anime fans, this is not just random Japan-only cinema chaos. It shows how flexible anime fan events can be when organisers understand audience culture. King of Prism already has a fanbase that thrives on energy, sparkle, and crowd reaction. Pairing it with a campy disaster movie like Sharknado sounds ridiculous, but that is exactly why it works as a communal cinema experience.
Malaysia has had plenty of anime movie screenings, especially for big titles, but we still don’t get enough experimental fan screenings like this — the kind where the cinema becomes part concert, part meme session, part fandom gathering. Imagine a local event where fans are allowed to shout lines, cheer transformations, or react together without kena side-eye from half the hall. For certain titles, especially idol anime, tokusatsu, and cult films, that format could be genuinely fun.
This double feature also proves that programming does not always need to be ultra-serious to be memorable. Sometimes the hook can simply be: “These two wildly different movies both involve time travel, so let’s throw them together and let the crowd go nuts.”
Would this exact combo make sense in Malaysia? Maybe niche gila. But as an event concept, it is the kind of weird fandom energy SEA organisers should be paying attention to.
Source: Anime News Network