Prodigies (Japanese TV series)

Prodigies is a Japanese classical music talent show for singers, dancers, and musicians aged 8 to 16 and is based on the French reality competition Prodiges.

Unlike the original series in France, for which both episodes in each season is pre-recorded, the season finale in Japan's version is a live show for which the overall winner is decided solely by televoting despite the super finalists from each category being decided by the corresponding judge. The semi-final, however, is pre-recorded.

Series overview

 * Contestant from team Tomotaka Okamoto (singers)
 * Contestant from team Momoko Hirata (dancers)
 * Contestant from team Yasuhiro Kobayashi (musicians)
 * Contestant from team Moné Hattori (musicians)

Season 1 (2021)
Here are the contestants and performance details from the inaugural season. Contestants whose names are in bold qualified for the season finale, while contestants whose names are underlined were the super finalists of their respectively categories.


 * Musicians
 * Genjiro, age 14, piano - "Hungarian Rhapsody #2" by Franz Liszt
 *  Mariya , 12, violin - "Nessun dorma" from Turandot / "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen
 * Keiju, age 16, saxophone - "Der Hölle Rache" from The Magic Flute / "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi
 * Rena, age 11, accordion - "Hungarian Dance #5" by Brahms / "Csárdás" by Monti
 * Nana, age 9, violin - "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley


 * Singers
 * Anna, age 14 - "Look at Your Path" from The Chorus / "Memory" from Cats
 *  Ema , age 16 - "Time to Say Goodbye" by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman / "You Love" from Once Upon a Time in the West
 * Fumito, age 15 - "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto
 * Genzo, age 11 - "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from La traviata
 * Hidehiko, age 16 - "The Cold Song" from King Arthur / "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore


 * Dancers
 *  Banri , age 15 - "Reflections of Mufasa" from The Lion King / "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" by Rachmaninoff
 * Chigusa, age 16 - "Conquest of Paradise" from 1492: Christopher Columbus
 * Daichi, age 16 - "Oyfn Pripetshik" from Schindler's List
 * Koruri, age 13 - "Dies iræ" from Requiem / "Someone Like You" by Adele
 * Nonoka, age 11 - "Nothing Compares to You" by Sinéad O'Connor / "Serenade for Strings" by Dvořák

The overall winner was 16-year-old Ema from the singers category, after she won the public vote by a landslide.
 * Results


 * Trivia
 * Mariya and Keiju are siblings.