How many episodes are in Love Through a Prism?

Love Through a Prism has 20 episodes in this listed season.

When does Love Through a Prism premiere?

Love Through a Prism premieres on 2026-01-15.

Is Love Through a Prism a new series?

Love Through a Prism is a new series (Season 1).

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Love Through a Prism(2026)

Also known as Prism Rondo • Miłość przez pryzmat

Archived · Netflix

8.31220 eps

S01

AnimationDrama

ON AIR: JAN 15Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Set in early 1900s London, this animated drama follows a young Japanese woman who enrolls in a prestigious art school and finds herself drawn into rivalry with a gifted classmate. The animated format is applied to a serious period story, using the form to render the charged atmosphere of a competitive creative institution with an intimacy that earns its weight across the season.

The rivalry between the two students drives the first stretch of the show, with their work functioning as emotional language before anything more direct surfaces. The cross-cultural tension of a Japanese woman navigating an Edwardian British institution sits in the background without being announced, and the romance that eventually develops is shaped by all the friction and competition that preceded it.

Best for

period art school, slow-burn romance and Animation

Story lane

Animation and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 20 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

In early 1900s London, a young Japanese woman enrolls in a famous art school, only to be surprised when rivalry with a gifted classmate becomes romance.

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Strongest Match

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Why this pick

Miss Scarlet shares Love Through a Prism’s period London focus and the push-pull energy of two people forced to work close while resisting each other. In 1880s streets and drawing rooms, a woman navigating a profession that blocks her turns each case into a test of persistence, with partnership friction that stays dramatic and grounded.

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Why this pick

Goodbye, Lara keeps the same slow-burn romance focus, where feelings grow under pressure and every choice carries a real cost. After a centuries-long price can’t be undone, the story leans into longing and quiet dread, trading art-school rivalry for a last-chance countdown and a more melancholy, fantasy-tinged kind of intimacy.

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