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Rainbow High

Rainbow High is an American animated web series based on the Rainbow High fashion doll line produced by MGA Entertainment. It premiered on YouTube on October 2, 2020, and follows a group of first-year students at an elite visual arts high school who must use their individual creative talents to succeed.¹^•² The series is distributed on YouTube and Netflix, among other platforms, with episodes running about seven minutes each.²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	October 2, 2020, on the Rainbow High YouTube channel, with new episodes every other week through May¹
Producer / studio	MGA Entertainment; animation by Pixel Zoo Australia⁴
Format	3D animated episodes of about 7 minutes, released biweekly on YouTube²
Premise	First-year students Ruby, Poppy, Sunny, Jade, Skyler, and Violet must compete in their first fashion show or risk losing their places at the invite-only boarding school¹
Reach	The first four seasons generated just under one million YouTube subscribers and 1.3 billion minutes watched⁴
Seasons	Seven seasons as of 2026; season 5 ("Rainbow World", 2024), season 6 (2025, 16 episodes), and season 7 ("Rainbow High Paris", 2026)⁴^•⁵
Rating	TV-Y7; Common Sense Media suggests age 8+⁶^•³

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Premise and characters

The series is set at Rainbow High, a competitive visual arts high school where fashion, music, and other creative disciplines take the place of a conventional curriculum. The first season follows a group of first-year students, Ruby, Poppy, Sunny, Jade, Skyler, and Violet, who are grouped together as strangers and assigned to compete in their first fashion show, which determines their final grade; they must work together or risk losing their spots at the invite-only boarding school.¹^•³ Common Sense Media's review describes the group as seven freshman friends and notes that the school story includes hazing, boy drama, and difficult class assignments, and that the group later welcomes someone new.³

Each character is tied to a color and a creative specialty in the underlying doll brand: Ruby Anderson creates custom looks, Poppy Rowan is the school's DJ, Sunny Madison is obsessed with cute and kawaii aesthetics, Jade Hunter brings dramatic makeup skills, Skyler Bradshaw designs showstopping fashion, and Violet Willow is an influencer in the making.⁷ Amaya Raine joins the cast as an additional character, voiced by Brittany Lauda.⁸ The voice cast includes Tara Sands as Ruby Anderson, Anairis Quiñones as Skyler Bradshaw, Laura Megan Stahl as Sunny Madison, Kira Buckland as Violet Willow, Brittany Cox as Bella Parker, and Jenny Yokobori as Jade Hunter.⁹

Seasons

TheTVDB lists the season runs as season 1 from October 2020 to June 2021 with 18 episodes, season 2 from July 2021 to January 2022 with 15 episodes, season 3 from March 2022 to November 2022 with 18 episodes, and season 4 from June 2023 to November 2023 with 14 episodes.²

Rainbow World. Season 5, titled "Rainbow World", premiered globally on YouTube on March 22, 2024, with 13 seven-minute episodes. It shifts the story to a fantastical world beyond the school where the core characters become the "Shimmers", magical guardians entrusted with keeping balance in the new land, and introduces the girls' little sisters and color-tinted pets. The season was accompanied by a doll line with a sparkle slime play pattern.⁴^•¹¹

Season 6. The sixth season ran from March 2025 to October 2025 with 16 episodes, continuing the Rainbow World storyline with titles such as "Crystal Confidence", "The Moonbow Crystal Shimmer", and "Saving The Shimmers".⁵

Season 7. Season 7, listed as "Rainbow High Paris", began airing in July 2026 with a five-part "Live Your Fashion" storyline, with the fifth part scheduled for September 4, 2026.⁵

Production and release

The series was created as brand storytelling for the Rainbow High doll line, which MGA Entertainment launched in 2020 with a social media campaign built around the characters attending an elite arts school with color and creativity at its core.¹⁰ According to Sarah Terry, a writer who pitched the concept in December 2019, the brand world originated in a rainbow runway fashion show presentation to MGA's leadership and creative team.⁷

Animation is produced by Pixel Zoo, a Brisbane, Australia studio, which describes the show as revolving around the drama and glam of a fast-paced fashion high school and notes that each season raised the visual ambition, from dresses made of active lighting to magical portals.¹¹ Season one accumulated over sixty million views on YouTube and ranked in the top 10 TV shows on Netflix in countries including Spain and the United States.¹¹ By March 2024, the four previous seasons had generated a YouTube community of just under one million subscribers and 1.3 billion minutes watched.⁴

Availability and reception

In the United States the series streams on Netflix and DisneyNOW, and can be purchased digitally on Apple TV and Prime Video.⁶^•¹² It carries a TV-Y7 rating.⁶

On IMDb the series holds a 6.0/10 rating from about 341 user ratings.¹³ Common Sense Media rates it appropriate for ages 8 and up, noting that it is based on a doll line and its associated products, and criticizes the show for emphasizing consumerism, outward appearance, and social media validation while offering little educational value, though reviewers acknowledged positive messages about friendship and creativity.³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Animated television series (individual series) › Children's animated adventure and fantasy series › Comedy and slice-of-life series › Premiered 2020 to 2024

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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