So Karasawa-san was a good guy after all...
Paripi Koumei
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Justin Gonzalez
The quality for this show sharply drops as it progresses. After the premiere, cracks start forming. The second episode contains numerous still shots. The comedy starts tiring in the third, with the strongest element of the show, Kongming’s absurdist genius, becoming overused. After the third, the show rightfully attempts to solve this by shifting focus towards the other characters, but the show never replaces Kongming’s striking presence with anything, instead choosing to delve into several generic and uninspired side plots.
What the fuck went so wrong?
It's P.A. Works’s first anime based on a manga, and they proved they are inexperienced and incompetent with adaptations.
The show’s comedy goes all-out in the first episode. Adding in new and creative jokes becomes unreasonable after a certain point in production, and wastes time. Expended all the quality jokes early on, leaving its later episodes devoid of fresh comedy and fresh character development.
Solutions to the characters’ problems are all but shallow in the last few episodes, further widening the gap in quality. All COMPLETELY surface-level, and focuses too much on the situation instead of the spirit of the characters.
As Sun Tzu said in his Art of War, "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." By going all-out on its first few episodes, this show neglected its purpose and production, and so like the defeated warriors, cannot convert its initial momentum into any long-term goal. And while ending a review with a quote is corny, I could find no more fitting way to sum up my disappointment with this show’s wasted opportunity.
No higher than 4/10, think for yourself for once dumbasses.
Carter Carter
Why didn't Eiko dress like this?
Jack Thomas
Stop being mean to Eiko and her show, she's feeling bad about it
Matthew Peterson
When I started watching this show I expected nothing but I actually liked it.
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Xavier Mitchell
Nanami is for pump and dump.
Luke Jones
The real Assalea!
David Bennett
>feels ashamed knowing eiko is watching
>still dances provocatively anyways
nanami and her exhibitionist play trying to turn eiko into a voyeur
David Ramirez
I prefer evil manager's version of Azalea.
The song they played sounded just as soulless but with a cheesy uplifting vibe.
What's even the point of this whole arc if they actually just wanted to produce a more boring flavour of pop music.
I get what they were going for but it probably worked better in the manga where the music is left to the reader's imagination.
Wyatt Mitchell
I think the middle part of the show was rough, mainly due to pacing issues that led to Kongming getting sidelined, but this was a great last episode. I'm inclined to say the first and last episodes were the best. Having Karasawa be not so blatantly evil works well, and even if an ending this good for Azalea is wishful thinking when it comes to the real world, i think it's still nice that things work out in the end, it makes the story have a fairy tale-like quality to it. Overall, it wasn't perfect, but i think it ended up being a very enjoyable show.
David Long
I found the quality as a production great and constant. I didn't read the manga yet so I wonder how much of the writing issues come from the manga for instance. I'm guessing that it is in fact a pretty good adaptation from P.A. Works, but the source itself is lacking so it makes it an okay-ish anime. I'd be curious if anyone could confirm or deny that.
On the other hand, it is clear that the anime itself is not visually ambitious enough for the kind of story it tries to tell. A shame, because you could see the potential.
Ryder Brown
the show was great, the keikakus (tl note: keikaku means plan) were fun, the songs were good, and the chemisty of the characters was nice.
Cameron Hughes
I wish we got more of them in their costumes. So where are all the real rising idols forced to wear latex/other sexy costumes to gain fans? I want to find them all, here's the first one that kind of meets that requirements, I want to go further, deeper
Aiden Taylor
Which one did it better?
Jaxson Reed
Christopher Campbell
It hasn't even been half a day and I've already forgotten this show.
Oliver Myers
the pacing ín the manga is faster so you don't have to wonder "where the fuck is Koumei" half of the time, while keeping you invest enough to actually get to the keikaku part
Evan Russell
Hmm
John Richardson
This was a huge problem. I haven't read the manga, but devoting entire episodes to first Kabe and then Nanamin just killed the show's momentum. 2+ episodes out of 12 go to side characters and barely feature Eiko, let alone Koumei? There had to have been a better way to weave that together.
Speaking of Kabe, what the fuck? They spent so much time on him, and Koumei kept saying how important he is, and his role was...to do a single diss performance? That was the grand plan? It made no fucking sense within the show, and no fucking sense in terms of narrative and pacing.
Joshua Green
>Solutions to the characters’ problems are all but shallow in the last few episodes, further widening the gap in quality. All COMPLETELY surface-level, and focuses too much on the situation instead of the spirit of the characters.
Not even shallow, they just didn't make sense. Azalea, a band already pretty popular that has a seemingly 24/7 marketing blitz involving billboards, sound trucks, and even blimps, puts on a surprise show and has their like count literally stopped cold because one guy dropped a diss track on them? When they showed the like numbers for Azalea just...stop completely, it was fucking ridiculous.
Gavin Thompson
What would've been the Stratagem of Alienation if Kongming deployed it?
Jace Sanders
He was never portrayed as evil, though. He was very clear with Azalea about what he could offer them and what he would need them to do. They took his deal, he kept up his end and made them famous.
Wyatt Butler
He had snipers deployed on various buildings to take out Azalea and their manager.
Asher Clark
I'm surprised the show was so cheap looking. P.A.Works brought their A game for like 3 episodes only. Every other performance was a slideshow.
Also it's curious I can't seem to find any merchandise for this. It's almost like they barely cared compared to their original productions.