Ranked #4274

Lovedol: Lovely Idol

This was bad. Really bad. If you look at it from first impressions, then this anime would look super cute with six sparkling young girls that are all inspired to be super pop princesses. Eh. Dig a little deeper into this anime and you'll see that this was all nonsense fluff that had the potential to be good.

The animations were average. Character designs are cute if you just look at them from snapshots, but go inside a little further into the anime and you'll see that sometimes it's just messed up. With eyes in awkward positions at moments and the facial features are all deformed at some spots. Makes you wonder what the animation producers were thinking? Because they aren't beautiful idols anymore and the animations barely had any movement. Felt like I was watching a slideshow with moving mouths. For an anime about music, the LoveDols didn't have that many good songs. Maybe the ED song was a bit catchy, but that doesn't redeem the entire series. I mean Full Moon wo Sagashite had good music and that anime turned out to be a success. What happened to Lovely Idol that causes it to be a massive failure?

The story is flat out boring. It's about a bunch of teenage girls that want to become singers, because we all know that every girl wants to become a singer when they grow up. It's kind of funny how the audience is all males. Does that mean that they suck at singing and can only win in looks? Is that what all singers are based upon nowadays? I shouldn't think harder than I should for such a failure anime like this. The story gets off-topic a lot. From cooking, hide and seek, making dog sounds, wearing swimsuits, talking about boring stuff that are unrelated to singing whatsoever. Those moments were dull and so were the singing parts, so Lovely Idol really going for it at all.

And now we're at the characters. Oh, good characters can save a miserable train wreck like this, can't it? I mean they all look beautiful. Unfortunately, the character were very poorly developed. Most of the girls had no background story and had no reason for singing whatsoever. The main female had a motive, but her motive was downright silly. "I sing for revenge." Ha, that made me laugh when I first heard it. Not even the manager had any character development. Instead of dramatic characters we get annoying whiny characters that want to sing just for fame and fortune. That's fine and all, but do they have to be so annoying at times?

What could have been a good show turned out to be a failure. A miserable laughable failure. I guess it's somewhat entertaining to watch this wreck unfold. I couldn't stand this show after episode three and I don't know how I managed to get through the other nine episodes. I guess this anime would only appeal to young girls that like cute things or want to become singers themselves. Because little girls only care about cute girls and shiny lip gloss, that they wouldn't mind the horrible story. I mean it's a brilliant idea and it's perfect for them. For a singing show this anime is horrible, even Hannah Montana is more fun to watch than this.

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The story is rather unique. It is sort of like a "slice of life" anime focused on a group of girls who want their futures in the career of being Lovedols. However, each of them have a different circumstance, yet they all have to work together, face the same difficulties on their path to become a successful third batch of Lovedols.

The story is rather interesting and unique, yet I didn't find it interesting at all. In fact, I feel sleepy while watching it. Not that it isn't good, but it is just boring to people who aren't in the similar field of career. The animation looks rather old, though the character designs are good. Overall, if you have nothing to do, then watch it. Otherwise, it may be a waste of time.. read more