Idol Jihen (Idol Incidents)

Increasing income divide, creeping environmental pollution, unsolvable waste issues, childcare waiting lists being discussed without those concerned, repeated corruption… The government, smeared by vested interests, can't do a thing against the many problems and sources of discontent. It's in this situation, with Japan cornered with no way out, that idols rise up to save the day!

The Heroine Party, Sunlight Party, Starlight Party, Bishoujo Party, Wakaba Party, Subculture New Party, and SOS Party. From these seven idol political parties, the idols who have become National Diet members and representatives for each prefecture will smash through the sense of stagnation covering Japan using the power of song and dance! They'll bring back the smiling faces of the people, and wrap Japan in a glittering aura!!

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Hoshina, Natsuki

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Yashima, Sarara
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Onimaru, Shizuka

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Fuchigami, Mai
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Kondou, Sachie

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Ueda, Reina
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Fudou, Mizuki

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Lynn
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Kozuru, Mika

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Akasaki, Chinatsu
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Yami†Ringo-sama

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Yamamoto, Nozomi
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Momoi, Ume

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Nakaya, Sayaka
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Iizuka, Sakurako

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Kubo, Yurika
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Arai, Shirayuki

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Kido, Ibuki
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Shimizu, Yuna

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Serizawa, Yuu
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Ootsuka, Manabu

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Yoshida, Daisuke

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Enomoto, Takahiro

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Terasawa, Kazuaki

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"Utae! Ai no Kouyaku (歌え！愛の公約)" by SMILE♥X

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"Respect" by with

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May 5, 2017

dostluq

Recommended

I saw there were some bad reviews for this, but I really enjoyed it.

I found this is show entertaining and sweet. The plot was a little slow at times but a show like this doesn't need to be super fast paced or have a bunch of twists. It is cute and made me feel happy and smile. I love Natuski and Shizuka's relationship. They are really heartwarming partners.

I don't think there is anything wrong with having a show like this, especially in these trying times. It doesn't have the tone of some weird political propaganda. I support strong, cute anime girl politicians

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Mar 26, 2017

LegendAqua

Mixed Feelings

Hey, LA didn't know Ruby Kurosawa from Love Live Sunshine grew up to be a politician!

This kind of premise of being idol AND a dietwoman is by all means a crazy and to be honest laughably weird premise, especially for the idol genre makes this kind of idol anime a weird outlier. LA doesn't know how to exactly tackle this kind of anime besides the "strengths" and "flaws"...let's start with the strengths first shall we?

For what a weird and crazy premise Idol Jihen has, the only thing LA was immediately worried about was the balance between it's idol elements and political elements, thankfully how straightforward ... and gung-ho they are about the premise making LA just laugh LA ass off sometimes. The next strength LA saw was once it finally got serious in a ways but using typical political slander, yes slightly forced on how serious it gets but it was better than the episodic stereotypical evil politicians of the week stylings from this strength LA really saw in all this is that how they utilized their episodic format to bring things to the forefront once the serious plotline arises allowing the episodic format NOT be just filler. From the idol side is that Shizuka Onimaru voiced by Mai Fuchigami as a character does grow from the standoffish tsundere idol with her "aura" being too strong into becoming a strong idol leader (though how she turns into this has a slightly shaky and rushed development). The final strength LA will put into Idol Jihen is that the "final arc" mainly concerning the current Prime Minister's plans to destroy the Idol Dietwoman actually isn't that bad, as it makes a somewhat cohesive and focused narrative instead of the Saturday Cartoon episodic villiany feel to it as well as makes the huge cast and it's main characters take action and essentially has a conflict of fire vs. fire a la "idol wars" which for a final plan is kinda thought out and interesting for an idol fan, though trying to get to this point is gonna be hassle not to mention it gathered the various idol dietwoman into one cohesive group and made them tackle their situation in a serious manner instead of the kiddy coincidental ways they resolved conflict.

There are lots of problems however LA saw throughout the anime however. Let's start off with how LA said above that the episodic politician villains of the week are just stereotypically evil one way or the other and effectively being even more childish than the idol dietwoman themselves sometimes, not making their point comes across (though the only defense LA will say to this however is that one or two of the evil politician of the week does point out that an idol being a dietwoman is laughable and putting Japan to shame and in reality YES...it would!). Now the major villain of this anime, the current Prime Minister isn't much better allowing his "minions" to do all the dirty work and making them do all the work, his "plans" isn't much better and like his evil minions, his plans are slightly better but still stereotypical political slander with an idol edge to it. (Once again the defence with this one is that the current Prime Minister does use the main cast's popularity and "righteousness" to his own advantage making him a "somewhat" competent main villain). it's kind of a problem with this kind of anime if LA is rooting for the major villain than the idols themselves. on speaking of which, the main idol cast is HUGE, though the main two that are focused on are Natsuki Hoshina voiced by Sarara Yashima and Shizuka Onimaru voiced by Mai Fuchigami. The rest at best are satellite characters to ONE ANOTHER within their own party giving them at best one episode worth of development, individually they have their own quirks sure, but as a group (in which they are usually in) makes them increasingly harder to remember their names. Natsuki as a character however due to her infectiously genki personality can be a plus to the anime sure and her belief that "bringing smiles to Japan is the way to go" is admirable...but for politics...well it's laughable and really can't be taken seriously, she also gets the opposite of Shizuka's character development once the anime gets serious.

In terms of animation, the animation done by MAPPA and Studio VOLN is acceptable especially concerning the character designs, they are bright and colorful to say the least and at least some of the character are distinguishable albeit only because the majority of the characters have a quirk or accessory to them making them distinguishable but again...since the cast is soo big and many characters sticking to one another that it's still hard to remember their names (let alone try to remember their voice actor!). The idol dancing animation done by Chiptune if anything is typical of the idol genre just less effort, as it's blatantly obvious nearly EVERY scene when it becomes 3D CGI -implemented. Heck even Sunrise with Love Live Sunshine put in a bit more effort than this!. The animation overall is slightly above average if only because of the character designs.

With the voice acting however is where LA thinks the anime has one of the most lack of, this coming from an anime full of idols and NOT UTLIZING the voice actors properly. It just really feels like the majority fo the voice actors were on autopilot for the majority of the time, the only 3 LA saw give some effort was Sarara Yashima (for her genkiness and later personality change), Reina Ueda as Sachie Kondou, Natsuki and Shizuka's manager and Mai Fuchigami but they only get this spot merely due to screentime...nothing more.

Idol Jihen can be a rather funny and odd ride and sure many of it's flaws actually has a silver lining to it and it's strengths has some detriments to it. It just feels like Idol Jihen is taking the Saturday Morning cartoony feel to it, making the anime somewhat tone-deaf to it's situation especially to such a topic as politics (the only exception LA will say to this statement being once the anime gets serious but even then it still has the lingering feeling of it) and putting a kiddy evil political villains doesn't help. LA wouldn't put Idol Jihen into the horrible anime pile but the anime still has tons of problems. At best it's a soo bad it's good anime, at worst it's situationally tone-deaf anime. Sure LA is taking this kind of premise seriously, but LA only does it as the uniqueness of this anime comes from it's political elements and politics kinda needs to be taken seriously and Idol Jihen just doesn't take itself seriously.

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Mar 31, 2017

Nafisa

Not Recommended

I was so disappointed with this anime that I decided to write my first review on it to express my dislike.

Starting with story, the concept of idol politicians is an idea nobody has used before and for good reason, it doesn't work nor make sense. The storyline is typical and half-assed with the recurring theme of "Don't give up!" and "Friendship can solve all the world's issues!". It also reuses the same major morals of taking care of the environment and the people which is fine but predictable. The politics within the story were executed poorly, nothing was particularly realistic or good for that ...

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