Holo no Graffiti

This is either for you, or not for you. It all boils down to expectations and humor. This anime thrives off the short skit format so if you aren't someone who enjoys that, just don't watch it. As a fledgling hololive fan, this show was somewhat helpful to learn the names of some of the members. This show has basically no story and has somewhat mixed graphics but as it is not meant to be taken seriously it benefits from it. Honestly had many a good laugh while watching this. You will probably enjoy the show more if you have some knowledge of the ... hololive idols beforehand but it is still really enjoyable even if you don't know much more than you'd learn from a discord memes channel. I would like to give you the tiniest warning that this show can get fairly loud at times so I would recommend you halve your volume beforehand. Overall I'd most certainly recommend you watch at least one episode to get a decent jist and form your own opinion.

tldr: if you don't know anything about hololive you will not enjoy this anime. that's coming from someone who's really invested in hololive.

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If you have little-to-no knowledge about hololive and its talents, this anime will most likely make no sense to you. This should not be the first thing to check out if you're interested in getting into hololive (or in other words falling into the rabbit hole). Watch stream clips, check out the many talents, watch their streams or their archives, and if you think you're already deep into the rabbit hole then check out Holo no Graffiti.

If you wanna to watch ... this anime first before getting to know hololive, this review is for you.

Story:
There's no story nor plot. Every episode just features a day in the life of a talent(s) in the hololive studio. There's no continuity between episodes; every episode is its own thing.

You won't understand what's happening in the episodes without keeping up with the hololive community. References are from streams and/or talent lore, and assuming you don't understand the references you might not find it funny.

Art:
It's a 3D anime. The models are good enough. The props are good enough. the animation is good enough, although awkward at times. Basically, it isn't the best, but it isn't the worst either. It could be better in my opinion, sure, but again it's good enough for us hololive fans.

Sound:
The episodes get loud often, so be prepared to lower your volume by quite a bit. They aren't professional voice actors, so don't expect the quality from mainstream anime.

Characters:
The characters are mainly hololive talents and sometimes staff members. I do feel that sometimes a talent's character is different in Holo no Graffiti compared to their actual streams. It's like they're a completely different person, and I'm actually not a fan of that. Don't expect character development in this anime.

Enjoyment:
If you like hololive and you keep up with the community, go watch it and you'll probably enjoy it since you'll get most of the references.

If you have little knowledge of hololive you will not enjoy this anime because you'll be left confused.

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Overall, I enjoy Holo no Graffiti. I won't recommend this to your fellow anime enjoyer or to someone who wants to get into hololive. But I will recommend this to anyone who is already deep into the rabbit hole, I think you'll love this.

Rating:
8/10
but 5/10 in the perspective of someone who doesn't know hololive

If you're not a hololive fan, you probably confuse why this thing got 8.46 score and beating anime like Madoka Magica for example. As a hololive fan in the past, me too!

Story: 1/10
Anime without story is fine. That's common in CGDCT which I like. This is one of anime where story doesn't mean everything too and I'm pretty sure lot of people can agree on that. However, can they please bring something that make some sense and not just random thing? This is like "Hey, this idea sound fun let's do it quick it's near our deadline now". In the end, you will just asking ... yourself "what the fuck is going on" because it's so confusing.

Art: 3/10
I think this is expected when you just animating their model like that instead of redraw it like traditional method(?). It's actually fine when you think about it. It's however far away from other anime around here and don't deserve to have nice score on this part compare to other. Hololive Alternative look insanely nice though and I'm looking forward to see that but for now, this is all I can give for art score.

Sound: 5/10
Nothing interesting but nothing gone wrong. No complain but it's just average. Actually, I don’t see a need to put something special into it either. It give me feeling of fandub though but nothing wrong with that I guess.

Character: 6/10
Saying "I don't understand character because I don't watch hololive and there's no introduction to make me understand" is like saying this in other anime OVA:
"I don't understand character because I didn't watch *insert parent story name of anime* and there's no introduction in OVA to make me understand".

It's obvious that you need to watch hololive first and have some knowledge about hololive before to understand this.
Character in Holo no Graffiti seem to be well-represented compared to their personality but there's room to improve.

Enjoyment: 2/10
THIS IS PERSONAL OPINION
I doesn't feel any emotion at all. Maybe I watch it in wrong way? I think I know all hololive member that show in Holo no Graffiti. Maybe I don’t know 3rd generation well enough? Anyway, I doesn’t feel enjoy when watch it and I frequently watch hololive clip that pop into my YouTube feed in the past and sometime (rarely) watch 1st generation live.

Overall: 3/10
With this kind of art and mess story plus I doesn’t feel like enjoying it at all, this is all I can give.

Please don’t call me “anti” and cancel me just because I rate this low. I’m not an anti and I still watch some hololive clip in my free time. I just don’t like this one particular animated thing from hololive.

I’m looking forward for Hololive Alternative as it look fantastic. For now, all I can do is wait for that and maybe I will enjoy some particular episode of Holo no Graffiti that actually look interesting but there’s not much.

If you really are a fan of hololive, maybe this will enjoy you, maybe even a lot. Just maybe though as I’m not enjoying it and I think I can consider myself as a fan. I think you should watch hololive clip instead of this since it's much more enjoyable.

However, if you never watch hololive, don’t bother. You won’t understand it anyway and you're going to waste lot of time that seem small but actually a lot in order to understand it (aka get into rabbit hole) and it's hard to quit.