Kawagoe Boys Sing (Kawagoe Boys Sing -Now or Never-)

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Japanese: 川越ボーイズ・シング

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 9, 2023 to Jan 15, 2024

Premiered: Fall 2023

Broadcast: Mondays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: Telecom Animation Film, NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan, dugout

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: evg

Source: Original

Genre: Slice of Life

Themes: Music, School

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 5.64¹ (scored by 1,508 users)

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Ranked: #11213²

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Popularity: #7615

Members: 6,511

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Haruo Hibiki, a former orchestra conductor, suddenly appears in front of Tenshi whose peaceful daily life suddenly turns into chaos after meeting Haruo. Although Haruo is an up-and-comer, his troublesome personality causes him to be kicked out of the orchestra. In exchange for being allowed to return, Haruo must meet certain conditions. The conditioning being to establish a new boy's choir club with only male voices at Kawagoe Academy and win the National Boys' Choir Competition. Tenshi and his friends are forced to join the 'Boys Choir Club'. The new choir members are fed up with Haruo, who has a personality that is immature, cannot read the atmosphere, and can't help but use abusive language. However, as they continue to sing and are swayed by Haruo's mysterious guidance, they eventually become absorbed in the choir. As high-level rival teams appear one after another, will the Kawagoe Gakuen Boys Choir Club be able to accomplish its reckless goal of winning the competition? A hot-blooded youth comedy filled with soulful choir songs!

(Source: Official site, translated)

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Characters & Voice Actors

Hibiki, Haruo

Main

Okitsu, Kazuyuki
Japanese

Dei, Tenshi

Main

Uzawa, Shoutarou
Japanese

Yazawa, Hiroshi

Supporting

Tsuchida, Reiou
Japanese

Kobashi, Kaito

Supporting

Nakanishi, Nao
Japanese

Hibiki, Arisa

Supporting

Doi, Mika
Japanese

Iijima, Rika

Supporting

Suzaki, Aya
Japanese

Koarashi, Zen

Supporting

Tachibana, Tatsumaru
Japanese

Morimura, Michiru

Supporting

Doujima, Hayato
Japanese

Suzuki, Curtis

Supporting

Fukagawa, Kazumasa
Japanese

Shiratori, Shuuji

Supporting

Yuki, Obara
Japanese

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Matsumoto, Jun

Director

Kikuta, Hiromi

Sound Director

Takeuchi, Nobuyuki

Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Ishii, Teru

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

"Unknown no Shikisai (アンノウンの色彩)" By Kaco

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Ending Theme

	1: "Ride Out the Fall" by Kawagoe Boys Choir Club feat. Tenshi Dei a.k.a Danbocchi (CV: Shoutarou Uzawa), Hiroshi Yazawa a.k.a Ei-chan (CV: Reiou Tsuchida), Shuuji Shiratori (CV: Yuuki Obara) (eps 2)
	2: "Ride Out the Fall" by Kawagoe Boys Choir Club feat. Tenshi Dei a.k.a Danbocchi (CV: Shoutarou Uzawa), Jin Adachi (CV: Subaru Kimura) (eps 3)
	3: "Ride Out the Fall" by Kawagoe Boys Choir Club feat. Shin Hyuuga (CV: Yuuri Ise), Kyou Hyuuga (CV: Youji Ikuta) (eps 4)

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Apr 21, 2024

peachxchinchou

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (11/12 eps)

As a huge fan of music anime in general, I thought I'd enjoy this. The first few episodes were great! Silly slice of life-esque music anime. However, as it got on, it got more and more rushed, leaving the final "arc" to just 2 episodes. If it was longer, it'd probably have seemed less rushed.

Most of the characters have a "thing" which becomes their nickname (Cardbocchi, IT, Maiden). Other than their "thing" , most of the characters are really forgettable, most of which I can't even remember their names.

I liked the teacher though, definitely one of the best kinds of characters,, very silly

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Nov 12, 2023

RowinHaddick

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (5/12 eps)

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My first actually written review for an anime for some reason is going to this show. Strangely, it is the first one to make me really want to write a review.

Anyways, this is a very strange show with strange characters and very odd choices in its writing. Each boy who joins the choir is given something strange about their personality to introduce a conflict they each have to resolve. The original boy, for example, (Dei, Tenshi) is extremely shy and is afraid of singing while people watch him. This conflict is immediately resolved in the first episode and then brought back later on (to ...

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Jan 21, 2024

SuperAdventure

Not Recommended

This is one of the most baffling anime experiences I've ever had. Here is an anime almost nobody knew about, both in Japan and over in America, and this project appears to be this studio's very first anime.
Well they are definitely learning how to make anime in the School of HARD KNOCKS
It's supposed to be a Boy's Choir, though in the very first episode they show dancing, and a routine that more resembles idol performance. There are some bits and pieces that hint at someone in this studio knowing about singing... but it's not much, and the show has a distinct feeling that it ... doesn't really know much about its subject. And then there's the music.... Oh God. For reasons known only to the show's creators they had an ambitious choice of songs but which include a lot of English lyrics. But they apparently didn't have the budget for fluent English vocalists... the singing is by a bunch of amateurs and sounds awful most of the time. And I don't mean mild accents here and there, but such bad mispronunciation that it literally made me CRINGE!!
Speaking of cringe, the opener for this thing is an acid trip. It's one of the most terrible looking openers I've ever seen, made all the more baffling by how much passion was clearly put into it. This entire anime feels like a Case Study for the Dunning-Kreuger Effect.
The plot is pretty basic- smug rich boy failed conductor (Haruo Hibiki, who I called "Maestro") is recruited by his grandmother (better known as Old Hag) who decides that he must coach a boy's choir at the Kawagoe Boy's School that she is headmaster of, and win a National Competition or else his conducting career is over. He first scouts Tenshi, known as "Cardbocci" in the anime, which means Cardboard Box...heh, a very apt description of the impression this anime makes on you. Tenshi is cute, talented, but has stage fright. But it quickly forgets the plot and becomes an after-school music club anime, with all these other oddball boys joining. One who has facepaint like you'd see in Kiss maybe, a couple of twins and a rich kid (who all have the same face), and a big marshmallow guy (Bartleby).
It teases shonen-ai romance but never gets farther than the characters just being nice to each other. The animation is stilted, a lot of scenes make heavy use of stills. The characters all have these prominent eyelids drawn over their eyes that just make them look tired. The direction is all over the place, and the episodes range from pithy, slightly boring inexplicable school antics mixed with character drama- to downright awful. One episode in the middle of the season features the boys moving to another auditorium and somehow getting taken hostage by the worst terrorist in history, while an old guy shows up with a camera and ends up with his pants down... I can't explain, it's just terrible. Other times the direction takes a dark, artsy turn.
Characters are introduced and then forgotten about. Most of the episodes began with Maestro sitting on the sofa in Old Hag's office while she prods him for progress on his choir recruitment while they eat desserts (like PEPPER FLAVORED pudding! BLEGHH!!) Another episode has her ride up to challenge a competing choir group while riding a Segway. I could tell you to just go ahead and watch this just to see for yourself, but you're more likely to be bored to death and that is why I can't recommend it.

Even so, there are moments of true brilliance- sometimes the music is emotional and fitting and very good. Sometimes the arthouse direction actually pulls off a great scene. Sometimes the character IT-kun is actually kind of fun and entertaining. The backgrounds don't look like anything you see in other anime, it's different scenery and shot from different angles than you usually see and gives it an interesting vibe. This isn't a truly bad show, it tries very hard and has a positive message, but its execution is so clumsy and its writing so sloppy, and it's a musical anime that doesn't understand its own subject and doesn't have enough MUSIC!!! And in the world of music anime that's a deal breaker.

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