The iDOLM@STER

Story: 3 (no impact. Mostly episodic, and while episode 08 is the only one that i like, the rest was boring for me)
Art: 8 (moe-moe cute girls)
Sound: 7
CHaracter: 2 (annoying and childish)
Enjoyment: 2
Overall: 2 (don't bother this at all)

Before proceeding to review sentence, allow me to apologize for my harsh overall ratings.

The Idol Master has potential to be the most entertaining idol anime because it was adopted by A-1 Picture that notably has abundant budget to create appealing animation, art, and music/OST. Unfortunately it falls apart from the expectation due to that it diverges its way from being realistic in idol topic...or not ... so serious if you like. The reason i prefer idol anime to be more serious nuance is because idol anime heavily involved in, not only in character development from childish to more mature idol-like person, but also frequent engagement in business commercial that may connect to political things.

Below is a quick bird view for screening purpose. If you don't want to see those things, please see the other two idol anime out there.

Things that are lack of:
- Very little internal conflict exists within group members and individual
- Very little competition, and thus conflict, between idol group
- No idols scandal at all
- Mediocre Lack of management, marketing, networking story of how to lift the idol group to the top
- Although there are some internal problems needed to be solved by idol group member, most of problems are trivial, which don't need to have manager for that. It is just as if the manager and director in idol master is represented just for the sake of completeness, without further development.
- No interesting characteristics or traits of idol members. Worse, most characters are annoying as hell

Idol Master could be said to be similar just like school club activity (slice-of-life), except it was flavored with idol taste. So it's just sad that, while art and choreography are sparkling, it's not be complemented with more mature and non-mediocre story, the things that i'm looking for, hence ripping off the balance of interesting dimensions of idol topic.

I was thinking about giving this a quick spin but im gonna keep it short, since thats my thing.
So someone decided to make this video game into an anime, the story is about girls trying to be idols. Well I don't really see many game/anime adaptations go well and I can't really say im enjoying this series all that well. The plots kinda like a generic moe blobfest, and I think theres too much of that going around now.

The story consists of many different arcs with each idol being dug into deeper, their person and abilities are shown very vaguely and its a bit ... hard to keep up with each one since a linear story line is non existent. Simply put, its about each girl and how everyone showcases their different talents to become famous idols. But whats the point in having so many characters, if you still don't know who is who when you're halfway through the series? Thats my take anyways, too many characters.

Now lets try and look at it from the monitor and tune in with your stereo or mono.

The art itself isn't groundbreaking in any right what so ever, its simple. Maybe simple is good, sometimes art itself can take away the bads. Not having played the game you don't know the soundtracks, this is where the adaptation goes bad, in my opinion anyways. As I said before with art, sound can do the same. Lets take a walk back to 2010 with Inception. Many would say that the soundtrack itself made the movie that much better and that the movie itself would have sucked without the soundtracks. The series lacks music during each episode itself, while the ED tracks may be different too many people don't actually view ED's.

The characters are pretty generic, can't even make a full section off that. It doesn't meet the par for moe standard that shows like Azumanga Daioh and K-ON! set.

Overall it fails to keep my interest enough, enjoyment isn't the word I would use. Rather on hold simply because its just too much.

Hey now, if you're into musical adaptations give it a go.

I hate to be that guy but if there was a definition of a bad Idol anime in my opinion this takes the crown and title.

So what did i liked with this anime hmm well the look of it all wasnt bad but everything else was just bad.

Not sure i can say with good conscious that it even had a story. Everything in it was random their work , their manager , the whole thing was something i cant even begin to describe. Whatever i could have said about the character and rest was ruined by the story.

People will say that ... well you watched the whole anime well yeah i did in hope of it getting better but it never did. The risk of watching anime is that you will find one of those that sucks energy out of you and this did. I hate to be one of those guys but some anime deserves it and in my opinion this did.

I write this so that people can realise that if the first episode really crushed your beliefs in it then take a hint and stop yourself from watching it.