AKB0048

After an interplanetary war at the beginning of the 21st century, planet Earth has been left in ruins, with much of its ecosystem completely destroyed. Because it was no longer possible to live a normal life on this planet, the inhabitants are forced to move on to other planets where life will, hopefully, be more comfortable.

The Deep Galactic Trade Organization, a totalitarian government that affects many of the newly inhabited planets, has somehow come to the conclusion that music is a source of evil, and that it must be banned and destroyed for good. The talent group AKB0048 is soon formed, based on the original AKB48 members that once lived on Earth. Even though their music is now considered universally illegal, they make it their mission to bring their music back to life by travelling from one planet to another and holding as many concerts as they possibly can. They must undergo a whole new set of training methods in order to become the best that they can possibly be, while also avoiding the constant danger of being arrested because of their music. Join interplanetary popstars AKB0048 as they try to save the world－with music!

Motomiya, Nagisa Main

Iwata, Karen Japanese

Sono, Chieri Main

Watanabe, Mayu Japanese

Shinonome, Sonata Main

Yagami, Kumi Japanese

Shinonome, Kanata Main

Ishida, Haruka Japanese

Kishida, Mimori Main

Satou, Sumire Japanese

Kanzaki, Suzuko Main

Hata, Sawako Japanese

Yokomizo, Makoto Main

Mita, Mao Japanese

Aida, Orine Main

Nakaya, Sayaka Japanese

Ichijou, Yuuka Main

Satou, Amina Japanese

Kimishima, Hikari Supporting

Kanda, Akemi Japanese

Kawando, Kenjirou Producer

Kawamori, Shouji Director, Storyboard, Mechanical Design, Original Creator

Hiraike, Yoshimasa Director

Aketagawa, Jin Sound Director

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Jul 22, 2012

Stellio

Recommended

With the large amount of questionable things AKB0048 attempted, this show was inevitably doomed to fail. The large casts of characters, the doubtable synopsis and its variety of genres clustered together just to name a few. Most ridiculous of all, the director expected AKB48 singers, a real-life, popular idol group, to successfully convert into voice actresses. Furthermore, most soundtracks in the actual anime will be inserted directly from AKB48's popular debuts, and this all just seemed too convenient to work out. Thus, I walked into AKB0048 expecting some terribly scripted dialogues, incorrect utilization of AKB48 soundtracks, and tons more to name. But here I am, ... telling you that AKB0048 can actually be safely described as multitudes of great things, one of them being a successful collaboration of impinging, tricky anime genres.

However, ignoring AKB0048’s flaws would be too generous. The plot of this Series was just too chaotic in the beginning, and awkward even to the extent of a laughable synopsis. Its attempt at mixing interplanetary mecha themes with the assemblage of idols, who are all such independent loli's, just seemed too silly to fit together. At first, I continuously questioned the silly premise of the story, but later I just decided to go along with it just due to the fact that I don’t have a time machine.

=Now the Actual Review Begins=

Even with all its flaws, AKB0048 proved to me that any future is possible.

Behind all this seemingly plugged up garbage plot, I found a pearl in the sea of sewage. Before watching this series, I constituted all my opinions about idols in a Western sense. Long story short, I live in a very industrialized environment where idols are all seemingly just good-looking people with no talent whatsoever. In other words, certain despicable individuals over the past years have influenced me to completely lose respects for others with similar occupations (even in anime). Ironically, AKB0048, a crew consisting of cute girls, has elaborated enough on idols’ daily lives that I’m actually reconsidering my view point on this world’s entertainment industry. How it has done so with the slice of life, comedy, & science fiction genres fascinates me even up to today.

As a male, I never understood why a vast amount of the female population have always wanted to become an idol (not a sexist statement, it’s a fact that most idol groups include females). But, that is not to say they all have such ambitions for the same reason. With different feelings, intentions, and reasons for becoming an idol, most people who desire to rise to a position of fame come from places scattered all across the board. With that being said, most successful idols do share one thing in common; the way AKB0048 depict these idols, they all seem like a determined bunch, despite their inabilities, adversities, or any obstacles in their way. Now the supernatural situation within ABK0048 doesn't seem as irrelevant, does it? This constitutional restriction on entertainment, although clumsily scripted, immediately creates a universe where young females are disallowed their dreams of perhaps rising to become an idol. Too bad even in a universe where interplanetary wars are supposedly happening, teenagers still don’t think when they act.

As the story starts developing, three young girls who want to become the 77th Generation of AKB0048 idols consistently meet more and more obstacles as the story progresses. The first few episodes explore some character’s family issues, backgrounds, personalities, and give a vivid detail of where the series is heading, while the whole entertainment ban theme over-arches all these episodes. Things get tougher the more you get into it. Haters, dealing with failures, and stressing over little details of your actions will all lead to shed tears. But in the end, you’re never the only one going through it. There are always people going through the same pain as you, as they walk the same path as an idol. This relationship then establishes friendships between the idols depicted in this series, and it is a very interesting concept of friendship that it illustrates, by simply dealing with every day issues. As the Series progresses, the intensity builds up as well. At first the plot was driven simply by a few science fiction references, but by the end supernatural and mecha themes are thoroughly explored. Though, don't get confused because although the plot is very detailed in its description; the overall mood of AKB0048 still remains to mostly be drama/slice of life. Even though the execution of mecha scenes in AKB0048 seemed needless and unnecessary, the appearance of mecha did contribute to illustrating (symbolic) difficulties that even idols have to overcome. But to an extent, this theme was probably exaggerated on too much, while lacking the correct coherence most mecha/shounen shows actually have.

Besides these heavily emphasized themes, AKB0048 also frequently (meaning, A LOT) transitions into comedy moments. These scenes often follow serious, dramatic moments, but rarely feels barged in through the whole development. In fact, the serious moments themselves appear to be melodramatic sometimes too. But, those are just the result of the conflicted traits within some characters, which essentially arouses a feeling of drama without the actual atmosphere being so just by itself. This makes even further sense because most of the characters are professional drama queens, which, as I mentioned before, makes up these lighthearted comedy moments within this anime. Just the over dramatic atmosphere itself being consistently interfered by clumsy, klutz moments are hilarious by themselves, but the show sometimes even makes fun of itself. I won't go into details, but let's just say perversely suggestive jokes occur frequently. Even in the one beach episode (ep10) and other possible candidates where fan-service was visible, the story still progressed and was always accompanied by those suggestive jokes mentioned above. In other words, fan service done correctly without being too distracting. Personally, this consistent aspect of the show made it a more enjoyable watch.

The developments of characters were incredibly smooth as the series played out. That is, to say, if you didn't get annoyed by them from episode 1. Some characters are very irksome when they are first introduced. Unlike most anime though, these annoying characters all change in some ways in AKB0048. It's not just subtle or slight adjustments either, it's life changing choices these characters decide on which makes the viewer so attached to them. These character developments don't just occur to a few selected people either. While there are obvious main characters with bigger roles, most other (side) characters actually get their own arcs, and have a re-occurring role(s) throughout this whole series. Please note that though the cast of character is about 2 dozen idols, AKB0048 was able to handle all those characters while getting the plot to flow well, and making sure nobody gets overshadowed for the most part either. Now, that's just a bit impressive.

For an anime almost made to commercialize AKB48's songs, I'd have to say it did a great job. Any fans of the real life AKB48 idol group should check out this anime (and vice versa), think of this show almost like a behind-the-stage TV series. The music was top notched in terms of the J-pop genre, but I feared for terrible synchronization with the animation, and luckily it didn't turn out bad at all. There were also notable background music playing and it's remarkable how just a lighthearted themed soundtrack can help scenes transition from one to another (especially from those dramatic to comedy scenes). Also, due to the lack of experiences it probably took a while for those AKB48 member to suddenly become voice actors. But by the end not only was the voice acting minimal quality, they all seemed to fit the character very well, so well that It should be considerably outstanding for those undergraduates.

Animation was good, and there were obvious efforts put into the character designs. Those efforts are exemplified by the motif of carving cute (loli-like; moe) things such as hearts with a very shallow curve into characters' hairs. Not only the characters, but it's choreography within those dancing scenes also seemed fairly unique. The animation even switches into a 3-D dancing crew during actual performances of dances, and my eyeballs were just overfilled with soothing joy. For someone who's impatient to the point that even waiting 10 minutes for a movie to start becomes a problem, I'd have to say it did a fine job entertaining me with those mesmerizing dancing performances.

All in all, with a few due casualties, I think AKB0048 deserves a better rating than what most viewers are giving it. While exploring the daily lives of idols, AKB0048 accurately depicts symbolic obstacles faced by those working in the entertainment industry. Although this anime is layered over by exaggerated, heavy mecha/supernatural themes, AKB0048 still manages to blend it in somewhat nicely into the rest of its plot, and ended up with a just right amount of varieties of genres. There's never any overly done action scenes, and the serious parts/arcs of this drama have nicely attached meaning behind them all. Though, do look out for comedy scenes caused by melodramatic moments, inelegant characters, and some referenced jokes which barely cut for PG13-audiences. As for recommendations, this series is a tricky one due to its vast amount of genres; however, I would recommend AKB0048 especially to slice of life fans out there, who won't mind a few awkwardly fastened mecha plot points here and there.

Thinking back on AKB0048 now, there may be hope for the entertainment industry after all. With such a surprising treat from the first season, I can safely say second season may be just as exciting. Now if people would just listen...

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jan 18, 2020

LegendAqua

Mixed Feelings

AKB0048 is a mouthful to say much like how bloated this idol anime is!

AKB0048 is a futuristic idol anime that focuses on the Old and New "generations" of AKB0048 or "00" as they fight against the anti-entertainment bans thrghout the galaxy through guerilla concerts, but there's something deeper of being a 00 as well. Now a group of girls by the names of Nagisa Motomiya voiced by Karen Iwata, Chieri Sono voiced by Mayu Watanabe, Sonata Shinonme voiced by Kumi Yagami, Suzuko Kanzaki voiced by Sawako Hata, Makoto Yokomizo voiced by Mao Mita, Kanata Shinonome voiced by Haruka Ishida, Mimori Kishida voiced by Sumire Sato, ... Yuuka Ichijou voiced by Amina Sato and Orine Aida voiced by Sayaka Nakaya as they become the understudies of the current generation of AKB0048. Add to that but each of the characters have stakes in wanting to become successors and be a member of 00, some relational clashes from their current generations as well as old, something about Kirara's, the Center Nova, Sensei-sensei and you already get what one of the glaringly flaws to AKB0048 and that AKB0048 has....well at bit too much going for it in ALL it's elements.

From the already HUGE cast of characters, that spans two or three generations of girls, their support staff and the minor supporting characters to it's many MANY MANY plotlines it has going for it. As much as the character development helps flesh out the cast especially from a huge cast as it is, gets absolutely bogged down by it's world building of the 00 right down to the core, from the support staff especially Tsubasa Katagiri voiced by Yumi Kakazu, the debacle with the Center Nova that heavily concerns Shiori Arisawa and Tsubasa, what the entire deal with Sensei-sensei, the head of the 00, to the Kirara allowing people to recognize people in showing that their true idols that concerns Nagisa....like that just at the top of LA's head and there's more what with Chieri's father tied to the DES (the anti-entertainment ban people) and Yuuko's romantic love interest to Mamoru but MAN that's ALOT of plot points and half of it doesn't addressed or have resolutions.

For the character themselves, they get episodes in the limelight now and again but with it's huge cast and how many of those core cast have plot points major or minor that swallows any development into the mist...well to this end it's bloated with a somewhat narrow focus isn't a good sign. If LA will say this, LA's favourite character at least was Suzuko Kanzaki as her airheadedness was funny and helped lift the mood with her wacky personality alot of time....LA likes alot of megane idols *cough* Makino Yagami *cough*.

So yeah saying AKB0048 is bloated is a freakin' understatement.

In terms of animation done by Satelight, well LA will say one thing, Satelight SHINED when it came to the character designs giving them all "exotic" looking color palettes with some literal shine to them but they also have consistency to them (what does LA mean?...majority of the 00 members and understudies...ALWAYS have lovehearts in their irises as well as love hearts on their hair one way or another). As for the "battle lives", well it's use of 3DCGI is ehhh blatant, not as jank but just ehhh blatant, the few mecha times have some grace, but the choreography mainly the concerts were a bit janky at times, though at least the concerts used the 3DCGI sparingly on the characters. At least the space setting was decent and the planets they go to are schizo-futuristic to dystopian dilapidated landscapes depending if the planet has the ban or not (get it dystopian if ban in place, thriving if ban not in place). All in all, Satelight's animation was mixed from ehhh to decent...kinda expected from the bombastic Shoji Kawamori.

Now, here we go...the voice cast.....yeah what do you expect when the REAL life AKB48 members actually transition into voice acting with NO experience and this is their first?. Yeah "some" of the AKB members sound it, like Mao Mita, Karen Iwata and Sayaka Nakaya where LA can't explain it but they have this stilted non-pop filtered sound whenever they speak. Nonetheless there was some AKB48 members that did fine, from Mayu Watanabe as Chieri, Sumire Sato as Mimori and Amina Sato as Yuuka. Coincidence that some of the current AKB0048 members are actually voiced by veteran voice actors like Mai Nakahara as Youko Asamiya, Ayako Kawasumi as Akira Igarashi, Kana Ueda as Tomoyo Itano, Yui Horie as Ayako Kuroki, Miyuki Sawashiro as Atsuko Maeda the 13th, Mamiko Noto as Chiharu Sakuragi and Yukari Tamura as Mayu...YEAH. Much like the animation and even with some amazing veteran voice actors in the backline...the voice cast was mixed to say the least.

For an anime that's focused on AKB48, well has some "real life writes the plot" mainly with the understudies and trainees based on the VA's actual lives. Like Sayaka Nakaya droppin gout of school to makes ends meet is an example. Weirdly enough one episode has a bit of weird clairvoyance that's to do with *ahem* "I won't let anyone tarnish Sashiko's name"...yeahhhhh considering what happened to the real life Sashiko...just errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr art imitates life...

As much as LA has been somewhat HARSH to this anime, LA will give some graces to this anime and what this first season does, as much of bloated mess it tried to set up it's characters and settings, ven with some of the one off episodes, they did give us some small development to the characters in question, as for the major plots, it at LEAST dealt with some (not all) but some of them and what resolutions we did get was a bit satisfying in some ways, mainly with Nagisa. Finally for an anime that has is stuck with a brand as famous as AKB, this anime is militant about it's brand and shows itself well, almost like it's projecting what an AKB48 would be in an a wacky anime setting and GOES ALL OUT WITH IT showing how great they are, by extension making us curious one way or another about the AKB48 brand. If there's ONE thing Japan is great in doing is advertisement and branding and with anime it damn well shows it!

AKB0048 is a hodgepodge of bogged down ideas with the AKB48 brand implanted into it. Sure the production value is...eh to decent but man with it's tons of multiple active plot points, be it world building or the characters and their relationships to the mix of genres AKB0048 had on being a slice of life in the daily lives of an idol to an idol anime looking at how AKB0048 trains, to a dystopian entertainment ban trying to eliminate the 00 to a slightly yuri anime with it's characters to a mecha anime fighting the DES while doing a guerilla concert. This anime is ALL OVER THE PLACE. While this doesn't mean AKB0048 isn't outright horrible, more like an unfocused bloated mess, but not horrible...per say....but it's flaws are not only detrimental but blatant at what AKB0048 wanted to do but failed in it's execution but to this it tries to leverage itself with what resolutions were taken place in this season and was satisfying, it tried to world build, tried to develop and flesh out the HUGE cast of characters...it tried.

Maybe...maybe AKB0048 might finish up it's many many loose plot threads with it's second season, but for a first season's first impression, AKB0048 if anything in "meh" territory with all it's strengths and weakness accounted for.

If there was a comparison LA could make to AKB0048 anime, it would be that AKB0048 is what AKB48, as Idolmaster Xenoglossia is to the Idolmaster franchise.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 17, 2019

captjoe213

Not Recommended

Another Robert's Too Late Review coming atcha! This particular anime is an interesting one, and not for the best of reasons. As always I'm working from the dubbed version, which I'm led to believe is fairly significant, as the real life pop group, from what I understand, did the voices in the original Japanese. If the story was as convoluted and overbearing in that version, my assessment would stand just as firm. Another important note is this review is covering BOTH seasons of the show, as they do make for one (in)coherent whole. No matter how cute, there will not be a spot on the ... RTLR of idol anime for these girls. Let's drop it like it's hot.

Story: 4
Let me start by saying this: when it comes to idol and music anime, I'm very hard to disappoint. I have on my shelves right now all 9 Love Live! girls, all 13 Idolmaster season 1 girls, and even the entire K-On band. I love me some good idol anime. This is not one of them. Even at first blush, the show looked ultra awesome. I mean, c'mon, they have mic-sabers and flying platforms! But the more they moved into the series, the more disjointed and nonsensical it became. They pick up threads, get half way through them, and then just dump them outright for the next gimmick. Add to that the incredibly weird system of 'generations' and we're just in all kinds of a mess.

For example, there are some girls in the actual main group that are like 11th or 12th 'generation' and are young women singing. Yet our main cast is primarily built around the 75th 'generation' growing and coming of age! How can we have a young 20-ish girl being SIXTY 'generations' older than the trainees in the current class? Even if you don't take 'generations' to mean an age group, and instead as nothing more than the most recent recruits, you still have to end up washing out dozens of 'generations' because there's only a handful of actual 00 members, and most of the trainees (our main cast) are from the 74th and 75th generation. Bout the only way it works is that they are churning out a generation every week or two, and even then it appears that the vast majority of the girls completely fail. This view is somewhat tempered by the fact the trainees are shown learning the ropes for a month or even more. This system is asinine and does not work.

Then we have a plethora of plot points picked up and then just utterly dropped for no reason. Late in the second season an important character dies, one who should have had a huge impact on a cast member, along with the policing force because of his immense power and wealth, but naw, he's dead, who cares, let's all dance and sing. He is mourned slightly, but gotten over quickly, and they never bother to tell us who killed him or why.

That's not the only flaw to come up. At one point they introduce an understudy position, of which there is competition and such for. They use the system basically once, and it's never mentioned again, for the most part. And why would this be an issue? Every performing group, from music to theater have plans in place to deal with unexpected absences. Why introduce the idea as something so radical and cause so much drama with it when it should have well been a given?

Furthermore, we're given a 'Dr. Claw' situation in a character called, I kid you not (in the dub) Sensei Sensei. He's like a pair of eyes and that's it, only says a word or two at a time, but is approached by the manager of 00 and the other attendants in full shrine maiden garb, like he's some kind of god or something. We never learn who or what he is. In fact he is rather redundant because we learn that it's the floating jellyfish things in their magical cave that make the decisions on who becomes a full fledged member or not.

Then they throw nonsense at us like the idea of a general election, which logically should decide who is a full member and who isn't right? Wrong. Succession still comes as the flying jellyfish or the god thing decide it. Why elect anyone to anything if the deciding factor is some flying, glowing blobs? Exactly what were they elected to? If the election picked the group, then why does the succession phenomenon occur?

They also go a strange route of having each girl that becomes a full fledged member take on the name of a retiring (or retired) former member. It's not absolutely outlandish, but it does cause a good deal of confusion as some girls move from being their given character name to being known as their 'new' member name. Also we really never see how retirement works for the group. There are a few characters that are former members, but they never explain if a girl is forced to give up the group at a certain age, or if she waits until her successor arises or anything. It's very random feeling.

They throw in extraneous details that seem to make no sense as well. They have friendly rivalries between girls who never complete on anywhere near the same level. They have a trainee they put forward as having real potential for leadership that never leads. They just seemed to grab an idea, run with it, and drop it before finishing it out properly.

All of these issues are set against the backdrop of entertainment being banned on many planets, which is utterly ludicrous. Who in the world thinks that sugary J-pop is going to destroy the fabric of society? I know there are those in the real world that live austere lives, but they do so by choice, not because they are forced into the lifestyle by the law. And of course we have an anti-entertainment military force fighting the group, along with a ragtag group of insurgents. If you really want to look at this way, the 00 group is kind of terrorists in a sense. They go someplace via spaceship, break the law concerning entertainment, and while they do not kill, they do destroy military equipment left and right. We have situations where the girls are singing their happy-go-lucky songs while beating the shit out of soldiers with their taser like mic-sabers.

The biggest issue throughout most of both seasons is this thing called the center nova. Apparently it has to be triggered under exact circumstances to happen, and the last one to do it literally disappeared. It is shown later that she is either dead or in a different dimension or some such. Yet everyone wants to be the center nova. Why in the world would there be so much competition for a position that, as far as is known for most of the run, killed the last person that held it? They never adequately explain what the center nova truly is beyond 'special' and what it means beyond 'music is love'. It's this big thing everyone wants to be, but with no clear motivation as to why.

I came into the series just loving the idea of Love Live! meets Star Wars or something, and I was completely let down by half baked ideas and nonsensical plots. I was more than ready to overlook flaws many would call out, but I just can't help but be utterly disappointed in what I saw, and the wasted potential they had and misused.

Art: 8
Wow, what a swing huh? The art is so cute it hurts. Most all the girls in the group or the trainees all have heart highlights in their hair and in their eyes. Other characters, especially former members, those hearts turn to diamonds. This is as cutesy as it comes, and I have to admit I did like the way the girls looked. There is one big issue though, in the concert mode, they kick over to CG and it is incredibly noticeable. This is really bad in the first season where we're not so familiar with as many faces, but even at the end of the second one, we still have this jarring transition between 'hand drawn' and CG animation that is absolutely irritating. It was the main thing that detracted from the score for me, as the 'moe' looks of the rest of the show work just fine for me.

Sound: 7
There's a lot of music to be had in this anime, and I found a lot of it catchy and fun. They don't hesitate to play music very often, sometimes playing a song in the climax of the episode just to turn around and play the end theme immediately afterwards. I liked the music well enough, none of it drove me wild, but I did tap my feet along with it many times. To me, if you're going to do a music/idol anime, you need to actually play some tunes, and this one does just that. Of course being based on a real life group I imagine helped a great deal in that respect.

The themes were nice enough, though none of them really stood out to me. They seemed to fit the feeling of the show nicely and I have no complaints, they just weren't all that fantastic to me. They get the job done, and that's what we're looking for.

The voice acting in the dub is a mixed bag. Some of the girls are absolutely ear destroying (the blonde in pigtails for exampe) while others, such as the main character sound just fine. A lot of them seem to be trying too hard to match up to the cutesy persona of the characters instead of working on putting in a good performance.

Character: 4
The entire cast seems to be overwritten. They try to shoehorn in too many elements such as the rivalries and other dramatic elements to the point it's just hard to keep up with. They seem to write each character with an arc in mind, but forget to make that arc match up with any other character, leaving each of them out in the wind, and making the whole thing disjointed. It's like they saw higher quality shows, and decided they wanted to use every element from those shows they could. But by throwing it in all together, instead of a delicious dish, we get just awfulness. Ambition for a project is good, but there is such a thing as overdoing it. They cross that line many times with most of the characters.

The character types are cliche, have the shy one, the earnest one, the annoying one, the sad one, the one filled with determination, so on and so forth. And with them all over dramatizing the plot points, it just really doesn't come together very well.

Enjoyment: 5
I found moments of the show to like, but very few. The music was a highlight for me, and a character or two kind of drew my attention, but for the most part, I wanted so much more than it could give, and I couldn't bring myself to really get into it. If they would have stuck to a few plot points and fleshed them out, we might have had a great show on our hands, but instead we get so busy with this and that, that the show kind of loses it's identity. A fatal flaw for any form of entertainment, for sure

Best Girl: Suzuko Kanzaki mainly because she's not over the top voice wise, she's quieter and more introspective, and very intelligent, knowing a great deal about the group's history and such. She doesn't seem to get caught up in the inane drama as much as the other girls do. Hence my vote.

Really there are better things to watch out there. If you're needing idol anime in your live, check Love Live!, check Idolmaster, check Kids on the Slope, hell check K-On even. Just don't let the cool sci-fi bend to this one fool you, it is nowhere near as awesome as the first couple episodes make it out to be. If this was the people's only form of entertainment, I can see why they banned it. Pass for sure.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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