Wake Up, Girls! Beyond the Bottom

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Wake Up, Girls! Zoku Movie, Wake Up, Girls! 2, WUG! Zoku-hen, WUG! 2
Japanese: Wake Up, Girls!Beyond the Bottom


Information

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 11, 2015
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Ordet, Millepensee
Source: Original
Genre: DramaDrama
Themes: Idols (Female)Idols (Female), MusicMusic
Duration: 53 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.201 (scored by 37743,774 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #33402
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #6829
Members: 9,445
Favorites: 18

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Episodes: /1

Synopsis

Second movie sequel of Wake Up, Girls!.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Yamamoto, Yutaka
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Theme Song Lyrics, Original Creator
Kikuta, Hiromi
Sound Director


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Ending Theme

"Beyond the Bottom" by Wake Up, Girls!




Reviews

Jul 19, 2018
Anime as whole has had a bad reputation for not being 'realistic' enough. Yes, there's the debate of 'different people, different strokes' and 'you can't please everyone' etc. This is why I appreciate the WUG narrative as a whole. Maybe I'm stretching it to the original series. But the anime & equally this film isn't shy of portraying the rock-bottom and eventual highlights of the idol industry.

Yes the plot is a bit predictable & there's no real 'ump' to the drama. But that's what makes WUG endearing & to an extent, relate-able.

Coincidentally, I can't exactly give praise to the characters. I understand with such ...
Sep 14, 2024
In my previous review, I compared this series to "Hibike! Euphonium". Hibike! had a movie that did a speedrun through the second season and crammed what probably should have been one or two seasons into one movie. The comparison to Hibike! is apt, because this did exactly the same thing.

It wasn't awful, but it made for a rushed and unsatisfying movie. It moved way too fast and careened towards a rather obvious ending, that ended up being basically one unanimated scene at the end.

You know, I had originally written a review (and put it on the wrong movie, OOPS) where I said ...
Dec 7, 2016
Mixed Feelings
"Wake Up, Girls!" was a promising series that attempted to break the common tropes of idol anime. With a mix of optimism and realism that is hardly seen in shows of its type, this anime series held great potential to be something great.

However, the latest entry in the series, "Beyond the Bottom" serves as a lackluster conclusion to an otherwise stellar series.

The greatest gripe I had with this show was that it simply lost all the positive aspects that the previous entries had. For instance, "Beyond the Bottom" felt horribly disjointed from the tone and atmosphere that the the TV series and previous movies had.

For ...

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Poll: Wake Up, Girls! Beyond the Bottom Episode 1 Discussion
arsonal - Jan 25, 2016
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Dec 22, 2015 1:22 PM
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