B-Project: Kodou*Ambitious

Okay so i watched this thinking it was another cheesy reverse harem that would be filled with flirts and a story line that was half-decent, but WOW was i wrong.
So...
1. Plot was all over the place. With the main heroine looking more like a background character. The villain looking like it was thrown in at the end to fill in time. And the rest of the time just focusing on the male idols looking like eye-candy though...

2. The animation at times went in and out from looking really nice/well-portioned to times were there eyes almost lined up with there mouths. IT WAS NOT CONSTANT ... NOR PRETTY. Only when the characters were still and not talking did they look okay.

3. Music was okay nothing that catchy or relevant to the plot.

I really thought this would be good enough to make you cringe or at least laugh at those cheesy moments but honestly the plot was not exciting enough nor understandable. So don't bother.

This show makes me depressed.

I recently got into b-project when I stumbled upon the app during my daily idol game discovery and almost instantly fell in love with the characters, the beautiful art and the music. I decided to watch the anime because I wasn't too interested in anything that was currently airing and I wanted to learn about the b-project lore. What I expected was a middle of the road idol anime with no particular plot and decent animation. What I got was a bad idol anime with crappy, almost unwatchable, animation and a weird plot that makes no sense in the end. ...

Story: 4/10

While it has some good moments, most of the plot is held together with threads that ignores its past episodes and leaves the viewers with barley any idea of what is going on. For example, one episode will show an emotional moment between two characters or a character finding themselves, and then it'll all be ignored in the next episode, leaving said character or characters back to the one dimensional stereotypes we learned in the beginning. That only happens though, if a character is lucky. Some get barley any screentime at all, and their development is non-existant. Most of the arcs are brushed off for very explicit fanservice and boring dance scenes, that at least aren't CGI.

Art 1/10

If I could give this a 0 I would. The art is bad. So bad that at some points I would purposefully screenshot the stills this show had and would send them to my friends just to laugh at. Even the references on the wiki for this season are hilariously bad. I can only really compliment the fact that this show barley used (if at all) CG models and had really beautiful background art.

Sound 6/10

The music is good. I can't really say anything else because I have most of the music downloaded on my phone.

Character 3/10

I already discussed this in story, but I give it a 3/10 here because I liked Ryuji's arc quite a bit, despite it being thrown out.

Enjoyment 2/10

I literally had a better time just reading the translated stories on the wiki.

Overall 3/10

Justice for Mikado.

If you're looking for some "Idol anime" that's not UtaPri, don't waste your time with this one.

B Project: Kodou＊Ambitious was a train-wreck.

The pacing in this 12 episode show somehow managed to make a dreadfully bland story feel like it lasted 50 episodes. The ending was rushed and incredibly confusing, with enough plot twists wrapped into the final five minutes that--even as I write this--I still have no idea what happened.

The art of B Project was passable in the scenes where a single character's face took up the entire frame. Otherwise, the animation was choppy and atrocious. To give the best example I ... could think of, every character was drawn with a background character's face if the background character was 10 feet from the camera. I didn't think it was possible, and yet every scene was so visually unappealing that I had a need to show other anime fans how horrible it was.

The characters that I can remember were okay I suppose. I can remember Hikaru and...Toma? Tomo?? Yuta??? I honestly can't remember. I just remembered them by hair color/features. No characters were given any real back story even though they were shown in flashbacks. I am really trying to remember anything about any characters at all and I'm only recalling that one of them had a coughing condition which was never fully explained.

This show wasn't even charmingly bad. I am someone who will watch anime that I KNOW is awful just to get a good laugh out of it, but I found myself falling asleep from boredom as the episodes went on for what felt like an eternity. This was a forgettable waste of money by the company in what I can only assume was meant to be a low-budget clone of UtaPri

TL;DR: This show was far more painful and somehow less visually pleasing than shoving a rusted nail through my eye. I'd recommend skipping this one (though the OST was worth a listen to if you're into J-Pop)

Generally as a rule, you don't expect much from "idol anime", but this one wasn't executed to it's full potential, even in the slightest.

These characters deserved better treatment, better development.
Terrible rushed ending with no solid conclusion.

I don't know, it just seemed like since about episode 10, someone put this show in a blender, and hit Frappé. I don't know if they didn't have this well planned out for 12 episodes.

I think the best thing that's coming out of this franchise is the music because of the seiyuu talent. It's fantastic.

I am rating this low simply due to the ending and poor character development.

ok, I'm going to do this step by step, just finished the anime and I NEED to write this review, I'm so flustered.

Story: Have you seen an idols anime before? Yes? Then you saw B-project. The anime shows the growing of the group and a little of each characters and their schedules. But you're a little to busy looking at the bishonen to pay attention to it.

Art: Is not awesome but I like the fact they didn't used CG for the dancing scenes and still did a nice job animating it, that's it, nothing else to say.

Sound: I starded seeing b-project because I ... LOVE the songs so yeah why not see the anime? I love the groups, the songs and the seyuus were good chosen (except for Hikaru's voice, he can sing, but when he talks :( )

Characters: You'll find the common bishounen/idol characters, so not buch to say, you have the rich white haired one, the womanizer, the cute that looks like a girl etc. The "main character" that should be the girl is the usual"why you do you like her again?" AND B Project also has a bad guy that doesn't make any sense, ANY SENSE. Watch and see who is for yourself if you think you need to.

Enjoyement: I liked the anime for about 10 episodes, but the last two were a big NO because nothing makes sense and this made me think "Why I wasted 6 hours of my life seeing this?" so yeah, the enjoyement took a downfall.

Overall: 4! Why? Because as I said above, Why did I watch this? I hate when an anime ending makes me think that I could have done something more productive, like watching a better anime, instead of waste my time watching it. BUT the song are great, search for it in youtube if you want to get to know them a little, it's worth it.


Hope this review was helpful, I tried a full spoiler free so it's missing some things but hope it helps :)