Ballroom e Youkoso (Welcome to the Ballroom)

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Japanese: ボールルームへようこそ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 24

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 9, 2017 to Dec 17, 2017

Premiered: Summer 2017

Broadcast: Sundays at 02:08 (JST)

Producers: Dentsu, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Pony Canyon, Kodansha, Movic, Bandai Namco Games, Toy's Factory, Animatic

Licensors: Ponycan USA

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Manga

Genre: Sports

Theme: Performing Arts

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.18¹ (scored by 149,154 users)

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Ranked: #391²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #700

Members: 334,893

Favorites: 3,584

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Tatara Fujita is a shy middle schooler who has no particular plan for the future. He has gotten through life by avoiding any kind of confrontation and blending in with the crowd. But blending in isn't enough to get out of trouble, as some bullies harass him for money. Luckily, he is saved by a man named Kaname Sengoku.

Kaname invites Tatara to his dance studio. Although he would normally never set foot in such a place, Tatara is captivated by Sengoku's commanding presence. Granted an opportunity to dance with fellow classmate Shizuku Hanaoka—who often practices at the studio—Tatara realizes there's something about the idea of being put in the limelight and dancing where people will see him that keeps him coming back. With an earnest, passionate drive to improve, Tatara begins his journey into the world of competitive dance.

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Kaida, Yuuko
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Kananiwa, Kozue

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Maeda, Toshihiro

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Maruyama, Hiroo

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Morishita, Katsuji

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Opening Theme

	1: "10% roll, 10% romance" by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (eps 1-11)
	2: "Invisible Sensation" by UNISON SQUARE GARDEN (eps 12-24)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Maybe the next waltz" by Mikako Komatsu (eps 1-11)
	2: "Swing heart direction" by Mikako Komatsu (eps 12-24)

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Dec 16, 2017

Pipe

Recommended

"This adaptation is like a painting, it has a beautiful frame that could be the story itself presented and maintained throughout the show, and the remarkable artistic quality of the main characters enclosed in this frame that is compared to the hypnotic and vivid sunset that fascinates our eyes and earns our total attention."

At first, you may be a bit skeptical after reading the summaries of this anime, the central theme is a bit unusual, a ballroom anime. Also, you can consider, a dance competition, another anime about some championships or tournaments that could be similar to any other sports anime, but you could be ...

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Dec 17, 2017

raj007

Mixed Feelings

Till Episode 10 - Very good. Good character development and overall enjoyment is excellent. All the ladies and men are respected and given equal importance. Story line keeps you engaged and total satisfaction is provided.

From Episode 11 - New girl enters the anime with good prospects. It turns out our guy is a wimpy useless liberal left feminist douche! And the new girl is more manly with good bully future. I don't know if the director changed or the writer but the anime goes from good entertaining watchable to stinky irritating feminist propaganda.

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Dec 16, 2017

PaladinAlchemist

Not Recommended

Ballroom e Youkoso’s hype sank faster than 2-ton anchor. And it’s easy to see why. The show is plagued by lackluster animation and unlikeable characters.

Ballroom’s biggest disappointment is the extreme lack of any actual dancing (or ballroom-styled music). Shows can survive dull characters and repetitive melodrama if they deliver something else worth sticking around for, but Ballroom failed on its biggest promise - to see some dancing.

Instead of dancing, we get drawn stills and repetitive commentary from the audience about how great someone is or how much they improved or the differences between one dancing style and another, but never see any of ... it. And any dancing we do see looks more like chickens flapping around than anything graceful.

The lack of any actual dancing also removes a good deal of tension from the show, a staple of sports anime. Instead of seeing action, we hear commentary on the action, breaking any chance of creating tension whatsoever.

Bad animation isn’t the only reason behind the show’s lack of tension. While we’re watching our dancing stills and hearing people talk about them, we have very little clue about the sport itself. The points system, what judges are looking for, and any rules are only touched upon.

The characters are as disappointing as the animation. When Tatara’s not complaining, he acts a sponge that exists to soak up other characters’ drama. In the first half of the season, he’s at least a boring-but-nice guy, but in the second cour, he spends most of this time failing to take action and complaining a lot.

Oddly, Tatara is also the local psychologist - I guess. Not only is it weird that these characters (specifically, Shizuku and Mako) start blabbing their issues to someone they barely know, but they never actually talk to the person they’re having an issue with. The drama between these two girls and their dancing partners magically disappear without direct confrontation, which is not only confusing, but also misses on potential drama and character growth.

The trend continues in the second half. Akira and Chinatsu get two episodes dedicated to their past history - but hardly interact with each other in the present. Instead, we get a clunky two-episode flashback from Akira’s point of view and jump back into the present without furthering Chinatsu’s and Akira’s relationship in any way whatsoever.

Chinatsu is flat-out mean at times, and Tatara is flat-out pathetic. Their nonsense gets old after the first 10 episodes of the same thing over and over. On top of that, our supposed antagonist-rivals, Kugimiya and Akira, were made so sympathetic, that I don’t think I’ve ever wanted the leads to lose so badly before.

I’d say the odd, creepy fanservice moments earlier on where we’re supposed to be entertained by a highschool girl getting peeped on and embarrassed by an older man is unnecessary. But this anime never had much going for it.

Ballroom had so much promise. An anime about a visual sport? I was hoping for Yuri on Ice 2.0. By the end, I was hoping for anything remotely interesting to happen - including seeing a full dancing routine (crazy, right?). Instead, Ballroom provides little dancing, little tension, and lots of repetition and unlikeable characters.

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