Lapis Re:LiGHTs

Tiara, a princess from the kingdom of Waleland, travels to the city of Mamkestell to attend a prestigious academy for those who practice magic like herself. After passing a test to prove her eligibility, Tiara reunites with her childhood friend Rosetta, who is also a student there. She then joins and meets Rosetta's group: the athletic Lavie, the reliable Ashley, and the bookish Lynette—all of whom Tiara quickly befriends.

In this institution, students are placed into one of three ranks based on their test score: group Noir being the highest, followed by Rouge and Lapis. Tiara's group is ranked Lapis, and if that was not enough, those who fail while ranked Lapis face expulsion. Realizing their dire situation, Tiara urges everyone to start taking their activities more seriously.

On top of this, Tiara has one more purpose for excelling at the academy: to become more like her elder sister, who is a very skilled singer. However, to reach the stage that she desires, she will have to overcome many challenges, along with her companions, as she continues her magical journey.

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"Watashitachi no STARTRAIL (私たちのSTARTRAIL)" by Lapis Re:LiGHTs Stars

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Sep 19, 2020

dlxuniuniu

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Enjoy a wonderful light show with glamorous idol music! Experience the great adventures of cute girls in a completely new idol direction! Idols who are witches as well, doing a magic show, a combination the world has not seen in this form before!

STORY:
Our journey starts with Tiara, a young and beautiful witch apprentice, who travels from her hometown Bristol to the metropolis Mamkestell, the home of Flora Girls’ Academy. She always had the dream to become a student there and quickly finds that she truly has the latent ability to become a proper Witch, with a bright future ahead of her: a future that will ... include finding new friends and forming an idol unit together.
After reuniting with her best friend Rosetta, their dynamic duo relationship is particularly emphasized as well, Tiara decides to join her and her friends group to form the idol group "LiGHTs" together. Each of the five girls is unique in its own way and has a different magical ability. Together they fight for their survival in the Academy due to the rather poor grades. They go through difficulties together, even if something does not go according to plan, they do not give up.
Lapis Re: LiGHTs consists of seven different idol groups. Although the focus is on LiGHTs, we get to know the group members of "IV KLORE", "Konohana wa Otome", "Sugar Pockets", "Sadistic ★ Candy", "supernova" and "Ray". They understand and support each other very well; they are friends and even go for adventures together.

CHARACTER:
Tiara, also the leader of LiGHTs, is a bright and cheerful mood maker. Because she was prone to sickness as a child, she has a strong desire to cheer people up by singing. She is the 2nd princess of Waleland but wants to be treated like a normal girl. She wants to help everyone and make people happy. With her beautiful voice, she gives people hope and joy.
With Rosetta, her childhood friends, they often compose music together. Rosetta is smart and a hardworking girl, she is quite popular amongst her juniors. Before the reunite with Tiara, Rosetta tried to do everything on her own, putting herself under pressure and in a position of high risk. She never asked for help, she does not want to burden anyone with her own problems.
The most serious member of the group is Ashley, she can be a little bit sharp sometimes as well. As the costume designer for the group, you can't tell by looking at her, but deep in her heart she aims to become a knight, like her father. With these words "You can't be a good knight with strength alone", she was recommended to study as a witch.
Lavie, the exact opposite of Ashley and her roommate as well, is the sportiest girl. She has a lot of self-confidence with a naïve personality but is horrendously bad at studying, making her always at the bottom of the class in tests. She really admires the leader of the legendary unit "Ray": Eliza (Tiara’s older sister).
Last but not least, we have the group bookworm: Lynette. She aspires to be a witch who can shine in public and is a witch otaku who has an abundant knowledge on witches. With her shy personality you cannot tell, but she is an avid daydreamer, even occasionally fantasizing about "her other classmates making out with each other”.
We do not only learn the history and past from these five cute and beautiful girls, we also learn many exciting and emotional things from their friends in other groups: What their dreams are. Why they want to be witches. How they will captivate us all with their wonderful songs.

ART:
The art style in Lapis Re: LiGHTs is definitely one of the points that caught my eye and captivated me. The girls are presented very cute in a classic CGDCT style. Nevertheless, the environment is also full of beautiful colors. Everything is displayed very dynamically. The beautiful lights that can be seen during their orchestra performance and the perfect coordination of the choreography are all elements that magically attract everybody.

SOUND:
The music is always extremely important for an idol anime. After only the first two episodes, their songs already thrilled me. I really love the OP and ED; they are both suitable for the idol genre. The very last episode is full of music from all the different group which are really great. Besides that, we can even hear a solo from time to time by Tiara or another girl. Although there are not many songs released by the different Lapis Re: LiGHTs groups in general right now, all the songs are very nice to listen. Idol music gives you strength and a good mood; this is definitely the case here.
In addition to the music, the background noises are also well represented; every sound is in harmony with each other.

ENJOYMENT:
After the first episode, I was already extremely enthusiastic about this anime. I really love every aspect of Lapis. All elements harmonize perfectly with each other in my opinion. I enjoyed every episode. Although I have never heard of the game or this franchise before, I am already fascinated by it.
For every CGDCT and idol fan, I can really recommend to watch this anime. You will certainly not be disappointed with this. Let yourself be enchanted by the wonderful magic and music!
They are our LIGHTs!

In the end, I definitely wish for a second season and more songs that are beautiful! The story and idol adventures of our girls will surely go on!

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Sep 19, 2020

Hunter97-

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Not a masterpiece, but a fine piece of art. Lapis Re:LIGHTs breaks the “Re:” curse and gains a nice position in this season’s chart. Maybe too underestimated, and maybe it’s because that underestimation that I can give a high score.

Although it’s evidently a moe product, the depiction of the story and world is much more deeper than “non-moe” works of this period, giving the impression that those kind of works lack the attention and the perfectionism which we find in Lapis Re:LIGHTs. The technical direction is extremely precise, with cinematographic cuts and meticulous care of context and scenery. Oh, how I like the satisfaction of ...

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Sep 19, 2020

SanaeK10

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Talk about surprise of the season. Without any prior knowledge coming into this series I was fully expecting a low budget soulless mobage adaptation not unlike Nanabun. And not especially Milky Holmes Lite.

To be perfectly honest going in into the first episode initially had me fearing the show would be your typical idol show with school saving, rivals, angst and protagonist powers. Then the second episode completely and utterly shattered those expectations to become something special. I mean, this is a show with a goddamned lesbian cabaret club. It’s wacky and insane and thankfully the idol stuff is kept to a minimum and the justifications ... for idol activities in a fantasy setting are done well enough.

It's clear a lot of thought and effort has been put into what is essentially a mobage ad. The setting and backgrounds are beautiful and the faux-mediterranean setting is a welcome change for a fantasy setting that doesn't reuse the same medieval europe isekai template. Even minor background characters have interesting developments like that one couple who appears in backgrounds and breaks up by the end of the show. It's great and proof that nothing is taken for granted or regarded as some throwaway prop. Even the final plot twist had been telegraphed since the beginning of the show.

Of course, that's not why I enjoyed the show so much. And it's not because of the mediocre songs as well (some are decent though). It's largely the cast and characters and how damedame they all are. Seriously. An early episode for instance has them chasing a duck to a pier. Now the standard expected gag would be for the gang and the duck to fall into the river only for the duck to swim away, but in Lapis Relights the duck instead vaults over them and into a separate trap laid by members of the group who didn't jump into the river. It's great seeing how incompetent everyone (apart from Alpha) is, and the inter/intra group dynamics shine brightly because of this interplay. For lack of a better description, it really is Milky Holmes lite but in a fantastical setting.

I did wish supernova got more exposure and screentime than what we got in the anime, to better establish them as a more antagonistic group, maybe have Yue develop more of a rivalry with Tia, but spreading out the focus to everyone else is good too. The 19 or so other cast members all receive sufficient characterization and are all uniquely distinctive enough in personalities and character relationships, and it is genuinely fun to see each new episode to see how everyone interacts with everyone else. The show really establishes good chemistry between each character no matter how unlikely the groupings are, and it's a real shame the show is only 12 episodes long. I know they wouldn't do this, but I really wanna see a sequel to this to further flesh everyone out.

So, while the idol performances were more of a distraction that anything, the show still succeeds with strong character relationships and great humour. It has been a long while since a Damedame show has graced the post-Milky Holmes era, but Lapis Relights shows the spirit of Damedame is still strong.

7/10

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