A3! Season Spring & Summer

Home to countless street acts and performances, Veludo Way attracts those interested in watching professional actors. After receiving a mysterious letter, Izumi Tachibana arrives at the venue where her father directed a once-popular theater group, Mankai Company, but learns that the building is about to be repurposed due to excessive debt. At the last minute, she convinces the debt collector to give the ensemble one more chance. He is willing to accept but on three conditions: their debut show must be successfully produced by the following month, the four all-male sub-troupes must be reinstated, and the debt must be paid off within a year. To top it off, Izumi herself must become the director.

With no time to lose, Izumi quickly gathers five people for the Spring Troupe: Sakuya Sakuma, an enthusiastic high school student; Masumi Usui, a boy infatuated with Izumi; Tsuzuru Minagi, an aspiring playwright; Itaru Chigasaki, a mature office worker; and Citron, a friendly foreigner. Though they have little or no experience in acting, it's up to Izumi to train and prepare them for a performance that will restore Mankai Company to its former glory.

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Chigasaki, Itaru Main

Asanuma, Shintaro Japanese

Ikaruga, Misumi Main

Hirose, Daisuke Japanese

Usui, Masumi Main

Shirai, Yuusuke Japanese

Rurikawa, Yuki Main

Toki, Shunichi Japanese

Sumeragi, Tenma Main

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Sakisaka, Muku Main

Yamaya, Yoshitaka Japanese

Sakuma, Sakuya Main

Sakai, Koudai Japanese

Miyoshi, Kazunari Main

Ozawa, Ren Japanese

Minagi, Tsuzuru Main

Nishiyama, Koutarou Japanese

Citron Main

Igarashi, Masashi Japanese

Sabat, Christopher Producer, ADR Director

Cook, Justin Producer

Herek, Samantha Assistant Producer

Shinohara, Keisuke Director, Storyboard

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Aug 15, 2022

makotoplz

Recommended

A3 was surprising in the best way possible. It's everything I want from a SoL anime and more.

It's the right balance of story line and also that repetitiveness SoL aspect that requires minimal thoughts and commitment. It's easy to watch, relaxing, and best of all, I don't have to put much thought behind what's going on in the screen. So if you're looking for a calm anime to watch that you can slowly get through, this is the one.

That being said, when I would sit down to watch it, I'd end up bingeing at least 4 episodes out of pure enjoyment. The story ... is enjoyable, the characters are fun and easy to get attached to and there's 4 different troupes meaning I'll have 4 sets of 5 different characters I'll be able to learn about. If that's not a win idk what is. I like that every character is different, with their own quirks and personalities. I like the drama and I like that the acting aspect isn't that technical.

The animation style is pleasing but simple. The colours are bright and the tone of the anime is almost always happy and uplifting. And it's safe to say the last episode had me in tears. Tears of happiness, but tears nonetheless.

I'm excited to see what A3 season 2 holds, but season 1 so far was a massive hit for me, and it just got better the more episodes I watched. Totally recommend, solid 8/10 and would honestly probably watch again after some time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 5, 2023

vislife

Mixed Feelings

A3! is a perfectly fun anime as long as you don't take it too seriously. Does it have the best animation, or the most solid plotline? No, not by far - but if you enjoy a little tomfoolery and a whole bunch of pretty boys, I'd say go give it a watch.

Now to delve into it a bit deeper; A3!'s about a theater that's about to be demolished when director Tachibana stops it and promises the owner that she'll make the company profitable by the end of next year. And so starts a rotation where each 6 episodes 5 new guys prepare for a theater ... play and eventually perform it. Now you might say, 5 guys per 6 episodes and 2 seasons, that's... 20 guys? Isn't that a lot? Yes. Yes it's an awful lot. This also means that a lot of them miss some depth, with the exception of the main characters. Now this may objectively be a bad thing, but personally I greatly enjoyed how little these guys are expanded upon. In one of the episodes (minor spoiler ahead) we find out that one of the characters is actually being tailed by a foreign organisation. Do we ever learn more about his past or is there any follow-up on it after this information is revealed? Absolutely not. One character just really likes triangles, that's it. That's his personality. He's my favorite. Another character has lost his memory and all the others pretend this is perfectly normal and fine, and just invite him to live and act with them. Maybe it was not meant to be comedy, but it was amazingly hilarious to me. The main characters' backstories are fleshed out a little more and are pretty decent - I wouldn't call them special but they were enjoyable to watch. I also liked the personal relationships between all of the actors, a big part of the plot is based on their forming friendships.

The designs of the boys are pretty fun. Cool clothes, different (hair) colors and generally just nice characters to see. The animation isn't exactly up to 2020 standards, so if that's something that bothers you maybe stay away from this anime. I've seen worse, but it's definitely choppy compared to a lot of anime airing at that time. The voice acting is solid, which is nice since the whole series is about acting. I was honestly kind of surprised at the level of professionalism coming from what seemed like a low-budget project otherwise. Oh, and the opening is a banger.

Overall, I would recommend A3! if you're looking for something relaxing and not-too-deep to watch. It has fun characters and an enjoyable but sometimes little ridiculous plot. Plus a little bit of secondhand embarassment here and there when they're street performing. Cheers :)

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 23, 2024

NO_LIFE_HERE

Not Recommended

So look this anime is an adaptation of a game i never played im going just of the anime A3 isn't in no means of the word my style but so i tried this anime as a lead to different genre's ill be harshly honest this shit didn't lead me anywhere.

As for the characters they're all so boring or repetitive and its hard to have a fav character but usually that's a good thing but not on this anime the characters feel sloppy and poorly written.

Now the story is literally just like every other casual average anime now don't get it twisted there ate anime ... that portray this type of story well but i feel like if you want a story like that to be good it kinda has to be stretched but if i recall within the first episode the MC already had his dream but i know he didn't get it actually until lile episode 6 but im not going into it all.

In my opinion i say you don't need to wath this anime there's nothing special or intriguing about it you can live your life not watching this to put it straight.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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