Stars*Collection!

Certified „me and the boys“ moment.

The unfortunately less known alternative to Holo no Graffiti, Stars*Collection is as you might have guessed focused on the male counterpart of Hololive. Does it even compare to beloved Holo no Graffiti? Well yes actually.

Stars*Collection is more similar to a sitcom – it’s about the guys living together and their hijinks. Fret not though, despite this, there is still the brand chaos you might come to expect. The scale is usually smaller, sure, but that only makes the randomness spikes more effective as a gag comedy. If anything, it’s an achievement that Holostars managed to keep up the quality ... while having considerably less cast available to work with.

I’ll give out the obligatory statement of comedy being subjective, but form my personal experience I can say that this anime caught me off guard and made me laugh out loud several times.

The finale is also quite nice, especially for a gag comedy series, and I'm sure it will get a positive reaction out of you if you've been following the Holostars idols.

As with Holo no Graffiti, this too is made with fans of the idols as the intended demographic, but although knowing the cast from their actual idol activities will improve your enjoyment, I will actually say that this one can be watched without knowing the characters beforehand and the comedy should still work most of the time.

HoloStars to me, is actually better than the Hololive Girls to be honest, and that's primarily i've gotten annoyed to the cutesy, high pitched voices of the hologirls, no offense to any of the Hololive Vtubers, i'm sure they're all very good people.

Anyways, stars*collection is basically just a spin off of the currently airing Holo no Graffiti, but instead of the girls, we get the guys. The shenanigans are pretty much the same, with stars*collection just being shorter because it's basically just new, though the characters are just charming as it's female counterparts.

Aru-ran, Roberu, Oga, Izuru, and Shien are the only ones that have appeared ... so far in the anime, but the short runtime has us peek at their personality shortly, in these 2 minute shorts. The problem with many short anime is that the characters are never really explored and that they have no depth, and by how many episodes are out (only far rip) that criticism is probably right, but that doesn't take away the actual selling point of this anime.

That being cute male idols getting into shenanigans, and if you don't like what i described, then you won't enjoy this anime.