UniteUp! Uni:Birth Episode 7 Discussion

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Feb 22, 6:58 AM

Serafos

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Nice episode focusing on Anela.

Lovely birthday party for Harumi. Happy Birthday! 🎂

"Thank you for always believing in us from the start of this agency until now."

"We'll keep responding to your trust from now on too."

Beautifully said, Maoto and Lin. She has done so much for the boys.

SerafosFeb 22, 10:26 AM

Feb 22, 10:29 AM

ajw215799

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Sad truth of Japan’s idol industry; Anela might be retired but the media producers with power don’t care about that

Feb 22, 12:13 PM

Pinoffin

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Harumi san is indeed a mother figure for not only Anela but also SmiLea.

Happy birthday Haru Chan!

I need somebody who can love me at my worst
No, I'm not perfect, but I hope you see my worth
'Cause it's only you, nobody new, I put you first
And for you, girl, I swear I'll do the worst

If you stay forever, let me hold your hand
I can fill those places in your heart no else can
Let me show you love, oh, I don't pretend, yeah
I'll be right here, baby, you know I'll sink or swim

Feb 22, 9:35 PM

phantomfandom

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I don't think this is the dark side of the industry, the real dark side is much more darker, but I don't think any idol anime is gonna talk about it.

Feb 23, 7:49 AM

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I don't think this is the dark side of the industry, the real dark side is much more darker, but I don't think any idol anime is gonna talk about it.

@phantomfandom Knowing that UniteUp is a Sony project, I don't think they will go that deep into the real dark side of the industry due to Sony being a a huge player on the industry sadly. But for what we've got, I think it's one of the better depictions of the lesser talked about sides of the industry (the other anime that I know that tackles this as well is idolish7).

It would be interesting if UU could be transparent about the industry as much as possible since the story is based off reality (the entire purpose of the project is multidimensional after all), but only a fan can dream

manilikhaFeb 23, 8:02 AM

Feb 24, 1:30 PM

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A really, really good episode that highlighted some of the struggles Anela had to go through going from idols to producers --- some of the conflicts that the main cast, and us as the viewers, by extension, were pretty much shielded from until now. Uniteup’s writing continues to bring me joy, the way they’ve been framing some of each eps’ contents more dramatically than it actually is (Akira starting a rebellion cracked me up I was thinking he was actually fed up with the release battle and I was like ??? when?? did this start?!?!), the glimpse of the early days of Anela with LEGIT (ed song with baby Daiki and Eishiro is etched in my mind forever omgkdfkdj), the little snippets of what everyone was up to (I saw the black tie?? And was like, why are they dressing up…I was so close) to lead up to the Harumi-focus between the flashbacks that – honestly, I didn’t realize that was what they were aiming for but it fits so well T_T uniteup really hits so much harder on a rewatch, I remember I didn’t actually enjoy S1 that much on the first watch (I was following it weekly, while experiencing i7 for the first time), but everything hit SO much harder on the rewatch, bc there’s a lot of care put into the series and characters and I’ve gotten a lot more invested in the project itself. And I feel like this is one of those episodes too, getting to experience what it was like for Lin and Maoto, and how they really could not have done it without Harumi. And again, that ed song gave us SO much oh my gosh, they really are using the entire run of the ep to tell us their story !!! Though intended to be a multidimensional project for folks become invested in the seiyuu as well, I’m assuming the story isn’t intended to be nonfiction at all but oh my gosh, does it feel so organic and real sometimes, like they’re documenting the Real sMiLea Productions hahaha

Also the unexplained Jun in a maid dress and only Jun ??!!! love it hahaha

The whole-agency interactions of my dreams was also mildly present in this ep! Everyone is terrible at the butler act but Daiki, I’m so impressed??!!? I feel like he practised so hard kjadhflajkf things have been very slice-of-life, episode-of-the-week style so far, I’m very curious if they’re intending for the Release Battle to ramp up or explore more backstory content, I’d be down for either tbh (and probably it will be both??)

Feb 25, 2:30 AM

SavannahDC

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the episode was interesting, I really like Harumi's character and she deserved such an episode, however, it doesn't really help the story.

Feb 25, 3:05 PM

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phantomfandom said:
I don't think this is the dark side of the industry, the real dark side is much more darker, but I don't think any idol anime is gonna talk about it.

Oshi no ko talks about it the dark side of the industry

Mar 3, 2:19 AM

Firdream

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I don't think this is the dark side of the industry, the real dark side is much more darker, but I don't think any idol anime is gonna talk about it.

@phantomfandom idolish7 talks about dark side of the industry very well

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