| "What do you think about this trend?" Well, not a huge fan of Girls Band Cry or Ave Mujica. They are too overdramatic for my taste, especially Ave Mujica. It doesn't feel like BanG Dream! at all. And now Love Live! is also becoming a psychological torture? We don't need this Madoka route with these girls band/idol anime. Let them be happy and fluffy.  |
SerafosFeb 2, 11:21 AM
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henwens said: LOVELIVE! BLUEBIRD I rather prefer Liz and the Blue Bird |
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| I'm definitely very curious what kind of new project Love Live! Bluebird is going to be. Creating some tension between the group members and giving them a bit of a harsher backstory can be very interesting. Sometimes it runs the risk of being overly dramatic and overshadowing everything else, but I quite liked it in Girls Band Cry (haven't watched the two new BanG Dream anime yet, but I'm looking forward to change that at some point) |
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| Well, traditionally - and it's still currently the case - I haven't watched a large number of music-themed series in general. But I began Girls Band Cry on a whim a few weeks into its run last spring after hearing some interesting and positively encouraging things about it (even though I was already watching what, on the surface, seemed like another extremely similar series airing at the same time - Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai), and was glad that I did since it ended up becoming my third favorite series of the year. This from someone who usually, as I said, doesn't watch a lot of music-themed series and isn't typically as interested in them compared to a lot of other genres and themes. So what made the difference for me personally, to become as interested in it and come away with a great impression? I would say that the decisive factor was the degree of interpersonal drama and the feeling of rawness and authenticity to it. As someone with drama being one of my favorite genres, I'd honestly much rather watch a band and music-based series with it than one without. Whether that band and music-based series is one with all cute girls, mixed cute and plain or ugly girls, a mixed sex cast, or all male. But I'm not as interested, by comparison, in watching a band series that's just a Slice of Life and focused on the characters' musical performances and positivity with little to no drama. "Why?", someone could ask, considering I watch and like a lot of Slice of Life series with very little to zero drama. Yeah, but I'm not hugely interested in bands/a lot of modern music as a subject. So if I'm just going to watch a no-drama "regular" relaxing SoL, I'd rather watch one about girls doing most other activities, like playing board games, riding motorcycles, or cooking or baking or something. If I'm watching a band-centric series it damn well better be something on the level of another Girls Band Cry which gets my adrenaline pumping. I think that episode eight of that series was my single top favorite episode of any anime series of last year. |
| I mean interesting, the main character appears to be crying in the very first key visual.. I can't think of other examples where that happened. Even when a show is sad, it's usually not the first visual. I never expected LL to go in this direction. |
| I enjoy the works, but there is a fine line between well done drama and drama for drama's sake. MyGO is well done drama, and AveMujica is for drama's sake. With Girls Band Cry, I simply couldn't stand Nina and her decisions, but the show was great in a musical sense. It is a mixed bag and gets my attention. There is a work that I find good and enjoy, a work I find good and don't like, a work I find bad but I enjoy. I think because it leaves such a reaction, I am okay with the trend continuing, because at least it is interesting to explore. |
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Reply to TheMechaManiac
It's just pointless. I don't like drama.
A show can pretend it's all serious yada yada, too bad, you're trying to sell pretty girls. Idol shows should be relatively optimistic and not devolve into crybait nonsense.
A show can pretend it's all serious yada yada, too bad, you're trying to sell pretty girls. Idol shows should be relatively optimistic and not devolve into crybait nonsense.
| @TheMechaManiac 1000% I'm so fucking done with teenage melodrama. "Oh no we're graduating and have to disband because not... school idol anymore..." Does this franchise not have an industry out of "ScHoOL iDOls"? Better spend 30mins+ brooding on it, for ever single iteration. MELODRAMA IS GAAAAAAAAY |
ChandelaFeb 5, 8:22 AM
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