Dec 12, 2023
I really wanted to love this. Ends up more in the "like" column. Overall, this is a step in the right direction for music anime.
Yes this does a few innovative things... for a Bang Dream show. It has deep, complicated characters and relationships... for a Bang Dream show. It has fairly strong music... for a Bang Dream show. The plot itself is not terribly complex, which is not a problem if you have strong performances. Sadly, the voice acting is not up to snuff.
When you realize that Bang Dream was conceived as a money machine first and
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everything else a distant second, the seams in the product really start to show. Sure there's some appeal to having your anime characters jump out into real life and play an actual concert... but the anime suffers for it. Anon is the "leader" trying to form a group, but is lacking in charisma. Tomori is the group's emotional core, but her performance fails to capture the emotional depth to suggest she could generate the lyrics she writes.
A lot of the positives and negatives cancel out.
+1 for great concert animation
- 1 for really crap animation otherwise
+1 for Bang Dream fan service
-1 for yuri bait (Bang Dream is notorious for this)
+1 for real teenage problems
-1 for poorly acted teenage problems
Watch Bocchi the Rock instead. Watch this if you absolutely must have another music anime in your life. Otherwise, don't settle for scraps.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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