AKB0048 represents everything I love about anime, and I have yet to find another show that matches it for sheer enjoyment. It conjures a setting that is objectively absurd, takes it completely seriously, and uses it to communicate a simple but powerful message: music and joy are powerful enough to change the world. This show leaves you feeling like dreams matter, that hope is everything, and that teenage girls are capable of anything they put their minds to.
You aren't supposed to take the setting seriously, and the absurdity of it takes on a kind of deadpan humor I really enjoy. Despite being so odd, this
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Aug 13, 2021
I really, really wanted to like this show, but I honestly could not name one thing that makes it anything more than oppressively bland. The premise has so much possibility, but the writing consistently feels like the bare minimum and the art is unexpressive and simplistic. The characters each have exactly one personality trait (if that, I swear most of them just exist to fill space), the dialogue is painfully basic and drags on without meaning, and the story has no underlying sense of... Anything, really. There is no depth, emotion, or even a sense of discovery after the first episode. The main character doesn't
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Nov 14, 2018
I wanted to like this movie, I really did. The art and music are lovely and the story has so much potential but it continually falls flat of what it clearly wanted to be. It momentarily touches on a lot of deep emotional and philosophical concepts but fails to actually explore a single one of them in a meaningful way.
The biggest failing this movie has is that it continually chooses to "tell" instead of "show". Everything we learn about every character in this movie is because they outright say "I feel [x]!" and we're expected to just go along with it despite there often being ... |