As a harem genre fan as myself, I saw this anime and saw the main chars being many girls and 1 boy, as usual youll be like "oh dats harem right there" but its actually far from being harem or far from having any romance hinted actually. I'm actually a fan of Air Gear so the concept "flying" really got me hooked into this anime and I got loads of free time so I'm like why not and decided to try it.
:Story: 6
An anime which had friendships/sports and a little spice of drama and poof Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm is created. Basically its about a girl named Asuka Kurashima who came back to the island where she went before as a child and somehow is a prodigy in this "Flying Circus" thing. There's also the "kouhai" character which is played by Arisaka Mashiro. Tobisawa Misaki played the senpai role between this two, shes a gluttonous girl who have fragile emotions and basically had many emotional breakdowns through out the serie. And there's the main "guy" character named Hinata Masaya who is actually a prodigy and also a japan candidate back then but hes a p*ssy so he ran away from everything and because he got caught up in the moment he became a "second" to all the players in the FC Club.
It had it cliche moments aswell like the main character being prodigy and good at sport even though she tried it just recently, and many more. The ending was also predictable at many ways the cliche lines of the antagonists such as "why does she look like shes having fun" and so forth brought predictable ending to the serie.
:Art: 8
Its the modern generation and I must say that the art of this anime is top notch and its one of the reasons why I didnt drop this anime, I've been wanting to drop it so much after so many disappointments here and there such as lack of explaination and sh*t pacing that was brought throughout the serie.
:Sound: 7
The osts were alright but it could be better, something like that was given off as I keep hearing the osts from openings and endings as I am the type of person to not skip the opening, as there are some people who actually skip openings from time to time. I as a fan of music myself refrains from skipping as I actually enjoy listening to op/ed's.
:Character/Character Development: 5
Characters were mostly all basic looking you have the normal girls with normal sized tits, theres that flat chested, loli, kouhai girl, the hot looking teacher, proud type girls with boobs ( Satouin) and the main char guy who I really is so dissappointed in is plain looking and nothing out of the normal presented except his exceptional skills in FC which took him 10 f*ckin episodes to release to them that he had those techniques. He's like "o sh*t they need new moves and crap alright imma show off my techniques" and the teacher aswell LMFAO she couldve helped by showing her techniques even at the first half of the serie but nah which is really a disappointment.
I was really disappointed in the character development through out this serie as there are many flaws that couldve been fixed easily things such as it took 10 episodes for "Hinata Masaya" for him to stop being a p*ssy and actually teach FC manually LOL
:Enjoyment: 5
I hardly enjoyed watching this to be honest because I keep waiting for the part where the main guy will take control of the situation and actually have some balls and be proud of his exceptional skills and take pride in it but nah he chose to be a p*ssy until ep 10 which is really a disappointment.
:Overall: 6
Well it was out of the usual animes and it truly is a unique one even though I've had many disappointments throughout this serie it was fairly good and if youre looking for a pure sports anime with a bunch of emotional breakdowns this is for you.
