fyi: i am idolmaster fan reviewing Love Live series.. i'm just saying what i feel about this series
Love live, mainly about girls in school that in danger of closing because of no one interested be applied in that school, desperately become an idol to save their school from closing. well to this point there are many promising things from this series. but turns out, as i expected this is pretty much over rated. idol is not only singing and dancing, but this series interpreted such way so kinda bit disappointed. if you expected idol activity such as doing CM, Radio Show, TV Shows or even my favorite. Weather news , you'll be disappointed. All you can see was the girl creating clubs and train together. but for "idol", like i said, it was waste of good promising plot. one point that i like to point out is this series uses many "not needed" slow motion, which i also complained about this on Batman VS Superman.
Story : 7/10
Love Live art is somewhat good , even better than A-1 making Idolmaster, although my biggest disappointment is using 3DCG on the stage. like its utterly pointless to do so because it looks like a cheap MMD that you can see on youtube. The CharaDesign each character are superbly done. especially Maki and Umi. the background also wellmade so its fun to see each episode with good background. other than using 3DCG on live, i'm happy for the art
art :8/10
Love live Opening is somewhat better than Wake up girls! but neck to neck with Idolmaster. its "genki" ! its "fun" ! no complains on the Opening music. the Insert music somewhat theres 3-4 songs that bit boring-ish... but 3-4 songs is quite an amount for idol songs. because mainly idol song are for "genki" up yourself! the ending song are best song in this series, i like it so much.. had gone to iTunes buying this one song because it is superb! BGM are good and very much "same wavelength" with the animation. so no problem with me.
Music :8/10
to be fair, Love Live is a decent idol series with huge potential, but lack of depth and kinda boring-ish. they should expand more onto other idols works such as CM, Radio, TV shows. The most surprising moment is, i realized the idol club that dont have any producer. they should have one though... as long it fulfills, Love Live can become a better series and a real idol club that doing idol works
Overall: 7/10
Maki Best Girl
