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Feb 9, 2010
Preliminary (12/52 eps)
I'm not the biggest fan of magical girl anime, but have found myself enjoying a few very good series. I watched Mermaid Melody because someone said it was good... It's anything but in my opinion.

Story: (3)
The story is really bad. Other than the small twist with the girls being mermaids and fighting enemies with music, nothing about it was interesting or original. We basically just watch the characters mingle a bit, an enemy appears, then is "destroyed" by the mermaid's singing. That sums most of the episodes that I watched.

Art: (7)
Best part of the series. Even then, the character designs weren't the most original and some characters look REALLY similar. The designs are very beautiful, just not much to my taste. Backgrounds were good too, but kept the focus mainly on the characters.

Sound: (7)
Voice acting is a bit over-dramatic in some points, something very annoying. And while I enjoyed the songs a tiny bit the first time, the way this anime over-uses the same songs destroys any enjoyment a person could possibly get from the songs. Since every battle scene has the same song, I just skipped through it after my hope that it would change was crushed.

Character: (2)
This part made me want to rip my eyes out. The characters are so stereotypical and plain it's sad. Hanon is a girl that just wants to have fun and get the guy she wants, Lucia is a love-sick girl that's very ditzy and stupid, the villains are all boring and plain... I don't even want to go on! I think that if some work was put into character, I might have even enjoyed this series even with it's bad story. But no, bad story and bad characters.

Enjoyment: (2)
Unless you're a big fan of the magical girl genre, you probably won't be able to stand this. Every episode seemed to drag on for me.

Overall: (3)
I don't see how people can get through 50-something episodes of this series... They have my respect for having such patience! I don't know whether this series gets better or not later on, but it was such a big disappointment I'm not even willing to try.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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