The hamfisted story plot about characters branded as ACTORS (yes it's stylized that way) housed in a private school that's government controlled for reasons I cannot fathom. Give or take, when you first read the synopsis, it makes some sense, but the underlying issue is that there is more than meets the eye. Due to that same "government control", it's like censorship and limiting what the numerous ACTORS (or more specifically, players) are able to distinguish and influence towards the "outside world", with what can be described as the "music makes the world go round" ad infinitium to reach far and beyond. Unfortunately, as with the whole "club activities" thing to give power back to the ACTORS a.k.a the students of Tensho School, this could be suggested as the conspiracy between democracy and autocracy to draw the line where all students are chained with the same treatment. And of course, people being people, democracy is the way to go, so trying to uphold some law is the name of the musical game here and saving their rice bowls of livelihood and combined interest to sing like it's never-ending.
That's where the Vocaloid music comes in as inserted music, and re-emphasizing my front point, the songs are great on its own, but the idea of inserting these music for noticeable people watching this show (which is a niche in itself) becomes ad nauseam very quickly. Even though I'm not a Vocaloid fan, and with the ACTORS franchise being quite diverse since its inception, it's diversity is sorta like the pros and cons, with the benefit being the songs themselves while the downfall is pretty much any adaptation that takes advantage to include these tracks in get sidetracked.
Animation wise, never heard of Drive as a production studio (the studio mainly does music production), but there is a fair bit of mixed quality with this one with some good art and animation, albeit they don't stand out against the competition.
I'll leave this show with the quote from Martin Luther: "As long as we live, there is never enough singing." Because its substance is just that while everything else is secondary at best. Should I recommend this show to anyone? Even with the Vocaloid music, just head elsewhere to get that fix as the anime "cash-cow" adaptation is a total waste of resources.
