read the manga before I watched this anime, and based on what I thought of the manga, the show is very different. Thinking about how smutty the manga is, the anime contains surprisingly little romance, even though there certainly is some.
I was a bit sceptic about the art at first. I didn't really like the art in the manga either, so it might not be a surprise that I wasn't fond of it. Though, after a while I started to get used to it and then it was just amazing. The music is better than I expected, and I found myself really enjoying listening to it.
Also, the story is wonderful. It shows a lot of the pressure that a big band have to go through to get what they want, their struggle to keep themselves on the top and how cruel the media can be. For an ordinary human .. it's just something we can't imagine. It's also amazing how they can capture such feelings in just a 20 minute long episode.
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I hope they will release a second season of this anime, because I thought it was way to short to represent the manga which has over 100 chapters. And the ending was really frustrating, because you really want to know how they are going to make it in London and if they are going to be able to go from being an underground band in the UK to have a single reaching top 1. Are they going to win over all the other artists, when they originally are from Japan and some of them don't even know a sinlge word english? And if they are able to , are they going to have that famous guy making them go international? And when are they going back to Japan? What happens between Aine and Sakuya, what are their future going to look like? Is Lucifer going to disband after they reached the top?
That's something I really want to know so if there isn't going to be a second season .. then I'm going to kill them ;D