There is a formula that will not fail in anime, or well, it hardly fails. The equation is “Music+Anime=Success”, you could make the most stupid, pandering or bait plot, but if you include music it could hit anyways, just watch how Your Lie in April succeeded while being a predictable and obviously manipulating anime with inhuman characters. To fail at such formula seems like something so out of reach that it dumbfounds me how the music aspect of this anime feels as forced as the research of an antivaxxer. It is terrible. There is a guy, that plays piano, but cant play it, because plot, and there are characters that are supposed to fight with the orders of the music conductors… but they fight with weapons anyways so the music is just background. That is, that is the music aspect, and don’t get me started about how this guy can only think about playing piano for the whole first 3 episodes, and how apparently his play should evoke something on us, how can it provoke something when this character is nothing more than an excuse to play piano and manipulate a waifu like a pokemon trainer. Yeah, I will just go to youtube and hear someone playing piano, it would be the same as this anime, or maybe it would be better, because I wouldn’t hear any of that annoying dialogue that has less deepness than the research of Valkyrae cream. Honestly, the only point of using music in this anime as a source of power is because they will eventually create a climax through music, like Vivy but replacing the annoying robot with an annoying blonde girl
Then the next problem is that the characters are completely out of the concept of creativity, well, apart from their designs which are kind of attractive. Just let me explain it like this; the main trio is composed by an obsessive guy that wants to be free (To play music) and eliminate the D2, while also holding a special power given from the gods of plot that nobody knows how it works, it also has a girl that is extremely badass, edgy to the core, and fights extremely well, and a girl that serves as a bridge between them both and acts as a straight woman but would be better off dead because who cares about her. Now, which anime did this before? Maybe my brain is foggy, I would let you stick the pieces, I won’t attack that here, but I’m not saying that this titanic derivation is originated from there either, just telling how uninspired this is. And I’m not even going to start telling how every other single character is a mess, like seriously, a gay character that sexually harass the main character? a quirky loli character? What will they include next, a terminally ill musician that wants to hear music for the last time?
Anyways, I have to be sincere, most of us didn’t really watch this abomination for the plot, just read the fucking premise, we all watched this because it was a MAPPA x Madhouse project, and the fact that this sucks hard is not because the plot and the characters are completely terrible and out of any conception of originality, this sucks hard because it is just a soulless attempt to sell us a product. The anime is not trying to tell us anything, it is just exposing over and over again an edgy waifu doing edgy shit in an edgy environment because that is what sells today, that is why this anime lacks creativity, because it is using proven formulas and concepts from the latest best-seller anime that have been going hard. If for some reason fighting with swimwear while riding a sausage was successful as a concept take it for granted that this anime would do it, and the main guy would be wearing a speedo
