Except it’s modern pop.
Impressions:
With an entire episode of him agonizing over having to put his feelings into lyrics, I think I’m ready to call it on this one. The stabbing in the first episode was apparently a one-off deal, both in terms of any kind of story development and… uh… stabbings. It finally acted like it was about to do an action scene again, and instead, we got a bunch of stills with speedlines. While they yelled over the lyrics that were so important and meaningful that we just had ten minutes, multiple yelling overreactions, and then a cry session over. And what were those lyrics about? “This song is hope.” Cool. Very deep. Super philosophical. What’s next? Hearts on Fire? Never Surrender? Gonna Fly Now? Fire in My Heart? Eye of the Tiger? Eat that, 80s movie soundtracks.
What really clinched it wasn’t even this awful episode itself, but that on a whim, I looked at the episode of PreCure airing right next to it. PreCure is a franchise that regularly has an elevated budget for some reason, I thought to myself. Surely its godawful idol version will have a better action scene to make me feel somewhat okay. So I skipped straight ahead to 15 minutes in, and it did have a better animated fight scene, against a giant greaser microphone or something, but only barely. Then one of them got a ribbon which gave a new… uh… ribbon form, apparently, even though I could not for the life of me tell you the costume difference. What did it do? Make her immediately turn to CGI, summon a concert stage, and do a dance. That was the point where I decided that was enough anime for tonight. And enough idol/idol adjacent anime for likely the next two and a half months. If not more.
