Audience reviews
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badbob001
This show has great production value and it comes across they the creators are dedicated and proud of their work.
The art is clean and very realistic, especially for the characters. As for the designs of the mechs... eh, they are not the norm and you really need to look at them with an open mind ha ha. The animation is also very good but don't expect highly choreographed mech-on-mech fight scenes because it's not really that type of show. Most of the battles are handled by light beams and expanding energy auras, probably done partly for the story and partly to save cost.
The English voice acting is very good and has different accents for characters from different countries, something which is lost in the original Japanese. There is a trio of characters with heavy German (?) accents that…
Read at the sourceBiobulletM
.::The premise::.
The set up is actually pretty neat. A world under the threat of some monsters called earless fought back by some famous dudes called players based on actual musicians fighting on their mechas which are actually their amps. Episode 1 starts with the Echo finding a mysterious girl (Myuu or µ) which is an unknown player and also she doesn't have any memory. Now Echo has to travel the world trying to know who she really else all while they meet up with other players.
Sadly, it just doesn't deliver what you might expect as the music undertone is severely missing almost in every aspect.
.::Characters::.
Echo is most of time an interesting character and Myuu is pretty likable girl; their development as a couple is heavily hinted from the start and their dynamic feels great in…
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The story is kind of interesting, but a little too "Go to this place, now go to other place" for me. There are also elements of the plot that are part of one episode and then never really capitalized/built on, but perhaps that's in hopes for a second season? There were some good moments, but it was just kind of eh. 6/10
The art wasn't very good. I strongly dislike the overuse of cg, especially when it's bad. So when I see cg mech with the MCs lifeless unmoving cg models riding it, I want to die. There really isn't any excuse for such poor cg. Some positives can be found in the aesthetic design of the mechs, but the chubby cheeked heroine is kind of an eyesore. Another bad thing is that the animation colors are wrong in a couple scenes... I think? I'm not sure, but it seemed to me that a e…
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If you watch this thinking it’s going to poke at your love for music, or if you hope it’s going to have a wonderful message as the undertone throughout the whole season, you will finish it with a bad taste in your mouth. Keep an open mind with this anime, and don’t cling yourself to the lame references it makes.
The anime has an iffy slow start, but does a good job at keeping a steady pace from start to finish. To really enjoy this anime, you need to ignore its many references to generic artists and understand that it’s just one of the many elements comprising the anime. It’s a story about a world and its people after a near cataclysmic event took place. You meet many interesting characters while watching this anime, and see how they live in the after math.
I won’t pretend I thou…
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"Why is the score so low?"
It seems with "Listeners," you're on two sides of the fence: you either love the show, or you hate it. I'll explain why I think "Listeners" doesn't live up to the hype.
The biggest hindrance to the show is the story. On the surface, it's got a great message, but much of it feels half-baked. There's really no depth, the "links" that are supposed to tie the story together feel extremely weak and there's really no back story to make you care about the environment. Even the love element between the two characters is nothing more than blushing and vague hints by other characters. It's like watching a flower half blossom and then stay that way. Don't get me wrong. I love the premise, the idea and the music history that's tied in. I'm a dork in that aspect, but when i…
Read at the sourceSesshomaru
Music as the main theme including mecha action and implied cyber or steampunk elements. That sounds like a pretty cool and extravagant mixture. Unfortunately, despite good ambitions and ideas, the series cannot deliver what it promises. Even though there are many allusions to music and stars of the last decades, but that alone does not make wine out of water. Music means a lot to me, the anime is dedicated to it and that's why it's hard for me to write this, but the anime as a whole is just not good.
Story: At first glance, simple & predictable, so the great thing about it is unfortunately only explored by music enthusiasts (4/10)
It's such a shame that the script is so banal and far too short for the story. The really cool and well thought-out references to music and contemporary histor…
Read at the sourceVivavideoUser2x
Listeners will change your life on how bad it is, it's one of those anime that if you binged like i have, its like being frozen in time for 5 hours , and coming out of it only remembering how much time that you have wasted,NO actually, its not like that, it IS that.
Listeners feels like its plot was made by a generated AI, it ignores the steps of making a story: exposition, rising action, conflict, falling action, and conclusion. Shit just happens every single episode. Its formula is trying to explain stuff to you ,since the show does an awful job of it in the very beginning, but as a result, all of the rising action and conflict is trimmed and/or watered down to the point where its boring.And that ending is crap as well, the conclusion doesn't make much sense, people who die come back to…
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Best album I've heard from Jin.
Anime? What anime? I was just listening to a Jin album with Rie Takahashi instead of vocaloids. There were mechas? How the hell did I miss mechas? Were the fights good? They were short as all hell? What do you mean Prince and Robert Johnson were in it?
OK, so apparently there was a story. I guess it couldn't have been that interesting.
TL;DR Buy the soundtrack, especially if you like Rie Takahashi's singing. Otherwise, don't bother watching, they really try, animation is decent, sound is amazing, but the narrative is needlessly confusing, and not in the way the Kagerou Project was.
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If there is a way for you to experience Listeners in an audio-only medium like an audiobook or a musical album, that would be a much better alternative to what this eccentric mess has been. I'm probably a weird case here, where I was immediately hooked upon seeing JIN'S INVOLVEMENT in the anime. For those who don't know, Jin is particularly known for his Kagerou Project, which anime adaptation's quality is debatable. I am a huge fan of Jin's approach to storytelling, but Listeners just didn't cut it.
For all its eccentric aspects, Listeners wound up being quite underwhelming.
It could have been so much more amazing, yet it ended up feeling like it only tiptoed from one theme to another. With an interesting premise and an intriguing world and cast (supposedly), it just failed to deliver t…
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This show was amazing; it feels like a spiritual successor to Eureka Seven. While I do think it could have given it self some more room to breathe and let us live in the world a lot longer what you do get is fun and unique. I know there will be a manga adaption and I do hope it is longer.
It's short and sweet and worth a watch. Every episode comes with an original ending theme and the visuals for the endings are top notch.
I think people didn't give it a fair chance and are being hypercritical. This is a hidden gem in a season of new shows being introduced right now and it bares giving a second viewing.
Read at the sourceJiangHaoyi1979
This was the original creation of a guy whose name is "Jin" who created a lotta musical composition in a lot of anime, so basically this was his only anime creation and yet IMO he did a good job. Ok, here were my ratings:
Story-Good 7: Ok, so the story maybe the usual guy finds anthropomorphic girl and from there their adventure begins, but in this original anime, the adventure wasn't your typical one, cu'z it was more like an adventure of self discovery when involves a girl who has no idea that she's the baddie around here and a guy who save the day and manages to save the girl in the end.
Art-Good 7: Well, given that the motif of fashion and illustration, it was kinda good when something from the 70's was blended with something from both the 80's and 90's.
Sound-Very Good 7: that's…
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Listeners. When I heard it was about 70s rockstars, you had me interested, when you brought in Mecha, you had me slightly disappointed, when I watched it, you had me appalled.
Spoiler warning, but here's a small spoiler, just don't fucking watch it it's terrible.
Wow... WOW... This show's bad, like bad. Horrible. Where do I even start, man I had a bit of hype for this as it had music inspired theme which I so dig. I love those classic, influential rock bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd and hearing that these are in the show got me interest. Straight from the first episode, I was let down in an instant and the rest was just an eyesore to watch. This even got to a point of me thinking, 'Why am I watching this???'
Character issues are everywhere, from the top to the bottom, left to…
Read at the sourceMike-Honcho
Bad but not horrible, I think that's the best way to describe this show.
For a while now i have been itching to watch a good ol' mecha series in the charts, so when I'd read the synopsis of this one i thought: why not give it a shot?
The concept really is interesting, at least to me sounds that way. Not just music powered mechas but a world with references to rock and pop culture, characters based on musicians and the "equipments": amps that when connected to the performers or "players" turn into mechas they then pilot.
All this, I think, had potential for a rich and interesting world-building, like technical differences in the robots, diverse and characterized fighting styles between the players and stuff to name a few. Instead we got clunky and generic CGI mecha action, really bad CGI…
Read at the sourceAndre_Alexander
Spoiler free article: A short description that's just a bit longer than normal synopsis to give you rough idea what to expect from this anime. Conclusion for TL;DR at the end of the articles.
Reading time: 3 minutes read
Review:
Facepalm. This is what I got from this anime multiple times, at first I'm intrigued with the promising premises, but after watching 2-3 episodes, I facepalmed, for the first time, because somehow, they successfully turned the interesting premise to some generic story, they didn't expand the amazing worlds, I don't know why they didn't tapped into this potential, but I still didn't gave up hope, I kept watching, to be facepalmed again, this time with a chair...This anime didn't improve, it regress, they introduced a problems, that everyone who have watched a coupl…
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Ok, it's easy to understand why this anime has a score this low, the first episodes are garbage.
until episode 7-8, it's super boring, nothing happens. You have each episode unrelated to the previous , just 7 boring episodes on friendship LEL.
But then you understand that the anime was just setting the world and the characters. From episode 8 to 12 it's a banger, the story has a meaning and all episodes are then all related and they aren't center on the main character.
The timeline isn't linear but it's not disturbing, it makes you want to know more about what happened and i was super restless to know what happened with one of the main character.
This show is great but you have to get through the first episodes that are boring af.
Btw sorry for my english mistakes, just wanted to bring…
Read at the sourceGoober-fish
HEY! Listen!
“Listeners” is fucking garbage, and in most cases, I’d say you’d have to see it to believe it but I pray no one besides myself has to lay themselves bare to this level of unfiltered drek.
If the litmus test for a half-decent anime screen-writer is having listened to the musical stylings of Jimi Hendrix, Prince, and Pink Floyd (among many...many others), then you can consider most dads in the continental United States accomplished enough to pen something equal to or better than Listeners. This isn’t a show for music nerds or people who can appreciate the hallowed halls of surface-level dad-rock, no, no, Listeners is a bit more sinister than that. Listeners is 12 straight episodes of some smug prick patting himself on the back for having listened to the most bare-essential “c…
Read at the sourceSanaeK10
Listeners shows you can't rely on good voice talent alone to prop up your show. When it was first announced, the list of A-list seiyuu being cast as virtually everyone had piqued my interest disregarding the actual content of the show. Talents and performances from people you don't really hear from that often nowadays with the influx of newer cheaper talent. So I vowed to myself to sit through this to the end at the very least, I mean, if they could spend enough money to get good talent, surely the actual show would be at least somewhat decent wouldn't it?
Turns out I was deluding myself to the highest degree. If I had wanted to listen to these performances, what I should have been doing instead is watching older anime. But enough about me, more on the actual show. That money had to have…
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This is not a anime for everybody, in fact this is not an anime for millennials or new generations who wants some of the same nor is for people who thinks know about music this is for people who understand what means to see their favorite bands represent in a classic Japanese style, let’s say that makes the same for some bands and genres what Scott Pilgrim Did for the Pop culture All the references and the details are the key to enjoy this anime.
And of course is a hot mess but you can enjoy with any problem at all.
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I Think Its Actually Very Good.
Many people don't speak that well about Listeners, I think its a good anime, mainly if you like music and that sends a good message and shows how music brings people together all around the world, I don't think it's only for music "nerds" as some have pronounced. The animations its good, short story, but I think its good, the animation it's 10 out of 10 for sure, the music as well, the sound effects and all of it.
I think the issue many people don't actually understand the anime, and why Myuu is like it is, she is not a bitch, she is a rockstar basically, she is that artist that have and fell a need to shine, is very immature and impulsive, and echo its a very passive person, that was living a life without meaning its just normal to so worry about everythi…
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Let's start with the good things about Listeners: it has a great OST, its opening and ending are awesome; the art is good, sure sometimes like any anime in the last 10 years have those weird looking moments, but overall good; the animation is alright and sometimes good, when they are not relying in CGI. That's it.
The idea behind the story is good, but its execution is a mess, it is pointless and with no closure, there are loose ends and they try to sound deeper than it actually is. One of the things they tried to gather fans was relying on good music and IRL references to great Rock musicians, you can't hold viewers for long if you are relying just on that. Then we get the characters, Echo is the same coward shounen hero you have seen a thousand times, a forgettable character even, Mu on…
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