Audience reviews
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mati4193
Production value? Top notch. For a highschool drama type anime this had top level animation, great sound design and although some of the singing was cringe I let it grow on me, I even thought it was kinda sweet at times...
The plot however, whoever wrote this was clearly on shoorms or worse 🤣🤣🤣 I don't wanna spoil for those who might actually enjoy the anime but holy shit is the plot dumb and if not for the great production value and passion emanating from this anime I would not recommend the watch. But if you're able not to think about it too deeply sure, give it a watch if you've got nothing better to watch.
Read at the sourceKikukahiko
Personal Opinion
“What is happiness?”
“And can something created by humans—like AI—ever truly find the answer?”
That’s the core question of this film. I think the plot is really intriguing, even though the story follows a pretty classic structure.
But honestly? I got way more out of it than I expected. I mean, just look at the genre mashup:
Slice of Life + Sci-fi + Musical = Sing a Bit of Harmony.
It’s the musical aspect that totally caught me off guard in the best way. It ends up being the glue that holds the whole movie together. Whether the characters are happy, sad, or even fighting the antagonist (don’t worry, it’s not Disney lol), music always steps in as the emotional drive.
And it’s not just for the main character every character gets their moment, and the musical moments are…
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The director and creator of Sing a Bit of Harmony and Time of Eve is proficient at what he does, but his past forays into AI/android-based sci-fi had more depth and inventiveness, even when I wasn't sold on his vision of the future. This new film is more along the lines of the typical blockbuster, meaning there is a little bit of everything in the family friendly sphere of fiction: coming of age, sci-fi concept and theme, romance, action, comedy, social commentary (gag), etc.
I might as well not even write about android-raising simulators, as I've said just about all there is to say across a wide-range of notes, for they can only be about two things if you're making a humanoid android: 1) labor and household chores. 2) sex. Well... there's also 3) pretending to be human, which would have…
Read at the sourceKiwiWasTaken
This move has a lot of unique and thoughtful ideas, but overall the execution was poor and jumbled. I think it really is just a mouthful of sugar.
The singing is good, but very overplayed and mistimed.
Most of the characters read more as background actors or poorly written stereotypes.
Alot of improbable nonsense that takes you out of the story and leaves you unsatisfied.
I'd say the best part is the two lead human characters and The art, it's animated beautifully, shoutout to J.C. Staff. In summary, personally, I think this movie completely misses the mark for me and leaves me feeling like I wasted my time.
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Sing a Bit of Harmony was a film that got sandwiched in with Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- and Belle in 2021 with its focus on AI and technology within a near-future setting. The name Yatsuhiro Yoshiura may ring a bell to some folks as he was the director behind the highly acclaimed 2008 ONA, Time of Eve, with its mundane focus on androids and exploring how life would seem from their perspective as they secretly have gained sentience. Sing a Bit of Harmony dabbles into somewhat similar elements of exploring a near-future setting with technology as a company is testing out a new AI-programmed robot named Shion to attempt having her blend in with students at a high school as loner student Satomi, who attends the school, is the daughter of Shion's lead programmer and finds her life getting hecti…
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Since the beginning, science fiction has warned us of terrors of technology; films like 2001 and Terminator demonstrate the violent capabilities of artificial intelligence, whereas Psycho Pass outlines a horrifying reality in which the dictation of our lives by machines has eroded our individualism. However, one interesting commonality I’ve noticed among Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s work is his dedication to rejecting these theses. For Yoshiura, small technological advancements intended to convenience us (such as friendly home AIs) are not something to be feared. Large corrupt corporations and organisations that seek to prevent the evolution of such technology are presented as irrational and reactionary. In this case, Shion—an AI who literally spreads happiness through song, is the vessel that allo…
Read at the sourceRaidzAnimez
I never thought that an Bandai Namco film would had made me cry but it did. The amazing thought of putting a musical into a anime film would have been great. The mix between sadness and happiness all felt like an amazing type of Disney movie. The music and animation were just beautiful to watch and see. The plot twist and humor were great as-well. The characters were outstanding with a lot of development. First diving into this movie, I thought it was a regular "Gimme your money and get CRAP!" but once I really seen it, I was like WOAH. I never even seen a Bandai Namco film but only played the games looks like I was proven wrong by my thoughts and took time to see such a great movie. Would recommend to anyone and it would be 3x better watching it with family.
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To summarize this movie without any spoilers:
You we're excited when you found out a new steak house opened nearby you
You went and was served a really good looking medium rare steak, which was also plated beautifully.
First bites tasted good, you were enjoying your time, the restaurant's atmosphere is amazing, the friendly staff's and beautiful music playing in the background.
Two more pieces of the steak remains and after eating... You spat it out, because of how extremely salty it was. Confused, as to why there was a random salty part, you looked at the last piece and hoped it wouldn't be as salty as the previous piece
It was salty.
For a few mins you just sat there disappointed that you didn't get to enjoy the the very last piece.
That's how It felt watching this movie.
Beautif…
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When I saw the trailers and trailers, this movie made me very excited, and I really wanted to see it. But when it comes to taking time to see it, I didn't like it as I would have liked. It is a story that I can only describe as beautiful, but very simple. Except for one song, I didn't like the soundtrack, although I feel like it's more abstract, just a personal opinion. The animation is good, although it is not memorable either. The characters are too basic, there are none that evoke any kind of feeling or are memorable; I like the concept of the story and the world in which it takes place, but I feel that it was well used. The movie has parts that are so basic or somewhat illogical that I feel like maybe only kids could enjoy it. And the ending was extremely disappointing, and I think qui…
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I went in completely blind for this film - I didn't even look up a synopsis. I just knew it was a school-slice of life type movie. Now with the English dub out, I finally decided to check it out.
Story: Sing a Bit of Harmony takes place in the future, where AIs take care of mundane tasks such as driving school buses and farming the fields for crops. Satomi Amano goes to school where she doesn't exactly fit in, as she had an incident before the events of this film that put her in poor graces with some of her other classmates. Her mother is finally given the reins to lead a project in her company, Hoshima, who specialize in AI technology. This project's goal? To show the world that AIs can live amongst humans without knowledge of anyone else. This is where Shion Ashimori comes into play. Sh…
Read at the sourceHail_Lelouch
In a year with both Mamoru Hosoda's Belle and Wit Studio's Vivy - Flourite Eye's Song, a story about a singing AI robot doesn't seem like much of a novelty. But although Sing a Bit of Harmony might struggle to stand out against its high-concept peers, it's still a sweet and funny movie which definitely proves as a crowd-pleaser.
The movie's plot is split into two halves. The first half introduces Shion to a human environment and plays out like a high school romance drama, with a familiar cast of characters with different backgrounds and personalities. The film’s second half then adopts somewhat of a heist-like scenario that heightens the climactic stakes when both Satomi and Shion’s safety is threatened. The tone shifts from a slow-paced high school romance to a high-impact thrill ride an…
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If you look into what happen in the story it's actually the same as other bleak dystopian AI 'escape' sci-fi stories. But this anime depict it in complete opposite way, even the message is the opposite. It's very hopeful, feels good, and beautiful. Everything about AI in this anime is very beautiful, even the aspect that should been terrifying (like taking control of every machine). It take every aspect that make dark sci-fi AI stories scary and turn it around completely.
The musical aspect feel a bit forced & awkward (not without explanation, still weird though), but the animation & song quality made up for it. If you familiar with musical show it won't be that weird.
The characters is nice, the robot especially is very charming & innocent, very likeable, even though the characters in…
Read at the sourceMarie_chan_2001
Ai no Utagoe wo Kikasete is a beautiful and heartwarming movie that strongly reminded me of Kimi no na wa, my personal favorite movie. This movie tells a beautiful story about love, friendship and emotions while also showing us the most realistic near-future world I have ever seen in media.
Story 9/10
The story was never predictable and surprised me many times. Watching this movie was an emotional rollercoaster due to it's well written stories (and characters, which I'll talk about as well soon). The story was creative and quite unique despite starting with a relatively simple premise, the worlbuilding and portrayal of this near-future world was also outstanding
Art 10/10
Everything in this movie is among the most beautiful things I have ever seen, the artsyle, the design of the charac…
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Did not know what to expect before I watched the movie but damn, it was a very entertaining and enjoyable watch. Great movie overall and I absolutely love it.
In short, the movie is about an AI trying to bring happiness to the MC and her friends in a unique and bizarre way. Well, she is an AI, after all.
Story: 8/10
There are two points about the story which intrigue me. First of all, the concept of the movie by adding a musical aspect into it which is very rare in an anime and worked incredibly well. If it went wrong, it could be weird but it blended well with the theme of the movie. Secondly, I found out that the setting of the story which takes place in a modern society filled with AI robots is very interesting. For me, both played an important role in delivering the enjoyment of the…
Read at the sourceAngelinaTabrizi
the best anime I've watched... I'm crying because I'm happy.. sometimes I think what would happen if there were such robots in our world.. sometimes it's scary for some reason.. but sometimes I think that everything would be very good..they would were our friends..Sometimes I think that robots can bring the end of our world. I think so. Maybe there will be no people left in the world, people will perish. Robots will take over the world... Maybe I've watched too many movies..😂.. In other words, what I want to say is that we will not live our own life, but the life they want from us. We well be robots instead of them..Well, in short. wonderful anime. I advise everyone to see. you will not regret. WITH LOVE!
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The movie starts and seems interesting at first with the initial worldbuilding. Fast forward to Shion in the classroom, and the moment she starts singing, and says "...are you happy yet?"...I let out a deep groan...I thought to myself, "(sigh)...well since I'm here, I'll just finish this thing and clean this out of my system later..."
And as the movie progressed.... My expectations were flipped, and I ended up incredibly satisfied.
The singing and the music score really does make Ai no Utagoe wo Kikasete feel like a Disney movie, and I'm not a Disney movie fan whatsoever. In fact I basically despise Disney movies and singing in movies in general. But the progression and the ever tightening story with Shion basically changing the characters as the movie progressed made me start to enjoy…
Read at the sourceAlematt288
Ai no Utagoe wo Kikasete is a nice movie but in my opinion it fails in some aspects.
I'll tell you right away that it's worth to watch, since it's kinda enjoyable, but if you want to know pros and cons just keep reading my review.
STORY: 7
The story is set in a world where AIs are used everywhere (literally).
Here, we get to know the main cast, made of 5 friends and an experiment, a "human AI" that had to "mimetize" between people.
But there's one problem, she is obsessed with the main girl and wants to make her happy.
At first this doesn't make any sense, mainly because it was created to fit into the society, but she starts singing and making other dumb things.
I won't spoil anything, but in the end, it'll all make sense, so don't worry about that.
After that, the story keeps going and i…
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"Are you happy, Satomi ?"
The story set on futuristic Japan where everything worked by some AI.
I really like the background for this film, even though they make it so futuristic but they keep manage the Japanese culture. They didn't make it over the top futuristic background.
Since this anime has the genre "music", so everything consist of some singing from the protagonist of the film. There are some moment that the singing make it so cringe, even for me as the watcher get the second hand embarrassment. But overall the story is pretty cute. With a bit of rom-com spice in it.
Animation is pretty clean, even for the 3D. Please don't compare with the Oscar nominated anime. Overall, the animation is not sore for the eyes.
Character, they manage to draw the character as a real teenage…
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So... I did not expect this, but I didn't like Sing a Bit of Harmony as much as I've wanted to. Even now, I consider Time of Eve to be a quintessential cosy Sci-Fi and one of the better examples of playing with AI-related ideas (even transhumanist ones to some extent) in the medium. Harmonie and Aquatic Language were also really nice. And I tend to overrate everything slightly musical in nature too. Everything was looking favourable at first. Heck, if I were to compile my 10 favourite movies in a top, more than half would be musicals. But the main difference between those and our culprit is the fact that the formers couldn't be summed up by a reductionist as *drum roll, please*
'Platitudes: The Almost-Musical'
West Side Story was innovative, equally actual from a political POV today as…
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I often despise Disney Movie when the songs aren't fun. Frozen "Build A Snowman" and "Let It Go", also Despicable Me "Minion Song" turned out so good.
I am sure that "song" wasn't needed in this anime.
Every character supposed to be emotional, but somehow I can't immerse.
This is supposed to depict youth and human relation, but I didn't find anything outstanding. What I found is just a gloomy story, and somehow forced to become happy.
Story about "AI is Human" has been done so much better before with better characters. Like in Plastic Memories.
J.C. Staff, the studio that adapted many youth anime set in high school. Their quality of adapting that kind of anime dropped since Sakurasou(even though they changed the scenario from the LN, it turned out so well).
If you are asking me to watch…
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