Introduction
Increasing income divide, creeping environmental pollution, unsolvable waste issues, childcare waiting lists being discussed without those concerned, repeated corruption… The government, smeared by vested interests, can't do a thing against the many problems and sources of discontent. It's in this situation, with Japan cornered with no way out, that idols rise up to save the day!
The Heroine Party, Sunlight Party, Starlight Party, Bishoujo Party, Wakaba Party, Subculture New Party, and SOS Party. From these seven idol political parties, the idols who have become National Diet members and representatives for each prefecture will smash through the sense of stagnation covering Japan using the power of song and dance! They'll bring back the smiling faces of the people, and wrap Japan in a glittering aura!!
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Audience reviews
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RESOLVING_POWER
I watched Idol Jihen, also known as Idol Incidents. Here are my thoughts:
This anime is about idol girls who are also politicians within the national Japanese legislative system. Despite some mature themes involved, this show basically feels like a Saturday-morning cartoon meant for a child audience. The plot is mostly episodic and usually involves the simplistic use of some kind of political conflict, such as a scandal or public policy decision. Aside from these political themes, this feels like a generic formulaic idol show; this anime isn't nearly as creative as it could have been. Regardless, the unusual juxtaposition of idols and politics is silly and fun. The absurdity of it got some chuckles out of me. The novelty of mixing idols and Japanese politics is what kept me watching this…
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Idols... in the government? Honestly not a bad idea. Considering that I am from the US and more particularly California, where an empty chair would do a better job than our career politicians who couldn't give a sh*t about much less understand the struggles of the common man, the idea of all those old corrupt and frankly evil individuals being replaced by young and cute Japanese pop stars is more appealing than I'd like to admit.
They'll lower taxes by generating government funds from holding big idol handshake events and bolster education by writing songs that teach kids how to count or whatever. Most importantly they'll pass no new legislation, because all that sounds too complicated. So yeah conceptually I found this world to be hilarious and I wouldn't mind living in that version of J…
Read at the sourceRantaku
I've seen some reviews that say this anime is bad, but for me this anime managed to entertain me with an unusual story concept. Idol and politics, an unusual story concept but interesting to me, even though the story concept doesn't make sense. But hey, it's an anime, anything that doesn't makes sense is possible in anime.
Well, 12 episodes is not enough for all the characters, but i've seen an anime with a lot more characters in one series.
For the animation, personally i hate CGI so much but for this anime the CGI is good but they forget about the mouth movement.
The art is good, and the characters design is my favorite (especially Yami Ringo).
The song, makes me won't skip the opening.
Since i love idol anime, i can enjoy this anime without any problem
Rating :
Story : 6/10
Art :…
Read at the sourceMomokoMaki
I only watched it because the idea was so strange but at the same time is something that is already happening. Celebrities don't hold an political power cause they don't need to, just become famous and get twitter someone will listen to you.
This anime takes the idea of idols and politics to a new level making it just fun. If you take it too seriously you're not going to enjoy it. Its a very cliche Japan try and make everyone into friends working together in a cute way.
Once weird thing is that they are trying to hard to make each idol unique. Giving each character a faction and core belief, all different doesn't seem very realistic. They probably did that so they could have more eps.
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I pretty much only cared that Tsunku being involved in this, but the generic VA-voices dampened the quality some.
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.:STORY:. (3)
The premise is a lie. This is generic "Cute Idols Doing Cute Things".
Do not bother if your only interest in the show is the possibility of deep and/or legitimate political discourse. Because that doesn't exist. This is a weak, lackluster attempt of standing out amongst the ever-growing idol culture. ---
.:ENJOYMENT:. (4)
I was drawn by this show's promise and its OP song hinted at some actually interesting topics. So, at the very least, I expected them to take politics fairly serious as a job... but, instead, it was merely an idol shtick that benefits nothing and downplays the importance of actually doing something in politics that actually helps…
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STORY:
Dialogue: Contains politics and music coming together into one plot. Each episode involves the main characters travelling all over Japan to help others and have a performance in the end. They also meet various members of Idol Dietwomen along the way.
Relationships: Idol Dietwomen -- (aka women politicans/idols) small idol groups are affilated with each other. They have different ideologies and came from all walks of life, but they are working towards the same goal. Their connection to the people from various cities and fans are important to them because they are passionate to help them and bring smiles to them. However; when it comes to Rougai Party... it's an ongoing battle that will never end...
Design: It involves an Idol group called The Idol Dietwomen. They are constantly tryin…
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I saw there were some bad reviews for this, but I really enjoyed it.
I found this is show entertaining and sweet. The plot was a little slow at times but a show like this doesn't need to be super fast paced or have a bunch of twists. It is cute and made me feel happy and smile. I love Natuski and Shizuka's relationship. They are really heartwarming partners.
I don't think there is anything wrong with having a show like this, especially in these trying times. It doesn't have the tone of some weird political propaganda. I support strong, cute anime girl politicians
Read at the sourceNafisa
I was so disappointed with this anime that I decided to write my first review on it to express my dislike.
Starting with story, the concept of idol politicians is an idea nobody has used before and for good reason, it doesn't work nor make sense. The storyline is typical and half-assed with the recurring theme of "Don't give up!" and "Friendship can solve all the world's issues!". It also reuses the same major morals of taking care of the environment and the people which is fine but predictable. The politics within the story were executed poorly, nothing was particularly realistic or good for that matter. The episodes dragged on, it was difficult to pull through them as most of the story looked forced. The ending was forseeable but at that point the plot was getting tiresome. Overall the…
Read at the sourceLegendAqua
Hey, LA didn't know Ruby Kurosawa from Love Live Sunshine grew up to be a politician!
This kind of premise of being idol AND a dietwoman is by all means a crazy and to be honest laughably weird premise, especially for the idol genre makes this kind of idol anime a weird outlier. LA doesn't know how to exactly tackle this kind of anime besides the "strengths" and "flaws"...let's start with the strengths first shall we?
For what a weird and crazy premise Idol Jihen has, the only thing LA was immediately worried about was the balance between it's idol elements and political elements, thankfully how straightforward and gung-ho they are about the premise making LA just laugh LA ass off sometimes. The next strength LA saw was once it finally got serious in a ways but using typical political sl…
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No show this season screamed "Wasted Potential" more than Idol Jihen. Wait!.. A show about idol politicians has wasted potential? Believe it or not yes it does. In fact, I'd say Idol Jihen had all of the ingredients to make it great. However, it had neither the talent nor the drive to actually get there.
Like most people when I read the premise of the show I wasn't hopeful. It seemed like a shallow idea made purely to make a "unique" idols show when really it was just going to be another idol show. Why would idols become politicians? What sense did that make? And episode 1 did nothing to change my opinion. There was way too much telling instead of showing, and the characters and its setup just didn't seem that interesting.
As it was it was nothing special. But then Episode 2 happened an…
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