Audience reviews
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lycoping
This anime is a bog standard idol anime, with a twist. A girl group called "music girls" is in an airport performing, and a girl from... Germany, I think? ends up in the same airport. She's a prodigy at dancing, and can't sing a lick. So, the idol group being desperate for help in whatever form, Hanako gets added to the staff.
We spend the next 12 episodes watching Hanako be an *extraordinarily* effective member of the staff, helping all the girls out with their problems and winning over even the most stubborn of members with her charm, competency, and empathy. And never once learning to sing (even though she has perfect pitch).
All fine and good. it's an interesting take on the genre. Until the last few minutes.
I don't know how to say this without spoiling, so... let me see... the las…
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If you wanted to see this show because of Ongaku Shoujo circle... forget it. Just forget it. This one is a regular idol anime and nothing other than that. Watch the "movie" version instead, it's much better, shorter, and contains a semblance of Taishi works.
If you came here because you expected an idol anime... I guess it's ok? Can't complain about art, can't complain about music if you can handle the regular jpop. The storyline is just as bad as everywhere else in this genre. Honestly, the show itself is rather boring.
I highly recommend the original Ongaku Shoujo circle all of this originated from, however. Myself, I'd never expect to like electronic rock/pop/progressive trance. This one is really good though.
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This is a solid 5/10 anime. There's nothing truly horrible about it - but there's also nothing particularly great about it, either.
STORY: 6
Well it's... average. Honestly, I only finished watching this yesterday, and it already escapes me!
Okay, no, I do remember it - it's just the most lackluster attempt at a 'spin' on Idol anime. While I can appreciate that Hanako is for once a realistic 'fan' - unlike the many other 'fans' who become instant idol talents by some kind of osmosis - the fact is that the story isn't really about her at all, and therefore falls into the usual 'idols chasing fame and mostly failing until the last moment' category.
ART: 7
Okay so, for the most part, it's pretty standard. There's way, way too much fan service considering the majority of the time it's ex…
Read at the sourceASinfulPersonage
I mean Hanako was a prodigy of having a Perfect Pitch to be able to understand Music's sounds thoroughly, but having a worst voice was actually funny but at the end of the series that she just instantly transform that she can actually sing after a feud/fight/argue (without getting hurt) in CG Mode was actually unrealistic and my expectations really drowned.
I am so in love with these kinds of animation but the "how well you animate/executed the animation and the plot" was too cruel.
This Anime was supposed to inspire the watchers not get disappointed, there are always seems to be more fan-service than actually fulfilling the Music needs, no varieties of songs and redundant Scenes of singing and dancing (that backgrounds are the only change product) *Heartbroken*
After episode 3-5, I lost m…
Read at the sourceyoman21a
I have seen my fair share of music related shows now and since music has a big part in my life, I feel pretty passionate about shows that tackle the idea. Here is another idol anime. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. I love Love Live but I know not everything is going to live up to that. What I didn't expect was for an idol show to fall so below the standard that I felt necessary to rant about it (check the episode 12 discussion). This is why Music Girls was one of the worst shows I have ever seen.
A little bit of background first... Ongaku Shouju started in 2015 with a 25 minute movie that was part of a bigger project (you should watch some of the other movies associated with it that are absolutely fantastic). One of those characters carry over and it throws in a nice reference, but ov…
Read at the sourceMomokoMaki
First I have seen many different idol aime's and this one threw me for a curve. Right off the bat some of the characters have opposing characters to their look. Something you don't see everyday. The music like most idol shows was catchy and fun but they have variety not the same song all 12 eps. as for the performances i don't like the 3d dancing very much but the music made me forget about that animation for the most part. You definitely see all the characters grow in some way very typical focus on one character each ep but continue the many theme.
Despite the have people have for this show I really enjoyed it and plan to watch the movie. I also hope for a season 2.
Read at the sourceGoldenChrysus
I enjoyed this anime up until the last three or so episodes. Essentially the cry-me-a-river Uori bit. Your voice goes out and suddenly you're the pity party of the century? Get the fuck over yourself.
The whole on-stage fighting/making up thing was also annoying. I get that they were going for some raw emotion to bring the group together, but doing it in that particular setting is so unprofessional. If I were in that crowd, that could have been one of my favorite bands from when I was a teenager up on stage, and I'd still leave if they had some weird fight/non-fight thing happening on stage.
Plus, isn't the common theme among idols that you're supposed to always be smiling and making the best of every situation? I don't remember if that was specifically said in this anime, but I'm just g…
Read at the sourceBlazingOptimist
In the last few years, we've seen more and more idol anime being produced. I'm a big fan of this genre, so I was looking forward to Ongaku Shoujo, but I'll admit it did fall a little short of my expectations.
Story: Compared with other idol anime I've seen, such as AKB0048 and the Love Live! series, the story felt forgettable to me. Like with LL, there is an end goal for the group (headlining an arena show with 10,000 fans), but in some of the middle episodes this was referred to so sparingly that I forgot it was actually a plot point. When the goal is reached in the ending episodes, I also feel like the way this happened was executed in quite a rushed way. However, a lot of this can be attributed to the Slice of Life elements of the series, so if you're familiar with this from others li…
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