Introduction
Tiara, a princess from the kingdom of Waleland, travels to the city of Mamkestell to attend a prestigious academy for those who practice magic like herself. After passing a test to prove her eligibility, Tiara reunites with her childhood friend Rosetta, who is also a student there. She then joins and meets Rosetta's group: the athletic Lavie, the reliable Ashley, and the bookish Lynette—all of whom Tiara quickly befriends.
In this institution, students are placed into one of three ranks based on their test score: group Noir being the highest, followed by Rouge and Lapis. Tiara's group is ranked Lapis, and if that was not enough, those who fail while ranked Lapis face expulsion. Realizing their dire situation, Tiara urges everyone to start taking their activities more seriously.
On top of this, Tiara has one more purpose for excelling at the academy: to become more like her elder sister, who is a very skilled singer. However, to reach the stage that she desires, she will have to overcome many challenges, along with her companions, as she continues her magical journey.
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Audience reviews
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Atsunome
I’ll say it now, coming from the perspective as someone who doesn’t usually like Idol anime/games: Lapis Re:LiGHTs was surprisingly good.
The only substantial issue present is the VAST difference in quality between episodes, switching from borderline putting me to sleep to downright amazing. As a result, I think I’ll have to discuss them separately in four “sub-reviews”, if you will.
Episodes I & II: 8/10
This series has a very strong start, introducing us to five likeable (albeit somewhat cliche) characters and a promising storyline. Teasers for future backstory plot points regarding Tiara’s sickness and the significance of her- well, tiara, also help to really draw you in with that building mystery.
Episodes III, IV, V, & VI: 4/10
Absolutely nothing of value is added here, with about…
Read at the sourceThe_Walker
Oftentimes, when the shows average score highly disagrees with the reviewers, it's the sign of a misunderstood anime. MAL ratings are notoriously unreliable.
However, when it comes to idol anime, this is generally not the case. If anything, you should be even more skeptical of a show when you see this pattern. The producers of idol themed anime know full well that the idol fanbase will gladly eat up poor writing, lazy direction, and cliche ridden garbage so as long as it includes some cute girls singing while wearing cute clothes. Unfortunately, that's exactly what Lapis Re:LiGHTs is. This anime is nothing more than yet another installment of boring uninspired near-plotless nonsense, with the only conflict of the show ( OMG We Gonna fail and get expelled ) being an excuse for said cut…
Read at the sourceAndreas000
I really like this anime. In terms of the storyline, the songs that are sung in this anime are very good and the characters have their own characteristics. But I don't know if this anime doesn't have a 2nd season. I'm a bit sad because this idol-themed anime and music is really good. I hope everyone will enjoy the storyline and all aspects of this anime. And the art of the images that are displayed make this anime feel alive as well as the characters and plot. I'm very grateful that this anime has a season 2😊.
I think the author of this anime story is very genius
Read at the sourceren0080
Wow, this one really surprised me. It's a pretty good music/idol anime that I never heard of before. I'm glad I gave it a chance.
The story, while it's pretty fast-pace and a bit cheesy at times, I think that it told what it needed to tell from it's initial premise. But 12 episodes isn't really enough to flesh out the plot to bring out some depth or meaningful messages to it. Though I really enjoyed the story nonetheless.
But regardless of that, this show really has some trouble in balancing the magic and reality aspect of it. There's no fine line on what magic can and can't do and it's always just so convenient when magic works in certain episodes but suddenly isn't even used in other episodes.
The settings of this anime is also quite shaky. There's a lot left unexplored and unexplained.…
Read at the sourceRaffie83
- A bit of a spoiler from this review
This is my first time watching music idol anime. i watch it 1 episode a day, because i don't feel not as addictive as when watching the action anime genre.somehow in my opinion, the story is very ordinary, and for me the only good in the story is that we know the secret from main character older sister. maybe if they add more story how to heal her older sister maybe that would spice up the story a little.
I like the animation in this anime, its so good to watch, feels like watching a movie. especially when they dance, and i think they spent more money on that. i don't really like the music they sing it, maybe because it's not my taste, but its good for the anime because each group sing different song and it was like showing how the group is.
Read at the sourceKejoraSR
If you try to read a review for this kind of genre, it means you already consider to join the deepest lowest & moe-est part of anime world, which is Music Idol. No matter what genre you’re watching, your friends & families will still call you a weebs anyway, so why don’t you just go full throtle diving here to the unexplored Atlantis. Expand your world and find your amusement, then we can finally said “Welcome, my fellow fking weebs.”
Actually it’s not fully my rights to said that because it’s my first time diving here, so I tried to give a review from a newcomer point of view.
Lapis Re:Lights is like a music idol anime that didn’t show too much of the idol part. While other idol animes doing a perform in hope for gathering popularity, instead these girls doing that for collecting mana..…
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"Just another CGDCT idol anime with the right amount of everything CGDCT idol enthusiasts need." - Yes, this is Lapis Re:LiGHTs.
Lapis Re:LiGHTs felt somewhat like Little Witch Academia but without the fantasy adventure thrill. Regardless of its unperceivable story the cuteness, good songs and soft yuri baits and teases makes up for everything, making the show overall better to a certain extent.
Expect water if you asked a server in a restaurant for water. I'm just going to point this out for people who are planning to watch Lapis Re:LiGHTs : "If you're here for something else which isn't CGDCT or idol then you won't get it."
All in all Lapis Re:LiGHTs honestly could've been better than a lazy attempt of copying or mixing aspects of shows such as AKB0048 and/or Little Witch Academia.…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
Lapis was probably my second or third favourite show of Summer 2020. Going into the series I had never heard of it, but my interest was piqued by the combination of idol girls and mahou shojo, both of which I love. After all, who doesn't enjoy cute anime girls singing and fighting monsters, right? Luckily, I was not disappointed at all and was actually rather taken a back by the quality of writing and the great characters in the show.
The story, for me, was actually rather unique and managed to put a cool spin on common idol tropes. I found the concept of the witch academy and magic being intertwined to music to be very fun. The humour managed to land with me, which is always a plus with anime and the girls are just damn cute. You really can't ask for much more in this genre and I think…
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-SPOILERS-
I really loved this show but I felt the need to make this review for a few reasons. After watching the second half of the show as it aired this season, I got a lot more invested once they finally started talking about becoming idles. For some reason, they decided to make the first 5 or 6 episodes purely filler. Sure we get a little bit of world building and some very minor character development, but that's half of the entire show. If they dedicated that time to the story or some deeper development for the main characters, this show could've been so much more.
Story - 4/10
Like I said, the first half of the show is purely filler. The story takes place in a magic school where you must accumulate enough points through doing various tasks to avoid getting expelled from the school.…
Read at the sourceYakiera
Lapis Re: LiGHTs (LiGHTs) is for me one of the most beautiful animes in a long time, where people also sing.
Not only that the songs are atmospheric and heartfelt, the characters and their various characteristics came across very well. The story also had a wonderful flow of time and you felt picked up at all times and you didn't have the feeling that it was stretched with senseless story.
So much was packed into the 12 episodes that it was neither too much nor too little. I also found the dance animations wonderful and you hardly noticed any overlapping images.
I'm blown away when it comes to this anime and would love to see more of it, including the second season, but since I don't know how far the light novel or the manga is, I just hope for it.
And the 12th episode even made me happy wi…
Read at the sourcerobert788
Lapis Re:LiGHTs (2020)
This show was unexpected in the show's story since it did not give much away until it basically started. It comes with a strong start to a dull middle and a rushed ending but it is still a fairly good ride if you enjoy idols and music. It is a really unusual take of the magical realms you normally see since it is filled with so much joy despite awful happenings in the background. Almost the most part of civilization is oblivious to the truth.
The show uses mostly a good level of art but at times goes off somewhat unexpectedly bad. The worst part of this show is the CGI that gets used during the orchestras since it is an appalling change of detail to get those sequences. It is like two different sets of teams made the show and didn't talk to each other on art forms…
Read at the sourceFirechick12012
Good lord. I can't believe I wasted my time on this crapfest of a show. What we have here is an anime that's part of yet another multimedia project to promote a cell phone game involving cute idol girls. Lapis Re:LiGHTs main selling point is that it takes place in a made up fantasy world with made up countries that are much more European-style in nature as opposed to something like Love Live or 22/7. Now, the only reason I watched this was because nothing else really interested me, and since the plague is still going around and putting a bunch of anime on hold, I thought it'd be a nice time killer. It was...but now I wish I had every minute I spent watching this crappy show back! Basically, a young girl goes to a fancy magic idol school where she can become a witch, which in this case is b…
Read at the sourceHunter97-
Not a masterpiece, but a fine piece of art. Lapis Re:LIGHTs breaks the “Re:” curse and gains a nice position in this season’s chart. Maybe too underestimated, and maybe it’s because that underestimation that I can give a high score.
Although it’s evidently a moe product, the depiction of the story and world is much more deeper than “non-moe” works of this period, giving the impression that those kind of works lack the attention and the perfectionism which we find in Lapis Re:LIGHTs. The technical direction is extremely precise, with cinematographic cuts and meticulous care of context and scenery. Oh, how I like the satisfaction of having a character design meant for beauty and not for arousing the viewer. There’s not much to tell: this level of accuracy in details and product construction…
Read at the sourceSanaeK10
Talk about surprise of the season. Without any prior knowledge coming into this series I was fully expecting a low budget soulless mobage adaptation not unlike Nanabun. And not especially Milky Holmes Lite.
To be perfectly honest going in into the first episode initially had me fearing the show would be your typical idol show with school saving, rivals, angst and protagonist powers. Then the second episode completely and utterly shattered those expectations to become something special. I mean, this is a show with a goddamned lesbian cabaret club. It’s wacky and insane and thankfully the idol stuff is kept to a minimum and the justifications for idol activities in a fantasy setting are done well enough.
It's clear a lot of thought and effort has been put into what is essentially a mobage…
Read at the sourcedlxuniuniu
Enjoy a wonderful light show with glamorous idol music! Experience the great adventures of cute girls in a completely new idol direction! Idols who are witches as well, doing a magic show, a combination the world has not seen in this form before!
STORY:
Our journey starts with Tiara, a young and beautiful witch apprentice, who travels from her hometown Bristol to the metropolis Mamkestell, the home of Flora Girls’ Academy. She always had the dream to become a student there and quickly finds that she truly has the latent ability to become a proper Witch, with a bright future ahead of her: a future that will include finding new friends and forming an idol unit together.
After reuniting with her best friend Rosetta, their dynamic duo relationship is particularly emphasized as well, Tiara dec…
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