Introduction
Tensho School is located in the 7th Ward of Thrive Central, where emphasis is put on extracurricular activities and all clubs participate in an annual fall singing contest. Having to delay the start of his school year due to his older sister's hospitalization, transfer student Saku Otonomiya finds himself struggling to adapt to his hectic new life. Balancing his part-time job and caring for his sister, he finds it difficult to make time to join a school club.
In preparation for the upcoming singing contest, the school's singing club wishes to use Sousuke Kagura's song "Cloudy Days," but Kagura is reluctant to grant his permission. The song requires someone with a three-octave range to sing it and he believes that only a VOCALOID can meet the standards. He allows for the club to use his song on the condition that they can find someone who possesses that vocal range to properly sing it.
While racking his brain over the composition of his next song, Kagura stumbles upon Otonomiya singing "Cloudy Days" perfectly. He invites Otonomiya to form a unit with him for the competition. At the same time, the singing club tries to goad him into joining so they can use Kagura's song. As the contest inches closer, Otonomiya must overcome his uncertainty and decide who to team up with.
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Audience reviews
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Rinshuu
I was looking at reviews for this anime just for fun and I couldn't help but notice that a very important point was left out of a lot of them.
This anime is, at its core, a love letter to VOCALOID and the culture surrounding it. If that's not your cup of tea, that's fully understandable!
And I definitely think it would detract from how much someone enjoys this anime, but I do however think that this is not a bad anime. And I also do think there are things to enjoy even if you don't like VOCALOID.
Let me explain.
The anime follows a boy, Saku, who lives in a city surrounded by a big white wall. No, really. It's bizarre.
In this city, he lives a normal life - goes to high school, has a deathly sick sister; you know, the usual stuff. His sister's health is declining rapidly, so rapidly th…
Read at the sourceSagaiko
Sooo it has this cool lineup of characters that you can't help but root for... I spent half of the anime just trying to choose to who i had to fangirl more... Now, when it comes to the whole anime, it's a bit hit or miss. Theres no actual plot... Or thats what i feel like... The series uses musical performances not only as a form of entertainment but also as a means of character development, which is just... Mehxd specially for people who aren't into that type of genre. If you're a fan of anime that incorporates music as a central element and explores the lives of characters within a school setting, it **might** be worth exploring.
Read at the sourceLilMonsterx
this anime has an interesting concept and it has potential but the plot and storytelling are messy as hell. i was confused most of the times. i wasn't sure about the anime's objective until episode 10. some episodes are not necessary. some characters are not necessary to be introduced, they should've just use the characters that was already introduced earlier for certain things (example: like that episode when they play the game).
i'm not a fan of the art style. the 3 main characters that they focused on, uta, saku and sousuke are ugly, uninteresting and annoying. other characters are better than them in all aspects. they should've just make other characters to be the main characters (characters that they focused the most). i was so glad when they focused on other characters in certain ep…
Read at the sourcecocolita22
If I could score this anime on art alone, it would be a 9. But when I factor in how bored I was half the time, I have to say ... 4. I finished it, yes, but mostly because I wanted to see it through. But most of the episodes genuinely dragged and I just wanted the end to come sooner.
For starters, the plot was SO confusing. I still can't explain it even if I tried. Even at the end, there was zero resolution and I have no idea what in the world was happening. I just went along for the relationships and the beautiful art.
I think this is not worth watching, but if you really like shows with a thread of bromance, you'll probably kind of enjoy this.
Read at the sourceFirechick12012
Huh, I didn't expect to review this any time soon. So...Actors: Songs Connection is an anime that came out in October 2019, as part of a large multimedia project based on a series of CDs where popular male voice actors do covers of Vocaloid songs. Yeah, unfortunately, information on this CD collaboration thing is very scarce because that sort of thing isn't well known in places outside of Japan. The only reason I even know about this anime is because a podcast I follow did an episode on it reviewing the show's English dub. Having watched the entirety of said episode, I decided to give this show a try, at least to see what it's about. Let me just say that it's...an interesting beast, but not for the reasons you may think.
So on the surface level, the premise is pretty rote: A young boy, Sa…
Read at the sourceKays90
I wonder where to begin this review. Shall I start with my usual about what I feel about this anime in terms of various departments or shall I make it a bit different this time.
Well considering the high drop rate & considerably low rating, I guess I should tackle those issues first. Frankly its a shame that people drop an anime just after watching one or two episodes. Well this anime is worth watching. This anime is not at all boring provided you are willing to leave your affection of classic school or music themes stories.
There is much more to the anime than most summaries or genre listing denote. I would love to talk about the same but don't want to spoil your fun. Most people watched the first few episodes and find it a bit wierd & cliche at the same time. They didn't wait for the s…
Read at the sourceslodkalili
Because of the nature of the show not much can be said without spoilers, so if you want to go in absolutely blind don't look at this. I'm going to avoid the important parts but I need to explain the basics for anything to make sense. Basically, this is half slice of life, half mystery.
Now that that's out of the way I'll start with the elephant in the room. The plot has an ok concept but was executed in the worst way possible. I'm the type that can never tell even when everyone around me says how illogical a series is but in this case even I could tell. Plot holes are all over the place, plot points come and go seemingly at random, and most of the parts you'd actually care about don't get explained. I assume this is because they wanted to keep our main cast oblivious to what's going on, a…
Read at the sourceAoiHonou
I considered dropping this because majority of the episodes are painfully boring to the point that I started practicing pixel art while occasionally glancing back to the screen to read subtitles.
The idea is okay and was wrapped up nicely in the end, but the build-up needs a LOT of work. Could've been an 8/10 anime if they wrote it better. The worst part for me, personally, are the character introductions. They're all over the place, and if I didn't finish this I wouldn't have even known why they were introduced.
My initial rating was a 4, but bumped it up to 5 for the ending.
Read at the sourceOneTrueEevee
It's really tough to talk about this show without a bunch of spoilers so I have to keep this short. This show is something that you need to be into music for in order to really connect with. The character development was just not there for most of the cast outside of music.
At first, the show was an absolute mess but when it started getting its shit together it was really good. By an absolute mess I mean the show was just not following any real storyline. In the end, it picked one up but it really was nonexistent for half the show.
I highly recommend this show to those who like music but those who don't should look elsewhere
Read at the sourceJaikeis
Is it possible to write about Actors without spoiling its core conceit? I don't think so, but I'll do my best.
There's a certain type of anime I love watching for the thrill of never being able to guess what happens next. Usually, these are soap opera-esque melodramas, but I'd put Actors in this category too. And Actors is very different.
Disregard any summaries you may find about this show; they're all wrong. By all appearances, Actors is a slice-of-life about boys who like to sing, but even early on, there are signs that something weird is going on. The town is encompassed by a towering white wall that no one questions. People occasionally spot mysterious white ghosts hanging around. There are an increasingly number of suspicious stray cats. Sometimes, a guy opens a door in an undergro…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
Vocaloid music, the anime. To think that we'd get a show entirely to promote music company EXIT TUNES based on their 2014 collaborative CD project of famous Vocaloid song covers, it's no wonder the market for Vocaloid music is pretty much still big in Japan, while in the Western world, unless you're a fan of said music, this show's pretty much right up your alley, and if otherwise, not really a whole lot to say about it.
The hamfisted story plot about characters branded as ACTORS (yes it's stylized that way) housed in a private school that's government controlled for reasons I cannot fathom. Give or take, when you first read the synopsis, it makes some sense, but the underlying issue is that there is more than meets the eye. Due to that same "government control", it's like censorship and…
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