Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
stwix
This show is bad, like most idol shows. Yet this one is not awful like most, albeit I've seen very little (so don't take my opinion as gospel).
The only thing that lifts this out of the trash bin that is idol shows is the somewhat interesting premise that the show squanders with its boring/repetitive storytelling and terrible animation. I couldn't tell you a single name of any of the characters. The characters are flat and uninteresting. Typical 3d animation for performances, which only on very rare occasions looks good, and this is not one of those times.
This story is not memorable, and I wouldn't recommend this show to anybody.
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22/7 is pretty middle-of-the-road as far as idol anime go, but provides enough unique ideas to leave a positive impression by the end. The format of going into individual character backstories while tying them to the main storyline is a great way to get the audience attached to individual idols. The idea of The Wall is also a very compelling plot hook rather than using a traditional company or school to bring the girls together. Where the show faulters compared to its contemporaries is a lack of a compelling main plotline. The character backstories may be well-handled, but if you've seen any idol anime before you'll be overly familiar with the main storyline (training arc, beach photoshoot, 2nd act breakup, etc.). There's nothing new there which can leave the middle of the show feeling bar…
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22/7 is a good anime. Not fantastic, not a masterpiece, but good. This is my first idol anime and with nothing else to base my opinion on, I thought it was pretty decent! The characters were interesting (definitely some more so than others) and I enjoyed learning about each of the girls (Sakura is best girl imo). I don't think the anime did anything revolutionary, but I definitely think someone could find some enjoyment in it!
There is also a special episode, but I'm unsure if I will watch it. Like I've stated previously, its a good anime, but definitely not one of my favorites, so I'm not sure I want to spend anymore time on it now that I've finished it.
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22/7 I don't even know what to say.
The characters are in fact well developed, but that doesn't mean anything for the story itself. The character being developed or not, the story would kept going in the same way. It's like those games who claim that your actions have consequences, but even if you choose another way the outcome is the same.
They even got a supernatural wall (??????).
I dislike the 3D animation in the performances, musics are ok, the animation on the rest of the anime it's good. But I didn't enjoy it at all and I don't recommend it.
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This might be the best Idol anime ever.
Every episode is special and every episode we get to learn more about the main characters.
At first I didn't like "The Wall" but the more i watched the more i started accepting him.
The Opening: This opening music is amazing, The first time i heard it, I fell in Love with it, now it sits on my spotify (:
The more we learn about the characters backstories or even the present of them, we fall in love and can't stop thinking about them.
Not everything is sunshine and rainbows, most of the characters have a sad backstory and I think it is exactly what we need. Talking about your past can be scary, but without the sad past things couldnt have turned out like this. I Loved having to watch them from 0 - famous, tough there was one thing that stopped me from…
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“I hate adults. They segregate, command, direct and force. Idols are no better. They laugh at stupid things, shake their butts for customers, it's stupid! I came here to do the job I hate the most. To be an adult, I need to be good at it. To protect those precious to me. I'll do anything!" MC at Ep 1.
In society there’s a layer of social status that control us, ground worker must obey the higher up, adult giving nonsense order to youngster, etc. Even if the bottom people already fed up with all those bullsh!t but it can’t be helped, they keep endure it because it’s the way to be higher up adult themself. On another side, the above people did it also for the sake of their junior in life/work, or else workers would be slacking jobs, and teenagers would be walking in dark future path, etc.…
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I rarely watch idol anime, which is why I start with this preface.
Honestly, the first reason I picked it up was because the whole “idol who doesn’t want to be an idol” was pretty interesting. The reason I kept up with is to find out what the answer to the Wall mystery was. And slowly, I found out that the girls themselves were pretty interesting and had some unique backstories. The music was nothing memorable, which I don’t think is great for an idol anime (not that I know anything about idol anime anyway), and I never really got an answer to the Wall.
All in all, decent, but definitely something to watch if you have NOTHING else to watch, and are interested in a bit of the humane element.
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Story 6/10
A group of eight young women are brought together to form an idol group but this is no normal idol group brought together as a result of auditions but solely through the orders of the mysterious wall and as a result everything done by this group is ordered by the wall and must be obeyed regardless of whether the members of the group actually want to do it with some members not even wanting to be idols in the first place.
I thought the whole wall thing was a bit silly although some arguments can be made that this is some sort of commentary on the modern world and idol culture which I can understand but personally I felt this hampered the story in some of the final episodes. Despite these issues I really liked how 22/7 focuses more on the characters and their side stories with e…
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(Contains spoilers in order to contextualize the review)
22/7's anime tries to be many things at once and somehow fails at all of them, leaving the viewers with a frustating and pointless experience. For long time 22/7 fans, it almost feels like a joke.
I've been following 22/7 since the characters were but designs created by various artists. Next to each design, there were also small descriptions of how each girl was like - Sakura's, for example, mentioned a 'dark past'. Knowing that Akimoto-P was behind the project, any idol fan would keep their eyes open for where 22/7 would go next.
As a real life idol group, they're great. Their songs are catchy and the relationship between the members is enjoyable to read and watch about in their lives, video clips, and their youtube channels. The…
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5 - There was something you enjoyed. Still a bit forgettable, but not a waste of time.
So this is a 5, but a good 5. Simply put, I'm not too much of a fan of Idol stuff. Even Zombieland Saga barely got a 7 for me, and I'd imagine that's a top tier Idol anime- although I don't know for sure because I haven't watched more than like 3.
Tips and guidelines says don't include story summaries, but it is important to point out the key point of this idol anime. It doesn't focus at all on the dancing or singing. Instead it focuses on the life of someone who is an idol, and that if very interesting. It is interesting seeing the things an idol group me go through on a day to day basis on how to be successful. Being told what to do and to follow directions.
The other key point is that almost each…
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22/7 is an idol group created by Yasushi Akimoto of AKB48 fame. They are described as “idols who transcend dimensions” meaning that they exist in more than one dimension, yes, they exist in 3-D and in 2-D and in 3-D (animated and motion-captured). But it gets tricky because the series is fictionalized but the idol group isn’t. The voice actors are actual idols from the actual idol-group 22/7, hence the voice acting is horrendous, but the characters they play are utterly and completely fiction. So really what transcends dimensions is the name 22/7.
22/7 is an anime about random girls who were chosen randomly for the purpose of being idols. They met their manager who does everything in his power to make the girls successful by following the commands of the wall; a mysterious entity of nebul…
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Most Idol series focus either on a single idol as a competitor, or else a united group against the world. 22/7 is neither, yet is better off and far more unique for it.
22/7 starts with Miu, a girl who believes she must do well at what she hates in order to become an adult and help the struggling family that she loves. And idol work is everything that she hates - it's superficial, feminine, in the spotlight, and fake.
From there, each character has their own episode, where their background and reasons for being an idol are explained. Often, the reasons they became an idol are linked to their current-day problems, like not feeling confident or struggling to express themselves, which is where the 'friendship' part comes in. Each character has a place in the team, and each helps the others…
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For some reason 22/7 has little to no negative reviews even with this relatively low MAL score so I thought I would take it upon myself to justify why it is the way it is.
For one, 22/7 has a ridiculous premise. I will spoil it right here, so here we go: The reason why all 8 girls were summoned to become an idol group was because a giant Wall (yes, WALL) that an entire secret facility was build around on spit out a golden plate that said so.
I want to inform anyone that might not know this, but 22/7 is a real idol group. Which decided to make a promo anime. With a magic fantasy wall that spit out the absolute order that these girls are the key to form the ideal idol group. If this isn’t a promo that shows you are a little too full of yourself, I don’t know what is.
The wall’s orders are…
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Story:
I never have been a fan of idols anime but this was different in a way where an AI machine in a shape of a wall gives orders to the idols by printing words on a sheet of steel and all of it's order always has a reason. I liked the story because it's very mysterious and different than the other idol animes like "Love live" I always keep thinking what will the next order will be. The Wall never seems to let me down with it's orders sometimes the orders are hard and sometimes it's confusing but the girls always seems to do it since nothing is impossible right?
The title of the anime is 22/7 which is also mysterious It's like the AI used PI as it's general calculation to evaluate how will the girls be famous cause at the beginning of the anime it looked like the girls were choosen rando…
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Real time: I've never been a fan of idols, both the Western kind or Japan's versions of them. The same goes for idol-based anime, mostly because many of them tend to be formulaic or of poor quality. There have been some good ones, but I've seen very few of them. Honestly, the only idol anime I can say that I really love is Fancy Lala, and even that's stretching it, as Fancy Lala's focus isn't really on being an idol. I haven't seen either The IdolM@ster nor Wake Up Girls (I do plan to see the former later on), AKB0048 was fun and ambitious though kind of stupid at times, I've heard great things about Skip Beat and ZombieLand Saga, but again, haven't seen them. I like Aikatsu well enough, though it is a show aimed at children and is much more on the silly, idealistic side of things, and any…
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What is this? Is this another Idol-based Anime?
Yes and no... this is one of the titles that's shamelessly going to be overlooked because idol Anime might have a stigma that they are all the same. It's just young girls acting cute in from of the stage, isn't it?
Well, the difference between this show and perhaps many, is that this show takes a somber route. We start off the show being introduced to Miyu. Miyu isn't the most social person possible and she doesn't have a positive outlook to the adult world. She gets given an invitation to join in to become an idol with several girls that have been called in to become the unit known as, 22/7.
At first, she wasn't very motivated because she already had the job to support her family but eventually, she gets laid off and decided to join in th…
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After years of waiting and several OVAs, finally 22/7 fans got what we’d been wanting, a well done anime.
22/7 is based on the 22/7 multimedia project which was started about 4 years ago. The anime follows the origins of the group and their first year or so together. Unlike traditional idol shows that I’ve seen, 22/7 takes a grittier and dare I say it, darker approach to the idol genre.
From the get go, we see it’s not all rainbows and sunshines in this world. This just feels pretty real. The colour palette even reflects it, opting for more muted shades and tones. This isn’t edge for the sake of edge, however. The reasons for this are all well explained and the issues each of the girls have are all given their own episodes to be explored.
The series is very much character driven as y…
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22/7... That is the title of the anime...sounds like a mathematical thing. However, what is behind this mysterious number? This numerical value certainly seems familiar to one or the other in relation to π (Pi), but mathematics does not play a major role here.
22/7 or "Nanabun no Nijūni" is an idol group that was formed in late 2016. The group itself consists of eleven members (2 + 2 + 7 = 11), eight of them appear here in the main anime (the other three will appear in the OVA, 13th episode).
STORY:
With no idea in mind, our eight girls receive a mysterious letter that does not tell anything beside to meet in a zoo. From that point on, we get to know that they are the chosen ones to start a new idol group. Despite the different starting skills in singing and dancing, which is the most im…
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An anime adaptation of 22/7 adds another title to the seasonal idol lineup we get every year. Usually, we get at least 1-2 idol theme anime per season but 22/7 is also known for being a real life idol group. And make no mistake, becoming a member of the 22/7 idol group is no easy task. Because out of over 10,000 candidates, only a few are selected as being worthy. On a few are born to be an idol. Only a few has what it takes to be a member of 22/7.
Idol shows are known for their promotional material and a testament of having characters as role models. The members have strict life styles and in Japanese culture, they must abide to rules or be eliminated. Because of this, becoming part of an idol group is a celebrated feat, an accomplishment that one should be proud of. 22/7 consists of 8 c…
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Takigawa Miu
It all started with Takigawa Miu, a shy and anti-social girl. One day Miu found a letter containing an invitation to join an idol named 22/7. The idol group which consists of 8 member, has its own story. in each episode there is a background and reasons for how these 8 member arrived at 22/7. There are lots of anime titles out there like this but none are as unique as 22/7.
Carrying the theme of idol, this anime does not only contain girls singing, dancing, or cheering. what makes this interesting is that it contains not only those 3 things, but this anime is actually full of flashbacks or backgrounds of each character.
In addition, the song was beautiful, the rhythm of the music hummed melodiously. but unfortunately 22/7 shows very few concerts.
Although rarely appear thi…
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