AniWorthA3! Season Autumn & Winter
Introduction
With the completion of the Summer Troupe's show, Izumi Tachibana must now recruit five members for the next sub-troupe, the Autumn Troupe. Luckily, enough people arrive at the audition: Banri Settsu, a talented but boastful jack of all trades; Juuza Hyoudou, a stone-faced delinquent passionate about acting; Taichi Nanao, a man wanting to impress girls through the stage; Omi Fushimi, a college student, amateur photographer, and adept cook; and Sakyou Furuichi, a yakuza member who shares a past connection with the Mankai Company.
But between the non-existent teamwork and multiple threats jeopardizing the show's success, Izumi realizes that the troupe might be more difficult to handle than she first thought. How will she be able to unite them in time for their debut performance?
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 7.24/10 · 8148
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Audience reviews
5 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Jaikeis
The choice of story structure in A3! is bizarre. The time spent on the seasonal troupes is evenly divided, so you get six episodes with each of them. The show starts off with recruiting mostly theater newbies and watching them learn how to act. Then, six episodes later, the show throws them to the side to focus on finding five new guys, who you watch learn how to act, get tossed aside, and repeat. And repeat is the keyword. The whole show is just watching some bumbling idiots learn how to act four times in row. Most of the characters don't get enough screentime to differentiate themselves from the cast of 20 boys, so instead they have to fall back on one-trick pony gimmicks to have any memorability. There's occasionally some decent drama, though nothing unique, and most episodes end up qui…
Read at the sourceBalsamina
-- Fluff ratings --
Art: 7
Best part of the show.
Sound: 5
Mediocre. Nothing stands out -- literally.
-- Actual evaluation -- Okay so... This show... I was originally not sure to write a review or not. Partly, it is because I needed time to collect my thoughts but here goes:
Character: 3
Pretty much the worst part of this show is this. This show spanned 2x12 episodes. That's a total of 24. It has likely a character count exceeding its episode count and the regretable part of this, is that it developed NOTHING. The MC is effectively an audience insert. The guys are almost equally unimportant as each other aside from the two main leads of each "season"'s troupe. Even amongst the leads of the troupes, they feel bland. There is little to no development and whatever amount there is is gene…
Read at the sourceCurryxSake
A3! Season Autumn & Winter is just as enjoyable as Spring and Summer. The two new troupes are diverse in age and personality. Though they mostly stray to certain archetypes, the characters are likeable. The plays are just as engaging as the past. The stakes in this season is relatively higher than the previous as the final performances will make or break the Mankai Theater. Furthermore, they have an enemy troupe against them called the God Troupe who will do what they can to take them down.
I have some minor nitpicks about this season. The morally gray nuance the characters have in the previous season is not really there at this point. The characters' new rival God Troupe has a god complex who seem cartoonishly evil. They seem more like enemies than rivals because they are so into destro…
Read at the sourceWonted666
The hardships and pitfalls of each group is unique to its members, and helps in developing the characters growth. The choice of plays for each group suits each
groups' personality and the plays themselves are quite fun. Sometimes the interaction between characters are slightly on the boring side, and sometimes the conflicts slows the pace of the show so much so that I skim through much of the episode. I'll say this though, the entire show is easily digestible for anime only watchers while leaving hints and sweet kisses to those who play the games as well. My gripe would have to be how former troupes are used fairly unsuccessfully within the current arc. There are exceptions to the rule, but it feels like at the end of every 6 episode , new game plus. Outside of that the animation, designs…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
I've already made a review for the 1st Cour (Spring & Summer), so refer to that if this is the 1st time you're seeing A3! as a whole. For the hopefuls, if you are wondering what the 2nd Cour has in store: no surprise, TL;DR, everything stays the same.
Except for some things that made the 2nd Cour better: an overhaul of staff:
- Director Masayuki Sakoi taking over full directorial duties
- Chief animation director replacing Mariko Komatsu
- Art director Kohei Honda replacing Hiroko Tanabe (both from Kusanagi)
- Color designer Manami Sasa replacing Yuko Tsumori
- Editing-in-charge Hidemitsu Koi joined by Go Sadamatsu (Golden Kamuy, SAO Alternative: GGO)
In a nutshell, everything looks cleaner than the 1st Cour (except the facial designs which still look off, but not as bad as before).
A di…
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