Introduction
Hiyori Hayama is an aspiring singer who moved to Tokyo to make her debut. She has always loved singing and hopes to stand on stage like her favorite artist. Unfortunately, the entertainment industry is not all fun and games, as she fails her auditions one after another and struggles to sell her songs.
Finding herself still standing at the start line, Hiyori pursues her only opportunity to take the next step forward—partaking in Extreme Hearts. The popular event is a Hyper Sports tournament where participants compete in various sports using ability-enhancing gear for a chance to make their big break. Despite being athletic, however, Hiyori's lack of familiarity with Hyper Sports poses a problem for her. Fortunately, she befriends girls experienced in different sports, and they join the tournament alongside Hiyori, hoping to see her rise to the top.
Now playing under Team RISE, Hiyori and her teammates learn about the unspoken rule of Extreme Hearts—all competitors must be entertainers or aspire to be one. For the members of Team RISE, facing the competition head-on is an inspiring endeavor that paves the way to discovering newfound interests and everlasting friendships.
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Audience reviews
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onlybyjan
I actually enjoyed this anime a lot more than I expected.
【Story】Rating: 9
I like how the story isn't only focused on the main character, but all the teammates. Each character gets a bit of a background story; to how they were involved with sports, but due to certain trauma/reasons, they had stopped. And after joining the team RISE, they gained confidence through the support of their teammates, and friends. Also I like that all the enemy teams supported each other's games, and practiced together as well.
【Art】Rating: 9
The artwork in the anime itself is pretty good. Most scenes were consistent. The rating for this, is mostly based on the ending theme song art. If you stayed until the very end, you will see the changes in art during the ending. And I also like how they added a short sn…
Read at the sourceNASHILUKA
An original, very diverse anime, a mix of sports, singing, dancing, show business, Idols, and Kawaii girls.
Football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, tournaments.
The intervention of very advanced technology throughout history.
Robots (AI), and the use of gravity shoes, allowing the people who wear them to influence the surrounding gravity, so as to be able to greatly strengthen their physical abilities (jumps, sprints, throwing, receiving, kicking , or punch).
All in color.
Beautiful girls, and beautiful songs sung.
The characters whose daily lives we will follow are all girls.
Despite everything, it's very pleasant to watch.
The settings aren't perfect, but the story, and seeing girls in the foreground more than makes up for it.
In addition, each of the girls will have their own stori…
Read at the sourcePalea
I believe it was Nico Yazawa who said an idol's job is to make people smile. This show ABSOLUTELY did that, and so much more. It has everything an idol anime needs, great characters you want to support and see develop, actual character development, rivals and competition and great drama, all to the backdrop of hyper sports with awesome OST work. If you're a fan of idol anime this is a must watch, and a true hidden gem in my opinion. I couldn't stop smiling and being invested in every story being told. The show paces itself brilliantly, never introduces too much too fast, and, oh yeah - the idol performances are great too!
Read at the sourceHanako_04
It's a great anime if you like sport anime and idol anime,character that been use in this anime was very cute,to attract viewer,but i don't think it's a problem.
This anime has something that most people want to see which they play a lot of game and not just focus on one game only which was pretty interesting,unlike other sports anime which just show one sport only such as baseball,but this one are different and a masterpiece,only blind say it bad.
It's also including a lot of beautiful song,which was also a great thing as it was very great and even better than some anime idol(believe me,i already watch a lot)maybe it's not goosebumps but still fantastic.
It show about teamwork and hard work to achieve the goal that been made,it's also show to us the important of friendship in any situa…
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I’ve seen quite a lot of idol-related anime, and Extreme hearts was another good addition to the genre. I really do like the merging of sports and idols, and there are quite a handful of anime series that have done exactly that, from Pride of Orange, or Uma Musume Pretty Derby, where musical performances after a sporting event is done and it's still uncommon in that theme.
I am going to be real with you, if you’re not that type of viewer with a solid interest of those genres then you should look elsewhere, I tend to notice a lot of reactions are on the negatives because they expect it to be as comparable to what you see from a highly budgeted popular series, and unfortunately people tend to look too deep into something that is supposed to be just your simple and bare-boned anime show, whi…
Read at the sourceDeathspike
It's hard to grasp what Extreme Hearts is based on synopsis alone. It's not a sports anime. Nor is it an idol anime. And even with Sci-Fi elements, it's not a typical Sci-Fi series. And it's certainly not somewhere in between those three. This series is best described as a journey about challenging oneself and staying true to your own goals. It's about relating to others, forging new friendships, and it does so with brimming positivity, and a diverse cast of well-thought-out characters.
The story begins with Hiyori, an already debuted singer/songwriter with an extremely small following, and her kouhai, Saki. When Hiyori's contract is terminated, she sets her sights on Extreme Hearts, a knockout-style sports-festival for entertainers. The competition itself cycles through different sports,…
Read at the sourceGrain_of_Salt
You've seen sports anime about teens who were new to the game, and you've seen idol anime about struggling idols. But have you ever seen an anime about an entire tournament of people who are bad at BOTH?
Because that's the concept of Extreme Hearts, both the anime and in-universe tournament. Our MC is a failed idol who joins a league of potential idol athletes where the common goal is to use the tournament's notoriety to go pro. Their world has pro athletes and pro idols without combining the two and adding weird unexplained technology, it seems like all players here NEED this tournament of losers to become successful. While this COULD be an interesting commentary on the entertainment industry and how fame and success is much more thanks to luck and marketing and riding a wave than raw ab…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
Extreme Piss, the Queens (or rather, Princesses) of Hearts of a formula already done before, but that it is also subpar. People just don't learn, that's the hard-and-fast rule and unfathomable truth.
As I would like to call it, the now famous Uma Musume formula of involving sports and idoling, CGDCT style, it certainly has seen a major success incorporating such a genre that back then, didn't have a lot of competition. And CyGames definitely took advantage of that formula by being the first anime adaptation of their popular mobage game to do so, such that it was the precedent going forward. And many similar other tried to replicate this exact styling from the likes of "PuraOre! Pride of Orange" and now this show, but it's very clear that the concept didn't work out as it should, being a n…
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