Audience reviews
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assassinog
SO this anime is straight ahead peak, first is mysterious build up of first 3 episodes
then school festival arc of 3-7
after few episodes of ups and down
last 3 episodes had more plot than any new animes , and despite all trouble they managed to give an ending no short of masterpiece in 13episodes ... where you can debate that all 3 main leads are both right and wrong.
[i dont write reviews usually i just comment at site, but this anime was smthg that felt great after 2 months, and since animekai has moved to graveyard i had no where to write or discuss]
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After watching a lot of animes I decided to write my first ever review. I looked up this anime, and since it is a romance with above 7.5 rating, i thought this was going to be somewhat good. I finished the anime, with a bit of suffering because I don't like to drop these short animes, but i really can't understand the rating. This started as a normal romance, and was actually watchable until after the school festival. The decisions of the characters were strange sometimes and the MC and setsuna just became unbearable. There were parts where I just had to pause because I was laughing at how ridiculous they were. The only character that tries to save this anime is Touma because she actually has some nice interactions with the mc that don't look forced (ofc we are not talking about the last e…
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White Album 2 Review: A Soul-Crushing Disaster Masquerading as Romance
White Album 2 is an anime that proves that sometimes, even well-executed production values and a decent soundtrack can't save a show from being an utterly miserable experience. Marketed as a romantic drama, it quickly devolves into a frustrating, emotionally manipulative mess that leaves viewers with nothing but regret for ever hitting play.
Weak, Unsympathetic Characters
The story revolves around Haruki Kitahara, a painfully bland protagonist who, despite his supposed intelligence and sensitivity, is incapable of making a single rational decision. His romantic entanglement with the two main heroines—Setsuna Ogiso and Kazusa Touma—is a masterclass in how not to write compelling character relationships. Setsuna is writ…
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Love is like snow. It is beautiful, but it can also be so cold.
This is a fitting method to describe White Album 2. It is not your typical romance anime, where everything is mostly smooth sailing and ends happily-ever-after. Instead it portrays romance as it truly is through the vast variety of emotions it takes you through. From the joyous moments as they push towards their dream performance, the bittersweet moments after the confession, the tragic moments as the three start drifting apart, and finally the heartbreaking moment in the end where everything tumbles down. This is truly what romance is, not merely one aspect or another, but rather so many things coming together to create something indescribable, and can only be experienced.
And it is no coincidence that White Album 2 was abl…
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If I could describe the show in two words, it would be hidden gem.
White album 2 was released in 2013 And I’ve only just watched it in 2024 and it is one of the And still holds to this day 11 years later From its Initial release.
Imagine your lie in April, but with without the death and more romance that’s how I would describe the show to somebody and that’s a good thing I liked That show.
This Show has everything you’d ever want from a musical standpoint to a high school romcom As the show has two arcs One being the Music And how they get the band together and the characters becoming friends and performing together during this arc, I had a smile on my face the entire time and I was so happy during the Performance it’s so good.
The other being the Love polygon With the MC having to c…
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White Album 2 is a relatively unique high-school romance that eschews many (but not all) tropes of its genre to keep you engaged. It is overly dramatic, moody, and occasionally cringe-inducing, yet not a bad experience for any of those things.
Firstly: White Album 2 is connected not at all, or only superficially, to White Album, which has a second season, confusingly titled "White Album Season 2". These separate anime share a universe but no more. White Album 2 is actually the prologue chapter to a visual novel of the same name, which is supposedly excellent.
White Album 2 recounts the tale of a boy and the two girls who comprise his love life- one the energetic school idol, and the other a lethargic loner who happens to be a prodigious piano player. The main character has a dream- to…
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As someone who loves the Visual Novel this anime is inspired of, I would expect it would not be quite to the same emotional level due to its length but even if the VN is vastly superior this anime is still very good on its own right. Before you read anything else just make yourself a favor and read the Visual Novel at some point because it is truly a masterpiece.
As for the anime, it is a romance anime, a love triangle about a boy named Haruki and two girls named Kazusa and Setsuna. They come together while preparing for the school festival.
This is a show that is more about the characters than any specific plot points. Also, as someone who had already played this part of the Visual Novel which was adapted, I would suggest you reading this to just go blind but also to give it some time…
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It pains my heart to see all of the positive feedback for this series. Perhaps if you can swallow a few massive pills, you may be able to see the light in this series and it's so called "message" or "moral." Which is I guess don't settle for the one you don't love (terribly portrayed). But when I saw terms like "masterpiece" and "realism" being thrown around, that's when I realized many people just want to see the world burn. It wouldn't be possible to review this without jumping into mild spoilers, but as I begin, I just want to say that this is going to be a very passionate and heartfelt review, because I cannot stand for trash like this to be praised when it is so very wrong and poor. Let's begin
Perhaps the only reason why I wouldn't give this a 1/10 is the first 7 or so episodes. It…
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“White Album 2” is what happens when You take the name of something that actually had an interesting premise, slap a “2” at the end and make it a generic love triangle.
Most people have an opinion that “White Album 2” is much better than “White Album” and I tend to agree… for the first 5 episodes. After that it becomes a generic, boring and painfully predictable piece of a class B romance.
The story revolves around a musically skilled but socially inept daughter of a famous pianist, a school sweetheart that all the bays drool over and a pragmatic but dull af boy. Their ambition to perform in a school festival, to become friends forever and the drama revolving around a love triangle. Pretty common stuff to be honest.
As for the main cast…
Haruki Kitahara - an intelligent, preachy, anno…
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Review updated after playing Visual Novel which affected my view on the anime.
I think I was too harsh on my first review of this show. The main isse I had with the anime was the lack of content, for me the pace was too quick for such dramatic love triangle unfolding before my eyes.
That's where the main adaptation, the game, comes and solves the issue.
After thoroughfully getting through the game I can say with peace of mind, that this show is really one of the better romance series with actual DRAMA in it.
The plot is heavy, but not overwhelming. In this love triangle every character has it's own personality, they are hiding their true feelings, making decisions in the heat of the moment. Making assumptions that are not necesarrily correct and making choices that affect their rela…
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This is the first review I have written so forgive me if it's trash.
I can say that White Album 2 was better than White album one, this was one of the very few anime I have watched that has made me feel such emotion towards the character.
I feel that this anime deserves more credit, altho I am a little upset with the ending of the anime, but for those that didn't know in the actual story Haruki Kitahara
does end up marrying Setsuna Ogiso. But if you are reading this review while deciding whether to watch this anime or not please do it is great, and I can say after watching this well I don't exactly know how to explain it but it definitely left a feeling for me me if that makes sense.
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I was looking for something along the "idol" theme after watching Vivy Fluorite and White Album 2 came up in the potentially high rated ones. But it's a college story I thought, it can't be that good. But it is, also the characters bear an uncanny resemblance to Kouta and Lucy from Elfen Lied as well as Touko from Bloom Into You.
White Album 2 is a story about strong bonds and a love polygon. Sometimes the writing in these series can be not so good and the characters not very interesting, for me Relife was forgettable for example. But the writing here is good, the characters are interesting and the complexities of their relationships are portrayed well. The sound design is very good too. For me it's a solid 9/10
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Whew, 2021, I know I'm late to this anime but I randomly had one of its OSTs recommended to me on youtube and decided to check out the anime.
Amazing is all I can say/write, I have not felt this much emotion from an anime in a very long time (maybe it's because I don't have much time to watch anime anymore, haha).
My head is still wracked from the buildup and ending, so I apologise if my thoughts are all over the place. I'm an absolute sucker for sad, bittersweet endings so I am absolutely biased in this regard.
I went into this anime with zero expectations; I know that it's an adaptation of a VN but never got the chance to play it.
The anime's beginning is quite slow and doesn't really start to ramp up until later, but man oh man is it worth it. If we're talking story, then there are two…
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Ah, this is 2021 and I watched this anime.
Story.
Well I can tell you shortly how this anime gonna bring to your life is. It will bring you in the train full of emotions and then kick you out with all of the unrealistic and fucked up feelings.
At first I really admire the story and emotions at every single episodes. And I can really tell that I feel the character development throughout the entire season, I don't really have a problem about it. Not until the romance starts to kick in.
I truly understand that something shit going to happen if there's one boy and two girls relationship. Either if love triangle or so, this anime is a little bit off from my expectation. Well if in real life 'Love triangle' , when someone is hurt it'll give up, no matter how rich, how good or kind than people…
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Honestly it's a shame that this anime doesn't get the recognition it really deserves. I've been through some sad stuff lately and I've been watching my fair share of SoL cause it makes me think about better days and I have to admit none made me feel like this one did. That's exactly what I want to focus on and maybe it will make this review somewhat biased but if you want to feel something then this is definitely for you. The review will be spoiler free.
Story: 7
Honestly SoL are more about character development and their interactions, the story arc isn't anything that will leave you surprised. Even then, the story is far more complex than most SoL. Drama is huge here and it gets served in the right circumstances, nothing is too random. An argument can be made that the first 3 episodes ar…
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Alright, this one's interesting...
Starting plainly, this show is, if nothing else, a lot better than its predecessor. Where I described the original 'White Album' as a show that could have been really interesting, but was ruined by a deeply uninteresting protagonist, 'White Album 2' avoids a lot of its pitfalls, especially with its own protagonist.
Haruki is, at the very least, genuinely likeable, and actually has some momentum as character. The show also benefits greatly from a reduced romantic cast, with the harem set-up in the original being replaced with a simpler, and much stronger, triangle; Haruki and the two love interests, Setsuna and Kazusa. All three are interesting, likeable characters, with clear motivations, and strong personalities. In my opinion, a love triangle works be…
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I am sure this anime would have received a lot less attention, had it not been for the name. Having the weakest of ties to the first story, this second anime lacks both the interesting time setting (later part of the 80s) and the plot (trying to maintain a love relationship with an idol) that the first one had. Not to mention the fact that the action takes place in the oh-so-generic-and-overused setting - high school.
What we're presented with here is a typical love triangle. If you've watched "romance" anime in the past, you're probably familiar with it by now. It doesn't deviate from the pattern much, and that predictability makes it even less interesting - when 2 characters get together after only half the episodes have finished, you know that next in line is a lot of drama that will pr…
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This is my first time writing a review for an Anime I have watched, so please bear with me here..
I just finished this today and I honestly don't know what to say. I had finished the Domestic Na Kanojo manga and wanted something to lift my spirits. I got no such thing here. Does that make the anime bad however? Not at all. The anime was, in my opinion, quite decent. The art style was pleasing, sound was more than I could have asked for despite lackluster character and plot development.
The plot for White Album 2 primarily follows Haruki Kitahara and his two classmates Touma Kazusa and Ogiso Setsuna in their final year of high school. The light music club is in danger of disbanding due to lack of members, but this doesn't dampen Haruki's determination to get enough members in time for the…
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This is going to be my first review on Mal. So I'm going to keep it short and simple. This is one of the fucked up endings I've ever seen in an anime. I've watched earlier an anime named Scum's wish which had an okayish ending but trashy plot progressi but this anime has an overall good progression plot but a trashy ending btw I have only watched the anime don't know about the VN.
This anime has given justice to one of the negative emotions that humans posseses like jealousy.
If you can plz put yourself in place of any of the characters for a moment. Are you okay with that much of agony? Are you okay with that much of suffering?
Anyway this is just my opinion you can watch it and you can judge by yourself and btw the feels this anime gives is going to stay with you for a while.
Some t…
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There are plenty of reviews praising the hell out of this show, but unfortunately, I did not feel the same. I watched this show after being recommended it by a friend, so I had the highest hopes for it. However, my enjoyment and interest slowly seeped away as the show progressed, and my uninterested attitude turned into frustration. Essentially, this show is just an extremely vanilla and safe version of School Days. White Album 2 is a boring attempt to portray an "emotional" love triangle.
Animation and Art
Very bare bones. Not much flair; it simply works. Incredibly inoffensive but does not stand out at all. The character designs are also nice and easily digestible. I'm personally not very attracted to the art (or general character) of either of the two main heroines, but they are cute e…
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