Shirobako (this actually doesn’t have a kanji/hiragana/katakana name) is the definitive anime on how anime is made. Obviously a lot of the process had to be simplified in order to make a series out of it, but I do think it hit a lot of the major points — especially the fact that something can go wrong at any moment.
We see most of the series through the eyes of a member of the production desk, but that doesn’t mean that’s the only side of anime production we see. There’s story boarding, writing, character designing, key animation (both hand drawn and CGI), voice acting, researching, and more.
Ema drawing Aria for Third Aerial Girls Squad
One of the things I was most curious about when watching the series was whether P.A. Works was actually basing this anime on themselves. For example, are the characters depicted in this series based on real people who worked on this show, or are they just characters who fill the same roles?
I’ll discuss this a bit more in my section on the characters, but I like to think it’s a mixture.
Part 1
The first cour of the series sees Musashino Animation working on their first original anime in a few years, Exodus! This cour serves to give us our introduction to the world of anime by leaving out some of the complexities that come along with it.
While we do see some of what the five main girls of the series are doing during this cour, it mainly focuses on the two which have landed jobs at MusAni. Aoi is a production assistant and Ema is an animator. By leaving out the other three girls, we can take a more simplified look at the process.
However, there are still all the other employees at MusAni who are doing their respective jobs. The director is always behind on storyboards, the production desk is always freaking out, and the CGI and hand drawing animators are at each others throats.
What I really liked about this cour was that the characters, their interactions with each other, and their feelings about the work they do all seemed genuine. It really felt like I was getting to see the inner workings of a company made up of many individuals who each contribute their own personal touch.
Part 2
Originally I didn’t like the second cour as much, but by the end of it I thought it was just as good as the first for different reasons.
This time around the other three girls, a writer, a CGI animator, and a voice actress were included into the mix to varying degrees. While I didn’t think they made too much of a difference, the end of the voice actress’ (Shizuka’s) arc was pretty touching. I wasn’t expecting it to make me feel the way it did.
In this cour MusAni are working on adapting a popular manga(?) called Third Aerial Girls Squad. Since this isn’t an original work by the studio, a whole new level of complexity and issues are thrown into the mix — such as, what if the original creator doesn’t like the anime?
But while the strength of this cour was in how it depicted some of the more complex aspects of anime production, I felt that the characters were lacking. The new characters who were introduced seemed fairly one-dimensional and unrealistic as a whole.
Characters
Our five heroines are Aoi Miyamori (production desk), Ema Yasuhara (key animator), Shizuka Sakaki (voice actress), Midori Imai (writer), and Misa Toudou (CGI animator). These girls were in their high school animation club together and dreamed of one day creating a real anime with each other as professionals.
Musashino Animation employees
There are too many MusAni employees for me to go through all of them, but some of the major ones are Erika Yano (production assistant), Rinko “Goth Loli-sama” Ogasawara (key animator), Seiichi Kinoshita (director), and Tarou Takanashi (production assistant).
Erika is the one who gets things done. She’s been in the business for a while, knows how people try to squirm out of their responsibilities, and will go out of her way to keep them on track. Tarou is her opposite and is the one most likely to mess everything up due to his laid-back and fun-loving nature.
The director may have been my favorite character. He often shirks his responsibilities in favor of eating, but when he really gets into his work nothing can stop him. He’s also constantly fighting an internal battle between his weight and his love for food.
Rinko doesn’t actually get that much screen time. I wish she got more, but at the same time I understand why she doesn’t. She represents the highest tier of employee which all others should strive to be like. She knows what she’s doing, she does it on time, and she does it perfectly.
And then we have some of the new characters in cour 2, Ai Kunogi (key animator) and Daisuke Hiraoka (production assistant). Ai doesn’t speak, she just grunts, and for that I hate her. Daisuke on the other hand is just a bully who shirks his responsibilities and should be fired. I don’t see how these two characters could be based on actual people who worked on this anime.
Conclusion
Before wrapping up I just want to mention that the final scene of the series is one in which everyone who worked on Third Aerial Girls Squad takes a group photo. I really wanted this group photo to fade into an actual group photo of everyone who worked on Shirobako, but unfortunately that didn’t happen.
Overall I’d have to give Shirobako an 8/10. Although I felt that both cours had their weaknesses — especially the second cour with the new characters — they were overwhelmed by their strengths. There’s also a Shirobako movie in the works, so I plan to watch that as well.
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Your Lie in April is a 2014 drama anime about music, specifically how lifelong bonds can be formed through the playing of and listening to music. However, despite what it looks like on the surface, this anime is not about music itself, but rather about the characters who are developed through it.
Without first checking my database of other anime I’ve seen, I’m going to go ahead and claim that Your Lie in April is the best anime of 2014 (upon further inspection I may find this to be false). With that claim in mind, I’ll be using most of this review to explain why exactly that is.
However, as some of you may know, my favorite part of most anime are the characters, so much of what makes this series so good will be found in the “Characters” section. Good characters can carry an anime, and bad characters can drag one down, but we still need to take a look at the other pieces that make up the whole.
Two important pieces of an anime are the OP and ED (opening and ending). This is specifically referring to the opening and ending animations and songs that play each episode. While you may not think these are important because they’re not actually part of the story, you’d be wrong.
The OP of an anime is really what sets the stage even before we get to the actual content of the series. By watching an OP, we can become familiar with both the tone of the series and the characters who will be featured in it. Luckily for Your Lie in April, both OPs are great.
EDs are just as important, however. They come after the content of an episode, so they aren’t used to introduce us to things about the anime, but rather reinforce things we’ve learned. For a drama such as this, a good ED often reinforces what we felt while watching the episode. Again, this was successful for Your Lie in April.
Between the OP and ED comes the primary focus, the actual content of the anime. I’ll say now that the story told over the course of this series is probably a 10/10 if I were to just rate it alone, so what exactly happens?
Kaori Miyazono
To make this summary short, I’ll just give a loose rundown of the plot and major events. Our protagonist is a music nerd who was forced to play piano by his mother. After her death, approximately two years before the start of the series, he quit playing and is no longer able to “hear the sound of his own music.”
He’s then introduced to a girl who’s also a musician, but has a crush on one of his best friends. She then asks him to play with her for a competition and is amazed by both her musical style and sense of pride in her music. Needless to say he develops romantic feelings for said girl.
For the rest of the anime it’s basically just the protagonist and this girl he likes playing music together and continuously pushing each other to “go even further beyond” in the words of Goku from Dragon Ball. However, the musical girl is a sickly child and this causes our protagonist to have some flashbacks of his mother in her final days, causing him to relapse.
Some other stuff happens and the anime ends on a happy, yet bittersweet note which I’ll be discussing in more detail later on in this review. So now that you know the basic summary of the anime, what things did it specifically do right or wrong?
This might sound counterintuitive, but I found that the worst part of the anime were the music performance scenes, despite it being a “music anime.” I recognize that some of this may be my own bias, but let me explain my reasoning before you leave an angry comment.
The music scenes took far too long, and I felt this detracted from the experience of watching the anime. In some cases, the performances were around 15 of the 24 minute episodes, and yet we typically heard the same portion of whatever song was being played on repeat that entire time.
Sure, you can make the argument that they’re good songs, but even if classical music is your thing, I don’t see how listening to a two-minute excerpt of a song on repeat for 15 minutes is interesting. Also, since the music scenes were typically in competition form, the characters often commented on how good or bad someone’s playing was.
However, as the casual music listener I am, I couldn’t tell the difference and so had to simply go by what the supporting cast said. This is essentially the “music anime” version of that background or supporting character in a shounen anime who commentates the entire fight we’re watching; it’s not a good thing.
So now that I’ve explained something I think could have been improved upon, what part did Your Lie in April succeed at masterfully? The placement of the climax. Remember, this is a drama, so the climax is the most emotional part of the anime.
To help explain how Your Lie in April’s climax was so good, let me use another drama as an example, Violet Evergarden. Although Violet Evergarden is a 10/10, the climax came too early in the series; episode 10/13. This means that while there was action in the final three episodes, the emotion had already peaked.
Your Lie in April, on the other hand, had the peak emotional scenes in episodes 21 and 22, the final two episodes of the series. This means that it ended strong, which is extremely important because you never want your viewers to forget how your drama ended.
Characters
Kousei Arima is the protagonist of the series. He’s a pianist who was forced to learn how to play by his mother who became increasingly ill and abusive as time went on, until she ultimately died when Kousei was 12 years old. This is what led to him giving up on piano for two years.
While he’s not the most popular or happy kid, he does have two best friends who would do anything for him, and for whom he would do anything. These are Tsubaki and Watari who we’ll get to in just a bit.
When he meets Kaori, his life changes forever as she teaches him that life, and music, are all about having fun and giving it your all. While she was the primary influence on his life, he was also helped along the way by all the other people he met whether he knows it or not.
He has his best friends, his rivals, his teacher, his student, everyone helps Kousei out along the way in one form or another. In a lot of ways Kousei reminds me of Rei Kiriyama from March comes in like a lion.
Tsubaki Sawabe is Kousei’s childhood friend who acts like his older sister. She’s the star of the school softball team and is generally viewed as not being girly due to her being into sports and her generally confrontational attitude. However, despite this, we learn that she actually has a crush on Kousei.
For a majority of the series Kousei doesn’t know this, and he just views Tsubaki as his friend and surrogate family member, but we can’t really blame him because even Tsubaki didn’t realize it herself. And, even after she does, she still tries to deny it by saying that Kousei is like her younger brother.
While at one point in time I probably wouldn’t have liked Tsubaki’s character much, she reminded me of Sayaka Miki from Madoka Magica, a character who I’ve come to appreciate over the years. She’s in love with someone who she can’t be with, and she destroys herself by trying to make everyone around her happy instead.
Ryouta Watari is the character who I have the least to say about out of the five I’m going to be going over. He’s the playboy of the school as well as the star of the soccer team. Despite that, he’s one of Kousei’s best friends and doesn’t see him as some music nerd like you might expect from his character type.
What I found interesting about Watari was that although he’s the star of a sports team, the only girl he doesn’t seem interested in is Tsubaki, the star of another sports team. These two characters would typically be paired up if this series followed the common trope.
Instead, Watari is mainly interested in Kaori, but he knows that Kousei is too and he recognizes that Kousei and Kaori have a special bond which he wouldn’t be able to replace. There were times when I didn’t like Watari, but overall he seems like he would be a good friend to have.
Now we move on to the main attraction of the anime, Kaori Miyazono. Kaori is a violinist who tends to play songs the way she wants to play them instead of playing them by the score as the original composer intended. Because of this, she doesn’t do well in competitions, but she has fun so it doesn’t matter to her.
Her main goal in playing music is so that everyone who watches her perform will never forget witnessing her on the stage. This may seem narcissistic, but the way she explains it makes a lot of sense. Why else would you play music on a stage in front of people other than to make them remember your performance?
Unfortunately, Kaori is plagued by medical issues and misses a lot of school because of it. When she falls ill during the second half of the series, the “low point” is reached for both her and Kousei’s characters, with them both believing they’ll have to give up music for good.
However, thanks to her inspiring Kousei, Kousei returns the favor and inspires Kaori by telling her she needs to get better so they can play music together again. Because of this, Kaori decides to undergo a risky operation to potentially lengthen her life, something she had all but given up on before.
Nagi Aiza
Now that I’ve covered the four main characters, I wanted to cover just one supporting character, Nagi Aiza. In the past I accepted that I have a particular “type” when it comes to anime characters, and it often involves a ponytail, but more recently I’ve accepted that there’s another type of character I like in a different way.
Nagi has helped me come to the understanding that preteen female characters are the ones I identify with and enjoy watching the most. However, there’s a catch. If a series is just all characters like that, then they aren’t special. I need a series with one standout girl who fits that criteria, and for Your Lie in April it’s Nagi.
Nagi is a pianist who is the younger sister of one of Kousei’s rivals, Takeshi Aiza. She originally intends to sabotage Kousei in order to make her brother look better, but she actually ends up becoming his student and friend instead.
On one hand, she’s his student and serves as a younger sister to him. Through this relationship, he’s able to have responsibility of another person which teaches him life lessons while he’s teaching her piano lessons. On the other hand, she’s a friend he can rely on.
She’s not an older sister type in the same way that Mayoi is for Koyomi, Tsubaki is already Kousei’s older sister character, but she still serves some of the same purpose by being his friend. When talking about one of their problems, they often help out the other incidentally simply because they’re both so similar.
There’s just something about the relationship between characters like these that I enjoy watching. Mayoi and Koyomi, Hinata and Rei, Nagi and Kousei, and any others I’m forgetting right now.
Conclusion
Before I get to the conclusion of this review, I want to discuss the conclusion of the anime and how I’ve felt since finishing it. I mentioned before that the ending was happy, yet bittersweet, and this is all because of a single character, Kaori.
Kaori dies in the end of the anime. Now, going in I had my suspicions, and around episode six there was an offhand comment by some background characters about her having a lot of pills which only solidified my suspicion, but the way it happens and the lead-up to it are what make her death truly devastating.
We knew that Kaori was seriously ill with an unknown disease for a while leading up to her death, but the anime always gave the impression that there was a little bit of hope, just a slight chance that she’d make a recovery and get to play with Kousei again.
In the final two episodes, as Kousei is going to give a performance at a competition, Kaori is going into surgery to potentially prolong her life. We know know this is a risky surgery as does she and Kousei, but there’s still hope. Even after Kousei gives his performance and he says, “goodbye” while crying, we hope that Kaori is alright.
But the next scene afterwards is of Kousei and Kaori’s parents standing in the graveyard alone after her funeral. They then hand him a letter that Kaori wrote to him before going into surgery, and it appears that he goes a significant amount of time before opening it.
Now, before getting to the contents of the letter, let me say that this scene of Kousei and Kaori’s parents in the graveyard was the climax of the anime. This was the time that, if you hadn’t cried yet, you would cry during (I didn’t cry).
What made this scene so powerful was how realistically it captured death. We don’t see Kaori slowly getting worse and worse until she eventually dies. We saw her go through the worst of it and come out the other side ready to keep on living.
And yet, she dies off-screen during the surgery that could have saved her life. The girl who we’ve come to know and love over the past 21 episodes is suddenly gone without so much as a “goodbye.” One scene she’s there, the next we’ll never see her again.
Now, some anime you could say might leave the same feeling if the characters end up going their separate ways like they do in Samurai Champloo, but we can imagine that one day they all meet up again as friends. For Kaori and Kousei, however, that’s never going to happen. Their story is over and can’t ever resume.
Now, in the letter that Kaori wrote to Kousei she professed her love for him, as she should because we as the viewers could tell that they liked each other, but it’s kind of too late. She’s already gone. She also asks if he’ll remember her now that she’s gone, just like how she wanted everyone watching her perform to remember her music.
While it was heavily hinted at before, this just reinforces the notion that the reason Kaori wanted people to remember her music was because she didn’t want to be forgotten after she died. After all, she knew she wasn’t going to be around for much longer.
Finally, we learn the meaning behind the title of the anime from Kaori’s letter. The lie in April was hers. She lied when she said she was interested in Watari. In reality she was interested in Kousei all along and just didn’t know how else to be introduced to him.
As the first Spring without Kaori comes around, the rest of the characters continue on with their daily lives without her.
In the end I gave this anime a 9/10. It could have easily been a 10 if some of the scenes were done better, but overall I’d say it’s about as close to a 10 as an anime can get without officially crossing the line.
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The first OP for Your Lie in April is available here.
The only arc found in Tsukimonogatari is the Yotsugi Doll arc. Chronologically, this arc comes between the Hitagi End arc of Koimonogatari and the Suruga Devil arc of Hanamonogatari.
Tsukimonogatari is also the first entry in what is known as the “Final Season” of the Monogatari series. However, although it’s called the final season, there is a fourth season called the “Off Season” and a fifth season called the “Monster Season.”
Yotsugi Ononoki is the main girl of the Yotsugi Doll arc as you could probably guess from the title. Although Yotsugi is in the series before this point, I don’t think I’ve actually talked much about her yet.
Yotsugi is considered the familiar of the specialist Yozuru Kagenui who exterminates immortal apparitions. However, Yotsugi is herself an immortal apparition. She’s a living doll made from a human corpse.
Yotsugi Doll
The Yotsugi Doll arc begins with a series of events involving Koyomi and his sisters which results in him noticing that he’s becoming more like a full-on vampire than before. In order to solve this mystery, he decides to get in contact with Yozuru and Yotsugi.
As it turns out, Koyomi is slowly becoming used to being a vampire due to his repeated use of his vampiric powers. While this doesn’t seem like a big deal to him at first, it’s revealed that this process is irreversible, but won’t progress any further if he refrains from using his powers.
At some point during their discussion, Koyomi’s sisters, Karen and Tsukihi, along with Kanbaru whom with they were staying, are kidnapped by another specialist who is using them as bait to lure out Koyomi and Shinobu.
Teori Tadatsuru is the specialist in question and is sort of a combination of Oshino Meme and Yozuru Kagenui. He specializes in the extermination of immortal apparitions like Yozuru but also attempts to mediate between humans and apparitions like Oshino.
Koyomi takes Yotsugi with him to help him confront Teori because he and Shinobu aren’t able to rely on their vampiric powers anymore to fight. While Yotsugi suggests using herself as a weapon to kill Teori, Koyomi doesn’t want anyone to die and also wants to preserve what he sees as Yotsugi’s last piece of humanity.
However, in the end, Yotsugi does end up killing Teori just before he fights Koyomi. Karen, Tsukihi, and Kanbaru are all found safe and sound after the confrontation.
In this arc, we also get a little bit of information regarding something or someone working behind the scenes. When Koyomi and Yotsugi arrive at the snake shrine where they are to confront Teori, they find Ougi Oshino who seems to know all about the current situation.
Further, before the fight between Koyomi and Teori, Teori comments on how he doesn’t really want to fight Koyomi, but that it instead feels as though some unseen force is pitting them against each other against their wills.
Yotsugi Ononoki Referencing Sailor Moon
Conclusion
As with most of the entries in the Monogatari series, Tsukimonogatari is another 10/10.
While Yotsugi isn’t my favorite character in the series, she probably does have my favorite character design of the series. Also, her reference to Sailor Moon is a plus, something Mayoi has also done in the series.
Next time I’ll be reviewing the first season of Owarimonogatari which covers the arcs Ougi Formula, Sodachi Riddle, Sodachi Lost, and Shinobu Mail so it should be a bit longer than this one.
Like all the entries in the Monogatari Series Second Season, Hanamonogatari only has one arc, Suruga Devil. However, this arc is different from all the other arcs in the series so far, with the exception of Nekomonogatari White, in that Koyomi Araragi is not the protagonist.
Instead, the protagonist of Hanamonogatari is Suruga Kanbaru. At first one might suspect that this change in protagonist would be a bad thing similar to how it was when Nekomonogatari White followed Tsubasa Hanekawa.
However, this isn’t the case. Kanbaru is actually a fairly similar character to Koyomi in many ways and so this swap feels like a natural progression for the storyline.
Suruga Devil
The Suruga Devil arc takes place after Koyomi, Senjougahara, and Hanekawa graduate from high school. Kanbaru is now a third-year student, and Koyomi’s “bigger younger sister,” Karen, is now a first-year student.
This arc continues Kanbaru’s story from the Suruga Monkey arc of Bakemonogatari. As you may recall, Kanbaru is in possession of a monkey’s paw, which is actually a devil’s hand.
One day Kanbaru hears a rumor from Ougi Oshino, who we’ve briefly met previously in the series, about a “devil” who is helping students with their problems.
I’ll pause the summary here to mention that previously Ougi was depicted as a female when Koyomi was the protagonist, but now that Kanbaru is the protagonist, Ougi is depicted as a male. Once we return to Koyomi as the protagonist, Ougi will also return to being female.
Anyway, Kanbaru investigates the devil who has been helping students with their problems only to find that it’s her old middle school basketball rival, Rouka Numachi. While Kanbaru has a devil’s arm, Rouka has various other devil parts she’s collected from listening to the misfortunes of others.
After their meeting, Kanbaru’s devil’s arm is gone, hinting that it was collected by Rouka as well. After this point, Rouka also disappears until Kanbaru goes searching for her in another nearby town.
It’s at this point that she meets up with Kaiki who is very much alive despite being attacked and left for dead at the end of the Hitagi End arc. Kaiki decides to help Kanbaru because he agreed to look after her if anything happened to her mother.
Kaiki gives Kanbaru a monkey’s (devil’s) head to use as bait to lure out Rouka once again since she’ll appear to collect it. By this point, Kanbaru has learned from Karen that Rouka actually committed suicide years earlier and so the Rouka Kanbaru met as the “devil” is a ghost.
However, unlike Mayoi who recognized she was a ghost and deliberately tried to get people not to follow her and become lost by telling them “don’t talk to me, please. I hate you,” Rouka doesn’t appear to realize that she’s dead.
Kanbaru and Rouka then decide to play 1 round of basketball for possession of all the devil parts. Kanbaru wins and Rouka moves on to the afterlife leaving the devil parts behind.
Suruga Kanbaru
Conclusion
While Hanamonogatari is the only current anime entry of the Monogatari series to follow Kanbaru as the protagonist, and I don’t know what happens in the light novels that haven’t been adapted to anime yet, I hope that we get to see more of Kanbaru as the protagonist as the series goes on.
Not by this point in the series, but by the point that the series has been animated up to — Owarimonogatari Season 2 — we already know basically everything about Koyomi and how he’ll react in any given situation (I think).
Because of this, I think that transitioning to Kanbaru as the protagonist would be a good choice because it allows for the opportunity to have more protagonist character development without changing Koyomi from who he’s been built up to be.
This was Kanbaru’s first experience dealing with an apparition “on her own” similar to Koyomi’s first interaction with Shinobu. If we think of it like that, how Kanbaru responds to this situation should be the basis for how she’ll respond to any other situation going forward.
Like every other entry of the Monogatari Series so far, other than Nekomonogatari, Hanamonogatari is a 10/10. Next time I review an entry of the Monogatari series, we’ll be taking a look at Tsukimonogatari, the beginning of the “Final Season.”
Since this is the review for the second season of the anime Love Live! School Idol Project, there will be spoilers for the first season included in this post.
Once again we find ourselves following the school idol group known as μ’s (Muse). After they failed to make it to the Love Live! in season one, the girls find out that a second Love Live! is already being planned. This time around they are determined to make it.
In case you’ve forgotten, μ’s is made up of nine members, three from each year at the high school they attend. The first years are Rin, Maki, and Hanayo, the second years are Honoka, Umi, and Kotori, and the third years are Eli, Nozomi, and Nico.
The first Love Live! used a ranking system to determine which school idol groups were good enough to compete, however, the system in place for the second one is a bit different. There are no more online rankings to determine which school idol groups can compete.
This time there are three different stages to the competition. First, each group puts on one performance, and the top four groups from each region get invited to perform at the regional stage. Then, the winner from each region is invited to participate in Love Live!
While the competition should, in theory, get harder as μ’s progresses through the competition, they’re actually in the same region as the previous champions A-RISE and so will have to compete against them at the regional level.
So what’s really different between season one and season two?
Other than the setup of the competition, there isn’t actually too much of a difference between the two seasons other than their predictability. In the first season, I was actually surprised that our main group, μ’s, didn’t even get to participate in the Love Live!
However, since the second season is the final season following these characters, I was sure that this time around they would not only make it to the Love Live!, but win it too. It just isn’t the kind of series that I would expect any other ending from.
Unfortunately, this means that the second season was more predictable and therefore less interesting to watch. As a viewer, I knew they were going to win each competition in this season so there was no real sense of suspense. Further, since they did win each competition there was no sense of shock that they lost.
That said, it still had an emotional ending and I don’t really think I would change anything about it.
Umi, Nozomi, and Honoka
Conclusion
So what does this all mean for the rating? In the end, I decided that the second season of Love Live! School Idol Project wasn’t quite as good as the first and so only gets a 6/10. It was a good end to the story of μ’s, but it lacked the twists I enjoyed from the first season.
As I’m sure I mentioned in my review of season one, I’ve been told that the Love Live! series gets better as it goes on so even though I liked this season slightly less than the first, I still have high hopes for the next chapter in the series: Love Live! Sunshine!!
For now, though, Sunshine!! isn’t one of the anime I’m expecting to watch in the near future since there are a lot of other series I want to watch first. However, I will definitely be watching it at some point and there will definitely be a review of it.
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