天下制覇

The CD sales.

Impressions:

I have to admit that it's better animated than the promos let on, but it's PA Works, so that's not a huge surprise. There's a few moments where it's clear that the director wanted all the budget and the animators just threw up their hands and went all uncanny valley. Like the guitar scene. That is some Grade A disturbing twitching that somebody clearly thought "More frames = better looking," so she's rocking around like she's having a seizure in what is supposed to be one of its many melodramatic "idols are so great!" moments. Speaking of which, get someone who speaks English fluently on staff, PA Works. Every single song is broken Engrish. Yeah, it's undermined by way of being generic JPop to start, but mangled gibberish is not helping.

As far as idol shows go, it's far from the worst I've suffered through, and I can't imagine it won't be better than the other four or so new ones this season even ignoring Yet Another Love Live. It was just unambitious and steering hard towards rank mediocrity in every way but the animation. The jokes were mainly the girl yelling in overreaction. The story nonexistent. The characters are all as cookie cutter as they come. There were a few moments here and there, mostly the very rare sight gags that didn't involve her screaming, but they were too few and too far in between. You can accomplish a lot in twenty minutes, and this episode was more interested in overanimating some bad Engrish for the CD sales than story, jokes, or characters.