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Seems like a responsible thing to give to children.

Impressions:

At least the idol parts here leaned more into acoustic easy listening than loud bubblegum pop, until the ending at at rate. It quite melodramatic all around, although after Shoot taking things to eleven, a faux-girlfriend being mad about wanting to play 'hyper sports' instead of being a failed idol because sports are super, duper hard and rough and people are mean is pretty silly too, even before she overcomes her 'hatred' of sports so she can be the bestest idol fan she can be. It's also a little weird to figure out this setting. Let's remember that lawn darts are too dangerous for kids, but handing out super powers and laser bracelets that give anybody super powers which the 'good' teenagers use to take chunks out of bridge infrastructure is totally fine. 

But the weirdest part of the episode might be the training montage where the random childhood friend (of the spurned fan) teaches how to play sports. All sports. Baseball, basketball, soccer. All of them. Seemingly in a single afternoon. At this point, she's ready for super soccer… apparently, which is played on especially tiny fields, eight games at a time. It's so serious that there's an announcer, but nobody shows up except friends and family because the stadium is empty. Hyper soccer scores also apparently easily reach into the double digits, which seems like a big improvement to soccer if you ask me. Yes, all this rambling about the setting is because it is Generic Girls Doing Sports and there's nothing else substantial to talk about otherwise. Animation is bad. Characters are flat. Story is nonexistent. Girls Do Their Best™. But people have literal super powers which are only used for the sport-athalon, as opposed to the usual sports cliche where they're only metaphorical. Sure. Great. Bubblegum pop all around.

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