So much cut-and-paste from Love Live! season 1. SO MUCH.
I want to like this show, I really do. But so far it's spent way too much time trying to tell me, "Look! I'm still Love Live! See how similar I am?"—and that feels incredibly cheap, like the writers couldn't think of any original ideas so they paraphrased the story outlines from the first show.
A little bit of originality crept in here at the end (when it turned out people didn't come to the concert because Chika put the wrong day on the fliers), but other than that it felt like a carbon copy of how µ's got their name and the START:DASH!! concert. Sloppy writing there at the end of the episode, too. It just kind of ended, and there was nothing after the ED even though it felt like there should have been some kind of tag on it.
This is episode 3, and I usually decide whether to continue with an anime after 3 episodes. For now I will keep going, since averaging 6/10 isn't bad enough to stop me. But if I keep having to fight down the urge to rant about how much of a copy this show is, I'll eventually throw in the towel.
The cliches are getting worse; the characters are getting better. Mari-chan is hilarious, and Chika-chan is an endearing little lesbo after my own heart.
Review by dgwVIP 9BlockedParent2016-07-18T07:58:56Z
So much cut-and-paste from Love Live! season 1. SO MUCH.
I want to like this show, I really do. But so far it's spent way too much time trying to tell me, "Look! I'm still Love Live! See how similar I am?"—and that feels incredibly cheap, like the writers couldn't think of any original ideas so they paraphrased the story outlines from the first show.
A little bit of originality crept in here at the end (when it turned out people didn't come to the concert because Chika put the wrong day on the fliers), but other than that it felt like a carbon copy of how µ's got their name and the START:DASH!! concert. Sloppy writing there at the end of the episode, too. It just kind of ended, and there was nothing after the ED even though it felt like there should have been some kind of tag on it.
This is episode 3, and I usually decide whether to continue with an anime after 3 episodes. For now I will keep going, since averaging 6/10 isn't bad enough to stop me. But if I keep having to fight down the urge to rant about how much of a copy this show is, I'll eventually throw in the towel.