Half of the show is Montage
The story itself is pretty good. It has a good plot and characters, and the show could have been great. The problem is 'literally' half of every episode is comprised of musical montages. There are up to 3 montages in an episode (when there's only 1, that 1 is very long).
I know what you're thinking, "The show is about music" "They have to have montages to diplay the character's improving their musing and performing on stage". Well... yes. But, there are only 3 songs in the series, and 1 of those is only used for 1 montage, so the other 20-something montages use the same 2 songs, over and over and over.
Scenes of the show are repeated in the same way as the music. There is (again) 'LITERALLY' a flash back to a scene that was shown 1 MINUTE EARLIER. Most of the montage scenes are used several times through out the series. So the montages later in the show are the same music with the same images as the ones in previous episodes.
If they had not...
First Thing's first...THIS IS NOT HENTAI
The reason for the title of my review is this, the cover art kind of makes it look like one of those fanservice/hentai'ish anime when it is completely not. If anything, it is the complete opposite.
I first saw this title in Best Buy but avoided it because of what the cover art seemed to suggest. About 2 years later (after I completely forgot about this title) I saw this anime on a legal stream site (Crunchyroll) and was very impressed and inspired by it. Looking for it on Amazon, that was when I realized that the title I watched online and the title I left untouched 2 years prior were the same. All I could think was, "wow, I totally missed out then!" I just want to be sure that other people don't miss out on such a wonderful and subtle title due to misperceptions caused by the cover art style.
For people looking for anime that they can safely share with friends and older family...or simply just want to enjoy without worry about (or annoyance of) the overt...
Good story but this is a bad version
This is a great anime series--excellent character development for both the main and secondary characters. Surprising plot developments. Not for young kids. The story is five stars, but the May 2009 complete collection is a disappointment though. We had first watched the series years ago, borrowed from the library. We enjoyed it very much and when I saw it here I decided to acquire it. While the animation is all the same, for some reason the subtitles for the song lyrics are not translated into English on this version. We always watch films in their original language, with subtitles, and the one from the library provided English subtitles for the lyrics--this one has subtitles, in Romanjii (our letters spelling Japanese words); entirely unhelpful and frustrating. As I write, the site says that there are only a few copies left, with more on the way. Hopefully they will fix the translations.
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