AKB0048
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 8:52 pm
In a world where entertainment is banned...
One band of idols (see what I did there?
) will take a stand, and fight!
That's the basic plot to this anime, I've wanted to mention it for a while but alas the site was down. This is an anime from last season, it's either nearing the end or will go into a 1/2 year season (or more) and TBH I can't tell which currently. It's definitely an interesting and unique twist on the typical idol-genre and I'd recommend giving it chance, also if you like J-Pop then there's some nice songs in there as well.
I mentioned the basic plot, "entertainment" is banned throughout the universe, especially idols, however this group of idols, called AKB0048, still give concerts and even fight the anti-entertainment organisation whilst performing. Our four main protagonists catch a concert when they were young and all decide they want to join AKB0048. Skip x years into the future, entertainment isn't banned everywhere but is still frowned upon I suppose and that anti-entertainment organisation is still after AKB0048. Three of our protagonists all apply for AKB0048, the 4th as well but it's not known to be her immediately and they're also joined by more hopefuls. They pass the "auditions" (more like a war zone combat exercise) along with 4 new characters to be the 77th generation, get to meet the 76th generation (mainly two in particular) and the current idols AKA "successors". So it's quite obvious the main plot is the journey of these "understudies" trying to become "successors", it's generally a typical feel-good anime in that sense with singing and a bit of action from the anti-entertainment dudes but there's some hidden secret plot thing as well, which keeps things interesting.
The art style is cutesy as you'd imagine but a cute little quirk is that all the idols have heart shaped highlights (eyes and hair) and you'll come across girls with diamond shaped highlights who used to be idols. Also like many of these kinda idol anime there are CG sections when the idols are singing/dancing, which is all pretty cool
Seriously try it, watch a couple of episodes, you might be surprised
One band of idols (see what I did there?
) will take a stand, and fight! That's the basic plot to this anime, I've wanted to mention it for a while but alas the site was down. This is an anime from last season, it's either nearing the end or will go into a 1/2 year season (or more) and TBH I can't tell which currently. It's definitely an interesting and unique twist on the typical idol-genre and I'd recommend giving it chance, also if you like J-Pop then there's some nice songs in there as well.I mentioned the basic plot, "entertainment" is banned throughout the universe, especially idols, however this group of idols, called AKB0048, still give concerts and even fight the anti-entertainment organisation whilst performing. Our four main protagonists catch a concert when they were young and all decide they want to join AKB0048. Skip x years into the future, entertainment isn't banned everywhere but is still frowned upon I suppose and that anti-entertainment organisation is still after AKB0048. Three of our protagonists all apply for AKB0048, the 4th as well but it's not known to be her immediately and they're also joined by more hopefuls. They pass the "auditions" (more like a war zone combat exercise) along with 4 new characters to be the 77th generation, get to meet the 76th generation (mainly two in particular) and the current idols AKA "successors". So it's quite obvious the main plot is the journey of these "understudies" trying to become "successors", it's generally a typical feel-good anime in that sense with singing and a bit of action from the anti-entertainment dudes but there's some hidden secret plot thing as well, which keeps things interesting.
The art style is cutesy as you'd imagine but a cute little quirk is that all the idols have heart shaped highlights (eyes and hair) and you'll come across girls with diamond shaped highlights who used to be idols. Also like many of these kinda idol anime there are CG sections when the idols are singing/dancing, which is all pretty cool
Seriously try it, watch a couple of episodes, you might be surprised
So much left unanswered, so much left to do but there will be another series in 2013