Review of Listeners

Listeners will change your life on how bad it is, it's one of those anime that if you binged like i have, its like being frozen in time for 5 hours , and coming out of it only remembering how much time that you have wasted,NO actually, its not like that, it IS that. Listeners feels like its plot was made by a generated AI, it ignores the steps of making a story: exposition, rising action, conflict, falling action, and conclusion. Shit just happens every single episode. Its formula is trying to explain stuff to you ,since the show does an awful job of it inthe very beginning, but as a result, all of the rising action and conflict is trimmed and/or watered down to the point where its boring.And that ending is crap as well, the conclusion doesn't make much sense, people who die come back to life just because, and like rotten food, i projectile vomited just about all the mental things that i have seen from episode 1. I'm not kidding at all when i said this is the most boring anime i have seen. 95% of it is talking, and the rest are just very poorly presented fight scenes.

Actually this a great time to tell you how presentation plays such an important role in storytelling. You can have the greatest story of all time, but if it is presented in a sloppy manner, where the audience doesn't understand or becomes bored, you might as well not even make a story,you have to grab the audience's attention by showing and not telling.Boring an audience is a cardinal sin when it comes to anything.And in this case, listeners should be damned to hell when it comes to visuals.The animation is so low quality, movements are stiff, and since characters talk all the time, movements aren't even apparent that much. The designs are okay, but are just so poorly animated, And the fucking meccha designs are ass, like the assiest of the ass.They are absolute trash, which is not an overstatement since the mecchas fight in a dump most of the time.

Now i know what you're probably not thinking, "where did the animation budget go", well about 60% of it probably was put into the opening sequence,

Listeners OP
the listeners op is too good for this world, i even considered it the best anime op of spring 2020. Animation wise, it everything you want to see in this show, but some of the things that happen in the OP don't happen in the show.And at this point, I don't even want to consider the op as something that determines my overall score on the show,because not only is it exponentially better than the actual show,the song done by accamer puts the actual music in the show to shame, it was all animated by one person as well: Shinpei Kamada,and you can just watch the op, come up with a story, and it would still be better than the actual story.

The characters are -i dont even know,i cant talk about any single character because they all are interchangeable, the two main characters have no chemistry, Mu is always the sassy girl, and Echo is the quirky kid who gets walked all over, and that's it, Mu always worries about where she came from, where did she go where did she come from cotton eye joe, and its annoying that while acting as such, she becomes stupid out of nowhere and ends up sparking the sudden,large "conflict" of the anime. And the only thing i can say about Echo is how the hell is he able to talk to people when he has those big ass headphones on the whole time?

For an anime about music, this anime has some pretty low-grade music, all of it is loud rock music that is so unfitting that i will never complain about the music in FLCL ever again, and every single insert song was done by Rie Takahashi of all things and its the most subpar j rock music ever.

lets just say that "into the blues" and the remix of it in the final episodes are only reasons i gave the sound a 4 instead of a 3

This is probably a weird place to mention the EDs but i had to because of how weird they are, the ending animations are all different but they just use animated parts of the episode but edited them in weird ways,its like those youtube videos where people professionally edit in anime clips into other anime (like saitama getting punched by tohru from dragon maid)but when its in listeners its awkward.

i think the best way to wrap up my review is just quote the first lines of the show, which basically sums up the whole show. TRASH ,Even the marketing for the show was poor, Funimation kept shilling the show hard before it came out with interviews and the like, yet literally the only selling gimmicks the show has is that the dude who made that Vocaloid show is behind it and another shmuck who worked on Eureka seven wrote the script.Like wow.To be honest, this shouldve been a series of music videos instead of a show.Animated by mappa and such.Because the shit plot thats elongated into 12 episoddes is just overkill, i just cant deal with this one,its a waste of time money, and or energy and the fact that mappa can just let this happen, is just disappointing to be honest.
Overall 2/10
i want to die