Review of Lapis Re:LiGHTs

Wow, this one really surprised me. It's a pretty good music/idol anime that I never heard of before. I'm glad I gave it a chance. The story, while it's pretty fast-pace and a bit cheesy at times, I think that it told what it needed to tell from it's initial premise. But 12 episodes isn't really enough to flesh out the plot to bring out some depth or meaningful messages to it. Though I really enjoyed the story nonetheless. But regardless of that, this show really has some trouble in balancing the magic and reality aspect of it. There's no fine line on what magic can andcan't do and it's always just so convenient when magic works in certain episodes but suddenly isn't even used in other episodes.
The settings of this anime is also quite shaky. There's a lot left unexplored and unexplained. Though it's mainly just it's missing potential and not really plot breaking problem of sorts.

The characters are quite trope-y but it's understandable since there's A LOT of characters here. Mostly they are here for Waifu bait (and Yuri bait cause why not), but that doesn't stop them from being forgettable or something. The only characters that I forgot are the ones that get zero to no focus so I think that the rest of the characters are good and got pretty decent spotlight.
The main cast isn't as strong as I think, but Lavie mah girl carried the team. Everything she does is so crazy that it's entertaining. She a great girl.

The animation is pretty fucking good. Considering that they ain't Sunrise (known for Love Live franchise, undoubtedly the Best music/idol anime), I think they made a decent job for the CG models. My only complaint is how they never utilized the CG models for some memorable camera work animation. It's a wasted potential tbh considering that this anime was made in 2020.
Though episode 8 had some great camera movement that utilized the CG models to it's utmost potential.
Moving on from the CG, the handrawn scenes from this anime is great. It's consistently drawn and never go off-models. It's just pretty to look at.

The music is one of the most important, arguably the most important, aspect for Music/idol animes. So how does this one do? Well, pretty f-cking good.
While there's no immediate bangers like in other music anime, the songs are consistent and catchy that I never found anything that I didn't like.
Though the opening and ending are bangers. One of the most underrated op/ed that I've heard yet.

Overall, it's just a good music anime. It's probably one of the better anime adaptation of a game.
(6.6/10)