Review of Lapis Re:LiGHTs
If you try to read a review for this kind of genre, it means you already consider to join the deepest lowest & moe-est part of anime world, which is Music Idol. No matter what genre you’re watching, your friends & families will still call you a weebs anyway, so why don’t you just go full throtle diving here to the unexplored Atlantis. Expand your world and find your amusement, then we can finally said “Welcome, my fellow fking weebs.” Actually it’s not fully my rights to said that because it’s my first time diving here, so I tried to give a review from a newcomerpoint of view.
Lapis Re:Lights is like a music idol anime that didn’t show too much of the idol part. While other idol animes doing a perform in hope for gathering popularity, instead these girls doing that for collecting mana.. I mean collecting peoples feelings to be the power source of the city. Maybe the story introduction looks generic, a girls school where they make groups to sing and get extra score, when low score group might be expelled from school, there’s also a group ranking discrimination here. By that setting from Ep1 you can expect where the story leads to, but I’m not going to convince you to change that view because they kinda got me halfway there, not gonna lie.
If you came here looking for a good performance, I can’t guarantee that. Best I can offer is Ep2 ending, if you like it you can keep going. Some costumes is cute & cool but personally I don’t like overly exposing tops especially for lolis so I don’t like the japanese trio and the only duo here. They try to add magic on this anime for fighting or daily life purpose, also for the shows where a lots of light popping up and other effects to spice up the stage. The lights makes a cube following their gesture, and other generic shape like star or candy. I like the idea but too much magical things sometimes make us unable to fully enjoy the show. Bungee jumpin between buildings, that’s for story pupose so it’s ok. Flying too high in the sky, is it for the plot? Quickly changing camera angle, my brains tremble.... I can’t keep up with that. But there are many good use of magic here when we follow their daily life like when the sport match, it’s highly entertaining.
If you came here for story plot, for me it’s good enough. But if you want that kind of PLOT, wrong place dude, there’s a lot of generic isekai out there. While following the main group, we also get to see 2 others groups dealing with their internal problem but don’t worry, our MC is not K*rito taking too much role meddling with other business which is nice for me, while the 2 high rank group didn’t have problem to begin with, we still get to see their funny interaction. For a large number of cast, it’s normal to see a diverse personality as well. Most of them can keep their consistency with the growth pace which is great, but I spot a character kinda out of trail. Early she can comfort the others when they in trouble, so mature despite her appearance. But later Eps she timidly run away after getting a huge task, I know it’s for building more tense for the final problem but there are some other girl fits better to fill the role.
If you don’t care much about the performance but still enjoying just the music. This is a good one for you. Indeed, not all ost is good but I can recommend some of them that hits me well. I dont know if the creator team being unfair or it’s just my taste but only MC group songs that's all good & have more than twice songs than others, a total of 5 with ED song Planetarium, 1st perform 700 million ..something, reuniting Watashi no Na wa Hikari, final perform Your Light, also first & last song we heard A.R.I.A. Other group with best overall performance is the highest rank supernova in both 2 songs. The rest is just 1 good song each, introduction of ghost girl, and final perform of trio waitress but it so sort, also don’t forget the opening by all stars, by the way as I mentioned before I don't like JP trio & the only duo here. Unfortunately, we didn’t get much of Hanazawa Kana singing. If you like it, please consider buy the original soundtrack next november (maybe).