Do you hear J-music? Do you even know what it is? Well, the SCANDAL band is here to prove it. It is rare to see nowadays, anime about music, more precisely anime about specific bands. It doesn't mean that there is no anime with musicals or just the content of the song but the goal is always the part that has music in it. This anime is about the band SCANDAL and tries to show this .. but it fails in the execution. Scandal (or in Japanese - スキャンダル) is a group of J-Rock / J-Pop. They are by themselves, the most powerful female group in Japan, Scandalis formed by girls from the Osaka area and the group is very energetic and balanced because there is no particular role for each belonging, there is an equality to share the position of singer. The band was created in 2006 and since then they have been in the active, you probably know the band by playing openings / endings of well-known anime like "Full Metal Alchemist", "Bleach" or more recently "Pokémon XY: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction".

Let's move on to the anime now. I'm not saying that you can not see this or that this anime is simply a waste, I'm saying that you only need to see this if you already had it on "Plan to Watch" or if you already had it marked in your browser as the next anime to see. The problem of this is, I stress again, execution.

The anime "SCANDAL" has its charms and it's cute (you can even say it's too girly for boys) but there is no general development of characters, environment or anything. The good / positive things that I can get out of here is that this anime is an opportunity for those who didn't know the band, to actually know it better, to know how a japanese band acts (in this case of j-pop gender), to see that the band when in the acting is completely different from a group of friends who just want to have fun and see that they are classmates in school (and with that come the purposes of the school, one of them playing in the school festival), otherwise the purpose of playing as a group is forgotten because the background of the anime shows more the 'girly' side which in this case turns out to be more advantageous. The purpose in the last episode is forgotten and the anime turns out to be just "one more anime" for those who collects series or for those that just like to see short animes.
In short: This anime only passes by knowing the group because otherwise, it is a story badly worked and is not creative at all.
Including my personal taste for the group that already had before seeing this anime, I think this deserves a reasonable note, the true group sings pretty good and is thoroughly appreciated by japanese fans especially from the Osaka area where the group was created.