Review of Listeners

The first 2 episodes tricked me. "Oh, this has a slight FLCL vibe! The story seems pretty interesting! I bet the main characters will be fun!" And then, as fast as a heartbeat, the series just went right downhill. The story went everywhere and no where. "The Earless are bad! They hurt people? But nevermind they're good? Its all just a misscommunication problem? WHAT?!?!?!" "Let's travel to a bunch of places to get clues on this one heroic dude and lose track of the story by us forgetting what our purpose was for being their in the first place until it becomes relevant to the story again!" Thecharacters became incredibly bland and it felt like all the side characters added nothing to spice up the dreadfulness of it all. Despite their interesting designs, their personalities were just flat and one note.

The soundtrack was medicore in the end. Which for an anime like this is just disappointing at best.

I wanted to enjoy this anime. I really thought it had a good start...but they lost control of everything with the story, character development (laughable), and characters themselves that...I just can't make this a recommendation for anyone.

If you want to be disappointed, have at it. <3