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Idol Project · review

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Top reader Sep 28, 2022 · 6 min read
5 /10

This anime comes from the source of a visual novel, more specificly the second visual novel Idol Project 2 for PC back in 1995 because there are in fact at least two visual novels of this so far I've done my research. I don't know if those are translated in English, but I assume they are not. Don't count on it; I have pretty much zero expierence with reading visual novels in overall. This OVA is done by Studio OX. If you haven't heard of Studio OX before, fear not, I got you covered. It's founded by Atsuhiko Sugita in 1985, Studio OX was originally afreelance art studio that produced more "anime styled" Transformers art for TV Magazine and Comic Bom Bom throughout the early years of Generation 1 in Japan. While the populairity for Transformers was declining at the time, in 1991 they became a company, providing production and conceptual artwork for various anime, primarily for reboots of older franchises, such as Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier, Tekkaman Blade, and Getter Robo: Armageddon. They also created some short OVA series like Wild Cardz and now this OVA. Lastly they have animated a few hentai as well of course as their assumed struggle in order to survive, which is honesty not that suprising how rough the anime industry really is. The founder Atsuhiko Sugita left the studio in 2000 and the company was declared defunct in 2003.

Story: (3/10 Very Bad)

The story starts with 14 year old Mimu Emilton that wants to be an idol and then ... yeah, a lot of mumbo jumbo happends. What story? Was there a story? I honesty don't know. Let's be honest, after a while I had the mindset not to think about it and just enjoy all the nonsense that was happening on my screen and it became a lot more enjoyable and bareable to watch. It's one of these "don't think about it" anime, you see. Let's go with that. There's no need to act like a 'pretentieus elitist' and what not and thrash this anime into the ground, but just some humble opnions. In the end of the day these opinions in reviews don't even matter anyway and I don't want to crack my head around it iether. I have more important stuff going on around my head.

It all depends how how much you actually care for a story in the long run. It's probably somewhere in there and it's not at all on the levels of famous novelists and you might find more story in the actual visual novels. I just don't know. Maybe you'll find more story in the actual visual novels. This anime is pretty much a barrage of nonsence with fan-service sprinkled around. I was honesty more busy enjoying the visuals, which was for me the best part.

Art: (7/10 Good)

While visual-wise it is what you can expect from the '90s. Not that good in modern times (and even then, even modern anime can look like utter dog shit like half of the time - there, I said it), but for at the time if you take in concideration of the time period it was made still pretty decent. Maybe it's just my nostalgia bias talking of the kind of animation I got used with when I was a kid. Mind you, I'm a late 80's kid, so yeah. Still I'm not a fan of these even more enormous shoujo anime style of eyes back in the day and I'll probably never will. I'm honesty glad the Japanese has moved away from that kind of design from the most part. Is it cute? Aw, hell no and it never will for me. It's a bit unappealing if you tell me. But if you can appreciate cell-animation from the 90's, you can enjoy this on the visual department. Yeah, back in my day the Japanese drawed their anime by hand and none of that computer generated bullshit nowadays. Deal with it.

Sound 5/10 (Average)

Not really sure what I can say about the audio. It felt a bit lacking here and there, but then I also had some very fun expierences at other times I just had to smile from enjoyment from the sounds they were using. Voice acting is done OK for the time being, but that's about it really. No mayor huge awards to be handled here, but I've expierenced much worse voice acting and other audio related isseus in other anime. Just don't get high expectations and it will be allright. The same can be said with the charathers, mind you.

Charathers: 5/10 (Average)

The charathers, well, there all very basic from what I've seen. You have the ordinary protagonist, a silly goose which is also a martial artist which was honesty my most favorite one of the bunch, a small girl, an obvious lesbian, the young but elegant lady, the bad-ass girl with an electric guitar, a traditional religous girl and a young female that seems to like cats. It is what it is; I guess. Very bland, but I felt the charathers together combined with all the nonsence that was happening fitted together. For the bit that I've seen at least. If you're hoping on character development; are you for real? It's only like two hours of length in total. You really can't do much with that ammount of time. Even though they may sound all so bland, in overall it was still an enjoyable bunch of charathers.

Enjoyment: (6/10 Fine)

In overall it was enjoyable. At least after the bit I just stopped overthinking about it and just starded to enjoy the content in general. It even managed to make me laugh out loud for at least two times just because from all the sillyness that was going on. There's also plenty of fan-service if you're into that kind of thing. I'm not judging you. If you're a (pretentious) prude, this anime is most likely not for you, because lots of swimsuits and a bit of nudity and some ecchi jokes that will be shoved in your face.

Overall: 5/10 (Average)

So yeah, should you watch this 2 hour long in total OVA from 1995? In summery it all depends who you are and what you like to be honest. If you like something that starts as an idol story, but then suddenly you're watching the charathers dealing with mindless mumbo jumbo with fan-service as a cherry on top; go ahead. Go ahead and watch this mindless silly OVA. If you care about a deep story and development, you're probably going to have a hard time watching this and I'll advice you to stay away, you filthy casual.

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