Review of Listeners

Listeners. When I heard it was about 70s rockstars, you had me interested, when you brought in Mecha, you had me slightly disappointed, when I watched it, you had me appalled. Spoiler warning, but here's a small spoiler, just don't fucking watch it it's terrible. Wow... WOW... This show's bad, like bad. Horrible. Where do I even start, man I had a bit of hype for this as it had music inspired theme which I so dig. I love those classic, influential rock bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd and hearing that these are in the show got me interest. Straight from the first episode, Iwas let down in an instant and the rest was just an eyesore to watch. This even got to a point of me thinking, 'Why am I watching this???'

Character issues are everywhere, from the top to the bottom, left to right and even diagonally can you believe that? We have this pathetic virgin of the main character Echo which we have to stick with for the whole show. That alone is already no good. Even fucking Mu, I don't find her anything appealing or interesting about her. So from the get-go, we have 2 utterly shit main characters that we have to stick with. What comes after that is their intentions that form the main story. What the fuck am I watching, literally Mu was like 'Let's do this' and it just goes, like from nothing just appeared a story out of nowhere. So fine they wanted to find where's Jimi and they two alone made like so much progress despite them both being kids, like what.

Speaking of Jimi and all the inspired characters, why is Jimi white? Like fine if they just wanted to use his name at least make him look or act like Jimi, they got Prince right why can't they just get it on Jimi? That boggles my mind. Oh and don't get me started on the script inspired or name inspired moves that characters say. Like they literally use famous song sentences and incorporate it into their lines, the result is pure cringe and a failed JoJo inspired wannabe. Like who thought that those lines were good? Who in the fuck thought any of this is good, "Oh let's just cut up some lines and just make the characters say them, that be cool right???".

Now the story, I won't say there's no story cause there clearly is. So the goal was to find Jimi and bring him back, getting there is another problem altogether. The story alone is bad, but it's not disappointing bad or like, angry bad. It's laughably bad. I laugh at how poorly written this story of theirs is. It's so childish, it's so boring and it's so uncreative. Like there's nothing to the story that is interesting or at least worth something. It's just dog shit all the way.

Production-wise, what happened MAPPA? Did they use up all their budget for Dorohedoro or their upcoming The God of High School, which to be honest looks quite good. If so then why proceed with this shitty show, they even got sponsors for this show, did they like get the money and just made this low-produced show to get the cash only? So many questions, so little answers. I'll admit, the reason I'm not giving this a straight-up 1 is that they did put in some effort. Like every outro has a different animated ending or that they try to sync up the music with scenes and stuff. Honestly, it's more miss than hits.

Art-wise it's like line art with the bucket tool to fill in the colour, that's all. No interesting design and even the Mecha all looks garbage. Plus the fucking 3D doesn't even match the 2D.

-SCORES-

Character- 1/10: Fuck all of them, at least they had Prince which I like for it's... Prince. And err... anything else erm... nope, just Prince.

Art- 2/10: It's so bad that it's laughable.

Writing- 1/10: Hahhahhaa...

Sound- 6/10: While I compliment them for using rock music to fit the theme and having a different outro every episode. I must say, compared to the show's inspired songs like Jimi Hendrix and Sex Pistols, the songs they give are not even close to those.

Overall, this show tricked me into thinking this is a rock-inspired anime, I feel cheated. GIVE ME MY TIME BACK.

Light to Decent 2