Review of Listeners

Bad but not horrible, I think that's the best way to describe this show. For a while now i have been itching to watch a good ol' mecha series in the charts, so when I'd read the synopsis of this one i thought: why not give it a shot? The concept really is interesting, at least to me sounds that way. Not just music powered mechas but a world with references to rock and pop culture, characters based on musicians and the "equipments": amps that when connected to the performers or "players" turn into mechas they then pilot. All this, I think, had potential for a richand interesting world-building, like technical differences in the robots, diverse and characterized fighting styles between the players and stuff to name a few. Instead we got clunky and generic CGI mecha action, really bad CGI monsters that looked like a fog biker mice (?) and characters that resembles iconic rock/pop figures only on a superficial level. The may look like them and even throw a line or two out of their songs (which by the way it's done in a really awkward way) but there's not much more to them, no character development or thought in the relation between them or the main characters.
Anyway, with a messy story, bad character writing and not too sharp animation it has details about it that makes me believe that there was love or passion put into it, like the detail of different endings for all the chapters with cinematic sequences from the chapter but rearranged to a more symbolic retelling of the episode.
So even if the final product has it's flaws i think it's good that some studios keep staking with original projects.