Anime Review: Love Live! School Idol Project

April 12, 2013

So, you would think with an anime about a bunch of school girls in skimpy dress dancing on a stage that they would be taking every opportunity to show off some inappropriate cloths or body parts. Surprisingly this show has completely clean. There was some “chest grabbing” by one of the girls as a method of getting people to talk, but it really is not in a provocative or erotic way. More of a “talk or I’ll squeeze harder and cause pain” sort of thing.

Nothing really stands out about the show. It has a decent plot, at-least it starts decent. Three friends find out their school is going to close if it doesn’t get enough interest from prospective students since their enrollment has been declining. They don’t like that one bit so they (rather the main protagonist Honoka) decide they are going to do something about. (I don’t remember if they said it was a girls only school, but I don’t remember seeing any boys.)  So of course, how do you get girls interested in going to a girls school?  You put girls on stage in flashy costumes… Uhh, yeah, I guess, maybe… possibly.. that works.. It would kind of make more sense to me if it was a bunch of young boys in the audience jumping up and down; but what do I know I’m not a teenage schoolgirl from Japan. Like I said, the plot starts good but that is about as far as it goes, it doesn’t really develop into anything further.

Much like the plot, everything else about the show is decent, but doesn’t really go anywhere. This is one of those shows which I enjoyed watching, but will honestly probably never watch again. Entertaining once, but without a plot that develops it’s kind of hard to have re-watch appeal.

Number of seasons: 1
Episodes per season: 13
Content: Clean.