B-Project: Kodou*Ambitious

As a big fan of idol anime that had no background knowledge of B-Project, I'd say this did pretty well, but still had a long way to go.

Story: 7/10

Besides the fact that the ending was a little rushed and confusing, it is very rare that an idol anime would tackle serious conflicts in their stories. The build up to that ending though I believe was steady enough for it to make some sense. Idol anime generally tend to be character based, as in, each episode is focussed on a different character and their backgrounds. B-Pro did an OK job at this, but they focussed too ... much on certain characters and neglected others.

Art: 3/10

I had high hopes for the art, especially when I saw the CGs from their game, but when I say I cringed, I mean I CRINGED. The animation was very choppy, especially when animating the choreographies and character movements in general. Characters would often look like their face was run over by a truck. The stills and the character's eyes were probably the only admirable aspect of the art, otherwise, pretty bad.

Sound: 9/10

I really loved the music that B-Pro had to offer, I watched the anime partially because some of my favorite voice actors played characters in the anime, and I was pretty happy with the music work. The lyrics of the songs really touched me, and I found the songs to be very catchy as well (I downloaded their music on my phone recently), it's a shame that their game is not in service anymore. The only problems I have is that after a few episodes, it gets very repetitive, they keep playing the opening and ending songs throughout random parts of the episodes, and I think they would have done better if they added more variety in their sounds.

Character: 8/10

The characters were built very well. They had backstories that actually made me emotional and went through conflicts that were very realistic, and you can clearly see how they effected the characters. The one problem I have is again, focussing only on a few characters and forgetting the others existed. The rest really deserve some justice in screen time.

Enjoyment: 8/10

I did actually enjoy watching the anime, but I wouldn't say I looked forward to watching more after each episode. It was only towards the end that I was truly hooked. Things that interfered with my enjoyment were mainly the prominence of too much fan service that would really ruin the mood because of their bad timing and the fact that they did not wrap up the anime very well. This still bothers me.

Overall: 7/10

If it weren't for the music, I would have probably given this anime a much lower rating. The story was meh, the characters were well built, and the art totally destroyed the experience. I would only recommend this if art did not matter to you, or you really like j-pop music. I only enjoyed around 4 episodes out of the 12, but do take my opinions with a grain of salt as I did not have any prior knowledge on the project and the idol group

The thing that held B Project back for me was its weak cast management. Telling the stories of ten characters (3 idol units) requires solid writing to pull it off. However, the show failed to do that. Episodes shift from one unit to another so fast that I barely got to know them. Because of its lack of focus, the characters ended up more like archetypes and tropes than human beings trying to make it big in the entertainment industry. Their growth was either hard to tell or nonexistent as the storytelling makes relating to them challenging. Furthermore, B Project seemed more interested in adding ... some fanservice instead of developing their personalities. The anime-only characters seemed to have more personality than the idols themselves.

The only idols that stuck with me were the ones from Kitakore, because 1. their song plays in the ED and 2. they seem to be the only ones with the most screen time. The unit THRIVE was typical and I barely knew anyone from MooNs.

Speaking of which, for an idol anime the show's OST wasn't fantastic. While the characters can sing, the insert songs didn't feel original or fun to listen again. The artwork was pretty with okay animation. The voice acting was alright, but nothing noteworthy given the writing.

Overall, B Project is not a terrible idol anime. Rather, it's slightly below average due its writing and weak cats management.

This show makes me depressed.

I recently got into b-project when I stumbled upon the app during my daily idol game discovery and almost instantly fell in love with the characters, the beautiful art and the music. I decided to watch the anime because I wasn't too interested in anything that was currently airing and I wanted to learn about the b-project lore. What I expected was a middle of the road idol anime with no particular plot and decent animation. What I got was a bad idol anime with crappy, almost unwatchable, animation and a weird plot that makes no sense in the end. ...

Story: 4/10

While it has some good moments, most of the plot is held together with threads that ignores its past episodes and leaves the viewers with barley any idea of what is going on. For example, one episode will show an emotional moment between two characters or a character finding themselves, and then it'll all be ignored in the next episode, leaving said character or characters back to the one dimensional stereotypes we learned in the beginning. That only happens though, if a character is lucky. Some get barley any screentime at all, and their development is non-existant. Most of the arcs are brushed off for very explicit fanservice and boring dance scenes, that at least aren't CGI.

Art 1/10

If I could give this a 0 I would. The art is bad. So bad that at some points I would purposefully screenshot the stills this show had and would send them to my friends just to laugh at. Even the references on the wiki for this season are hilariously bad. I can only really compliment the fact that this show barley used (if at all) CG models and had really beautiful background art.

Sound 6/10

The music is good. I can't really say anything else because I have most of the music downloaded on my phone.

Character 3/10

I already discussed this in story, but I give it a 3/10 here because I liked Ryuji's arc quite a bit, despite it being thrown out.

Enjoyment 2/10

I literally had a better time just reading the translated stories on the wiki.

Overall 3/10

Justice for Mikado.