Selection Project

Due to a weak heart, Suzune Miyama has remained bedridden for most of her childhood. However, despite her illness, she has always dreamed of becoming an idol. Eventually, her opportunity comes in the form of the seventh Selection Project—a brutal series of competitions best known as the starting point of the legendary idol Akari Amasawa.

Anxious but excited, Suzune enters the preliminary round of Selection Project. Though her singing dazzles the judges and her fellow competitors, Suzune is unfortunately overcome by her nerves and freezes up in the middle of her performance. She recovers quickly, but the stumble is great enough that she loses the winning spot and is disqualified.

Or so it seems—until Seira Kurusu, the girl Suzune lost to, announces that she plans to drop out of Selection Project, believing Suzune is a more talented singer and therefore deserves the right to compete. Suzune is caught off guard by the decision, but promises Seira that they will meet again as top idols. She prepares herself for the challenging obstacles that lie ahead.

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Miyama, Suzune Main

Yano, Hinaki Japanese

Hananoi, Rena Main

Mizuno, Saku Japanese

Toma, Mako Main

Shimoji, Shino Japanese

Koizumi, Uta Main

Shirakawa, Mizuna Japanese

Imau, Nagisa Main

Arai, Ruri Japanese

Yagi, Nodoka Main

Youmiya, Hina Japanese

Yamaga, Shiori Main

Hanai, Miharu Japanese

Hamaguri, Hiromi Main

Nagumo, Nozomi Japanese

Yodogawa, Ao Main

Iwahashi, Yuka Japanese

Amasawa, Akari Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Nemoto, Yuuka Producer

Ogata, Mitsuhiro Producer

Kobayashi, Ryou Producer

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Jul 12, 2024

Mystiic_

Recommended

Selection project is an idol anime not like the others, all the characters are in competition and only one must win, but they will learn to become friends throughout their adventures, there is a side story with the two main characters and it's a very moving situation.
The music is very good and the last music which is the ending of the anime is a master class for me. I get a lot of chills throughout the anime, especially during the opening, we see that the author wants to do like his work and give happiness to his spectators! 10/10 for me, worth watching!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Feb 4, 2022

toidi-a-era-uoy

Mixed Feelings

I never been big on idol anime but decided to give this one a try... needless to say it is a experience that I will forget :). The show is pretty much about rip off ____ Got Talent and all that. (SPOILER WARNING AHEAD)


For me it started out fine, I was enjoying myself some what... but then they just never had anyone voted off and pulled a FRIENDSHIP IS POWER cliché. I never hated this cliché so much until this show, even after watching my little pony AND not to mention ALL of Fairy Tail. Then after they had no one voted off ... they disqualified everyone and made it a point to say they are trying to grow as a idol group (without any help from big company's like the one that runs the competition). Then about a episode or two of working on their own they just get to GO BACK AND FINISH?!?!

Now for the other point, I have no problem with characters idolizing dead idols... BUT it kinda gets weird near the end, but to explain why I first need to explain the 2 main characters back story. Our 1st main character is Suzuna who had a bad heart condition when she was young, she would watch this one idol Akari Amazawa (she was quite a fan). One day she got a heart from a organ donor, and got to leave the hospital.
The 2nd main character is Rena, who is Akari Amazawa's younger sister trying to follow in the foot steps of her dead sister. Her sister became a organ donor. Now that you know that it will be easy to put the 2 together... Suzuna's heart belongs to her childhood idol. She figured this out along with Rena
At some point near the end of the series Suzuna passes out do to overworking herself, so she gets taken to the hospital and ain't waking up. Rena is also there cause she is concerned for her friend. After a bit the show shows the dream Suzuna is having, where she is being asked stuff by Akari. Also during this conversation our main character looks like their younger self after the heart transplant. Near the end of the conversation Akari says she will always be with our main character well having her hands over the scar from the transplant. If that ain't weird enough she wakes up and says she talked to Akari and that she said she would always be with her right in front of the relative of Akari who is already established to be quite sensitive about her sister due to her sister not spending much time with her after her success.

On another note I think Rena might see too much of her sister in Suzuna after figuring out her deceased older sister's heart is in her. Even to the point that right before their last performance she looks at her and see's (and also hears) her sisters voice saying what Suzuna is saying...

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 16, 2022

Snolled

Not Recommended

Part I Overall

This series has horrible story telling. It has a lot of plot holes that can be extremely confusing in the series. This plot of the series does not really tell its own story but rather a mix of Idoly Pride(75%), Lovelive!(10%) and Zombieland Saga(15%). In my opinion, Selection Project is the worst TV Show that I have ever seen.
However, not all parts are considered bad at all. In Zombieland Saga Rip Off Part, they did really well, such as an interesting idea like "Idol that start from zero and be growing"
For Music
I don't like almost song in this series, especially the OP theme ... song. It doesn't create an Idol op vibe. They also reuse multiple songs at the end. In my opinion, Idol series shouldn't reuse their song strongly because the main selling point of the series are their songs and it doesn't look like they have put in the enough effort to create new songs. On the bright side, it has a few song that I like, B.B. and Only One yell. Only One Yell will be my most favorite ed in Fall2021.
For Studio
Doga Kobo did very well in this position, this series was carried by Doga Kobo a lot. Animation and sound effects are very good. Also, the character design from Hirayama, Kanna, are the character design of series "
Kanojo, Okarishimasu". They are very cute and memorable. Nevertheless, the story isn't given, so in the character part, I can't give much more score.

Part II add some detailed from part (maybe spoiled)

[1] This series has a main moral of "Repay all votes that voted on us", but before that a winner of the zone qualifiers withdraws because the 1st runner sang better than her. W H A T, how about votes that were voted on you. How would they feel?

[2] The competitors in this series all spend most of their summer in camps, but the competitors are only middle school with the youngest being 11 years old. Aren't their parents worried? Your children are going to camp for 3 months. There are also dances in swimsuits which aren't appropriate for middle schoolers if you ask me. At the end, the kids became idols and leave their hometowns to perform in the big cities. Aren't their parents worried at all?

[3] "Selection Project is the most realistic TV competition show". Is that really true? In the story, they do not allow viewers to vote on children's programs as they are working to follow their dream. In the real world, they have to face realities of haters and criticism.

Another reason is that the TV competition show had all the competitors pass, so to be fair, they gave a choice that competitors have to vote and kick out 2 competitors. W H A T, this is contradicts with [1]. After that, the votes are equal and they can't find a competitor to kick out so they are all eliminated. Yes, they are all eliminated. Are you kidding me? How can a show like this can survive for 7 seasons and have viewers all over Japan?

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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	Poll: Selection Project Episode 1 Discussion ( 1 2 3 ) KANLen09 - Sep 26, 2021	105 replies	by 28012001 »» Jun 30, 11:29 PM
	Poll: Selection Project Episode 12 Discussion KANLen09 - Dec 17, 2021	35 replies	by 5hadow17 »» May 18, 7:15 AM
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