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Dude why the people who are demanding for adaptation are the same people who hating this. I'm a VN reader and tbh this is like a pretty good adaptation. Is it perfect? No, but if you think they need to stuff 100+ hours long VN to possibly 2/3 season, there will be a lot of cut content. Not to mention they also need to make the anime accessible for people who just know about Muv Luv.

STORY: Aka about the cut content or how they skip the first two novel. Yeah it sucks, I wish they start at least from Unlimited because Unmilited and Alternative are ... like one set, but then you're looking at 6+ season worth of waiting, and the last 3 season is going to be a repitition. Yes one of the enjoyment of the VN is seeing the repititon again and seeing the differences the MC makes, and we don't get enjoyment from the anime because we never see the world where Takeru failed.

They did an amazing job on Episode 1 where they set the setting and shows the brutality and the despair humanity is at, and after the anime "goes down" well because that's how the VN was setup. It's sad we don't see more of the forest training session because that's where Takeri shows his ability he got from the past life. Then you go to this dumb coup d'etat where human are fighting human when the BETA fight are more interesting, and about Takeru shows his (annoying) naivety and hero complex.

ART: I think it's pretty great. There are some dramatization, but the fighting animation are quite good. You know you got those epic anime like robot movement.

SOUND: It's okay I guess, the sound effect are good, I don't really pay attention to the VA stuff.

Characters: Well they kind of got axed a lot since most of the development is in Unlimited where you first met them, where Alternative is a lot more about the story of saving the world while using the pre-established character development from Unlimited.

Overall: Season 1 is more like trying it's best to establish the setting for Season 2, because I feel like that's where things are going to escalate real quick. Just imagine Episode 1 but the whole season, that's prolly what I expect.

I would say it's a nice change from the usual hero/adventure style Isekai manga where the focus is on battle/adventure/saving the world or 'not so serious story' like reincarnate as an Onsen or a Spider. This manga focus more on politics, village building, like 90% politics 10% fighting. The protagonist have the usual 'convenient' power up but it doesn't feel OP...because it's politics...and they are not AI.

Since the story is focus a LOT on politics, it have a solid world structure and political structure, to the point I don't understand some part of it. You have war here and there, war in distant land, backstage ... political maneuvering, genetics heredity, etc. Also the politics become much more complicated later on, as I currently read(chapter 20) the politics is pretty simple, but my gooooddd... in the late game... the raw light novel already finished at chapter 305 and 115 for the translated one... even at chapter 90 the politics is already soooo confusing that head wants to explode.

Want to give it 8 but since the I can't understand medieval era politics make it 7/10.

IF YOU HATE WORMS DON'T READ THIS.
It's not HOTD but it's pretty solid. You still have typical idealistic MC, a betrayal type person, super OP dude, convenient character connection, or how smooth things went, you also have the usual 'a god-like' character that can moves wherever they want or know what's happening in the background. They also played with politics and science, which isn't bad. Some people thinks it's bad some will think it's good.

But I feel like some part is more realistic than HOTD. How the government respond to an unknown epidemic or how untrained character react to death early on or how romance ... slowly developed over time.

As much as I love Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0, I still prefer the Visual Novel. The first SG was pretty much a carbon copy of the VN and I love it. 10/10. And I was expecting that for SG 0. Because the anime version and VN is different, and it dissapoint me. I really really recommend people to buy SG 0 or at least watch a YT playthrough because my god... IT'S AMAZING. Sure it's a lot more complicated than the first one, even I need to play it 5 times until I completely understand what's going on. But when you finally understand and that ... *pang* hits you and your mind just went blank. That feeling of understand how good the story is, when you connect all the dots from the SG and SG 0, when you realise just how hard Okabe needs to went through to get to Steins Gate, when you realise how many sacrfice he needs to endure, not matter what happen, he needs to keep on moving forward, how he needs to sacrifice himself to save other Okabe. That kind of feeling is what I love.

I don't understand why the score is so low. Like I understand that Touma is not the best character and Index is really really annoying. Touma's fighting scene is not that impressive because all he did is just doing some inspirational speech, waving his hand and one punching the enemies, he also have the trait 'somehow always in the right place at the right time' or in this case the opposite.

But I feel like this is one of the most well made world I can recall. Every big arc have some connection like how Index arc destroyed the Three Diagram which leads to MISAKA arc. ... And how the a lot of the bad guys appear again as a good guys or some mercenaries rather than just disappear or never mention again. I also like how the story isn't just focused on the MC but also other character as well and how they fit perfectly, hell they even have the other series that also fit the timeline.

As someone who is familiar with WW2 background this anime have a lot of historical reference. The story and the character is...okay. But the visual and the sound is really really good. The details for the tank, the equipment, the stereotypes of each school(country). The person who make this anime really knows their stuff. Like the marching song each school match their country, the uniform also match the real stuff.

But as every fighting anime you have the usual plot armor and the speed for each tank...just ignore it or it will make your eyes bleed.

Someone on Youtube did a video about all of the ... historical reference, I really recommend you watch it.

For an Idol based anime it's very unique compared to other anime in similar genre. Mostly I'm going to talk what makes this anime is pretty special.

Story.
The story actually feels...very realistic. You start as this small idol agency who no one knows, doing small concert in countryside, starting to get bigger and bigger as time goes on, and you can tell how much they have grown. While the first half act as a character introduction which for some might be boring, some are pretty funny and show their own uniqueness. And the most of the late episode crisis feels pretty realistic.

Art.
I love that they ... put extra effort to make different ED for each episode. Other than that there isn't much to say...well I really like some of the move.

Sound.
First they have a LOT of song in their arsenal. While I never really like this kind of Idol song, somehow I really like some of the song...which is good I guess???

Character
This probably one of the best part of this anime. Arguably some of them aren't visually attractive, most of them have unique character or background...well some of them might feel a bit cliche.

The one thing I really hate is that through out the entire anime they really tease with Romance that wants to exist but never really exist. Damnit poor Haruka.

Fun Fact : In Episode 15 a certain person get hit by a box in the face and it actually happen with that person seiyuu in real life.

For me Cinderella girls is a big disappointment for me. The first Idolmaster was one of my favourite anime because it's unique. And the second installment just scrap everything that make the first one unique.

The first installment doesn't have cute/beautiful character models, hell I might say the model choice is pretty weird. But one of thing that really impress me is the story. It have pretty realistic story and timeline, you start as a very small idol but you can see their growth. And you can see each character have their own personal problem and their strength.

Anndd Cinderella Girls just nuke all of it. I ... only remember girls that I like and can't remember the rest. The story feel so out of touch for us commoner. Most of the character feels so awkward especially the Producer. I don't emotionally attach to all the character. I even prefer the song in the first installment.

2018 and I still come back to this anime. And still listen the music in my phone.

I think the best part of this anime is the song. If you love J-POP or J-Rock then most likely you will love it. Every sing they use inside the anime have their own uniqueness, and some of them pretty heart touching. 10/10

Story wise there is not much to mention. Good enough for a musical comedy anime. The one thing that I can mention is how refreshing and funny the story. 7/10

Art wise they did some extra work by making some MV for the song. Also the ED art ... is sooo good. Reminder this is a 2009 anime so it can't match 2017/2018 art. 8/10

There nothing unique about the character. It's the usual shy, airhead, boyish, ojou-sama, and cat like character. Good enough for the job.

I always love good comedy, happy go lucky story that you just enjoy it, no need to do hard thinking.

1000 words can't explain how terrible this is. If you want to keep your sanity just stay away from this. If you're a "M" then please feel free to watch it. I have watch all 12 episodes I can say this. Everything about this game doesn't make any sense at all, literally EVERYTHING. From the backstory about what causing all of this to how it all end up here to the character itself, even the game itself broke its own rule.

Look if you don't care about the story and just want to see a bunch of highschooler killing each other while (sometimes doing ... adult stuff), this anime will satisfy you.