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As someone who watches and enjoys silly but fun action and fantasy, I hoped this would at least be that. However, this show committed 2 sins that I cannot tolerate: (1) It Bored The Hell out of me and (2) It confused me to no end. While usually I might write a review detailing the traditional aspects of a show and their qualities, everything in general was so mediocre that I didn't want to explain why everything was at best a 5/10. Instead, I will cover two things in this review, how it committed the aforementioned 2 sins.

(1) Boredom - No Stakes, Bad Action, No ... Way To Measure Strength.

- When something has no stakes in it, you tend to start to ask yourself why you should care about what is happening. This was the case here. The first couple of episodes is as the synopsis says and then it drags on and on with no real sense of danger. The characters can't die in the school and we are never really given any idea as to why it would be so bad if the protagonists don't get transferred to class A. I mean, they're already training and getting stronger, our MC already knows everything cause he's from the future, and we already know that the characters that were in class B end uo being some of the strongest in the future. So really why should one care about anything that happens this season? And why would I get excited about something I don't care about?

- The Action in this show did something unforgivable. It reminded me of the Last Airbender Movie and of the power scaling of Boruto. First I'll explain why it reminded me of the Last Airbender Movie. Several times we hear a character become impressed my the power and speed of magic being used but then when we actually see the magic it looks so incredibly lame. Powerful wind spells don't even leave a mark on a regular wooden wall, ice projectiles look dull and as harmless as a hard snowball, and both flames and stones that are moving so slow any normal person would be able to dodge them. And there in lies the connection. The spells and fighting are like the scene in The Last Airbender movie where the rocks fly at 2mph. It's very boring. As far as why it reminded me of the power scaling in Boruto, that mostly comes down to how inconsistent the characters are. You have a character do what appears to be a freaking light split blits in one scene, outrun and deflect spells in the other, and then get hit by a regular punch or be held up by characters who at any point of the story should have honestly been considered fodder. I am not joking when I say we have people moving like the flash and losing to a fight against someone who's best feat is throwing a sword and subsequently catching it.

- This last aspect of boredom is very simple and ties in to the second category. We literally have no way of knowing what is supposed to be impressive or how anything works. Spells or moves that are reacted with shock and awe look the same as others that are met with phrases such as "something of that level would never work on me." Because of that you have to wait until the show tells you something is cool before you can think it's cool. Mind you, we have no idea why it's cool since we don't know how anything works.

(2) Confusion - Why? How?

-The two questions I found myself asking more and more as the episodes went by at what seemed to be a slower and slower pace. Like I previously said we don't know anything about how magic or fighting skills work and so nothing that's done ever feels satisfying. We see people training and supposedly getting stronger but we don't know how they got stronger. There's some mentions of magic circle tiers or something but that just makes it more confusing because said information seems to contradict the idea that some characters can become strong. Whenever that very contradiction is questioned we almost intentionally don't get a response. "You have way less magic than me and the little magic you have is of much less objective quality than mine so why are you able to not only cast more than me but cast more powerful spells than me?" Response: 🙂. Yeah, that's not satisfying, that's not funny, it just gives off a sense of laziness and a way to have the plot keep advancing. The magic system wasn't the only thing that is confusing, however. The choices of several characters is also very confusing, especially those of oir protagonists. I'm talking serveral times where we end up learning that the plan all along was to almost purposefully lose or give the enemy an advantage but ultimately win because the MC is just better. This is especially the case IN THE FINAL BATTLE WHERE THEY WAITED FOR SOME RANDOM ARTIFACT MACGUFFIN (we we know nothing about) TO LITERALLY BE POCKITED BY THE VILLAINS BEFORE INTERVENING. *Sigh* sorry about that, but god the last two episodes were so stupid.

Overall, when you get a show where literally nothing is explained, you're never given a reason to care, and you can't even unplug your brain and look at the fun action (because there is no fun action) you're left feeling two things: bored and confused.

I honestly don't know why I didn't drop this but I had more fun writing this review than actually watching the show.

My first actually written review for an anime for some reason is going to this show. Strangely, it is the first one to make me really want to write a review.

Anyways, this is a very strange show with strange characters and very odd choices in its writing. Each boy who joins the choir is given something strange about their personality to introduce a conflict they each have to resolve. The original boy, for example, (Dei, Tenshi) is extremely shy and is afraid of singing while people watch him. This conflict is immediately resolved in the first episode and then brought back later on (to ... be immediately resolved again).

It's this tendency of the show that makes the pacing feel very odd. Whether it's Kobashi, Kaito deciding in one episode to stop being obsessed in being the center of attention (something not adhered to) or Barato Shinzuo dealing with his identity crisis in 10 minutes, none of the conflicts feel too genuine or satisfying when they're "resolved."

Despite this the show does have times in which you can't really help to just smile at the boys bonding and singing together. The kareoke scene in ep 5 does this as well as the gorgeous song in ep 2.

I really have to give props to the art style and voice actors for making the anime feel cozy and fun when the writing doesn't get in their way. At the end of the day when the show isn't ham-fisting food metaphors forced character development you get simple and enjoyable scenes of regular peers bonding over music.

The most annoying part of this show so far is that the best the choir has sounded is in episode 2 when they sing a song which was wisely used in the anime's trailer (and I'm currently listening to on repeat on Spotify). It makes the intended narrative of them "improving" not seem genuine to me.

Still, I watched this show expecting mediocre comfortable entertainment with some genuine feel good moments and I got that.

I do hope that the conductor turned choir instructor gets some character development or he will start to make the anime unenjoyable.

Right now however, this is the best example of a 6/10 I've ever experienced.