Jan 23, 2019
*NO SPOILERS*
Idol Time PriPara was something I couldn't wait, after watching PriPara and hearing the story would go on I got excited, who wouldn't. To this day PriPara is one of my favourite idol type animes but Idol Time can't scratch the surface.
The only thing that keeps me from slowly dragging myself through this anime is the characters from PriPara - and they are in for a few episodes max - and the sound. As always Idol Time lives up to the great soundtrack with it creating upbeat and enjoyable songs. That is sadly the only praise I can get.
The art isn't bad but it
...
isn't good. The anime makes some good jokes on it, making me like it a bit more, but the extra details and lines seem off. When I watch a sequal i may expect better animations or better art here and there but I don't expect to see art that looks very different from it's source. It scares me when the old characters stand next to the new, they seem like they've been pasted onto a scene rather than the two being part of it. If they had to change the art style, they should've did minor changes to make the other characters blend into scenes.
I really wanted to enjoy Idol Time but the characters are so bland. All feel like copies from the original and the story is... well I don't know. After 19 episodes of watching I would expect to know the story but other than Lala needing to make this place great there is none. With you following Yui, that is just Lala with catchphrase steroids, and having no idea what is happening because Yui explains things with dream so much you can't tell what things mean or just because that episode lacks a story all together.
The anime feels so force with the only character of being an interest is Nino. I don't need to watch further to predict what is going on and granted this is aimed at someone younger than me, but even PriPara had me still watching with it's childish acts.
Idol animes fall for this usual trap of reboots and some can work well while others fall. Idol Time falls because of my high expectations and the lack of anything new. Despite new characters, new music, new adventures and new mysterious, it still feels old and reused like someone just paraphrased the entirety of PriPara but with their own characters.
I think the big problem is how slow the anime is. PriPara was not fast, but each episode had chaos, real problems or something that made you grow towards a character. Idol Time has new episodes that I watch the OPing (my favourite part of the show so far) and then instantly wish I wasn't hooked onto Lalas' adventures.
Without Lala I am sure many people, not just me, would not be watching this show and so I will drag myself slowly to watch this show. I have no expectations of this to be enjoyable especially with mild spoilers being thrown at me about the ending being way to similar to PriParas.
All in all, without it's prequel, I would not be watching this. I would download or find the soundtrack on the wiki so I can listen to it. Then I would wish upon some star that it didn't have an anime to begin with.
Story: 3/10
Art 5/10
Sound 8/10
Character 2/10
Enjoyment 3/10
Overall 3/10
EDIT: I have crawled to episode 36 and still feel this way. There is in fact a story but it takes a very long time to happen nor is it a focus at all.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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