Nov 10, 2024
The anime adaptation of Shiny Colors is, to put, a glorified advertisement for their rhythm game spinoff Song for Prism. Except, it's pretty much nothing when it comes to story pacing and progression, their choice of music, and so forth.
The primary gripe of this anime is how they rely heavily on Song for Prism's NOMAKE commus. For each IDOLM@STER anime there is at least a supplementary nomake commu which can be found in respective games (mainly mobile game ones). They are usually extras, adding additonal (and somehow optional) story elements that enhance each main episode's storyline. Shiny Colors? The audacity to make plotlines confusing and
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incomplete, yet they put PIVOTAL, IMPORTANT story elements in a REGION-LOCKED rhythm game is baffling; wanna know Mano's motivation to join the production? Go read the commu, Episode 1 doesn't even explain anything about it. They should really have been part of the anime in the first place. The slideshows in each ending? Those became an entire commu in the game.
Bamco's decision to pivot im@s anime into 3d takes a further downward spiral, the CGI is somewhat worse than Million Live's. Some cutscenes are also laughable like one in illumination STARS' recording of their song "Hikari no Destination" while L'Antica is watching them; the later's members have this freeze frame with dull facial expressions for uncomfortable seconds LOL
Instead of making dedicated new songs for this season (bar its OP), they thought it's a good idea to rehash already released songs before the anime's inception (being BRILLI@NT WING songs). And they have the ball to repeat them all over again across the episodes. It hurts to see that each ending is either instrumental versions of respective BRILLI@NT WING songs, or that one borring ahh piano tune that is so out of place for an anime based on the game that champions good storywriting.
In short, even a ShinyP is doubtful about this one. This new era of ANiM@S is a tragedy; we got an amazing retelling of U149, a somehow average Million Live, and then this. Shiny Colors as a brand right now is struggling with Bandai Namco attempting to push them into the number 1 im@s brand (by baiting people to play their badly received Song for Prism game, only to be overthown by gakuen im@s), and this anime is an insult to injury to bamco's nepo baby. Go watch any other im@s anime instead, hell even gundam-laden Xenoglossia too.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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