[Megane]

Hello, I don't see a discussion thread on this anime, so I thought I'd create one.

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This anime is also known as: If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die

A girl is obsessed with her favorite idol, a minor member of a less popular group, enough that she says she'd die to see her play at Budoukan.

You can find more about the anime, here: https://myanimelist.net/anime/37890/Oshi...tara_Shinu

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It's highly recommended to keep your posts in spoilers, but there is no way to enforce that since this is a discussion thread and anything goes. Don't get upset if you read something and you aren't up-to-date with the current episodes.

As for me, I shall use spoiler codes for the first three episodes. After that, I will not use the spoiler code anymore.

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At the moment, the anime has a rating of 7.25. I have given this anime a rating of 8, but I think 7 is a good one for this. At times, it's very repetitive and it can repeat the same content over and over again but with different events going on. For example, fan meetings are always the same group of people saying hello but the questions and interactions are always different.

I think that the characters are bland and there is nothing special about them. Past episodes we learn about some of the girls and we can see who is better at what, but there isn't stuff that makes them too special.

Reo and Sorane are probably the most well-liked in terms of the anime. I doubt anyone likes any of the girls enough in the anime to have a favorite.

What I do like about this anime is how it pokes and jabs at anime and idol fans. The jokes in it are funny and very accurate.

What do you think about this anime? Do you have a favorite character?

[Megane]

A slow, but a decent episode. I have a lot more complaints than I do compliments for this anime, but that's because I think it has a lot more potential to be better than it is at its current state. There is just so much repetitiveness in this anime that every episode I feel like I'm watching the same thing over and over again. Finally, Eripiyo recovered from her injury and she can walk normally again. It took three, maybe four episodes for her to recover and throughout the recovery phase, she constantly complained about not having money. As I said before, same stuff, different day.

The same thing goes for the fan-meetings. I feel like it's the same people over and over again meeting the girls that they like and there is no progression of the group. For this to be a better idol anime, I believe that there should be better promotion episodes. What I mean is, have the girls do something. Maybe a photoshoot, charity event, something to get them known. The whole purpose of this anime is to get them to Budokan, which is a stadium the size of an American football field, maybe even bigger. If they were able to get get a concert outside of the current venue they are in, then they might have a chance of succeeding. If they want to remain, nobodies, then something needs to happen. However, I don't blame the girls. The managers are definitely at fault here. They are the ones responsible for getting the girls into these activities and for them to get publicity (Of course, it's the anime production team for not doing it).

We finally get to see the results of the popularity. Once again, this has been brought up for about four episodes now. The results were:
1. Reo
2. Maki
3. Yuka
4. Yumeri
5. Sorane
6. Aya
7. Maina
I'm not too surprised by these results. I think it's okay. The popularity contest, in general, is dumb, though. Why have a popularity contest in the first place? The girls didn't seem to mind, but in general, it can boost morale and it can boost self-esteem, which you can see it did for some of the girls. Aya was unhappy that she was in 6th place and Yumeri was not happy that she was moving up.

You should expect Reo to win, but also it's very annoying that she won. Since the girls have no personality or anything that makes them unique, the production team for sure had to make her win. I think Yuka being in third place is a big mistake too, it's very random. Up until this point no one really talked about her or had any interest in her. She went from 5th to 3rd I believe which is a big deal.

Sorane going to 5th is not so much a surprise since the rumor about her going around that she's seeing someone, it makes sense that her popularity plummeted. This is exactly why idol groups in real life are not allowed to date for at least a year or announce publicly that they are dating. This is to keep their image "pure" and it's really to milk them for as long as they can until the group is popular enough that even if they have a bf or gf, it's fine.

It's understandable that Maina is shy, but her relationship with Eripiyo is really annoying. I really wish she would just tell her how she feels and let her know that she appreciates her. This silly stuff has been going on for too long and I hate it. The mixed signals and mixed feeling bits because they both are socially awkward make it even worse!

If the anime rushes and the girls actually get to Budokan by the end of the episode, I'll be more mad than happy. As I said, they have done nothing to earn that spot. I doubt anything is going to change in the remaining half of the anime, but there is still hope.

See you guys next week!

[Megane]

Can we just talk about this coincidence.





Two more episodes left in the series, I wonder what direction we'll be taken in considering this anime is all over the place with the plot. Next week's episode looks like it's going to focus on Maki, which is okay with me since she's my favorite character.

[Megane]

I'm not too much of a fan when it comes to idol anime, but I will give my honest and final review for Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu.

My final rating for this anime is a seven. Honestly, it should be a six, but frequently throughout the anime, I had a few laughs. Additionally, I didn't find myself too bored when watching this and the animations weren't terrible other than the fact that the coreography of the girls were awful and bland.

Speaking of bland, the story in itself was super bland. The goal of this anime was to see the girls from the idol group ChamJam progress as a small idol group and make their way to perform at the Budoukan, which is one of Japan's largest domes. That being said, performing at a dome practically means you made it as an artist in Japan. These domes can hold over 50,000 people. Most concerts here in America only hold around 3,000 people. That's a huge difference!

After looking at the characters, they not special. You've probably heard me say this multiple times during my final reviews. Well, that's the case here once again. No girl stands out other than the top three, which is Sorane, Reo, and whoever is third at the time since it switches based on popularity. Each girl has a color that represents them. You usually see the color blue and red among the fans so there isn't much competition as to who is the most popular.

The songs were lacking. In general, they were lacking. What I mean is there was a lack of songs! Despite being an idol anime the girls only performed three songs, one of them being repeated majority of the time!

I slightly discussed the dancing already, but there wasn't anything good. When it comes to idol anime dancing usually sucks unless they use CGI and even then the CGI is usually awful.

I can see the appeal of liking idols in real life. Me being a K-Pop fan, I just can't seem to like Japanese idol anime. Maybe I am just biased so take that into account when reading this review.

The story sucked. The spacing wasn't the best and there was a lot of repeated themes that went on during this anime.

Would I recommend it? No, I would not. Yes, the comedic aspect was funny here and there but that wasn't enough to entice me enough to like the show.