Wake Up Girls is an anime that follows the story of the idol band bearing the same name. Their birth is almost like a chance meeting. The company that produces them is incredibly tiny and on the verge of going out of business and so they look to form an idol group and everything starts by a debut concert in a park of the city of Sendai.
I couldn’t not watch this, I love idol anime, I usually find them incredibly interesting and sometimes pretty fun and sometimes cute, usually pretty cute.
Wake Up Girls is the same. It follows the girls as they make their way to stardom, we follow them through their lessons in dance and singing. In short, we follow them through their daily activities as idols. My favorite part of that has to be the TV shows, the TV shows were cute and it is, after all, rarely shown so extensively on-screen. A lot of things in Wake Up Girls are pretty generic. But at the same time, it is also pretty unique. I found Wake Up Girls to be a lot darker than your usual idol anime. First, the whole atmosphere is a lot less colorful, it happens in winter in Sendai so obviously we cannot see the sun very often, but even so, truly happy moments are pretty rare, and the idols’ personalities are not too bright either. It was very dark for an idol anime, I was pretty surprised, pleasantly surprised to be completely honest. I really liked to finally find an anime about idols that showed the dark sides of the industry, like the sometimes obscene behavior they have to face from the public, or the harsh selection. Sadly, this is pretty much the only side I really, really liked in Wake Up Girls. As I said before it was pretty generic. The characters were too. As I’m writing this, not even three months after it ended I cannot even tell you a single name of any character. Not even one. The seiyuu weren’t anything special either. They weren’t bad but they weren’t too good either, not in terms of acting voices and definitely not in terms of singing voices. Because the songs were bad, I am hard to please I know, but I usually can bear them, not in the case of Wake up Girls. In the end, it could almost be worth seeing for the sense of reality it gives to an idol life, but on the other hand, nothing else is really worth it. I don’t recommend Wake Up Girls. The following two tabs change content below.- Bio
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Kuuki
Here is Kuuki, French 20-something anime-baka speaking. I watch too many things, read too much, eat too much and work too much. I'm writing Go for Broke and sometimes more for the Organization. Nice to meet you!
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