The hoops I had to jump through to watch this episode!
Right then, so how was that for a first episode, huh? Discussion and opinions on the first episode go here!
I honestly found it a bit of a mess! In my opinion, a show with this many characters could only open in one of two ways. Either intro all the characters in one go, or slowly intro a couple every episode. I'm sure you can tell which option was taken.
A good third or so of th episode was spent introducing each idol, and then perhaps the rest of the episode went on interviewing each one. I'm pretty sure it could have worked a little better if we had gone straight into the interviews. Instead, I saw a jumbled, messy scenario that packed in all of the idols as if the show were to end any minute as soon as it started. What's the rush? There's plenty of episodes.
As a fan, it was alright. Nice nods to little character quirks here and there. If I weren't a fan, and this were my first time seeing anything imas, then this would have come off a bit cheesy.
Animation was....well. I don't know. Aything in the foreground looks nice. Vibrant colors all around, which is great, just try not to pay too much attention to the background, it looks....well. I don't know. Animations were sorta fluid. But I couldn't really tell, I had to watch this from my iPad, which is streaming from my pc.
So yeah, this is exactly what I envisioned the show to be. Except for the producer reveal. That was handled pretty well. I give it a 7/10!
