I'm a big time idolmaster fan: I love watching videos on youtube since my limits only extend to there, but it really saddens me how the anime is getting worse and worse with each episode.
First off, olympic games with idols... Why? Maybe that ones a culture thing, but its weird and seems rather... irrelevant. Second, this show has been so damn corny ever since the first episode. Not like the "ah youre so lame youre funny" type of corny, but the groan worthy type. Azusa is doing the race, and she comes in last. An interviewer asks her what she thinks, and she replies "it would have been better with milk" AH HA. GET IT, HE WAS ASKING ABOUT THE RACE BUT SHE THOUGHT HE MEANT THE BREAD. Ah....
Then you've got these 3 new girls trying to act like their "pro" and hating on the 765 girls, who I cant get behind at all because I keep thinking their line of thought is something like, "Man seeing those n00bs be posers pisses me off, their unlike us who can do ridiculously irrelevant and embarassing olympic events like a TRUE idol!" I also like how they call them a "puny" company when their the only team shown to have more than 3 people.
I loved how the "sub-plot" here with the 3 new girls's producer saying how "its already decided we'll win" was trying to sound foreboding, but goes nowhere, serving to be nothing more than a cheap commercial cliffhanger. The producer tries to persuade 765's producer to try and let them win, but he just gets told off by Iori before any would have even happened. They made it sound like the contest was rigged or something; I didnt think he was just going to go up to the 765 producer and just ASK if he could let them win. So in the span of 4 minutes, we have a foreboding sub-plot hinting that this group is going to win through any means necessary get put down in an instant without having done anything but be really stupid? How pointless.
Jupiter shows up for 30 seconds. You barely even get to hear their song. They've had no point other than to show that they actually exist, which we already knew. The DS girls cameo was relatively pointless as well.
The whole "disheartened" yayoi thing was hilarious, I don't know how they thought they were being emotional there. So yayoi gets told off that shes a n00b and that she'll bring her team down because she lost, (which was the other girls fault in the first place) which somehow affects her coming from someone she hasn't even met before. Though when the time comes for her to inevitably redeem herself and build up the courage to push on, she.... doesn't? I mean, this show's been so corn-ballish and cliche up til now that I was just expecting that part, but by not meeting expectations, well... I guess I can call that original. Call me mean-spirited and what not as I likely am, but expecting her to muster up courage and pick up speed, only to actually fall behind and just start bawling was just surprisingly humorous. And in the end, hand the trophy to yayoi of course, for no apparent reason.
The whole olympics event thing was a jumbled mess with no clarification. Do the other companies have as many girls as 765? Why were the DS girls not in the relay race? Why did they not animate the god damn part where they were breaking balloons with their butts but instead animate the girls using tricycles as scooters? (sigh)
Honestly, with the game as its basis, I knew what to expect from this series, what with the nature of current "popular" anime shows, it only makes sense that this was made into an anime. Im not saying I hate these moe, plot-less etc. type shows, its just that I was expecting a bit too much I suppose. I can't see anyone other than idolmaster fans watching this.
