#ARP: Backstage Pass Paradise

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Summer Anime Recommendations 2020

Enen no Shouboutai: Ni no Shou 

Date: July 4 2020 

Episodes: 24

Genre: Action, Supernatural, Shounen 

Trailer: https://youtu.be/m_iuJtzZLjY

Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha: Shijou Saikyou no Maou no Shiso, Tensei shite

Date: July 4 2020 

Episodes: 13

Genre: Fantasy, Magic, School 

Trailer: https://youtu.be/1xmzzF0XQEY

Koi to Producer: EVOL×LOVE

Date: July 16 2020 

Genre: Music, Slice of Life, Romance,Shoujo 

Trailer: https://youtu.be/ZuT8z7kVlPg

MOVIES

Shingeki no Kyojin: Chronicle

Date: July 17 2020

Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Trailer: https://youtu.be/7wBiYV0oy1I

Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song

Date: August 15 2020

Genre:Action, Supernatural, Magic, Fantasy

Trailer: https://youtu.be/KlJIMiZfxCY

Given Movie

Date: August 22 2020

Genre: Music, Slice of Life, Drama, Romance

Trailer: https://youtu.be/7JIp61TXDHQ

Hataraku Saibou!!: Saikyou no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chou"

Date: September 5 2020

Genre:Action, Comedy, Shounen

Trailer: N/A

Violet Evergarden Movie

Date: September 18 2020

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Slice of life 

Trailer: https://youtu.be/PUFFMnuOF40

OVA/ONA/SPECIALS

Ninja Collection

Date: July 12 2020 

Genre: Horror 

Trailer: N/A

ARP: Backstage Pass Paradise

Date: August 26 2020 

Genre: Music 

Trailer: N/A 

LEFT OVER

Due to the CORANA Virus or COVID 19 some Spring animes weren’t able to continue streaming during lock down, hence they are being carried over to this new season.   

Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited

Episodes: 11 

Bungou to Alchemist: Shinpan no Haguruma

Episodes: 13 

IDOLiSH7: Second Beat!

Episodes: 15

BanG Dream! Garupa☆Pico: Oomori

Episodes: N/A

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winter anime 2020 part 6: it is fin(e)

Part 5 seems to have fallen into some sort of Tumblr memory hole (it’s not flagged and I know this because I have plenty of actually flagged posts, and people can see it just fine with direct links, but it doesn’t even show up in my own timeline), possibly because of screencaps of shota bulge. But that’s just Interspecies Reviewers, and I’m a honest dude with honest screencaps. You can find it here.

A3! Season Spring & Summer

Oh, P.A. Works. You never know whether you’re getting Dr. PA (Shirobako) or Mr. Works (Glasslip) with them. The last thing they did was most definitely a Mister production (since it was Fairy Gone), so maybe they’re up for some greatness again? In short, no. A3 isn’t dreadful, but it’s more reminiscent of the likes of HaruChika, so maybe an undergraduate at most. It’s more than a bit confusing but at the end of the day it seems to be about a girl that inherits a shitty theater house and now has to make the various boys that hang around in the vicinity do actor things. This is based on a mobile game of the otome persuasion and while I was sussing that out, I saw some people be very insistent that it's MOST DEFINITELY NOT A REVERSE HAREM. It must be some other genre of fiction that is all about one girl being surrounded by pretty boys all day then. Anyway, the main girl is alright, so it seems fairly watchable, but overall it’s just somewhat clunky and not of the highest quality, so I don’t think it’s for me.

ARP Backstage Pass

ARP is a boyband anime, remember those? It’s a really predictable one too - mostly just introductions of the characters, who are all the kinds of characters you might find in a boyband anime doing vaguely boybandish things. You know how these go. What’s funny though is how it looks, which is to say it looks painfully cheap. Not that that’s rare for boyband cash-in anime (I’ve covered the topic extensively), but ARP is unusual in that it has above average looking CG performance sequences too. In the end this makes it look like they had these fairly okay CG music videos already and thought “I know a guy, we’ll pay him 10bux and have him bang out some flimsy connective animation and then we can pretend we have a TV show.” A+ hustle if true.

Dorohedoro

The manga Dorohedoro is a fairly known quantity, and that’s a good thing too because fuck me if I have to explain what it is. Okay, what it IS is not hard to explain: It’s a surreal tone piece defined by a grimy punk-on-acid aesthetic and an irreverent and dark comedic tone mostly based on ultraviolence - what’s hard (and tedious, and beside the point) is to explain the narrative content, so I won’t. The line between lolrandom nonsense and on-point surrealism is very thin, and you need a ton of style to pull the latter off convincingly. Dorohedoro definitely manages to make it work so far, and the only thing I don’t like as far as style is concerned is that they do the main characters in CG. It’s not bad CG, but this is a show that’s particularly good-looking otherwise so it’s still a step down - though CG tends to hold up better when the looks deteriorate over the season, and MAPPA aren’t the most solid in that regard. Hey, at least with them you can count on a ballin’ OP and Dorohedoro definitely comes with one of those. It still makes very little sense, and going by the opinions of people who read it, this won’t change in the foreseeable future or possibly ever. As long as it keeps the style and the quirkiness coming, I don’t really mind.

Kyokou Suiri / In/Spectre

So I was pretty positive on the first episode of In/Spectre, in particular the way it escalates from people sitting on a bench talking about nothing to youkai hunt shenanigans. I also liked the main characters quite a lot and the chemistry between them even more. Still, a few doubts remained - it wasn’t very visually appealing, it’s obviously based on a very talky novel, and what it eventually ended up revealing is that it’s essentially just some modern edgy version of Gegege no Kitarou or the many, MANY imitators thereof. But so far, so good, seems like a winner.

Then I got to episode 2 and it was so excruciatingly bad that I dropped the whole show 20 minutes in because I couldn’t take it anymore. Episode 2 is 5 minutes of very stilted characters banter, followed by, no joke, 15 solid minutes of Kotoko reading a newspaper to a snake. It’s not particularly relevant or interesting news items either - apparently Exposition Shinbun does gangbusters in this universe. The lame direction doesn’t help with any of this, in the end it was the director of Endride after all. With my professional duty already fulfilled by this point and an episode that is a contender for worst episode of the season so far, I ain’t got time for this shit.

Natsunagu

Natsunagu is a short whose unique selling point is, and I quote, “the first over-the-air television anime produced by a local government that lasts one quarter of a year.” Thanks, Kumamoto Prefecture, that’s exactly my strike zone right there. Apart from that bit of hilarity, it’s quite alright I guess. There isn’t much to the first episode because it’s all of 3 minutes long and barely establishes the concept (girl goes to Kumamoto to find an internet acquaintance), but it looks nice and it has a smooth tone that goes down easy. Might just watch it to be able to say I did.

Runway de Waratte

Runway de Waratte is about a girl who wants to become a super, nay, hypermodel but is overly short, and a guy who wants to become a fashion designer but isn’t an asshole. You know, I’ve had some luck with fashion-based anime before, but Runway de Waratte is no Paradise Kiss. There, I said it. It doesn’t even have a Franz Ferdinand ED! Runway de Waratte is the most basic shounen take on the same material; while Paradise Kiss was about a bunch of weirdos and outcasts, this right here is about a rich girl who’s mad that she’s too short to get everything she wants for free, but makes up for it with trademark assertive shounen enthusiasm. Designerman is, of course, the sensitive type and the show thinks that makes it say something about gender roles, which is just adorable. Runway is also very peculiarly paced, to the degree that I’d say it does border on just plain badly written - there is so much time spent on establishing the characters in a vacuum (and they’re hardly complex), only to rush through the part where things actually start to happen during the end credits. And it’s a bizarre coincidence plot too. This is another show that isn’t fundamentally busted and borderline watchable, but would simply have to be significantly better for me to give it more chances.

Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita

As someone who has been known to post charts about zettai ryouiki golden ratios and whatnot to social media with the comment “SCIENCE, BITCH”, I can’t really complain about this comedy in which science people attempt to get into romance but can only do so scientifically, graphs about chingrab angles etc included. Furthermore, I also think it’s more funny than not. Don’t expect too much from it, and in particularly don’t expect a show about ostensibly clever people to actually be clever itself. But I have an opinion about spicy romances between people trying to one-up each other, see #1 on this list for details. Of course, RgKnOndSs is nowhere near as good as Kaguya-sama, since it’s far more pedestrian and predictable, and it has some aspects that outright stink too; in particular, the obligatory interlude where science bear appears to badly explain some superficial science concepts is an annoying waste of time every time. Less bad but still not good are scientists #4 and #5, because they’re just very tired otaku clichees that I’ve seen a million times before. The main pair isn’t any less stereotypical, but at least a romantic comedy about them is news to me (no, fucking Steins;Gate does not count and even if it did, Okabe and Chris are tremendously unlikeable jerks with negative chemistry), and rounding out the cast is common sense girl that has common sense, which is probably necessary but not exactly innovative. In the end, this is a very minor production in all aspects, but Himuro’s incredibly dumb/adorable ponytail wag makes it worth watching. Q.E.D.

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Check Out All-song Preview for AR Idol Unit ARP's New Album "KICK the BEST"

    The official website for the four-member AR dance vocal unit ARP (Artists Republic performers) has started streaming a ten-minute all-song PV for their fifth album "KICK the BEST" to be released on April 1, 2020. The clip includes the members' comments recorded in the web radio program "Amazing Radio Performers on the Web" streamed on LINE LIVE on March 14.

  "AR performers" is a virtual idol project to realize the ultimate sense of presence using advanced AR technology. The unit ARP was formed by Shinji, Leon, and the two members of the in-unit Rebel Cross, Daiya and Rage, in 2016. They have signed to avex (both in the story and the real) and have performed in concerts using a holographic screen. 

  This album "KICK the BEST" can be called as the compilation of their "KICK A ’ LIVE" series that began in 2018. In addition to "Burn it up," the theme song for the TV anime ARP Backstage Pass, which started broadcasting in Japan on January 13, 2020, it contains many songs that symbolize their current style and is suitable as an introduction of the AR idol unit. 

        Song list:

   1. "Paradise" (2019 ver.)

 2. "Blood-D"

 3. "My deaR"

 4. "Hoshinaki Yoru no Serenade" (2020 ver.)

 5. "It's Show Time!" (2019 ver.)

 6. "Dopamine" (2020 ver.)

 7. "Shake!!"

 8. "Unmeiron"

 9. "Burn it up"

 10. "Dive into Love"

 11. "Raise Your Flag"

 12. "We Rock!!"

 13. "BlacK Sapphire"

 14. "Celebrate Good Time"

 15. "The World Is Mine" (A Cappella ver. from 'KICK A’LIVE3')

    "Burn it up" TV size version MV:

  "KICK the BEST" CD jacket:

      The TV anime ARP Backstage Pass, focusing on the four members' school life and traces of their past and revealing why and how they decided to perform on the stage, premiered in Japan on January 13, 2020, and has been simulcast on Crunchyroll to its members in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East.

  Synopsis:

  ARP: A 4-member dance and vocal group created by the latest AR technology. This popular group got their start with Avex, and are unique for their interactive concerts which combine highly-skilled song and dance routines with a format that changes based on how much the fans are cheering them on. And now, you can follow their rise to glory in the new anime, ARP Backstage Pass!

            Source: ARP official website

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