Increasing income divide, creeping environmental pollution, unsolvable waste issues, childcare waiting lists being discussed without those concerned, repeated corruption… The government, smeared by vested interests, can't do a thing against the many problems and sources of discontent. It's in this situation, with Japan cornered with no way out, that idols rise up to save the day!
The Heroine Party, Sunlight Party, Starlight Party, Bishoujo Party, Wakaba Party, Subculture New Party, and SOS Party. From these seven idol political parties, the idols who have become National Diet members and representatives for each prefecture will smash through the sense of stagnation covering Japan using the power of song and dance! They'll bring back the smiling faces of the people, and wrap Japan in a glittering aura!!
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dostluq
I saw there were some bad reviews for this, but I really enjoyed it. I found this is show entertaining and sweet. The plot was a little slow at times but a show like this doesn't need to be super fast paced or have a bunch of twists. It is cute and made me feel happy and smile. I love Natuski and Shizuka's relationship. They are really heartwarming partners. I don't think there is anything wrong with having a show like this, especially in these trying times. It doesn't have the tone of some weird political propaganda. I support strong, cute anime girl politicians
Nafisa
I was so disappointed with this anime that I decided to write my first review on it to express my dislike. Starting with story, the concept of idol politicians is an idea nobody has used before and for good reason, it doesn't work nor make sense. The storyline is typical and half-assed with the recurring theme of "Don't give up!" and "Friendship can solve all the world's issues!". It also reuses the same major morals of taking care of the environment and the people which is fine but predictable. The politics within the story were executed poorly, nothing was particularly realistic or good for thatmatter. The episodes dragged on, it was difficult to pull through them as most of the story looked forced. The ending was forseeable but at that point the plot was getting tiresome. Overall the story didn't have much substance.
There were much too many characters for twelve episodes and little to no character development for any of them. You aren't likely to get attached to anyone or even remember them. The antagonist was completely and utterly boring, along with the smaller "villains" within the show. They're all portrayed as having a strong dislike towards the idols but one song sways them? Cheap attempt at villains, even the main antagonist goes down without much of a fight. Disappointing to say the least.
The art was fine, nothing outstanding. Bright colours and flashy animation to hide the lack of everything else most likely.
Onto the main attraction for idol anime, the music. OST was unmemorable which is fine since the focus is the actual songs in each episode. Starting with the opening, it was light hearted and catchy. Probably used three times each episode coming near episode 9 onward and at that point it started to get less catchy and more uninteresting. The ending was nice enough and the other songs within the anime were your typical idol kind of songs, upbeat and bouncy. Honey Moon Cafe from episode 4 was my favourite, apart from that the rest were fine. It gave the anime as a whole a pleasant type of atmosphere.
If I were to describe Idol Jihen, it would be like an underbaked cake with too much icing. The plot and characters were lacking but the art was nice to look at. The political aspect was executed badly and the story was predictable. The songs were nice but not nice enough to redeem the show itself. And that's about it, good luck if you decide to watch this!
Fircoal
No show this season screamed "Wasted Potential" more than Idol Jihen. Wait!.. A show about idol politicians has wasted potential? Believe it or not yes it does. In fact, I'd say Idol Jihen had all of the ingredients to make it great. However, it had neither the talent nor the drive to actually get there. Like most people when I read the premise of the show I wasn't hopeful. It seemed like a shallow idea made purely to make a "unique" idols show when really it was just going to be another idol show. Why would idols become politicians? What sense did that make? And episode1 did nothing to change my opinion. There was way too much telling instead of showing, and the characters and its setup just didn't seem that interesting.
As it was it was nothing special. But then Episode 2 happened and I saw hope. In that episode Natsuki sees the trash during her skydive, which was admittedly sorta pointless and silly, and has a vision of it being art. And so the unwanted and unasked for trash site was now turned into a place for the villagers and whomever to decorate and turn into art. And I was actually amazed. Here they provided a solution that improved everyone's quality of life while also keeping in line with the inspirations and characterization of Natsuki. I would find it hard to believe a politician would see the beauty in a dump site. However, a young idealistic idol could see that same trash and see something greater from it. See the potential of entertainment and joy that could be gathered even from something unlikely like that. I then could see the good that Idol Jihens could do. They were entertainers, moulded with a different mindset. They were out to listen to the cries of the people and give them joy and happiness. They might not have been the most political savvy, but they had the heart and a unique perspective, one that could make great things happen. They could bring a populist message to a diet that clearly needed one.
However, there were some flaws in this. Politics is a nuanced field. As much as we'd all like to say that we have the answers there are pros and cons to every solution. There are few things which are slam dunks. While I am fine with the treatment of the Ryogai Party as corrupt I feel they are often too corrupt and not believable enough. Some of the plots are assinine what they try to do. Sometimes it's not even for profit but because of they got slighted. It makes it very hard to see the Idols as anything but 100% correct, which is detrimental to the story.
Still as a feelgood story where we see the Idol's win and create positive change it worked. It wasn't well written but it was pleasant. At least was.
Then they introduced the climatic plot. And here is where the show really fell apart. The problem was all of the nice changes and progress that the Idols made in the earlier episodes were nonexistent in the later episodes. Rather they were focused on strife. Now while strife is important in a character arc, the problem was the characters were never the strong point of Idol Jihen. They were passable when being used to make a point, but failed when being stood up on their own. They certainly weren't worth five episodes worth of heavy plot. To make it worse the plot was terribly constructed. It feels like someone looked up how a traditional narrative should work and forced Idol Jihen to fit into that structure without checking to see if it worked or not. Some of the plot points that come up in that section are ridiculous and unbelievable. They technically work under normal narrative rules but just don't fit in with the show and its structure what so ever. Not to mention the plot arc goes on for way too long, especially for something they're not particularly good at writing.
The other big issue I find is this plot feels like a stark difference from the beginning. Before they seemed untouchable while in this later plot they're always on the defensive, and are more in a position of peril. To me, these two moods don't go together well. If this show was supposed to be more balanced and more of a struggle that struggle should have appeared earlier on with more nuance. If it's supposed to be a happy show, then that should have held through for longer, and had the climactic plot shortened with less hinting or chances towards strife. I feel like either of these decisions would have helped the show, but rather since they went halfway it feels like it has less of a place, and fits too close to a boring cliche narrative when it could have been so much more.
The art style of the show is pretty nice but the CGI in it is pretty bad. Being an idol show the music is pretty good. That said neither are strong enough to carry the show, but they do both help add to the mood.
Idol Jihen's lack of nuance and unsupported faith in conventional narrative structure helped turn what could have been a great show into a bad one. They gambled away their unique traits for their characters and story, but neither of which were worth helping. Had they done it the other way around, I think this would have been so much better. This show never had the best characters but it didn't need to have them. Natsuki was a perfectly fine tool to promote populist change and invoke interesting methods of getting that change. However, as a vocal point she fails. The show had some unique charm that could have sold it, but instead it sold those charms to make a crappy narrative.
LegendAqua
Hey, LA didn't know Ruby Kurosawa from Love Live Sunshine grew up to be a politician! This kind of premise of being idol AND a dietwoman is by all means a crazy and to be honest laughably weird premise, especially for the idol genre makes this kind of idol anime a weird outlier. LA doesn't know how to exactly tackle this kind of anime besides the "strengths" and "flaws"...let's start with the strengths first shall we? For what a weird and crazy premise Idol Jihen has, the only thing LA was immediately worried about was the balance between it's idol elements and political elements, thankfully how straightforwardand gung-ho they are about the premise making LA just laugh LA ass off sometimes. The next strength LA saw was once it finally got serious in a ways but using typical political slander, yes slightly forced on how serious it gets but it was better than the episodic stereotypical evil politicians of the week stylings from this strength LA really saw in all this is that how they utilized their episodic format to bring things to the forefront once the serious plotline arises allowing the episodic format NOT be just filler. From the idol side is that Shizuka Onimaru voiced by Mai Fuchigami as a character does grow from the standoffish tsundere idol with her "aura" being too strong into becoming a strong idol leader (though how she turns into this has a slightly shaky and rushed development). The final strength LA will put into Idol Jihen is that the "final arc" mainly concerning the current Prime Minister's plans to destroy the Idol Dietwoman actually isn't that bad, as it makes a somewhat cohesive and focused narrative instead of the Saturday Cartoon episodic villiany feel to it as well as makes the huge cast and it's main characters take action and essentially has a conflict of fire vs. fire a la "idol wars" which for a final plan is kinda thought out and interesting for an idol fan, though trying to get to this point is gonna be hassle not to mention it gathered the various idol dietwoman into one cohesive group and made them tackle their situation in a serious manner instead of the kiddy coincidental ways they resolved conflict.
There are lots of problems however LA saw throughout the anime however. Let's start off with how LA said above that the episodic politician villains of the week are just stereotypically evil one way or the other and effectively being even more childish than the idol dietwoman themselves sometimes, not making their point comes across (though the only defense LA will say to this however is that one or two of the evil politician of the week does point out that an idol being a dietwoman is laughable and putting Japan to shame and in reality YES...it would!). Now the major villain of this anime, the current Prime Minister isn't much better allowing his "minions" to do all the dirty work and making them do all the work, his "plans" isn't much better and like his evil minions, his plans are slightly better but still stereotypical political slander with an idol edge to it. (Once again the defence with this one is that the current Prime Minister does use the main cast's popularity and "righteousness" to his own advantage making him a "somewhat" competent main villain). it's kind of a problem with this kind of anime if LA is rooting for the major villain than the idols themselves. on speaking of which, the main idol cast is HUGE, though the main two that are focused on are Natsuki Hoshina voiced by Sarara Yashima and Shizuka Onimaru voiced by Mai Fuchigami. The rest at best are satellite characters to ONE ANOTHER within their own party giving them at best one episode worth of development, individually they have their own quirks sure, but as a group (in which they are usually in) makes them increasingly harder to remember their names. Natsuki as a character however due to her infectiously genki personality can be a plus to the anime sure and her belief that "bringing smiles to Japan is the way to go" is admirable...but for politics...well it's laughable and really can't be taken seriously, she also gets the opposite of Shizuka's character development once the anime gets serious.
In terms of animation, the animation done by MAPPA and Studio VOLN is acceptable especially concerning the character designs, they are bright and colorful to say the least and at least some of the character are distinguishable albeit only because the majority of the characters have a quirk or accessory to them making them distinguishable but again...since the cast is soo big and many characters sticking to one another that it's still hard to remember their names (let alone try to remember their voice actor!). The idol dancing animation done by Chiptune if anything is typical of the idol genre just less effort, as it's blatantly obvious nearly EVERY scene when it becomes 3D CGI -implemented. Heck even Sunrise with Love Live Sunshine put in a bit more effort than this!. The animation overall is slightly above average if only because of the character designs.
With the voice acting however is where LA thinks the anime has one of the most lack of, this coming from an anime full of idols and NOT UTLIZING the voice actors properly. It just really feels like the majority fo the voice actors were on autopilot for the majority of the time, the only 3 LA saw give some effort was Sarara Yashima (for her genkiness and later personality change), Reina Ueda as Sachie Kondou, Natsuki and Shizuka's manager and Mai Fuchigami but they only get this spot merely due to screentime...nothing more.
Idol Jihen can be a rather funny and odd ride and sure many of it's flaws actually has a silver lining to it and it's strengths has some detriments to it. It just feels like Idol Jihen is taking the Saturday Morning cartoony feel to it, making the anime somewhat tone-deaf to it's situation especially to such a topic as politics (the only exception LA will say to this statement being once the anime gets serious but even then it still has the lingering feeling of it) and putting a kiddy evil political villains doesn't help. LA wouldn't put Idol Jihen into the horrible anime pile but the anime still has tons of problems. At best it's a soo bad it's good anime, at worst it's situationally tone-deaf anime. Sure LA is taking this kind of premise seriously, but LA only does it as the uniqueness of this anime comes from it's political elements and politics kinda needs to be taken seriously and Idol Jihen just doesn't take itself seriously.
nanakox21
STORY: Dialogue: Contains politics and music coming together into one plot. Each episode involves the main characters travelling all over Japan to help others and have a performance in the end. They also meet various members of Idol Dietwomen along the way. Relationships: Idol Dietwomen -- (aka women politicans/idols) small idol groups are affilated with each other. They have different ideologies and came from all walks of life, but they are working towards the same goal. Their connection to the people from various cities and fans are important to them because they are passionate to help them and bring smiles to them. However; when it comes toRougai Party... it's an ongoing battle that will never end...
Design: It involves an Idol group called The Idol Dietwomen. They are constantly trying to prove themselves to the opposition (Rougai Party). By the looks of it... It is a battle of the sexes. The members of the Rougai Party mostly have males while the Idols are female-oriented.
CHARACTERS:
Hoshina Natsuki: to some she is known as the village idol. She lives with her grandmother. Energetic, happy and full of life.
Onimaru Shizuka - previous member of the Sunlight party. Standoffish and distant on the outside. But on the inside she is happy and wants to continue pursuing her dream as an idol dietwoman.
Sachie: Blond hair, soft spoken, funny, admires Natsuki's positivity, idol, & chairwoman of Heroine Party.
OVERALL:
The term Dietwomen is weird... This is the first time that I've watched a political theme anime. Plus, what I love about this anime is due to the fact that I can relate to it. The social/world issues such as poverty and inequality are relevant today in our society. I'm majoring in Interdisciplinary Social Science and my program consists of critiquing these aspects because we believe that we can implement change. And change is what the Idol Dietwomen are trying to do. They are using their brand as an Idol and politician to change the world for everyone.
MomokoMaki
I only watched it because the idea was so strange but at the same time is something that is already happening. Celebrities don't hold an political power cause they don't need to, just become famous and get twitter someone will listen to you. This anime takes the idea of idols and politics to a new level making it just fun. If you take it too seriously you're not going to enjoy it. Its a very cliche Japan try and make everyone into friends working together in a cute way. Once weird thing is that they are trying to hard to make each idol unique. Giving eachcharacter a faction and core belief, all different doesn't seem very realistic. They probably did that so they could have more eps.
ismichi
I pretty much only cared that Tsunku being involved in this, but the generic VA-voices dampened the quality some. ___ .:STORY:. (3) The premise is a lie. This is generic "Cute Idols Doing Cute Things". Do not bother if your only interest in the show is the possibility of deep and/or legitimate political discourse. Because that doesn't exist. This is a weak, lackluster attempt of standing out amongst the ever-growing idol culture.---
.:ENJOYMENT:. (4)
I was drawn by this show's promise and its OP song hinted at some actually interesting topics. So, at the very least, I expected them to take politics fairly serious as a job... but, instead, it was merely an idol shtick that benefits nothing and downplays the importance of actually doing something in politics that actually helps the masses.
For what little is actual politics, there's next-to-no consequences to be had. It irked me immensely when they mentioned in passing nothing's being done at the very end for the ~climax~, only for that to have not even been the case. Plus, the Party "opposition" is this group of old farts that dislike culture updates that is instantly won over by maybe a few lines of a song... which they've doubtlessly heard or experienced for years. So that led to a huge logic gap that only dampened the story.
BUT, as its true saving grace, it's important to note that this show actually has a LOT of idol performances and idol discussion that oft gets glossed-over in idol anime. So while it's irksome how little of story and effort went into the actual premise, it's at least honest that this is legit about idols.
... tho, nah; I can't ignore that the OP song legit promised tackling pro-facism/etc viewpoints in politics.
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.:ART:. (9) & .:SOUND:. (10)
The art style is cute and I truly adore everyone's individualistic fashion.
The music (especially stuff produced by Tsunku) is simply perfect and you can tell that he works on less generic styles than the normal anisong quality we tend to get in anime. Not necessarily a diss on anisongs, but dang if they ain't prone to being highly lackluster on their own.
VA do a pretty good job tho, and the sfx were fine. I have no real complaints, beyond personal taste.
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.:CHARACTER:. (3)
lol
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.:OVERALL:. (6)
They should've kept to making several super high quality PVs.
It'd saved time and effort on their end, and receive a far higher rating overall from viewers. Then, as it'd take a while for fan support to be enough to bother and some merch could've been sold to help fund it, they might've actually had the chance to make this an actual show worth watching.
Rantaku
I've seen some reviews that say this anime is bad, but for me this anime managed to entertain me with an unusual story concept. Idol and politics, an unusual story concept but interesting to me, even though the story concept doesn't make sense. But hey, it's an anime, anything that doesn't makes sense is possible in anime. Well, 12 episodes is not enough for all the characters, but i've seen an anime with a lot more characters in one series. For the animation, personally i hate CGI so much but for this anime the CGI is good but they forget about the mouth movement. The art is good,and the characters design is my favorite (especially Yami Ringo).
The song, makes me won't skip the opening.
Since i love idol anime, i can enjoy this anime without any problem
Rating :
Story : 6/10
Art : 8/10
Sound : 9/10 (songs only)
Character : 7/10
Enjoyment : 8/10
Overall : 8/10
Note :
This is my opinion, maybe you don't agree with my opinion, but everyone has the right to have their own opinion
lamaraptor
Idols... in the government? Honestly not a bad idea. Considering that I am from the US and more particularly California, where an empty chair would do a better job than our career politicians who couldn't give a sh*t about much less understand the struggles of the common man, the idea of all those old corrupt and frankly evil individuals being replaced by young and cute Japanese pop stars is more appealing than I'd like to admit. They'll lower taxes by generating government funds from holding big idol handshake events and bolster education by writing songs that teach kids how to count or whatever. Most importantly they'llpass no new legislation, because all that sounds too complicated. So yeah conceptually I found this world to be hilarious and I wouldn't mind living in that version of Japan. As a show it's your typical all girl slice of life idol anime with not a whole lot to do that hasn't already been done to death elsewhere. The twist of them all being politicians on the side in addition to the idol business is enough to make it entertaining and unique, so it's never boring. It's a funny premise that manages to not get bogged down in too much pointless drama in the second half, so it's a win in my book.
I give it a solid 8/10
