Third-year junior high schooler Manaka Mizusawa is tasked by her teacher to put a poster up about a trial ice hockey class sponsored by the Dream Monkeys, their city's local professional team. Interested in attending the class herself, Manaka also persuades her younger sister Ayaka and her clubmates Kaoruko Yanagida and Mami Ono to join her.
When the four gather at the gymnasium where the tutorial is held, they meet fellow third-year students Riko Saginuma and Naomi Takagi. As the girls practice their hearts out, their fascination for the sport increases, motivating them to play on a competitive level. Wanting to experience the unique and exciting memories that ice hockey can offer, the girls gradually form a team that has the potential to reach the top.
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ijavi
Short Review! This show had very strong start but after 6 episodes it start to fell off, the story just like other sports anime (a newbie become a champion) i mean they didn't even try to hide the winner in the very first episode it would be really great if we didn't know who's going to win in the final but they decided to play it safe and gave us mainstream ending. it's still enjoyable to watch, the characters friendships is very strong and yuu development who became more open after meeting with dream monkeys membersStory: 7/10
Art: 9/10
Sound: 10/10
Characters: 9/10
Enjoyment: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
KANLen09
PuraOre!'s the very first anime to have the distinction of featuring ice hockey, and yet still, fail to hit that mark, much less intentionally butt-hurting the one sport that Canadians are most famous and can be proud of. The progenitor anime that did anything and everything wrong from the get-go, marred from yet another CyberAgent and DMM Games' mixed-media project who's trying too hard to match the brillance of CyGames's Uma Musume, only to then ask: "May I copy your homework? Not to worry, my expertise is in ice hockey, nothing will be similar alike!". Look where we are now, and I wish I canforget this show to nothingness that left a sour taste in my mouth.
This is yet another CGDCT show that features ice hockey and idol segments, written by the abominable writer Touko Machida, because she is THIS bad, legit. More power to you, but wow have you managed to one-up your efforts at being so lazy as to just literally copy-paste existing entities that did the formula that you wanted to feature. And God bless the cringe that PuraOre! tries to be an ice hockey show for one, then subvert to being a CGDCT, and yet again into an idol clusterfish of a mindless monkey-leaping rhetoric. Like come on, make up your mind, don't "Monkey see, Monkey do".
I'm not surprised to say that I don't really care for the large cast of girls which exhibit the same wash, rinse, repeat happy-go-lucky, "don't mind!" subpar "feelings" teamwork that's a work in progress to only then etch out a W at the last critical spot, especially for one rooted in a sport-centric setting. I've seen too much CGDCT anime do the same thing, and more times than most, affix the setting and environment to eke out a decent execution. PuraOre! just knows that well, and proceeds to treat the audience like we're all brain-dead dimwits to be easily lured into the charming and female-centric munificence of happiness and laughs combined. It's not wrong to like a CGDCT show for what it is, but the execution is what matters, and in PuraOre!'s case, unless you don't really care about the wishy-washy story plot then you'll find enjoyment. Which in my case, is a definite thumbs down.
But what matters is the production side of things, which in this case, after the relative success of Idoly Pride, CyberAgent's CAAnimation is back to produce yet another show with the help of C2C, and it really shows that at the very least, it honours the art of ice hockey and its frenetic play. Any Western fan can immediately tell that there is heart in the overall animation when it comes to the actual ice hockey matches, but the sin is that these matches are too far few in-between that's put aside to curry favour for more of the CGDCT-cum-idol action. Even for a glance, I'd thought that this would improve, but nope, it's clear where the priority's at.
To nail the idol segment in the coffin, the OP which was sung by the Newcomer Set of the Nikko Dream Monkeys under their group name "Smile Princess", that should immediately clue in that the idol segment will somehow overshadow the actual ice hockey game, and it's just as decent as expected. And I don't know why, but May'n's songs are getting more and more average-sounding in quality, it's a far cry from her early days where most of her songs sound better than we actually think it is.
Call this a fumbling "promotion" if you wish, but I'd think we all know what we came here for and expecting the most out of it: the actual ice hockey segments (which definitely look pristine overall). Sadly and most frustratingly, the CGDCT has to take precedence and with Touko Machida's haphazard writing calibre, PuraOre! could've been so much more with making a name for themselves with the one unique sport establishment that would have defined its place in anime history. So another call again, go open-minded if you're thinking of watching this show to enjoy the downtime moments, but otherwise, not being Pura and definitely not Ore!, this show is wilfully misconducted in its Pride that's not orangey-orange at all.
Animendez
After 12 eps I can tell you that if you’ve seen the poster you know what to expect, it isn’t really Slam Dunk on ice but it also never advertised itself as that. This is aesthetically a “CGDCT” anime which in my opinion isn’t the best match for a story about hockey but it might just be strange enough to work. If the idol part of the show puts you off, first of all don’t worry i understand it but please also understand that it isn’t a bad strategy. This show isn’t made for a tradicional overseas market and seeing the success of Uma Musumeyou can’t fault them for trying to appeal to a larger Japanese audience in a similar way and after 12 eps it only plays a small roll (for an idol show it sure has few and far in between “idol moments”)
This anime was made in collaboration with the Nikko Ice bucks, people that actually know what their talking about help made this anime and it shows. The on ice scenes are legit the slap shots, snap shots, and even the goalie saves all look better than half the American hockey movies I’ve seen. As far as a hockey anime goes the hockey aspect looks legit, yeah Canadians will cry about losing in the opening minutes of ep 1 but hey when was the last time y’all won a Stanley cup? (jk love you Canadians, I’m Mexican so I can’t really talk shit lol). Throughout the 12 eps this show had all the classic hockey moments you could expect so I give it major props for that (they even had an off the penalty box scoring chance!)
Yeah this isn’t the perfect hockey adaptation I might have wished for years ago but tbh I never expected to see a “hockey anime” so I’m stoked to get this and I hope this results in more attention for ice hockey in Japan and in the anime industry overall. Honestly having had realistic expectations for it I really enjoyed it. If like me you love hockey or want to know more about it and are open minded you might enjoy it too.
Gud91
*Minor spoilers* I feel bad for Puraore. As the ultimate representative of the whole Canadian community and a pretty big defender of the main sport from the same country, I’m shocked to see this anime with a rating that low. As much as I like my CGDCT, it’s kind of a surprise to see it being that stable during the whole season. Never did it get over a seven, the least this kind of anime can get with how little it can work with. Jokes aside, I don’t particularly like Puraore because I’m Canadian myself, otherwise it would sounds stupid for other people to see an anime thatis only enjoyable for a Canadian audience, with some being Japanese as well. Yet, it would sounds even more stupid to consider myself as the ultimate representative of my homeland. By still going that way, people might think that I’m just overhyping a show that is not that good by looking at its rating. The reason I’m making this review mostly is to assure people get the same idea of what this anime is about. I do get the feeling the reason it might get bad reviews with overlow ratings is because some of the “groups” don't share the same judgement and comparaisons. Not in a way they shouldn’t get an opinion and instead all think the same way in terms of rating, but in terms of knowing the whole concept of this anime.
Puraore is a Cute Girl Doing Cute Thing with some scenes with hockey in it.
There. Simple as it is. MY perspective of what Puraore is about and probably what it should be to anyone before watching it. It’s neither a Shounen Sport, like Haikyuu or Kuroko no Basuke, nor an Idol, like Love Live or IDOLMASTER. Why am I mentioning that? Just in case people read the synopsis or judged the character design way too quickly and started watching it without thinking. And yet, they might see Puraore as the biggest bait/lie those fans get to ever experience.
The first episode already shows us a match between Japan and Canada (ay!) with a lot of actions and fast movement, something that makes Shounen Sports fans shit in their pants. Not only that, right after the match, we see the main team we knew by looking at the poster doing some kind of victory dance after… Well, winning the game. By adding pop music in the background, a dance animated with not so bad CGI and of course the singing part, what a nice way to get many idol fans in here.
This is where it might feel like a bait.
Sport Shounen fans might want to see what makes hockey so popular and hype, maybe also knowing how it became the natural sport in Canada. Knowing about strategy, personalities, the good and the bads, so they could use their knowledge from this anime with a real team of players.
Idol fans might be in need for more music with cute anime girls as singers.
Both of what they want are ONLY available at the first episode and the two last episodes, but neither of what they actually want is going to be in this anime, because it’s not the main idea of what it actually is.
Now, speaking of why I wanted to watch it: I don’t particularly like hockey myself. I’d even go by saying that I never really was into it. Sometimes I used to watch hockey when my parents cheered on the Montreal Canadiens out of the corner of my eye but that’s about it. Wasn’t caring about hockey cards either, like "What did you expect." Absolutely nothing could captivate my attention to force me into playing it. But Puraore is, from all I know by far, the only anime to ever come out mentioning hockey… with cute girls in it! In other words, I got baited by the cute girls. I wasn’t expecting much, I even joked with friends on how I could give it a 10 out of 10 if one of the girls got destroyed by being tackled to the wall. A monster I am and still is indeed.
The more I watched it the more I believed less that it was a SP or an Idol. Thank god because I didn’t wanted to see the girls doing their things transformed into Jolynes Joestars from JoJo (Even tho she is a cool character) nor wanted them to sing with no other purpose than selling CDs to the hardcore fans. I got le CGDCT I’m usually watching when I want to pass the time. It doesn’t really have a story, only about girls wanting to form a team to play hockey after being suggested to do so.
The team, while composed with basically the same character with one personality trait and one hairstyle of difference, is still pretty enjoyable to see. It doesn’t get annoying, nor boring, nor shittier. Little team progressing through time and learning little mechanics that aren’t that much explained as why they should play hockey that way and not that way.
It’s a CGDCT as simple as it is!
And I’m so confused as to why it is “average!”
There’s a ton of them that doesn't have as much content as Puraore with ratings that are higher than that, which was at this moment I thought about my “Wrong Audience Theory.” This anime surely may be shit if you are not into this kind of anime. However, judging it as a CGDCT, it is pretty enjoyable! Even if it doesn’t stand up to many others, it still gives us the vibes sended to us. One of the biggest flaw I got it the absence of an announcement for a second season. Still likely to happen, because of the premise.
If it happens, I think it will be better than the first season. Heck, the World Cup against Canada. What if they make references to NHL at this point. And with the knowledge they got to direct this anime, with the so realistic sound effects (When the stick hits the puck, IT DOES SOUND LIKE THE STICK IS HITTING A PUCK), this studio has a lot of ressource to evolve this into a bigger and more hype anime.
But for now, we need to wait. So, don’t expect Puraore to be a full on anime about strategy and tension, or an anime with girls singing over and over again, for now. Take this first season as a little cup of tea while eating waffles with maple syrup. I’m not British enough to know if that combinaison is possible or not, but nothing is impossible. I surely am gonna watch the second season if it happens.
EvilTactician
This anime was almost as difficult to watch as it was to find the 'write a review' button on this website. It's a sports anime, but there's barely any actual playing involved. I have no idea who the characters are or what makes them tick. They have no character development whatsoever, other than "yay power of friendship, we're having so much fun" with zero substance. At one point I thought this was going to turn into a 'ice hockey team also is idol group' affair, but even that doesn't really come to pass. There was a character who left early in the series and later came back, butI had entirely forgotten they even existed as they didn't add anything useful to the non-existing plot.
Overall, the whole series feels like a set-up to sell their game, which subsequently failed shortly after launch. This about sums up the experience.
It wasn't even terrible, it was just boring.
Firechick12012
In an industry as saturated as anime has gotten, it's a given that not every show can stand out from the heavy hitters, or even stuff that's similar to it. There are shows that stand out for the right reasons, shows that don't quite stand out, and then you have those that stand out for all the wrong reasons. Sadly, the latter is the case for PuraOre: Pride of Orange, an anime that basically tries to combine three things: ice hockey, the everyday slice-of-life adventures of cute girls, and idols, all while failing at not only balancing them out, but executing any of them ina compelling manner. The story follows Manaka Mizusawa, a chipper young girl who one day finds out her town Nikko is holding ice hockey classes held by the Nikko Dream Monkeys. She convinces her younger sister and other members of her embroidery club to try it out. The girls immediately fall in love with the sport, and through it, they make some new friends and face competition from rival teams, with their manager wanting to shake things up and have them perform victory dances whenever they win.
Yeah, there's no denying it: Pride of Orange is basically a glorified advertisement for a mobile game. A mobile game that shut down not long after the anime finished, by the way, which should tell you how well this show did at trying to advertise it. Hell, the character designs look like they were ripped right out of Love Live (And from what I hear, the person who designs the Bang Dream characters did the designs!!). Seriously, the whole show just looks...bland. Like it was only made to be churned out by a production committee to convince people to buy stuff, that's it. The backgrounds are fine and the animation is smooth, but everything else about it makes it near indistinguishable from other slice-of-life anime other than the hockey bits. I'm speaking as a person who couldn't care less about sports in any way, nor do I know much about sports, especially ice hockey, but even the show's attempts at trying to make ice hockey seem interesting ring hollow because all it really amounts to is "Ice hockey is great!!" without going into detail about why people would even like the sport. The fact that they have Manaka, the single least interesting character in the show, only gets interested in it on a whim rather than something more substantial, tells you just how little the anime cares about the sport its trying to shill.
Speaking of Manaka, the characters. There's very little to them. They're all flat, carbon copies of characters from other shows that were done way better elsewhere. They have no depth, no nuance, nothing to them other than their single defining trait, yet the show expects you to care about them. One character, who is advertised as being one of the mains, leaves the show within three episodes and barely appears after that, yet the show makes her departure and everyone's reactions to it sooooo cheesy and melodramatic in an attempt to wring tears out of you, but it doesn't work because we never got the time to even learn more about this character or find reasons to care about her. Manaka doesn't even get so much as a character arc, as she's literally just a discount Honoka from Love Live. Honestly, the only character I really liked was Naomi, that's it. The absolute worst of them is Yoko, their manager, mainly because of the way she tries to recruit Yu, a girl who quit hockey, onto the team, namely she repeatedly calls the girl on her phone and then stalks her by coming to her house unannounced and browbeats her into joining the Dream Monkeys. Because that's a surefire way to make somebody love you, riiiiiight? Beyond her creepy stalking of Yu, I just found Yoko to be obnoxious and annoying.
Even the soundtrack isn't much to write home about. I liked the ending song, that's it. The thing is, PuraOre tries to mix three things into one package, and is even marketed as an idol series, but there's literally naught but five minutes dedicated to idol stuff, all of which never ties into the narrative whatsoever. You could literally cut it out and nothing would be lost, so for all of PuraOre's posturing over it being an idol series rings completely hollow because it doesn't even do anything with its idol stuff. So yeah, PuraOre's biggest problem is that in its attempts to mix three different genres into one, it completely fails at doing anything substantial with any of them, being little more than just fodder churned out in a bad attempt to copy Uma Musume's success. Is it any wonder the mobile game it tried to advertise wound up being shut down? And don't even get me started on the utterly cheesy dialogue. "The bonds of our hearts connect the puck!" Really? Bleeeegh.
If you're into this type of show, more power to you. But PuraOre: Pride of Orange is just another generic gacha game advertisement that doesn't even do a good job at trying to advertise the mobile game its based on, let alone being a standalone anime. It's not offensively bad or anything, but it's just bland and flavorless.
Mcsuper
Now, first of all, I'm a huge hockey fan, so I know enough about hockey to understand hockey terms. Let me just say, I appreciate that hockey got some love and got some kind of anime for people to enjoy. Maybe Canadians got into this anime because of their love for hockey. However, this show wasn't ever advertised as a "Slam Dunk" or "Haikyuu", so I never had that kind of expectation. My grading criteria: Story: /25 Art: /10 Music: /10 Characters: /20 Enjoyment /15 Comedic/Romance themes /20 STORY: 5/25 Felt very messy and lacking in many ways. Not enough development of opposing hockey teams, and not enoughhockey moments in general. The idol moments, while unnecessary, just added to the moe aspect, and that was fine, but still took away from the theme of hockey, which should have been used more. Instead we had quite random slice of life moments, and while some of it would have been acceptable, they really just had to play more hockey.
ART: 8.2/10
Judging mostly the hockey animation here. I think the skating and lateral movements of goaltenders were executed well, definitely well done.
MUSIC: 8/10
Decent opening and ending for sure.
CHARACTERS: 7.2/20
Character development was minimal, and predictable. The role that Mami played in the story felt awkward and unnecessary, though she helped push the story forward I suppose. Other characters felt very surface-level in terms of developments, and I wished the Dream Monkeys alumni had a bigger role to play, for example, training the players, and giving them advice.
ENJOYMENT: 11/15
Through all my criticism, I can't say enough how I appreciate the anime industry for doing a hockey anime. Makes me smile.
COMEDIC/ROMANTIC THEMES: 10/20
If anything, comedy was a theme, and there were some funny moments, such as some moments with the coach, and the dynamic of the players as well. Pretty average comedy.
OVERALL: 4.94/10
It's a surface-level hockey anime, and didn't come in with high expectations. Puraore's biggest flaw would definitely be deciding on a single theme, rather than including idol moments, a lot of slice of life moments, and characters that meant virtually nothing to the story. I love hockey though, so I always welcome hockey anime!
ODDGODD
Would have made more sense if they beat the Leafs ... rather than born&raised hardcore Canadian highschool girls who likely played hockey from the time they could walk. Game would probably have had more penalties too lmao It's a CGDCT series - lets not pretend any differently. That being said the CGDCT content surrounding hockey actually genuinely made me chuckle. The Hockey scenes were surprisingly well done, I actually got pretty excited watching the hockey bits. And even in their training segments, it actually gave me flashbacks to my own childhood hockey training. Idol stuff to target domestic japan - I mostly skipped that kind of cancer. Though itwas absolutely immersion breaking as it would be insulting to the players to a) make them do a little dance routine, and b) insulting to the other team due to poor sportsmanship. There's a reason everyone shakes hands after. It just really didn't mesh well. That being said, the girls who caught on to the dance practice, and the poor mascot dude were amusing enough in their skepticism against that. Would have been a better running joke if they only ever alluded to it.
But have you ever heard women playing hockey? I know, I know, it's an anime, but the squeaky voices absolutely break the immersion when you're shouting/yelling across the ice.
Additionally, when dealing with high speeds and collisions/interference in hockey, player mass does matter - not asking them to all look like jojo's characters, but they're all idol-scale, maybe 100lb at most, 120lb with gear. Not asking for illegal checking, but collisions absolutely do happen regardless. I've seen more than enough players of all ages injured from simple collisions with eachother or the boards. I guess I'm watching this show for the wrong reasons.
It's no haikyu for hockey, but it gives me hope we'll one day get a proper hockey anime, without the idol stuff. Maybe I'm asking for too much.
acharis
The only reason I didn't drop this series was so I could have something I didn't mind "half-watching" while I did the dishes. Is it so much to ask that a sports anime about a female team take itself seriously enough to not fill half its run time with saccharine fluff/CGDCT filler? Apparently, yes. I mean, there's even a fucking BEACH episode in this "ICE HOCKEY" anime! The post-credits ad for the mobile game really solidified my opinion. This was not a series made for people who wanted to watch a group of enthusiastic friends bond over a shared love of a sport. This was a 12 episodecommercial for a generic idol game with a sports theme.
Sailormoonwins
Pride of Orange has a good story of rising to the top of Hockey especially since it adds in development of its characters. The characters are pretty likable and funny and are easy to get attached to and see them change. The music and animation are just a big hell yea to the audience showing how not only are the characters great but the music and animation are something entirely. The development of its characters and pacing were enjoyable and so were the moments shown. Not much of a hockey fan but the show was pretty enjoyable making me wish I played hockey too and itadds something new to the sports genre with a lesser known type of sport shown in anime but with more realism.
Story:7/10
Characters:8/10
Sound/Music:7.7/10
Enjoyment:8.4/10
Overall 8/10
octAY
We have had many things turned into anime, such as badminton, tennis, table tennis, volleyball, and so many others. Now, it's hockey's turn. Puraore! Pride of Orange is an anime all about hockey, and I thought it was rather well done given that it is a slice of life with light CGDCT theme. Given that hockey is not that popular in Japan, I appreciate the producers trying new things to try to appeal to the general Japanese audience. ***Minor spoilers ahead (?) *** Story/Character (6/10) To put it simply, this is a decent sports anime. There's tension, character development, and story progression. Of course it's not hardcore developmentwith intense personal emotions (e.g. Hanebado!'s Ayano). It is more like "I didn't like this. But someone or something motivated me so I will try my best" kind of development. It kind of touches the surface of character development. On the plus side, they do get to every single main character, which is nice to see.
Speaking of development, one development I thought was simply way too fast is how fast the players matured at playing hockey. They got good fast and was able to beat other good teams. I mean the spotlight team has got to go to the best place to compete, right? That's the fictional world for you.
Art (8/10)
Craft Egg, a game operator for BanG Dream! Girls Band Party, did the character and clothing design in this anime. It's very evident in the art style chosen for the characters, especially the eyes. It's a clean, refreshing art style that never disappoints. It's clear that the anime was given a lot of thought in production to have high production value.
The reason I mentioned Craft Egg is because Puraore is also going to have a game, so it makes sense to have them do character design. Similarities between this and BanG Dream's character design are evident. Again, it's not a bad design, just similar. If you're a fan of the art in BanG Dream you will feel at home here.
Sound (8/10)
Casting for the voice actors, as usual, was done well and fits the main characters. Same goes for the OP&ED. The soundtrack pulls through in the more dramatic and intense moments. Simply put, background music was good to the point where I feel nervous at the climax, even though it was kind of obvious who was going to succeed and lose. Not bad at all.
Overall, this anime was well-produced with good elements. This is not the most outstanding sports anime out there, but is certainly not bad. However, borrowed elements from other multimedia projects are evident. The fact that there's a game coming out is very typical for this sports anime, but especially one part: the victory dance. I'm not going to say Puraore is blatantly copying Uma Musume's victory concert, but it is heavily inspired. Who in the world would make sports athletes, hockey at that, dance after they won a game? Huh?! I don't think it makes any sense, but if they want to differentiate in this way then I guess you do you, CyberAgent.
Benx2019
The animation is fairly decent, but rather uninspired. Action scenes are decent, but not all that impressive. There are some decent backgrounds and the characters are drawn fairly well. However, everything feels stale and uninspired a lot of the time. The characters are pretty bland and cliche, don't expect to really like any of them. Story is bland, boring, and extremely linear. Pacing was fine, but not enough to make the anime in anyway exciting. Voice acting was fine in terms of casting. However, the actual performances were shrill, annoying, and unimpressive. Soundtrack is really what pulled the show and many scenes together. The introand some of the outros are cliche, but decent. The normal outro is pretty good. The soundtrack is pretty flawless though, very impressive. Thanks MONACA. Overall is just felt boring and rather soulless. The idol x Hockey mix just feels forced and pointless. Very cliche, but really not the worst in any one way. A pretty mediocre anime with alright animation and a good soundtrack to keep it afloat. 5.95/10
buggaboo1021
I thought this was a sports anime, and realized a few episodes in that it's actually more of a "Cute Girls Do Cute Things" anime, which was disappointing because 1) I love sports anime and 2) I have yet to see a good sports anime with a girl team. The (tl;dr) problem with this is that the girls look and sound cute but aren't very interesting, and the "cute things" they're doing have no stakes. The characters are pretty one-note, and the show gives each of the main girls a conflict, but there are only 12 episodes so this results in their conflicts being shallow andgetting solved very quickly.
The show doesn't show you that they learn hockey and struggle to better themselves - they just do. The idol song/dance gets even less screen time. Actually, a LOT of the screen time is taken up by still shots, with or without voiceover. It was almost like a 12 episode slide show.
If the only thing you look for in an anime is girls who look and sound cute, go ahead and give it a watch. Otherwise, I think you might get bored. I sure did.
Inaco
After I search it on goggle maybe Puraore is the only one anime that bring ice hockey to the plate. It is original, short, a bit different from your usual sport anime, have a bunch of cute girls and dedicated anime to promote their game. But the real question it is worth your time to watch this series or not? Do I enjoy watch this series? Yes I enjoy but I almost drop this series. Do I understand ice hockey from watch this anime? No I don't really understand it. Do I enjoy watching these girls perform their victory dance? Actually no it is reallyshort. But if we comeback to first question maybe the answer is not worth it. Unless you are new to watch anime.
Let's talk the good point of this anime. This anime is not your usual school sport competition that aim to national. This is the story about some young girl that start playing ice hockey in their local team (pro). Originally they started as hobby but because one of their close friend Mami have to moved to another city they need something that can keep their friendship to go on. Because Mami enjoy playing ice hockey maybe they will meet again in the rink if they keep playing ice hockey.
The story itself not very fresh and unique but it feels different because this time we have girls as our MC. But the backstory and the problem that they present in this series is good enough. The problem feel realistic and they are in the age that must faced many problem to grow from child to teen/ adult. Such as teamwork, encourage your friends, communicate your feeling, struggling for your friends and there is a thing that more important than talent.
In conclusion it is decent anime but if you want to learn ice hockey you cannot get it from this anime. The idea of combining ice hockey and idol is not good enough. You will see how young girl must stand up and faced their problem. The game in this series is short and not too special. But the problem that being presented can relate to a lot of people.
