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It has been five years since AI Kizuna disappeared from the virtual world. Despite being an AI, she has captured the hearts of her fans, including Miracle, an aspiring virtual artist, with her performances. As Miracle attends ADEN Academy, a school for virtual artists, she makes new friends while learning more about singing, performing, and streaming. Miracle's ultimate goal is to win the prestigious Lapin d'Or at the Virtual Grid Awards, an achievement Kizuna has earned five consecutive times. To do this, she works to improve her channel ranking through streams and performances, trying to stand out among other students at the academy. Determined to fulfill her dream of inspiring others the same way Kizuna inspired her, the budding star will not give up. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
It has been five years since AI Kizuna disappeared from the virtual world. Despite being an AI, she has captured the hearts of her fans, including Miracle, an aspiring virtual artist, with her performances. As Miracle attends ADEN Academy, a school for virtual artists, she makes new friends while learning more about singing, performing, and streaming. Miracle's ultimate goal is to win the prestigious Lapin d'Or at the Virtual Grid Awards, an achievement Kizuna has earned five consecutive times. To do this, she works to improve her channel ranking through streams and performances, trying to stand out among other students at the academy. Determined to fulfill her dream of inspiring others the same way Kizuna inspired her, the budding star will not give up. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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BirbSMB
June 20, 2023
“Vtubers were a mistake.” Vtubers. You've probably heard of them; they're the best (and worst) thing to come from Japan as of late. Based off of the idol concept of the still-popular Hatsune Miku, many early ones, such as Kizuna Ai, Kaguya Luna, Mirai Akari have catapulted the concept into what we know of it today; especially Hololive, which had my personal favorite, Uruha Rushia (rip) and Nijisanji. They’ve even gone as far as having collaborations in notable mobile games such as Counter;Side and Azur Lane. However, there's one territory VTubers haven't explored; TV anime. Basing it off of Kizuna AI, the most popular of the'Four Heavenly Kings', as a main character would be a no-brainer, right? This anime has been lying to us the entire time! Given the name of Kizuna no Allele, one would expect this anime to be mostly about Kizuna Ai. Nope, you've been lied to. She only appears in a grand total of 3 or 4 episodes. This should be a huge red flag for anybody who is a fan of Kizuna Ai. To make matters worse, they even try selling us on the concept of NFTs in the anime. Yes, NFTs, the digital stuff you can just screenshot. Oh, they also get into the idea of OtakuCoin, a cryptocurrency. The exact stuff they ban you for advertising on an average large community discord server as it’s often a scam. The anime literally takes place when Kizuna Ai has been on hiatus for five years. Yes, five years. It wasn't even five years ago (early 2020) when the popularity of VTubers started exploding outside Japan. They use this idea to try and make a story about several girls (more on this later) who are inspired by the legacy that she leaves behind. Not the most original story, but this has worked in several other shows such as the Love Live! Franchise and D4DJ. These shows are also quite heavily based in the drive of their characters by making them distinct, fun, relatable and likable. Unfortunately, the show fails at this basis too. The idea of a story being even loses its way so much, one of the episodes turns into a generic isekai, despite simply being a VR game setting just because one character wanted ‘to discover herself’. After seeing the comedic misadventures of Konosuba and the horrifying deconstruction that is Re:Zero, any intelligent person would know that these fantasy Isekai worlds are far from the ideal world that any sane human being would want to reside in. If you’re into VTubers, think about your favorite vtuber for a second. They can be bubbly and fun! They can be as multi-talented as Suisei! They can be extremely cute and then snap at the drop of a metal bar! They can be a complete and total dork who makes the dumbest mistakes! Whatever it is that makes them your favorite, they all have one thing in common; they’re larger than life to us. Our heroines, Miracle, Chris, Quan, Riz and Noelle, who are all essentially as flat as Rushia's chest, both visually and figuratively. Miracle is literally the most airheaded, dumb and bland protagonist you can think of who also tries to get into selling some ‘hip’ and trendy ‘stuff’, such as NFTs and crypto. She’s essentially like Ayumu Uehara from Love Live, but flatter than paper. Oh god. Please. If you’re gonna make a music anime, please use more than one song. Can I just have the strawberry frap that Miracle so badly wanted to write a song about? It would be more interesting than the one song they just keep using. A closing note: If you're interested in the idea of VTubers, just go watch some vtubers and find one that suits your taste best. This anime is just not good. Why even bother wasting your breath on this anime when there's things such as college midterms? Heck, if you want to explore the dark side of being a VTuber, or any showbiz related things, Oshi no Ko is your best bet; it even aired the same season as this. This anime was doomed near the start and only made dumber decisions as it went on. There not much value in terms of watching this anime. Kizuna no fucking thanks. Alright, I gotta stop before Rushia lashes out at me and kills me for making fun of her chest, even after she stopped her activities. Don't bother with this show. I guess I'll go bowling and practice for short patterns and targeting the 2 boar- EDIT: I originally had this show at a 2/10. However, I realized that the show tried to also sell us on cryptocurrency on top of the bullshit that is NFTs. Gross. Yet it’s not even the worst show of Spring 2023; there’s Opus.COLORs.
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Logikx
June 19, 2023
TL;DR This show would have been great if they'd kept it to their youtube channel. Trying to appeal to a huge base right out the gate was the biggest mistake - most foreign anime watchers are shonen watchers (see the crunchyroll demon slayer awards) with a smattering of people who enjoy other more common genres. Kaigai vtuber fans are often cringe and toxic....don't read chat in English usually because it tends to make my blood pressure go up. The negative reviews make sense because the people leaving them are 1) anime watchers who aren't into vtubers or 2) toxic kaigai niki's who hate on whatevervtubers arent their oshi or oshis friends The closest "genre" for this show to fit into would be idol.....but 1 song, albeit with lyrical variation, in a season, is not really acceptable for that genre. Every episode should ideally have a song or at the minimum each character should, in order to stand up in the idol genre. It is kind of a school slice of life also but there isn't really much emphasis put into the school portion other than a location for things to happen. Technically a portal fantasy but the real world side is again not explored in any real depth..... The VA's are great, though it is somewhat obvious from the awkwardness from all but Noelle's, that they are a little new to doing it. Fine for youtube but comes off a bit weird in an anime. I think they all gave solid performances despite that, but solid is not necessarily professional. The music is good but held down by being musically the same song every episode, every time. It would be fine as a vsingers original but it couldnt be the only song they ever sang, let alone 5 vtubers.....all singing the same song just with varied lyrics. I enjoyed the show, I enjoyed my time with it well enough despite a few frustrations. I like the characters as vtuber characters...a little less in their anime form since they feel a little hollow without chat interaction, but still they were not terrible. I find it hard to recommend this show generally, but there are a few people I know who I think might enjoy it for what it is, like I did.
KANLen09
June 19, 2023
If there is one thing I love and hate about Japanese culture, it's the advent of Vtubers a.k.a virtual YouTubers. Poised out of the alternative ashes of the still-popular Vocaloid Hatsune Miku to this day, it's with the world No. 1 Vtuber Kizuna AI that set the world on fire, creating a new generation of Vtubers with numerous companies spawning out everywhere to the scene of iconic ones like Hololive (my personal favourite Gawr Gura) and such. But if there is that one avenue that the Vtuber scene should NOT have touched, is anime, and we get the long-awaited Kizuna no Allele. Courtesy of the collaborationbetween Wit Studio and Signal.MD., with an unknown director and the all-too-familiar series composer Hitomi Mieno a.k.a Deko Akao writing the scripts for the idol wannabe show, I sincerely hope that this show would be the first AND last venture of Vtubers taking the anime world by storm, because let's face it: even if Japan's reception is lukewarm, absolutely NO ONE cares for this show at all everywhere else, yours truly included. As if a wannabe nobody wants to become just like Kizuna AI because of her fame and popularity, I'm (not) sorry to say that the ADEN Academy central characters of Miracle, Chris, Noelle, Riz and Quan, even if as a massive Vtuber fan, it's obscenely boring to watch them go about on the usual idol wannabe shticks that are prevalent on almost EVERY other idol-like show, with all bark and no bite, no substance to show for it. And if you hate Vtubers, this show has no lack of the same 3DCG interspersed view that's all too alike with watching them on YouTube, it does not make a difference at all even if at the cusp of utilizing another medium to do so to sell its music, which is repetitive at best. Let's just put it this way: only a certain level of people love idol shows (which I can understand why), but when the narrative of the "unique, stand-out" ones breaks down, who would ever remember them again as nothing but a footnote in the anime industry's list of wasted resources trying to market to the niche, only to risk it all to get no rewards at all for a financial loss. I always often say: "Don't blame the studio, but the people", but it's not like the financially strapped Wit Studio had any other choice to not accept work, not after losing the big IPs to MAPPA and holding on to the small ones that don't do much for the studio either. But really, Wit Studio got themselves trapped in one small woo hah of a case, and this show is already an abject D.O.A failure before its arrival to appeal to everyone, that eventually appealed to no one. Easy pass. Nuff said.
chw___2
August 5, 2023
A girl wants to become a kind of virtual idol and is met with some hardships on her way. Luckily, she finds other idol-in-training friends at her school to help her overcome her struggles! I liked this anime because it was easy to watch and just gives you a good feeling. The different performed songs are really good overall. There is character development which I really appreciate and the animations are nice to look at. Do recommend for people who enjoy watching idol animes in general or for those who are looking for something cute to watch from time to time!
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