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STOP THIS SOUND
An anime with music as the main theme explores the world of a Koto. It is the national instrument of Japan. A string-based with usually 13 or 17 strings attached to it, consists of movable bridges to vary the pitch. Koto is played by plucking the strings with the thumb and first two fingers of right hand-fitted with plectrums. It has similarities with the guitar but different in many other aspects.

With the spread of modern and western music, Koto has become less prominent. This anime does focus on this aspect but it not the main focus of the anime. Neither is the performances ... of the Koto and its music are its main focus.
The main aspect that this show deal is how music and having the same goals though for different reasons brings a bunch of people together. It focuses mainly on teamwork and strong bonds to overcome the big obstacles. This theme is evident in many of the anime. Though the theme can come out as a cliché and cringe for many. It did not bother me much.

The reason for that could be, I thoroughly enjoyed the process though it was predictable. The vivid and interesting characters and the unheard and unique world of music get the credit for that. On the side plot, it also touches that professional music could be stressful and constrained. Playing music as a passion and for profession could be two different worlds for some.

This anime packs a lot of things like comedy, drama, culture, stereotypes and many more but it delivers with a good flow for most of the time. Hence the good flow with variation is a strong point. It mostly revolves around three characters, the clumsy and shy president of the club Takezou, the prodigy, and mixed personality Satowa, and former delinquent and straight forward Chika. But there is enough justification given for other supporting characters as well.

Like every anime, it has flaws like in this case the average and non-distinctive animation. They are many cliché scenes and dialogues. Sometimes it tends to be overdramatic. One major turn off for many people could be, that though the anime is about Koto, we get to hear very less of the actual music from Koto. To me who does not know any technicalities of music, this does bother me. Even if they had focused more on the actual music, I wouldn’t be able to appreciate it. I would have got bored. I assume this was the reason for them to not focus on actual music because I think the major audience fall under my category.

Hence if you are looking forward to hearing Koto music, this is not the ideal place. As a final note, this is the first part of the 26 episodes; it does its job of laying the good foundation and hype for the next season. There is nothing noteworthy or any specialty that puts your brain to work. But if you sit back with popcorn or something, relax and watch it. I believe you will be able to enjoy more thoroughly.

It is simple at the core yet enjoyable. You got a give a try, at least the first two episodes.

******AISHITERUZE BABY****** OVERALL – 7.5
NOTE – Facts I accepted while watching this anime.
1) This anime is a LOW BUDGET anime and hence the QUALITY will be LOW.
2) This anime as a CHILD whose parents are not with her and will be taken CARE by a high school BOY(OUT of many people) due to some circumstances so that story can proceed.
3) This anime as a CHILD as one of the MAIN CHARACTER and hence there will be many SCENES where it will SAD which is later turned into a HAPPY ending
Buy ACCEPTING this facts I could ENJOY a LTTLE more of this anime.
STORY- 2 out of ... 2.5
It had extraordinary story (means DIFFERNT than the usual ones) and was developed NICELY most of the time by introducing new characters and situations but it did not give ENOUGH TIME for Koroko because it was more focused on Yuzuyu.
CHARACTERS – 2 out of 2.5
The characters were GOOD especially Yuzuyu but were NOT so UNIQUE.
It gave an another reason I watch anime i.e this anime has a child without parents but it did not have any character which was portrait as some villain which is usually done in another mediums.Yuzuyu’s friends like Marika used to fight, tease but again played together indicating that there are playing the character of a child
About koroko her character was NECCASSARY otherwise it would have LIMITED the story but as I said before more time should have been given to her because her interactions with Kippe did not fill effective SOMETIMES
DIRECTION/ SOUND/ANIMATION - 1.5 out of 2
As I said before this anime is of low budget and they did PRETTY WELL out of it, but SOMETIMES the sound ,animations made me think I am WATCHING some anime made FOR KIDS..
ENJOYMENT – 2.5 out of 3
I did not enjoy the show until FEW episodes but after then I was CONSTANTLY enjoying the show.
I also enjoyed the ending which was pretty satisfactory .
OVERALL – 7.5 OUT OF 10 (2+1.5 +1.5+2.5)
Overall I felt this anime was IN BETWEEN good and very good and was fully worth watching
This review is based on how I FELT and it is NOT critically because I RECENTLY started watching anime,Hence I have given more IMPORTANCE to ENJOYMENT.