That 4/10 for Sunshine S2 didn't look so good, haha. What did you think of it?
Yeah, so, Love Live Sunshine isn't too great.
Whereas the second season of the original series had entire episodes dedicated to each character, which made them fully fleshed out and interesting, the girls in Sunshine have nothing of the sort, with most of them just having a single gimmick to define them. Yohane suffers from a terminal case of chuunibyou, Ruby makes squirrel sounds or some shit, Mari speaks random and terrible English, Hanamaru says 'zura' for whatever reason, Dia has a mole and screams 'buu-buu desu wa!' at the top of her lungs, and that's about it. OK. Thanks!
And then the melodrama. Oh god, the melodrama. It just never ends. That's the entire show. There's no fun, slice-of-life moments to bring a smile to the viewer's face-- hell, there aren't even any training segments that I can remember, whereas the original constantly had them on the roof practicing or them exercising outside, which actually made them feel like idols. Here it's just melodrama. Start to finish. And minivans flying into outer space.
There isn't much good music in Sunshine, either. Maybe there's something better from Aquors' catalogue outside the show, but "Aozora Jumping Heart" is the only one I remember or would ever bother to listen to again, and even that doesn't hold a candle to songs like "Snow Halation".
I gave it a four but even that feels a bit generous in retrospect. Just a big disappointment after what was showcased in the original. Hopefully the third series is better, otherwise I'm gonna drop that sucker and stick solely to the original.
Whereas the second season of the original series had entire episodes dedicated to each character, which made them fully fleshed out and interesting, the girls in Sunshine have nothing of the sort, with most of them just having a single gimmick to define them. Yohane suffers from a terminal case of chuunibyou, Ruby makes squirrel sounds or some shit, Mari speaks random and terrible English, Hanamaru says 'zura' for whatever reason, Dia has a mole and screams 'buu-buu desu wa!' at the top of her lungs, and that's about it. OK. Thanks!
And then the melodrama. Oh god, the melodrama. It just never ends. That's the entire show. There's no fun, slice-of-life moments to bring a smile to the viewer's face-- hell, there aren't even any training segments that I can remember, whereas the original constantly had them on the roof practicing or them exercising outside, which actually made them feel like idols. Here it's just melodrama. Start to finish. And minivans flying into outer space.
There isn't much good music in Sunshine, either. Maybe there's something better from Aquors' catalogue outside the show, but "Aozora Jumping Heart" is the only one I remember or would ever bother to listen to again, and even that doesn't hold a candle to songs like "Snow Halation".
I gave it a four but even that feels a bit generous in retrospect. Just a big disappointment after what was showcased in the original. Hopefully the third series is better, otherwise I'm gonna drop that sucker and stick solely to the original.