Idoly Pride

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"After a successful audition, high school student Nagase Kotono and her best friend move into a dorm with eight other aspiring idols. They quickly realize it takes more than cute choreography and cute outfits to reach the top—it will take blood, sweat, and tears to advance in the idol-ranking VENUS program, where the top spot is held by superstar Nagase Mana...who happens to be Kotono's older sister.

Source: funimation"

Genre(s): Idol, Drama, Music, Supernatural

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Three episodes in, I hesitated to fill out the genre accurately because the mild twist in the first episode really is an integral part of my enjoyment of this show.

Without divulging into it (yet), the first two episodes are of a noticeable higher animation quality than the following, which is par for the course, but it never is ugly, and the story and characters do make up for the slack. The usual archetypes area at play here, but I feel like they may grow as the series does, into their cutest final forms. The music is nice, but what I find most alluring is the growth potential of the idol group. I tire quickly of idol shows about how great it is to effortlessly be a popular idol (ignoring how dangerous that mentality, and the actual idol industry culture itself can be at times). I like to see effort in constitutes progress out.

The music is nice, too, and I hope we get more EDs that are other idol groups like the end of episode 3.