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Movie
Finished Airing
Feb 26, 2021
In the year 2032, the legendary idol unit "7th Sisters" suddenly retired from the industry and disappeared. That was the end of the idol industry... until two years later, when a young glory-seeking employee is appointed to be the leader of Tokyo's next generation idol studio, "777 (Three Seven)," commonly referred to as Nanastar. However, the city continues to believe that idols are a thing of the past, and Nanastar is no exception. Their slump continues, but one day a mysterious and beautiful female manager approaches you and says, "If the idols of the past are gone, we'll just have to make new idols! True "sisters" linked by powerful bonds!" The story of the idols of the future, the Nanastar Sisters, will now unfold. (Source: Tokyo 7th Sisters Wiki)
5.0/10
Average Review Score
17%
Recommend It
6
Reviews Worldwide
Not good. Since there are no reviews yet, I guess I'll fire the starting signal. As a big fan of idol/band anime, I was waiting for this movie to get subbed since it aired (many thanks to the team of translators), but I've been greatly disappointed. Disclaimer first, I'm not a fan of the original Tokyo 7th Sisters games and this has been my first real exposure to the franchise, so I won't be able to say how faithful to the original or how good as an adaptation this is, just judging it as a standalone film. This is probably the blandest and most insipid idol animeI have seen; even moreso than the first Love Live series, which is saying a lot. The fact that the opening act of the movie isn't even animated and just some SD models over music is already a redflag, and it never really picks up. We get introduced in a fairly cool way (via a relay race of video presentations) to the group of 12 idols, of which exactly 0 get any character presentation nor development after the initial establishment of the anime archetype they represent. The cheerful leader, the aloof dark-haired girl, the ojou, the gaijin, the lazy bum who really shouldn't be working as an idol realistically, and so on. Instead of developing the idols, it goes for iCarly level writing by introducing us to Badguy McYuppie, who confronts the girls a million times to laugh like a maniac, belittle idols, and tell them how worthless they are, and how he's buying their stadium and... converting it to... other type of business. How evil! It's the cheesiest and most boring route they could have taken, and they of course did it. I'm not opposed to these kinds of characters as a concept. I like Kuroi in the 2011 Idolmaster Anime because it was an over-the-top, ironical take on these kinds of villains. I like Mishiro in Cinderella Girls because her actions actually make sense for a capitalist tycoon and isn't really confrontational, same with Shiraki in Wake Up Girls. But this is just utterly stupid, and unlike my previous examples, it also takes up the entire plot neglecting what should be the focus of an idol anime (or almost any story really): its central cast. If you want to watch it for some cute dance scenes, I've got good and bad news. The good one is that every dance scene is animated on 2D. The bad one is that there... isn't really dance scenes. I'm not kidding, they show us two live shows and they consist on the girls staying on the initial spot and doing a basic move while singing. There isn't any choreography, nor cool camera shots that make what is happening stand out. It's almost impressive they pulled out on this too. There are some nice insert songs along the way that I'm sure T7S fans would appreciate, at the very least. My very low score of 3/10 might seem offputting or too harsh, but I really didn't find anything enjoyable in this film aside from character designs, and is not even remarkable in that sense. I really cannot recommend it to anybody, not even fans of the genre.
If I had 2 words to describe this movie, it would be: too late. And I don't mean that as a hardcore fan of idol shows. As someone who played every mobile idol games back in 2017, I can definitely say that as a game, it ranks up there together with your big name idol franchises. So it could've made it up there together with said franchises. I mean, the game already had an anime-style CG and everything, so it was only a matter of time until they made an actual anime out of it. Heck, the game came out in 2014, so there wasplenty of time for this to come out. However, they might have taken too much time on this. Animation-wise, this was well-made. There aren't any dead frames or horrible background art. It feels lively, really. And the character designs are consistent throughout the entire show. If there's one aspect that this movie excels in, it's the animation. Now, as someone who plays the game (already at level 72 btw), I can say that the songs are catchy. But then again, it might be nostalgia talking, as most of these songs are played in-game as background music for minigames. So the music is entirely subjective in this case. The characters are... well, if you've seen one idol show, you've basically seen every character trope, and 7th sisters is no exception. What I will give it props for is how characters have their own dynamic from one another. So pairings or OTPs are out of the question. And thank goodness for that, cuz I don't think I can take any more shippings in every franchise. Did I enjoy it? Well, I did, but mostly because of nostalgia. Most people who aren't familiar with the franchise will probably just brush it off. But I assure you, without spoiling anything, that it tackles a subject in the idol industry that is a scary thought but is also an inevitability. Overall, it's a good movie, despite it being too late for the party. If you like idol shows, or waifus in general (cuz there's a lot of them here, and I haven't even mentioned the rivals, originals, and time-skip idols), then give this one a shot. It's not mind-boggling, but it's an interesting watch nonetheless.
Don't look at my score. I score 7 because I really enjoy watching idol anime even though this show doesn't deserve the rating. It still has some potentials, it's just executed horribly. Tokyo 7th Sisters has quite an interesting premiere for an idol show. But it failed to make used of it. Set in the futuristic world, where Idol enter the "ice-age" after the legendary group "7th Sisters" disbanded. So now, Idol industry is in shambles, there hardly any groups left. Then we got to meet our lovely idols "777", a twelve-girls idol group with the hope of bringing idols back to its glory days.In my honest opinions, there are two major things that prevent this movie to be considered a good idol show. Firstly, for its lengths of only over an hour, it's not sufficient enough to introduce 5-6 girls let alone twelve. So they have to make kind of a PV at the beginning where they spoon-fed us the info and personalities of each girls. Damn that's lazy writing just because they don't have enough money to make this movie I think. Then the second problems, they should just get rid of the horrible cartoon villain, he irritates me to the bone and absolutely contribute nothing to the plot, they could cut him out and the show will remain the same. I figured this show need an entire new beginning section and at least 25eps anime to make this work and this will be an amazing anime for sure. Hire some competent director and make this work please.
I believe a majority of the people who actually watched or heard about this movie are already fans of Tokyo 7th Sisters. Seven years ago when the game was released, it stood out as one of the earliest idol games aside of Love Live (which is the biggest franchise, even now). The franchise also took a lot of transformation, game wise (changing the game system entirely for a couple times), and story wise. They also showed signs of trying to take the franchise to the animated scene multiple times, through animating a music video with short story, to intermissions between anniversary concerts. So when the moviewas announced, I was very excited that this would help expanding what I consider a heavily underrated franchise (subjective) tomore audience. Well guess what, this feels like they were trying to appeal existing fans more than introducing Tokyo 7th Sisters to newcomers. Maybe they tried, since the worldbuilding in roughly the first half of the movie is vague at best. Some parts of the story also feels rushed. As if they want to deliver the main plot, while assuming the viewers already understood the worldbuilding and characters beforehand (which yeah, the only few characters that get development are the bad guys. Everyone else feels textbook from the franchise's main info). So what we have left is an idol-ish feature length story that feels way too generic compared to other idol animes out there. Which is a shame, because the story writing is what made Tokyo 7th sisters shine for me. Just go play the mobile game and read the stories in it. "Episode 4.0 / 0.7 / 5.0 / 6.0" arcs really made it special and emotional. Realy woth reading. Back to the movie, the other big problem is that the movie did not showcase the songs and shows as much as it should. I get it, there's hardly ever any 'show' aspects in the game (unlike almost every other music franchise nowadays), but the song selection are not highlighted as much as...you know...a movie focusing on music would. If you're already a Tokyo 7th Sisters fan, you'd still enjoy this movie (and the fact that it took SEVEN YEARS for any animated story to materialize). But I'm highly disappointed that this could have been the magnet that gives Tokyo 7th sisters the love and popularity that it deserves. Instead, this would probably become another idol movie that did not stand out against other movies of the same genre. If you never heard of Tokyo 7th sisters before, seriously go play the game, go discover the songs, go read the in-game story. you'd get to appreciate Tokyo 7th Sisters more than watching this movie.
I will preface by saying that I have not played the game, so maybe that is good. The impression that I get from this movie is that every aspect of it is wildly derivative of other idol series. It is very generic despite having a futuristic setting, which you would think they would do something with. The characters felt like exact copies of other idol series' characters. Obviously I know that there are common tropes between idol series, but the Tokyo 7th Sisters characters are literally exactly the same as individual existing characters. Every time a new character started speaking, I immediately could identify whichexisting character they were created to rip-off. And then the actual plot doesn't make up for any of this. Weirdly it kind of feels like a kids movie, but some parts are too inappropriate for kids I think so I donβt think this could have been rebranded as being for kids either.