Fukumenkei Noise

Sometimes you just want to watch something trashy. This anime is on the same level of stupidly, obsessively, melodramatic as Ano Hana. Take one main character with no spine or emotional stability, give them an emotional crutch for a friend, and then take it away! Sit back and watch as this child grows up increasingly maladjusted and in serous need of therapy! But hey, I finished it. I give one point to the anime because it's not grossly m I e, but then I have to go and take it back again because the art just isn't that great. Don't even get me started on the MMD level of cg animate for the concert scenes, and you have one mediocre anime. At least AnoHana was pretty too look at.

So after reading the summary of this anime on Amazon Prime, I was initially hooked because one I love music anime and two, shoujo anime are one of if not my favorite type of anime to watch. What pulled me in was initially the first scene with the girl we learn to be Nino singing a lovely tune on a beachside. It's a really lovely melodic tune. We learn that she is singing so she can find her childhood friend/crush. The story of this anime really was portrayed well in my personal opinion. Sure, a love triangle is a cliche of course but the characters were in my opinion so lovable that you can't help but root for each of them despite their conflicting motives. Nino is a sweet girl who really was obliviously in love with her childhood crush whom she sang with each night underneath the moon and the stars. Yuzu is such a cute tsundere who does anything to protect Nino's smile even if it meant hurting himself. That in my mind was admirable and he instantly became my favorite character. Plus the fact that he lost his voice and can't sing was so sad. It made his love for "Alice" or Nino so sweet. She literally was her voice. Momo, Nino's childhood crush was a bit of a jerk but I understood his reasons and couldn't really blame him for being the way he is. The characters were all dynamic and all had their faults but all are redeemable. No one was evil and malicious and that is another thing I loved about this anime. It was pure and genuine. All the emotions were real and you really did root for all the characters. Honestly, I thoroughly enjoyed this anime purely because I love the idea of a girl singing her heart out so her crush can find her and hear her voice. It's a sweet concept and in my opinion, was portrayed well. The music was catchy and I loved all of the performances. I wish there was another season so I could know how things end up for all of them. I really hope that they all have happy endings haha.

Fukumenkei Noise is a show about a high school girl – Nino "Alice" Arisugawa – whose life revolves around singing. This show was a piping-hot, steaming pile of trash sitting in the summer sun. Dispersed among the pile is the paper-thin plot, a book that was so generic, well worn, and riddled with hackneyed clichés that it legitimately felt recycled. The characters here are the balled-up scraps of a starving artist’s rough drafts (the artist is starving because he has absolutely no talent or ability when it comes to writing) which failed to meet even the artist’s low, low standards. The music is a scratched CD that barely plays anymore – it’s rough and feels unfinished in places it shouldn’t (i.e. the OP and ED) and is without the level of polish I expect from a contemporary anime. Finally, I don’t have anything clever to say about the art or animation other than it was passable. Sitting squarely at the top of the putrid pile named Fukumenkei Noise is a small gem gleaming in the intense summer sun; this gem is the live performance scenes. Despite all of its glaring flaws and obvious shortcomings, Fukumenkei Noise manages to deliver a powerful emotional impact during the scenes where our protagonist, Alice, loses herself in her performance. Indeed, the show is at its best when it’s all she can do to harness the depth of her emotions (no matter how ill-founded or poorly justified these emotions are by the rest of the narrative) and attempt to convey them through the deluge of words spilling out of her. During these scenes, I was able to forget about all of the flaws, all of the recycled, cookie-cutter, clichéd, and generic character backstory; I was able to forget that the person at the center of Alice’s emotions is a really poorly crafted character with almost no compelling aspects. I found these scenes to be transcendent (a word I don’t use lightly). If I could make but one recommendation to the reader it would be this: watch those scenes on their own and ignore the fact that the rest of the anime exists. You don’t really need any context for them and you’re not missing out on anything else the show may have to offer. Overall, my biggest complaint is that I’ll never get back the time I spent watching this show. 4/10 – not recommended

I haven't really watched a lot of music type anime, but this one was really interesting. The music was good, especially since I'm a big fan of alternative rock. The melody and lyrics were both good. To be honest I don't have any complaints on this part of the anime. The characters weren't to bad. It is also a romance so a love triangle would seem inevidable. There were funny moments among the main characters. There was also sad and caring moments. I would have liked it if they went more into the other characters storylines, but this show is only 12 episodes so its understandable. Lastly, the storyline was easy to follow. I would have liked a different ending, but thats just me. Overall it was a good anime.

This anime left me speechless, it is simply amazing. The music shoots straight into your soul and the love triangle draws you in and you feel entwined. The story doesn't let you breathe, sitting on the edge of your seat, waiting, entrapped in the emotion. This is one of the best anime I have EVER seen and I have seen many, there's just so much heart and soul in this anime. The art at first bothered me but after a while it became apart of the beauty. If a character was heart broken, you FELT IT, you felt everything, every emotion was there! This anime was so passionate and the music showed that. The music is just, I can't even explain it, I have never EVER heard something full of so much emotion and soul. It stuck with me, it reminded me of the times where I just want to scream, Nino captured the essence perfectly, her only escape was music, was singing. Letting everything out, screaming her heart out, being HEARD! I recommend this anime to everyone especially people who feel trapped sometimes, people who find music as an escape, people who just want to feel involved, present, ALIVE.

Overall: 10/10 definitely worth giving it a chance! As plenty people say “I don’t usually write reviews” which is very true in my case but, I just had to write one for this show. The low ratings this anime was getting I felt it was necessary for me to write one. At first this anime was on my plan to watch list for months. I finally gave it a chance and within the first episode it left me with multiple feelings such as shocked, curious, confused and determined. The story was great. Not only does it teach you about life it teaches you about relationships. It’s not your typical romance where at the end boy and girl falls in love and they live happily ever after. This shows reality. You have to work hard for your goals weather it’s career or relationship wise. Throughout this anime you’ll see multiple characters being constantly shot down but they NEVER GIVE UP! Nino aka Alice and Yuzu are the definition of perseverance. The storyline is great, realistic and easy to follow, you can actually feel the characters emotions. The music is amazing because you can clearly hear the emotions of the characters through them. Reminds me of NANA. SPOILER..... (I hope nino notices Yuzu feelings soon)

Well, Melodrama is not kind that I like but boy, this anime really exaggerate it. -Story- 1/10 Anime uses a classic childhood friend/crush character design. And I am pretty sure I can explain all story in 4 or 5 line. Here a recipe for this anime: - 2 childhood friend that leaves after spending a little time with the girl. - Suddenly both boys appear at the same time and both of them loves her but the one girls in love with needs to leave every time BECAUSE HE IS AN IDIOT, (sorry I really hated him and all most every character :D ). -Absolutely over forced love triangle (I mean if just girl think for a minute I am pretty sure she gonna understand both of boys idiots ) __And finally maybe this story isn't that bad, maybe it is just the adaptation. Another wise I do not think any company will spend money on this story. __ -Art-4/10 Noting special. -Sound-4/10 Songs neither good nor bad, it will be yours to judge. -Character-3/10 As I said in story part classic but after watching over 5,000 episodes anime (nearly 350 seasons) it's just boring... -Enjoyment-1/10 Just a classic story line that forced with music and idiotic love triangels. -Overall-3/10 Meh~

Okay so this is my first review I have ever done on anime on this site. I do not usually do reviews because I always try really hard when I am experiencing new anime to try my best to like them. That was the case for Fukemenkai Noise. I had high hopes for this anime in the beginning but unfortunately for myself it ended up not delivering on a few aspect. One major aspect for me being character dynamics but we will get into that a bit later. To begin I will start with the soundtrack. Soundtrack: (7/10) I actually liked the alternative music and I know that was one of the major aspects that people had a problem with but the songs in my opinion were very nice and had some good beats to them. The setback being the female lead who sang those songs. The main character Nino seems to be put on this pedestal that she is this magical singer sent from the heavens and when everyone hears her sing they are all in awe. For me though, she wasn't singing. She was screaming and I think this partly has to do with her actual voice actress. No hate towards her as I have watched other anime she has been in, but singing is definitely not her string point and when you have a main character whose main attribute is singing you should find a voice actor who is relatively decent at singing to play the ideal role. That's just my opinion, we are all entitled to our own. Animation: (3/10) When I saw the poster cover for this anime, I was excited to see the animation because I really liked the overall art style. It gave me Kimi no Todoke and Lovely Complex vibes. However the actual animation wasn't top notch in my opinion. Sometimes I feel like animators stop caring after awhile and the animation begins to derail each episode or at least in certain parts of every episode it becomes noticeable. A major turn off for myself was the 3D animation that occurred during the musical performances, it honestly hurt my eyes and I really didn't even find it necessary to have the conversion to 3d. Plot: (5.5/10) I liked the overall synopsis of this anime, that's why I gave it a chance in the first place. However some parts in the anime, there were some moments that were oddly placed. When anime reference someone's past or talk about their back story they do so in episodes that are stagnant to each other, at least from what I have seen. I feel like when this anime tried to include back story, it was placed completely randomly as an excuse to further expand the plot but it honestly didn't even do that for me, aside from the backstories being all over the place from episode to episode I really didn't even feel they needed to go so much into depth with the backstories, we know they left her six years ago. We know there is denial of feelings. We know they held hands and sang twinkle little star, why keep repeating the same aspects of the past? Finally moving onto characters which really frustrated me the most in the duration of this anime. I give the character dynamics a solid 1 out of 10. Two of the main leads Nino and Momo were super one dimensional. They were practically obsessed with each other and they were both equally selfish which was something I couldn't personally stand. Momo in particular was the worst of them all, I honestly couldn't for the life of me understand why he wanted to stay away from Nino. He claimed because she would ruin his music, but at the same time he still appeared to be writing music just fine and the music was basically all dedicated to her to begin with so I don't see his real issue here. Also there is the fact that he is just completely in denial of his feelings and that is something that drags out for far too long, and to be completely honest here he and Nino hardly had any chemistry throughout the anime. I really just couldn't grasp why they even liked each other. Which is why I really felt bad for Yuzu, because he was pretty much the only enjoyable and most realistic character in this anime. I really found his shy but still firm and honest personality to be endearing. He is incredibly selfless, a bit comical and extremely passionate for music. Throughout the anime he had done so much for Nino even when he knew she wouldn't reciprocate his feelings. I liked them together a lot more then I liked Nino with Momo and I was really rooting for Yuzu. I honestly thought they had a slight chance towards the later episodes but that chance was ultimately crushed by how dense and oblivious and just overall selfish Nino is. She can't function for one second without going on and on about Momo 24/7. I swear it was like Momo was the only word she could utilize in her dictionary, I still don't get how she can just disregard someone like Yuzu for someone like Momo, but I guess that is just how some things play out. Overall I rated this anime 4/10 for the given reasons above and I wouldn't say I would recommend this anime to anyone unless you are looking for that anime with a useless love triangle that really isn't even a triangle, more like a square missing one of its connected sides as well having terrible animation and a cringey female lead who can't even operate the talent hee entire character was built on.

Anyone should not be holding the over-distorted and psychotic emotions portrayed in "Fukumenkei Noise". Although Nino's persistence and Momo's "economic attitude" give them a great edge in thriving as musicians, their qualities are not to be fawned upon. After all, such obsessive characters like hers and his are extremely dangerous to have. Nino sticks to her feelings for Momo from six years before the show's timeline but cannot accept the fact the world around her and Momo is changing. Momo, conversely, adapts to the change around him but is not able to accept his sheathed, lingering feelings for Nino. Both of them pour or rather sell their souls into the music industry, and it's really painful to watch... Especially when someone as compassionate as Yuzu tries to save Nino from Momo's canary cage and comes to no avail. So please. do not be like them. Even if you have had the worst of the worst, you should put a little more trust into others and try to understand what others are feeling. Otherwise, you may end up psychotic -- and psychotic people.... Go further than even Nino and Momo. You may be wondering why I gave this show a 7 despite the fact that I dished out so many critics. Well... The unrequited passions within Nino's songs did hit my personal experiences pretty hard (which are not psychotic... Hopefully not...). In addition, I am a music-composing hobbyist myself so I'm especially intrigued by how such inaccurately-intonated pieces can sound so oddly resonant. The art was good and the plot was alluring... Although I was confused by a few hints of character development and romances that were dropped and abandoned in the end. Honestly though, I just really liked how the show brings out the themes of obsession so I can be aware of it more in my life. I'm also aware that immature watchers may be devilishly influenced, but that's why I I wrote this review though -- to bring into light that obsession ain't right! Overall, "Fukumenkei Noise" can teach you a lot about obsession, the beauty of coarseness in music, the adversity of childhood, fire-spitting puns.......... Yea, this show really hits home despite how I really hate most of its characters. Please give it a watch! Don't be bothered by all the low ratings that other people give it.

I can usually handle the silly melodrama, but in this one it was too much. 1. The main girl seemed to not have any stage fright, but she can't even tell the boy she loves her feelings after meeting him once again after so many years. If she loves him that much that she would sing everyday on the beach trying to reach him (she's not right in the head), then she should be able to say it. 2. We often see this case in real life. The girl goes after the douche and not the nice dude who cares for her. She doesn't have to like him because he's nice to her, but Momo was only rude to her when they met again. Why pick him? 3. I hate how the characters are so weak. I hate how in tons of anime, the characters are weak. If your mom repeatedly slaps you, you fight back. If you love someone so much and they obviously want to see you, you go after them no matter what, not leave with your evil mother. 4. If an anime is about music, you best have good singing. As you can see by many comments, the singing wasn't too good. It was a tad better than average, but that won't cut it. A lot of other anime have good singers singing their themes and songs in the anime. Why can't you? Now I take all that into consideration and rate the anime. Story: 6. It's fair. Could be better. Could be worse. Art: 5. It was alright, but looked like crap when they fit all the characters onto the screen when they were performing. Maybe they didn't have the budget to do that well. Sound: 2. Dreadful. Character: 1. Pathetic. Enjoyment: 6. Fair. I enjoy most anime. Overall: 5. Watch this if you're a big shoujo fan I guess.

In short note: Story: 6 Typical shoujo romance drama with childhood backstory. Not bad, but not so good either. Nothing really new in this part, and perhaps the most lacking thing in this show. Art: 8 Multiple bishounen with detailed long eyelashes, the art totally screaming Shoujo here. With sublime CG mixed in between here and there, which may or may not be noticeable. The Lightwork on the concert part really push up the intensity which somewhat rarely seen on the other show. Sound: 9 This is a Music show that actually focused ON the music with some of them spread along the show, unlike the other 'Music' show. And the music itself, is good in my taste. What actually gives me in is the sublime changes in vocalist voice while she sung throughout the show. Notice that her voice changes with her current emotion, it's very slight but it's there and it's definitely a plus for the show. The band reminds me of the old Akeboshi rockets. Character:8 Main Heroine is very likeable. I like the way she doesn't give a fuck to everyone including her crush. Glasses MC being a teenage edgelord and keeps exhaling lame puns. While the shorty MC being bullied left and right by everyone, poor guy. Enjoyment:7 The concert part alone is really good. The every day part is rather forgettable, even with some good jokes in between. The plot is weak after all. Overall:8 Decent Shoujo show with weak overused plot, but good song. The show won't make you watch it twice but the song will.

If you're looking for any of the genres mentioned on this anime you're gonna have to be desperate to enjoy this anime. This is not an anime that should have a second season, its a mediocre anime with no real depth to it. The comedy was slap-in-the-face forced. it come in at the most random times, the jokes had no real connection to the story or anything of the sort. The romance was mediocre as well, just a bunch of love triangles that go absolutely nowhere throughout the whole show. The only thing I liked about the show was one song and that is it. This is an anime you watch when you've run out of stuff to watch and just want to spend some time.

I have a lot of serious problems with this anime. I think their idea is a good one, but they did a bad job carrying it out. Let's break it down: STORY It wasn't fleshed out enough, wasn't paced well, and didn't do such a great job at creating the appropriate ambiance/emotions around its sub-arcs/main arc. The biggest reason for such failure, I believe, is the lack of character development. CHARACTERS For a story to be good, it has to have strong characters. Otherwise, weak characters will seem like puppets simply going along with whatever the author needs them to do to progress the story. That was kind of how this anime felt. Since the anime neglected to flesh out the characters, it also missed a lot of chances to flesh out the story to make everything more meaningful and impactful. What I mean by this is that, if some random kid won an award at your school, you wouldn't really care. But if you're best friend won an award, you'd be excited for them. Why? Because they're your best friend, you know them and you've shared memories with them. But the memories that this anime goes through is not enough/not diverse enough. Ok, so everyone is connected by music, it's a special thing they share, but there's not reason to have such a strong connection as the main characters do. The story needed more things/different things to happen to flesh out the characters, their connection, which would in turn give more substance to the story. And about the love aspect of this story—it kind of makes no sense to me. Sure, Momo and Nino liked each other when they were young kids. Nino and Yuzu met each other during a sensitive time that made them closer than any other time would have. I think these are good starting points to grow a relationship, but they're not enough to have full blown head-over-heels love. This was part of what made the story seem superficial/forced. Also, very few things were mentioned about the characters backstories—their families, friends, own experiences outside of being with Nino—and this again contributed to the flatness of the characters. ART The art is appealing. BUT the 3D animation they use for the concert scenes really hurt my eyes. It's probably not such a big deal, but I hate it when 3D is mixed in with 2D, especially such poor 3D. It ruined the mood for me. SOUND Despite being an anime centered around music, the music wasn't actually all that great. I like Japanese rock, but I did not like what songs this show presented me with. For a show, I guess they're fine. But the voice they chose for Nino was not meant for rock. I originally thought the voice actress could not sing, but after a while I came to the decision that she can, but she is no rock singer. Good rock singers can sing intense songs without losing the notes, but when things got intense, Nino's voice lost its musicality and seemed to be screaming. It was a good enough voice, just not good enough for rock. I've seen a lot of good reviews for this anime, and considering it currently has a rating of around 7, I'd say that it's relatively well received despite my criticism. Honestly, I think this is because of differences in age and preference. If you're a preteen, you might like this show. But if you're my age (young adult) you might have some of the same problems watching it as I did.

i don't get how people didn't like this anime. i was yelling, screaming, and getting goosebumps for 80% of it. this has easily entered my top 10 list. i seriously loved it. i was never bored with it and always wanted to know what would happen next. the characters aren;'t as predictable as they seem. nino is also very relatable (coming from an nd person) even though you'll love and hate her sometimes. don't listen to the negative reviews and honestly give it a watch. you'll probably end up liking it more than you think you will. it's like given, but straight. if you liked given, you'll like this. YUZU I'M ALWAYS ROOTING FOR YOU!!

STORY 5/10 The story is the weakest point of this anime, it is a story that is not simple but with inconsistencies and with very common moments. The story goes back to Nino, a student who has been singing for almost her entire life to catch up with Momo, her childhood friend of hers who moved out of town without prior notice. With all that, Nino gets on with Yuzu who teaches him the basics of singing music. Nowadays Nino must join the group that Yuzu created for her and where she will try to reach Momo more easily. It is not a bad premise, obviously it could be better but it is enough not to fail. The problem is that in many moments of the story there are very forced events or changes in the attitude of characters that do not make sense just so that the story does not stay stagnant and follow its original flow. An example would be that Nino has always been shown as a childish and very carefree girl and when Yuzu kisses her she changes her attitude and shows herself as someone mature who has been angered by what happened when at no point in the series we have seen her that way. ART 8/10 The animation of this work is quite good. There are no times when you say "I can't stand to see this" and it is generally quite enjoyable. It is true that in the moments of the beach they focus so much on making a good landscape that they forget to animate the characters well or make their eyes or mouth more detailed. But what I really like about art is that expressions are worked out a lot to make you emotional at times. At Nino's first concert with the group they cheer him on in such a way that you feel the song inside your heart. They also make you look very good when a character is nervous or depressed, in general the expressions are great. SOUND 10/10 The sound effects are good. The sound of the guitar strings, the hits, the sudden silences of the soundtrack to make you see that it is a tense scene ... among many other things. But above all I want to mention the songs. It is probably the musical anime that has the best songs. When I finished it, I had my entire Play List with songs from In no Hurry to Shot. Canaria, Noise, Othello ... all perfect, they have no fault. They have feeling, good melody, good chorus and they are catchy, in this aspect Fukumenkei Noise is perfect. CHARACTER 6/10 The characters are normal, as a strong point I would say that they are quite charismatic and they all have their personality fixed and that distinguishes them. Apart from that they have no evolution and a past to remember, obviously Nino, Yuzu and Momo yes but because they are the protagonists but the secondary cast should be taken into account more. Also mentioning that you dislike a character does not mean that he is bad, I am going to give you some examples, Ichika from Gotoubun no Hanayome dislikes everyone but he is the best character in his work, the same happens with Mami from Rent a Girlfriend, as irritating as she is, is a very good character. I also say that for Momo since I personally like her very badly but her actions are justified by the bad past she had and how it caused her evolution to reach this point. ENJOYMENT 7/10 I have enjoyed this anime, in general I really like musical animes and if they have their point of romance, even better, the problem is that the point of romance in some aspects is poorly constructed, so as I was realizing, I did not enjoy it as much. In general it is a good anime, it is not perfect but if you do not know what to see I recommend it. I think that it should be taken more into account since it is little known but it is better that anime known worldwide.

Anonymous Noise is an enjoyable music anime that's emotionally engaging, though some aspects of it held it back from being a masterpiece. Story-wise, I like how everyone has a motivation that determines their actions so even though they touch some tropes here and there it feels well done and makes perfect sense in context with the story. Nino, Yuzu, and Momo are decent leads who pull the story. I love their dynamic and relationships with one another. Each of them do music for a reason, and often that reason has something to do with their feelings towards each other. Speaking of which, the music of the show is great. I love it that Nino isn't necessarily the best singer in the world, but nonetheless has the talent and emotional drive to pulls people in. There's always an emotional weight to the songs she sings as she wants those songs to reach to a certain someone. The fact that both Yuzu and Momo are composers who can't sing due to certain circumstances also enhances the trio's dynamic in the show. That being said, the one thing that holds Anonymous Noise back is its ending. It feels incomplete (probably because the manga wasn't finished when the show aired). Major conflicts aren't resolved or at least answered. Characters changed, but with how the story ended it feels like it's still just the beginning of something great. Since it seems unlikely that the show won't continue even though the manga now finished, it further emphasizes that there's something lacking. That being said, it could be argued that there's a bitter sweet implication in the ending which could work to some extent. Overall, Anonymous Noise may be held back to some extent it's still an emotional rollercoaster filled with great songs and characters. You shouldn't miss this story.

First let's talk about the main character, the main characters name is Nino Arisugawa and she want's her voice to reach a childhood friend from six years ago. If we're going to talk about my opinion on her then I would say i hate her more then i liker her but only for one reason. Nino is absolutely obsessed with having her voice reach Momo Sakaki, her childhood friend, that doesn't sound so bad but every time she sings the only thing she thinks about is Momo this and Momo that and it's honestly so annoying because even after she realized she should sing for 'in NO hurry to shout' and not just herself she goes exactly back to it and had almost no character development in the last episode. A continuation about her character development is that she completely disregarded the band up until the last song so I'll give her an applause but i personally think that's the only character development she got and it went back down when she still started chasing after Momo The art is good in some places but whenever they threw in the CGI at the concerts i started laughing at how bad they were, like i know that CGI is hard and they probably had a low budget but i would rather them to have waited so that they had the money and time to animate it better because it feels kind of gross and stiff where they did it which makes me give the art a 7/10 I started to become bored of the plot and romance that made me want to stop watching and the only thing that made me continue was because the music was really good but i can just listen to the music on YouTube or something. So sound is a 10/10 I don't enjoy about the two love rivals is that they both kept talking about how they want Nino's voice for themselves which makes me want neither of them to have her because it's her voice and they both just want it for themselves. They want to keep her in a cage like a canary which i hate a lot. I hope that is they make a second season to tie all the lose ends together that they fix that and that her voice stays her own and nobody else's. My review is solely based off the anime because I haven't read the manga so if anything is different or i'm wrong about something then I'm sorry.

Oh no. I was so happy watching this show in my high school days. But this is so depressing that I have watch this show again. It has potential to be great show but sadly its not. Story and Plot are rushed and it feels meaningless. Like the Direction and Phasing Story, Plot and Events in this show shoved it into your face that it loses the Mystery of the lead characters to invest in them like what happen to character or what happen to this character, it just shove it on one episode. The only interesting characters are not the Male Leads or the Female Lead, its the Side characters. Animation. 2D and 3D animation really do mix together if its done right. Props to the 3D animator who used a realistic smoke physics on the cigarettes for the adult characters. Music. It got meaning and its soothing for the anime. If it has a second season or if the first season has a 24 episode, can recommend it but don't bother watching this. Read the Manga for now. It really hurts that the story and plot direction is meaningless Score: 6/10

There might seem a bit of a contradiction in how I've rated this show. I've given it an 8/10, yet claim to have mixed feelings on 'Anonymous Noise'. I'll get to why in a little bit. First, I'll do the fun part, and talk about the show itself. That's the bit that gets the 8/10. It's honestly been something of a surprise to me, not because it was especially outside of my normal tastes (I'll always love a show about musicians), but simply because I knew people didn't talk about it much, and that suggested to me a degree of mixed reception. So, when what I got was a pretty overwhelmingly competent work, I certainly found myself pleasantly surprised. From a production standpoint, there's probably nothing mindblowing about the show, but not in a bad way. Brains Base's animation is consistent and competent; the movement in the animation is nothing special, although not anything bad either, but the artwork, especially the characters, is very clean and has a sort of sharp feel to it that gives the show something a little distinct (I think the studio has a bit of style here, given it reminds me a little of 'Durarara' in terms of the artwork. The direction has plenty of flair to it, especially during the music sequences, but is similarly nothing we've never seen before. It's good, has good shot composition, establishes the tone of the world well. Nice, solid, competent work in terms of the production. Naturally, music is important to a show like this, so it's fortunate that the soundtrack is probably the standout part; much as I loved 'Beck', I did find it a little difficult to believe that the titular bands music caught as much attention as it did, but 'in NO hurry to shout;' definitely stands up to the in-universe hype; composition and lyrics perfectly with Saori Hayami's raw, character-filled vocals to create I sound that I definitely think would break through the indie scene IRL. The music really elevates the scenes that rely on it, which is good for a show where so many important scenes do. The incidental soundtrack complements it nicely too, with plenty of strong, easily-identifiable leitmotifs tying it together. And the characters get to be the power source for the whole thing, with the central trio of Nino, Yuzu, and Momo each being complex, unique, and imperfect in just the right way, with their dynamics being perhaps a little on the overexaggerated melodrama side, but not in a bad way - I do like overexaggerated melodrama, after all. The supporting cast is generally fun, although perhaps a little underdeveloped in places; I know literally nothing about In NO Hurry's drummer, Kuro, that isn't included in this sentence. But generally, it keeps the focus where it needs to be; I think there's scope to expand on certain aspects of the story and characters, but not in a way that leaves what's important underdeveloped. So, 8/10, great show, had a very good time, definitely need to find a way to get that soundtrack. Why do I have mixed feelings? Well, it's very clear that this show did not adapt a whole manga, and it is very clear that the story is incomplete. It is also very clear that, given the show didn't seem to make a huge amount of impact when it landed in 2017, it seems somewhat unlikely that we're going to get to see that fact change. Perhaps there's hope; certainly, there can be a difference in popularity between the western and domestic audiences, so perhaps there's more demand for it in Japan that might make it viable. But I'm not holding out too much hope. If you can accept that, and perhaps live with the manga after the fact (I may look it up myself), then there's still an awful lot to enjoy here. But, if you can't handle the fact that this just isn't a complete story, and won't give you as much resolution as you'd like, then I can't say you won't come out it a little disappointed. I'm very much in the former category, but if you're in the latter, this might not be for you.

very good anime series. most people say its trash but idk why they say that. if you're depressed after finishing the series, read the manga. so what i know: momo and nino are good friends then they separate. then yatta yatta yatta nino finds momo again the end. ok ok i know much more but i really dont wanna talk much about it. anonymous noise is a good anime series and you should watch it. when you watch or read the series, you might ship everyone with everyone, no joke, i shipped nino and her mom :/ Ok im just writing this cuz MAL wants me to write a long review