Fuuka

Look, it's an anime about people who are good at playing music. Yeah, look, don't listen, because the music they are playing is mediocre at best and actually awful. But they never stop blowing their own horn. And the same goes with romance. It's an anime about a boy who loves a girl and they have sorta-relationships. Or not. Who cares. The boy sure doesn't, and the girl is as concerned and is feeling as much as a corpse. This anime is as shallow as a dry poddle. It's a shame they've wasted such quality art on it. Don't waste your time, just check some screencaps and you'll know everything about it. There's not much story and no development at all.

Have you ever seen White Album 2? Its exactly that but the end is so much better. WA2 left me empty and i hated everything about the ending, and how the relationships worked. Fuuka did a better job with the whole "I love him so much but dont have the courage to tell him face to face" thing. There were tons of misunderstandings the whole time, and they get resolved quick (12 episodes is a bit tight) but its not like it was *horribly done* yaknow? It was a relatively average plot regardless, dont get me wrong, but it was also a good kind of average too. Cliche but not so Cliche that it felt boring. Evewry episode is just FILLED with plot points. Like easily 3 at minimum, and thats not even including any drama or resolutions. Would i watch this again? Yaknow, it being so short, yea i probably would. not any time soon as theres still more i want to watch, but Im more likely to rewatch this than WA2. Im sorry i keep referencing that, but its the best example i have. **SPOILER but also not spoiler** We got the fabled beach episode on episode 3 and it was FILLED with with drama and plot. It chucked like 4 things in that all got resolved that episode.

Some of y'all writing reviews really need to get a grip. If you really think this show is one of the worst animes ever then you need to watch more anime. Like y'all hating so much for what? grow up before you write a review. Just because the anime has a different ending than the manga doesn't make it bad, I thought it worked well. The music was awesome and the characters were really enjoyable. So what if you think its predictable, shouldn't all that matter is if you enjoyed it or not? I was never bored once while watching and thoroughly enjoyed the anime as a whole. I cant even think of any super huge flaws about it, everything was wrapped up nicely. I would only say not to watch it if you aren't into music anime but other than that its a great one time watch. If you're thinking about watching, give it a shot. Don't let others influence you giving it a chance because its nothing like what these people are making it out to be. I actually want a continuation to the story but because of all the negative feedback i'm seeing sadly I don't think i'll get anything. Anyways give it a watch especially if you're into music anime, its definitely a fun watch. (Watched in sub)

THE FUCK WAS THAT BRO I WAS SITTING THERE THING THAT ITS GOOD BUT NO OH MY GOSH I DONT HAVE ALOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS ANIME BUT I KNOW HOW COMPLETE SHIT IT IS. this is a filler writing cause i dont have time write how garbage the anime is so filler writing is her. Once upon a time there was this anime that was so garbage is worst than akame ga kill but not worst than school days and yeah filler done back to the main writing. SO ART GARBAGE SOUND MEDIOCRE NOT 6 or 5 or 4 I MEAN 2 CHARACTERS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS SO DUM HE REJECTED HIS CHILDHOOD FREIND AND PLUS WHY YOU YOU WANNA BE WITH THAT BLUE HAIRED PIECE OR GARBAGE SHE LOOKS PATHETIC IF I WAS YUU I WOULD CHANGE THE PART WHERE HIS CHILDHOOD FREIND CONFESSES TO YUU I MEAN THE PART WHERE THEY NEARLY SMASHED IF I WAS HIM I WOULD BE AS HER FIRST YOU M+KNOW WHAT I MEAN. ENJOYMENT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN DOES IT EXIST ON THIS ANIME NO! OVERALL 0 FUCK THE CREATOR AND FUCK THE FANS WHO ACTUALLY LIKED IT AND IFH THE WRITER

The anime is better than what people say. Is it the best anime in any kinds of way? Nope, it itsn't, but it's indeed a great anime. During the last few hours I have watched the entire anime and I must say that my feelings got quite divided by the end of it. Fuuka's first half got me completely amazed. I'm personally someone who really enjoys music and that has sold me entirely during the first few episodes. The anime had a good character development during these first episodes with Yuu's and Fuuka's story, but it turned out to disappoint me quite a bit in it's last half with rushed decisions, baddly developed/introduced new characters, and some random time-skips that were not as smooth as I think they should be for this kind of show. You could only know that some time had passed when you heard a character say so. In my opinion, this time could have been pretty much more well used. Ratings Story - 8 I actually liked it. Besides the fact that, as I said, the ending felt kinda rushed, good decisions were made and the show went towards it's expected ending. Art - 7 The show's art was quite ok. Character's design and instruments were my favourite part of it. Some important scenes have great lighting and are very impressive. The rest of it was actually forgettable Sound - 9 Well, it's an anime about music. The songs are great, the soundtrack was very captivating during most of it and made me feel very immersed when it should. It's not the best, but it is what made the show the most enjoyable to me. Character - 5 As I said before, the actual main characters (Yuu, Fuuka and Koyuki) are well developed and we can feel pretty close to them and what happens in their lives, but the other characters are so baddly unused and so baddly developed that I have actually already forgotten the name of most of them. I felt like so much more could have been done, but I might be being a little too harsh. Enjoyment - 6 One more time, as I said, the first half of the anime is great and I actually enjoyed it a lot, but the second half got me really disappointed. The ending was expected and I liked it. That explains this 6. Overall - 7 Watch it. It's worth your time.

My take on this: If you are looking for a content, this one has its potential. The progression might be a fast and sometimes you might have to slowly swallow what is going on with the series. I can't recommend nor recommend this one for the sake of story. Story: The progression is fast, and if looked on another side (if a positive way) focuses on the struggle of the main characters to form something (40% from the start), conflict (40%-90%), and then resolution (90%-100%). My problem with this series though is that it does not satisfy the viewers with good resolution. Even though, if the story has progressed in a different direction, I would have given this series a much higher score (as I would always tend to score a series at its resolution). Art: The art is great, clean and simple. As a person will lean on the quality of art in a series, I definitely recommend this one. No flashy things but a simple, clean and fluid work, and that is what I love about this series. Sound: Not much to say about this but it definitely harmonizes with the story lines and progress of the series. Character: I'll focus only on the male main character. The character shows poor conviction, maddening, and slow decisions. If you hate people that is very indecisive, cannot be satisfied with something and lacks the courage to end, even though it might not be ideal, here it is... But for the sake of the story... I guess all can say is OK. The others though made me love the story with their own characteristics. Again, with the story running in a fast pace, I try to understand each character in my own way. Enjoyment: I watched this series in one go, from first to last episode. It have enjoyed the first (50%) of the story with much excitement on what is to happen next but found it much predictable on the last few parts especially the ending. If you are used to this kind of genre with an indecisive main character (for the sake of the story), you know the ending with someone will always get hurt, and I hate that part, always. Side note: This is my first review though but I have done my best to write, which is not really my thing to do. But I have written this to may be enlighten the story and give it a more reason to be watched and appreciated.

The worst anime I've ever watched, seriously. I haven't read the manga but I've heard that they actually changed it from shit cliched manga to shit-ter cliched anime. It's my first ever review and I'm sad that it's so negative but yeah, it is what it is. I suggest you do NOT watch it, it'll piss you off just like it did to me. Story: 1 Genuinely pathetic, most cliched of cliches, you can easily predict the whole anime from ep 1, but i was wondering if theyre actually going along with it so i ended up watching all the episodes. Describing the story is just simply a waste of time so if anyone's reading this, trust me, I'm sparing you a lot of time. Art: 4 the MAL scores say it all, story was pathetic, and art was just decent. it wasn't half bad but it wasn't really good either, to me it wasn't a problem. Had the art style we see in almost every anime from like 2011-2012. Sound: 4 the op + ed were fine, you can listen to them, as well as the songs played throughout the anime (theres a music genre just incase). As i said about art, DECENT. Character: 1 1 word for every single character, it's the only word I can use for most of this review: CLICHE. Just by watching the 1st episode, you know the rest of the story right? That means you also know what the characters are gonna do, basically they're also predictable as hell. Enjoyment: 2 Why 2? Even though I knew what was gonna happen in most episodes, there was one part where we could've gotten rid of a very cringy part of the story, it's where fuuka almost got hit by a truck (idk if this counts as a spoiler) Overall: 2 Fuuka, be grateful, sound and art saved you from the score of ''1'' out of 70k people lol.

I like to try and see beyond the surface of a movie or tv-series nowadays. Since I have some years on my back, I like to think that it is good just not to be shallow, but rather take on things on another level. Are, are, that sounds very pretentious, right?! Anyways, this series is, to me, more than meets the eye. I was charmed by it`s message; "be honest to yourself". Also, the characters were well-played, to be teenagers. That message is so important to bring in your daily life, even if it can cost you sometimes. Not to mention the people around you. I was also moved by the love-story in the main-story, because that is where the message comes out at it´s clearest expression.The drawing is excellent and all is well that ends well?!

Written by the same author of “Suzuka” and sharing the same worldline and characters, “Fuuka” is a music-centered shitfest of forced and rushed up drama having character's emotionally abused as often as one's blinking. Not forgetting the incest references, of course, showing several naked scenes than necessary, so keep up your family distance on this one. A show that's been accused of having the wrong protagonist, and honestly, childhood friends have had enough of this, and Fuuka doesn't go easy a bit. But that doesn't exclude people from claiming it to be one of their favorites, going as far as paring it with the fantastic “Clannad”, that's where I draw a thick line folks, and I'm about to clear the reason about that in this review. - Story (5/10): Akitsuki Fuuka (wow how original of the show's title), a clumsy go-lucky highschool girl (the daughter of Akitsuki Yamato and Asahina Suzuka, the protagonists of the indirect prequel of this show, “Suzuka”) is at a very relatable stage of her life, that one hard-to-knock-off-wall that goes about having students decide what they are going to do next. In the other side, you have your typical silent unsocial male protagonist, Haruna Yuu, that has an extreme obsession about sharing every bit of detail about his life on Twitter. The two happen to meet each other, and right from the first episode already manage to get as close as one can call a boyfriend and a girlfriend. And with that, the flaws of the show start to mercilessly attack every sense of logic remaining. I still can't grasp how could an individual (Yuu, the protagonist) join a band with no talent or prior knowledge to music, only being there because some random girl he met told him to. The show at first gives a really focused view on Yuu and Fuuka, I've seen this strategy before, making the viewers ship the heck out of them until we get mercilessly stabbed at the heart by the introduction of this childhood friend that apparently has always had a crush on Yuu. Meet Hinashi Koyuki, both a member of this little love triangle and overall a very famous idol that the other side of the triangle (Fuuka) is a big fan of. “That is some seriously interesting setup”, said old naive me that had more expectations on this show than it actually delivered upon. Right after she's introduced she goes through causing misfortune between the two only for her to get hurt by the end of the story and the two obvious pair get back along again. Now try to picture that turn of events, but in the most terrible way you can, that's what Fuuka, and extremely below average show in terms of love stories is. And that's excluding the other side characters, like this one girl, Iwami Sara, a girl that showed hostile behavior towards the protagonist at first to only make a complete 180° split in personality for no apparent reason going as far as threatening their modest love triangle to becoming a square. I feel that the show could have been better if they focused more about the actual band's growth and them realizing their dreams, but of course, with them having the right qualifications. - Art (8.0/10): Most definitely the only good thing this show did right, yeah, give me more of them crispy looking animations, those oddly-ordered lines make for such a relaxing view for my eyes. And honestly, without this, the show would have never stand on its feet. The color palette was so diverse and colorful, taking a non-realistic art style that really suited this show for being the genre it is. One of the many things I appreciate about Fuuka (rare of me to say) was the sense of fashion, the characters looked as if they were staging for some world-class clothing magazine, all looked very tidy and elegant, and I'm backing this up for you, hips out there. One thing that really left a bad taste on my memory was that adults, kids, and teenagers, all looked similar with no signs of aging gaps, I'm talking about parents looking as young if not younger than their kids, it was ridiculous. - Sound (7.5/10): Being a show heavily centered on music, that is if we don't count the childish drama. Those were some really good songs, to be honest, I didn't give the opening theme song credits at first, but it grew on me as far as making me want to clap for them when they decided to feature it as one of their hits on some episodes. The voice acting was decent but could have been better if not for the painfully cringy dialogue they put the actors through. And then again, there is the classic Engrish, one of the strongest, in fact. I really have to emphasize more on how good the music was or else I'm not going to get this unlucky feeling off that I'm getting right now. - Character (6/10): “Next please”, that would have been my quote of the day if I was in charge of recruiting actors for a live action and replicas of the show's characters happened to be involved. There was no single memorable character that brought something new with it. You had your friendship above all types of people, and there was also the selfish bastard that goes about ruining everything the show built upon for 10 episodes. 10!!!!! are you kidding me? Shipping was really intense at first, but then, it was like, why even bother, just let this end quickly I don't wanna get rid of my dropped-shows-virginity yet. I can give the protagonist credit at least for curing his addiction to Twitter, but that was it. And to this day, I don't think I'll even know how could someone with no talent in a medium perform that well in it, and in such a short time, it really goes as far as contradicting the philosophical meaning of a “Talent”. - Enjoyment (7/10): It's very odd to have animals like pigs that eat practically anything that they can swallow, but what's even more mindblowing is how could one enjoy something they criticise this bad. I'm not going to lie on myself, I did have a bit of guilty pleasure watching Fuuka, not because of some deep plot points, not because of the revolutionary characters, but rather how decent it served as a time killer. At least it didn't put me to sleep at night or made me count how many times I yawned every 3 minutes. I had my fair share of rooting, shipping and cheering, but towards the end, it dropped massively. - Overall (6.7/10): Fuuka is a type of show I'm going to be very careful about calling it a good show out loud, there is no way in hell I'll recommend this as a solid romance experience for how bratty and unfunny the drama turned out to be. As for me, seeing that many shows already makes me realize how low in scale this appears next to greater franchises, but for you out there who are planning to have this as one of their first takes on the romance genre, please don't, it would end up affecting your tastes in a bad way.

Okay this was a show that I thought looked somewhat interesting and it was, well starting off it was. Since this has music as one of its genres I was still unsure, but hey YOLO. Anyway I got the general of the show before it started. Story: It started off with two of the most cliché scenarios that could happen, running into senpai and accidently looking at a girl in the wrong area of her body, really? The originality is lacking, but I kept going. After that we are going into the house of our Male lead, Yuu. Nothing really happens aside from him dealing with family. When he gets to school the next day he has to deal with the same stuff with senpai (Fukka). It’s as if the writers got in a loop. After that tsundere moment again Fukka gets a heart change the next day because Yuu just happened to tickets to a concert to her favorite singer. Honestly the mood swings in the show are so weird. So later on the idea of making band came in and I was just like nope. The romance in the how was the end factor. There is a love triangle and it was so obvious how it would end. Characters: Yuu: He is shy and quiet guy who loves twitter and does not have many friends. I like him for he actually does his best through the show to be a better him. Fukka: The reason I stopped watching. She came off as a jerk and then as weird mood swings a times. She is selfish and the plot caters to her like crazy. It is abad thing when the name of the show is what ruins it. Koyuki: She is the childhood friend of Yuu and I was rooting for her and Yuu, but Fukka said no to that. She is very werid when Yuu mentions Fukk a and does not try to listen to Yuu after he tries to defend himself. But still I like her better than Fukka. Everyone Else: The others are pretty likable and don’t hinder the story or the quality of it.

Fuuka started as what one might call an interesting band anime but the music is what keeps it from being cliche and cringey anime with melodrama at the top. The story well there are alot of different things to say about the story and not much good. it throws a mash of cliche from the mcs bumping into another and pantie shots. There are just too much of it as the anime goes on and tries to tell its story. It had a potential but trying to entice the watcher by revealing skin in almost every episode isnt the way atleast for me who hoped a story based on music. It has it all everything form the childhood friend to love triangles. Althoguh it does have its own originality it doesnt have as much as i had hoped. So the story is the worst of the entire anime which is kinda funny considering that is supposed to be what an anime consist of so why in all gods names do i give it a 6 which rates as a fine anime which is borderline good. Well the music is what makes me want to continue to watch this and makes me wait for the next song in the next episode. This anime makes good music in a band anime that some anime struggles with which is refreshing. Great vocals /beats and plays makes me want to watch it. Problem is that the story overshadows too much of it and makes people remember the crappy story and not the great music that actually is in it. Not only thinking about the lyrics but the music played from the instruments themselves. For real how many anime actually gives the bass some love ? Very few thats who. Well the 2 main characters are pretty generic i feel. The great and open music girl and the shy and blushy boy with his half naked sisters. Not much to write home about. The cold yet interesting guitarist , the prob homosexual keyboardist and the fun and energetic drummer are alot more interesting as characters than the mains which speaks alot of the anime itself. I enjoyed it to a 7 because its rare to find so much great music in one anime and very rare at that. The melodramatic cliche story made me at times cringe but music got me through it as much else in life does for people. Overall its a fine anime solely based on the anime and a couple of things from the story but in the end music is all this anime will ever be for me. So eventhough i enjoyed it to a 7 almost all cause the music it doesnt deserve more than to be rated as a fine or 6 in my opinion

I actually disagree with most of the radically negative reviews of this anime, Although I do have a bias for the genre, and am capable of excusing certain flaws, I would still consider Fukka better than your average anime in the genre. Id rate Fukka as a solid 6 (while id say an average anime in the genre nowadays is more like 4) The main thing that is killing the anime like a gross parasite is the Cliches. Especially at the start of the show, the director relies heavily on the usual frame of anime in the genre. The first episode made me cringe quite a few times and wonder if I should drop it. But the thing is, if you are able to ignore these details, they become exponentially less prominent as the show goes. Id say that the two things that work best for this anime is the fabulous animation/character design and a plot-driving character development. This anime isnt very deep, its about a bunch of kids starting a band. The thing that is interesting to see is how the values that drive them as musicians and the personal growth the main characters go through to finally satisfy the romantic tension in the anime. Regarding the romance itself, as youd expect there would be some cliche immature moments.. but sometimes, I was surprised to see they were not as bland as they are in some other animes. sometimes the romance is even mature id say.. If youre a romance anime fan with the patience to excuse a few cliches for decent character/plot development , well, I enjoyed this anime so Id recommend.

Overall Rating: 2 Ok, how should we start this anime? Fuuka for me was one of the interesting manga that i'd been read. and yeah instead having a harem-ecchi romance comedy, it gives romance tragedy type that seem's to be really rare in this era. and my first though is when being adapted into anime i think is going to be great But that's just only in the beginning.... Appart from the story being pushed too hard, a lot ecchi scene are also being removed from the anime instead trying to make it more drama, and the anime seems only to be focused on the music instead the main storyline.but that's not the reason why i am rated it 2 at beginning a thought i am gonna rate it 5 or 6. But after one of the scene . i thought "oh i give up, this anime is worthless to watch". sometimes you have to follow the story to make it reaches is climax even though the MC may died . now that's something that the director didn't wan't to take a risk because afraid of loses rating. well the director had wrong. the story that not follow the manga is always have a bad rating from it's fans...... i think the reason of why this anime is suck because no death scene just like the manga does. i mean what's wrong with the death? i thought death will make the story makes an open to a new beginning. at least one of the mecha anime told me about that. that death is not going to make anime itself worst but rather it giving something that is perfect.

So when I read the synopsis of the anime, I really didn't think much. I usually get really annoyed by girl characters who assume everyone is a perv trying to get at them. Based on the synopsis, heck, I didn't even know what the anime was about. Soooooooo, if you want to watch anime that is mostly romance/drama vs. maybe like 2 episodes of music, then look no further. But if you're actually looking for a music anime, I'd recommend you see BECK or something like that. It was pretty entertaining though. A little cringe, here and there...but overall it was enjoyable.

It's a really average romance anime. It's not bad, but it's not good either. The characters are meh, only Fuuka has (a little) development, and Sara-senpai was actually the only character I liked, the others are just average romance-story characters. And they tried to add some dramatic backstory, which failed miserably. I'm not sure if the focus is the music or the romance, but I didn't like how both are passed, it's rushed and with very little development (if any). Though, I didn't hate the anime, don't think it deserves a score lower than 5 (which is average), and I only gave it a 6 because I actually enjoyed the songs (but I was REALLY annoyed by the fact that they play the OP song OVER AND OVER AGAIN) and the art is not bad. I didn't hate Fuuka, in fact I enjoyed some parts of the anime, but it's just an average romance with a very rushed story and little to no character development. But seriously, the songs are good.

tl dr no spoilers: if you want a romcom, you gotta have to go through 5 episodes of music shit, if you want music, you gotta get throught 5 episodes of romcom till you can get to the trash ending. This show wasnt too bad but had distinct episodes of genre. first 5 are your generic high school romcom with a beach episode, love triangles and melodrama. great, i was all on board SS Fuuka. then they gotta go concentrate on the band shit and the show becomes fucking K-ON without the cake eating and tea drinking. AND hold up now the childhood friend is coming through to steal yo boy haruna. Cool man, no worries. episode 11 comes along and just fucking shoots you in the dick. Just once i want the best girl to win and not have to be cucked with a generic shitty ending like this. But hey, if you like to separate your cartoon genres and love shitty tropes, this might be for you. Everything else is pretty generic and straight forward. you got loud jock side character, cool but potentially gay but also omniscient best friend and big titty but mysterious side chick. Nothing out of the ordinary. Best girl definitely was a whiny little bitch but you know once you build that relationship up with the MC, it just stings my asshole with the way things happened. Fuuka is just straight trash tho. its pretty average in all regards, if you like the genre of cartoon then you might enjoy it. id actually rather just sit in my room and see how many grapes i can push up my asshole, but to each their own. being as generic as it is, best girl is childhood cuck girl

So Fuuka, a good old music based rom com that is kind of pretty, sounds kind of nice, that has some fun characters etc etc. Long story short it's a fine and a somewhat simplistic but ultimately quite enjoyable show. (spoiler: read manga instead) When I watched the first two episodes I noticed that I really enjoyed the look and feel of the show, basic romcom with somewhat fun characters, with a touch of music and no focus on fanservice which is right up my alley. Since I'm more of a bingewatcher and only a couple of episodes were out I checked out the manga out of curiosity. I got hooked and like most people was quite taken by the big tonal shift. Some people disliked it, I personally loved what it did to the story. Then after binging the manga I came back the next week to follow up with the show. Of course I already knew what would happen but still wanted to follow suit. But some things became apparent, the songs sounded good but the concerts really lacked in intensity (visually). The story progressed but the pacing felt a tad too slow, nd by being slower some clichés became a bit more apparent than in the manga since I could just brush over it. But I still enjoyed it casually as expected until 3 quarter of the way through the show when something weird started to happen. It started to deviate from the story of the manga, love triangle seemed to have different outcome, critical tonal shift didn't happen, etc etc. Some people got annoyed, but I got excited. An alternative story seemed intersting as long as it was as good as the original. But then came the major flaw, right before the end they took everything back it seemed to have been a big curveball and the series ends right before where the tonal shift would've happened. So it seems that they justed added some material to stretch the story out so they wouldn't have to deal with the tonal shift in the first season. (even though I don't expect to ever see a season 2) That was honestly a big dissapointment, and makes the studio look like a bunch of cowards imo. Either way would have been fine but they didn't commit, in the end I liked the show a lot initially, it introduced me to a manga that I love now but ended up by dissapointing me at the end. But overall it's still a good watch I just strongly recommend the manga over its adaptation.

Most aspects of the show are lacking. The art was a little off with a fair amount of still shots and such but the biggest let down was the story. The characters were never fully developed enough to interact with one another the way they did, and the heroine seemed more like a spoiled kid than a love interest. Honestly, I felt like no one had the right to be in love with anyone else in this show because they never really knew one another. It felt like they pursued each another only because it was expected of them and that kind of made it boring. That's not to say its not enjoyable at all though. If you take the time to watch it, it's certainly entertaining, if only because it's fun to bash on the characters as you watch, but it will still leave a bad aftertaste.

Easily one of my favorite shows this season! I feel in love with the characters especially Fuuka, The music was really awesome and I really enjoyed the story, easily a 10/10 for me. Im usually picky about my music anime because the brilliance that is Beck Mongolian chop squad spoiled me but I just could not find a episode of Fukka that I didnt enjoy, all the characters interacted with each other well and the growth of both Fuuka and Yu was very well done. If you love music animes I highly recommend it the music alone will be enough to catch your attention but you will stay for the story and the characters.

Fuuka is the latest anime adaptation of Kouji Seo's work, and serves as a sequel to the 2005 anime Suzuka. However, it is not necessary to watch Suzuka in order to understand Fuuka, as the plot is completely unrelated and the only real link between the two is that Fuuka is Suzuka's daughter. Fuuka tells the story of Yuu Haruna, a guy who seemingly does nothing but post about his day on Twitter meeting the titular character: a crazy, strange girl who cares about nothing more than music. The two put aside their inital differences to form a band, following in the footsteps of a band they idolize. Of course, there's also a love triangle between the two and Yuu's childhood friend: an idol named Koyuki. The show attempts to juggle both plots simultaneously, but it gets pretty clumsy at times and certain things seem to come out of nowhere. Additionally, it really fails to bring much originality to the premise; this is hardly the first anime to deal with the creation of a band or include a love triangle, so there won't be a whole lot of surprises to anyone watching. The only ones who may be surprised are manga readers, as certain events are changed significantly to give this an anime original ending. There's nothing special about Fuuka's art and animation. It works fairly well most of the time, but character design is a bit unoriginal. I don't have much to say about this aspect of the show, just that it's one of the anime's stronger points. As an anime about music, one would hope that Fuuka does a good job when it comes to sound. It definitely succeeds, with some very solid and catchy songs performed by the band, including the excellent OP Climber's High! However, said OP gets played a bit too much, considering it's the only song the band practices and plays initially, which gets a little annoying. The character voices are fairly decent, and although I don't really care for Fuuka's speaking voice, her excellent singing more than makes up for it. I'd say that sound is definitely the strongest point of Fuuka, but honestly that's not too difficult an achievement. Fuuka has pretty weak, and in some cases, utterly unlikeable characters. When there's a love triangle, and a girl who's not even involved in it is a preferable option to the two who are, there's something wrong with your characters. Obviously, this is just my opinion, but Fuuka comes off as incredibly annoying for a majority of the anime, and Koyuki honestly seems utterly irrelevant, her only purpose seems to be to create conflict between band members and in general. The rest of the characters aren't much better, but even the tolerable ones suffer from a lack of development. It honestly seems like Yuu, Fuuka, and Koyuki are the only ones who get any meaningful character development, and that's a shame considering how bland I find them. The only time I really cared about what was happening and looked forward to the next episode was when I read manga spoilers. Before reading the spoilers and after it became clear they were going anime original, it was really a chore to watch this week after week. The band storyline is admittedly somewhat decent, but the romances are weak and this is one of the worst love triangles I can recall, making for quite a painful watch. It's not even worth watching if you're an ecchi fan, since there's barely anything of note. Fuuka gets a couple panty shots, there's a bath scene or two, and there's one scene where Yuu's three sisters are inexplicably all in their underwear. It seems like a pathetic attempt to pander to viewers, but it really doesn't do anything more than that. Fuuka is an exercise in medocrity, and is a good example of how to write an uninteresting romance. I won't deny that there are aspects of it that people can and will enjoy, but personally, I wouldn't recommend this anime to anyone unless they desperately want to watch music related anime. Even then, there's a good half dozen I'd recommend first. This isn't the worst thing I've seen, but it's certainly no masterpiece.