Lost Song

Anyone who didn't bother to watch the whole series should drop the idea of adding a missguiding review. To be honest - I wasn't hooked on it myself and after 2-3 episodes I stopped watching for a while. This is not what I do though so I continued, thankfuly. The story not only grew on me, being really good for what I initially thought it was, but also had a really really unexpected plot twist in store. This anime truly had my jaw dropping, it has all the ingredients of a good fantasy story that will have you shed a tear and cause goosebumps. Even if you're not convinced at first, just keep going as it gets better before it gets brilliant! Really satisfying watch.

Lots of cliches and tropes, the animation is as clunky as the dialogue is stilted. The conversations are unnatural like one person speaks, pause, next person speaks, pause, first person replies, pause. The second half of the series gets very convoluted as they try and do some "clever" twists that the writers clearly saw in some other shows and wanted to mimic but didn't understand what they were copying. It's very pretty to look at and the story is vaguely interesting though massively overdone. There's just nothing too original and worthwhile about this series. That being said, we watched all the episodes in one setting because it was an inoffensive albiet fairly bland show that had some characters we kinda liked but will forget by next week. The writers and directors needed to be more confident of their ideas instead of mimicking things they liked in other shows. At it's core there's a lot of decent ideas and concepts it all just feels very unpolished and buried in cliche mediocrity. It's not horrible it's just not memorable. If they do more id be interested in seeing it because you can tell they tried and wanted to do something really special but this felt like a pilot series rather than its own entity.

Great anime with plot twists, beautiful soundtracks, memorable characters and a mix of humor, suspense, action and romance. While not everyone may like the direction the story eventually takes, this is a strong entry among Netflix's original animes.

I went into this with little to no expactations, but this was one of the best anime i have ever watched. The plot line is wonderfull and a great joy to watch, it really touches your heart right when it needs to. I would recommend this to anyone.

Breastage is a character in this show. I have tried to watch it more than once and I can not get past this objectification of the female characters.

The idea of the songs, the songstress and the means in which violence and power literally flattens characters is really interesting - but gets stuck on this fault line.

I mean if the male characters were all requred to be walking around with really huge penises, and these were constantly featured as key to their power their costume and stuck in our faces when ever we see them - there might be some equity in the storyline.

I am using this as a means to find some way of communicating how confusing this ' breastage' issue is to a story about feminine power. There is something off in the story message as a result of this issue.