Enjoy a wonderful light show with glamorous idol music! Experience the great adventures of cute girls in a completely new idol direction! Idols who are witches as well, doing a magic show, a combination the world has not seen in this form before!
STORY:
Our journey starts with Tiara, a young and beautiful witch apprentice, who travels from her hometown Bristol to the metropolis Mamkestell, the home of Flora Girls’ Academy. She always had the dream to become a student there and quickly finds that she truly has the latent ability to become a proper Witch, with a bright future ahead of her: a future that will ... include finding new friends and forming an idol unit together.
After reuniting with her best friend Rosetta, their dynamic duo relationship is particularly emphasized as well, Tiara decides to join her and her friends group to form the idol group "LiGHTs" together. Each of the five girls is unique in its own way and has a different magical ability. Together they fight for their survival in the Academy due to the rather poor grades. They go through difficulties together, even if something does not go according to plan, they do not give up.
Lapis Re: LiGHTs consists of seven different idol groups. Although the focus is on LiGHTs, we get to know the group members of "IV KLORE", "Konohana wa Otome", "Sugar Pockets", "Sadistic ★ Candy", "supernova" and "Ray". They understand and support each other very well; they are friends and even go for adventures together.
CHARACTER:
Tiara, also the leader of LiGHTs, is a bright and cheerful mood maker. Because she was prone to sickness as a child, she has a strong desire to cheer people up by singing. She is the 2nd princess of Waleland but wants to be treated like a normal girl. She wants to help everyone and make people happy. With her beautiful voice, she gives people hope and joy.
With Rosetta, her childhood friends, they often compose music together. Rosetta is smart and a hardworking girl, she is quite popular amongst her juniors. Before the reunite with Tiara, Rosetta tried to do everything on her own, putting herself under pressure and in a position of high risk. She never asked for help, she does not want to burden anyone with her own problems.
The most serious member of the group is Ashley, she can be a little bit sharp sometimes as well. As the costume designer for the group, you can't tell by looking at her, but deep in her heart she aims to become a knight, like her father. With these words "You can't be a good knight with strength alone", she was recommended to study as a witch.
Lavie, the exact opposite of Ashley and her roommate as well, is the sportiest girl. She has a lot of self-confidence with a naïve personality but is horrendously bad at studying, making her always at the bottom of the class in tests. She really admires the leader of the legendary unit "Ray": Eliza (Tiara’s older sister).
Last but not least, we have the group bookworm: Lynette. She aspires to be a witch who can shine in public and is a witch otaku who has an abundant knowledge on witches. With her shy personality you cannot tell, but she is an avid daydreamer, even occasionally fantasizing about "her other classmates making out with each other”.
We do not only learn the history and past from these five cute and beautiful girls, we also learn many exciting and emotional things from their friends in other groups: What their dreams are. Why they want to be witches. How they will captivate us all with their wonderful songs.
ART:
The art style in Lapis Re: LiGHTs is definitely one of the points that caught my eye and captivated me. The girls are presented very cute in a classic CGDCT style. Nevertheless, the environment is also full of beautiful colors. Everything is displayed very dynamically. The beautiful lights that can be seen during their orchestra performance and the perfect coordination of the choreography are all elements that magically attract everybody.
SOUND:
The music is always extremely important for an idol anime. After only the first two episodes, their songs already thrilled me. I really love the OP and ED; they are both suitable for the idol genre. The very last episode is full of music from all the different group which are really great. Besides that, we can even hear a solo from time to time by Tiara or another girl. Although there are not many songs released by the different Lapis Re: LiGHTs groups in general right now, all the songs are very nice to listen. Idol music gives you strength and a good mood; this is definitely the case here.
In addition to the music, the background noises are also well represented; every sound is in harmony with each other.
ENJOYMENT:
After the first episode, I was already extremely enthusiastic about this anime. I really love every aspect of Lapis. All elements harmonize perfectly with each other in my opinion. I enjoyed every episode. Although I have never heard of the game or this franchise before, I am already fascinated by it.
For every CGDCT and idol fan, I can really recommend to watch this anime. You will certainly not be disappointed with this. Let yourself be enchanted by the wonderful magic and music!
They are our LIGHTs!
In the end, I definitely wish for a second season and more songs that are beautiful! The story and idol adventures of our girls will surely go on!
Alternative Titles Japanese: ラピスリライツ Information Type: TV Episodes: 12 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Jul 4, 2020 to Sep 19, 2020 Premiered: Summer 2020 Broadcast: Saturdays at 22:00 (JST) Licensors: Funimation Studios: Yokohama Animation Lab Source: Mixed media Genre: Fantasy Duration: 24 min. per ep. Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older Statistics Score: 6.681 (scored by 16,399 users) 1 indicates a . Ranked: #63692 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #3260 Members: 46,154 Favorites: 136 Available AtResources |
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