Anime 52214 Genjitsu No Yohane Sunshine In The Mirror Reviews Filter Check 3

Animation and songs are nice.

Characters redesigns are fun, but you won't know their personalities unless you watched Love Live Sunshine!!.

Story beats are a remix of Sunshine!! in worse : girl in small town doesn't think she's special but turns out she's the most special one of them all for... reasons. She met girls who became instantly her friends for... reasons. She struggles because she feels she has to do it alone but turns out she doesn't have to. The end.

Genuinely speaking, it doesn't have the heart you'd find in SIP or Love Live Sunshine!!. The character of Yoshiko / Yohane who could be ... entertaining in Sunshine!! became a watered down version of Chika from Love Live Sunshine (the main character of Sunshine who's basically invisible here) and all the story beats are rehashed and worse versions of things you've have already seen in other Love Live anime.

This anime feels mostly aimed at Yoshiko's fans and if you are one of them, the note is probably bumped to a 7, but for anyone else, even if you loved Love Live Sunshine!! and want to see again characters you loved but who aren't Yoshiko, just rewatch the original show because you'll get basically nothing.

You'll have people defending this show saying that "It's Yohane's show so of course other characters wouldn't appear as much" and it's fair enough, but then the problem become that Yohane isn't really that great or interesting as a protagonist and the Yohane you met in episode 1 is more or less exactly the same as the Yohane in episode 13.

Her struggles are kind of shallow since every two episodes it's seems she has to learn the same lesson and her personality that can be endearing the first three episodes just becomes extremely frustrating to watch.

End of day, Love Live Sunshine!! made me cry my heart out for a district school closing down, in Genjitsu no Yohane Numazu was threatened with destruction and I felt nothing. I ended up the show wondering why Dia wasn't the main character when she's the one being actually active in the story and fighting for Numazu.