Music (Trigger Warning: Very Cringe)

Aye, you! Yeah, you! The guy who's looking for a good SOL genre. Well, hehe, I GOTCHU.


Pros:


BANGER openings

BANGER endings

BANGER pieces of music

BANGER Character soundtracks

BANGER Characters, dynamics, and parallels


Cons:


Short

Sad


Pro Analysis:

BANGER…: Of course a music SOL will have good music. What did surprise me on my quest to watch most of the anime genres I'd be making analysis on is that a lot of music anime have better characters and dynamics compared to other SOL subgenres. Especially with their heavy, and I mean HEAVY, focus on music. Even shounen doesn't focus on lore as much as music anime does with their music, good damn. While music anime don't have as good character parallels compared to other SOL subgenres and even other main genres (This is the first and last compliment I'm giving to you shounen!), it's still existent within the confines of the anime itself.


Cons Analysis:

Short: Don't you hate when you're immersed within a good music anime, but then you look at the number of episodes and realize it's shorter than a planck particle (Look it up google dweebs). It's even worse when you think about it after finishing it in approximately 0.2 seconds and realizing you can think off at least 50 more episodes based on how the plot was laid out. This happens in every genre and subgenre alike, but especially is music.

Sad:

This is where the excellent characters come back to haunt you. Here you are, sitting on your couch, watching an anime, but then all the sudden your favorite character dies right before the final rehearsal due to a disease they decided not to seek further attention on. It's very an-annoy...SAD WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


Hypeman mode, activate! So all of you should go watch Your Lie in April, aka the greatest example of music anime. It's very good and you'll enjoy it (unless you cry a lot, if you do please don't watch it).

Rant time! Never, EVER, mix music with the following: romance (because fan-favorite not winning the love triangle will shatter the already cracked fandom after the secondary love interest died.), shounen (because I don't think anyone wants to hear two pianists screaming at the top of their lungs as they ascend higher and higher with "Music Force"). Please just don't do it.


Overall Rating: 9/10