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6/10: ABOVE AVERAGE TIER

130. D4DJ: First Mix
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39681/D4DJ__First_Mix
Fall 2020 (13 episodes)
My Score: 6/10, MAL Score: 7.65/10
Best Character: Akashi Maho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wcGvZuF2AE

Premise: Aimoto Rinku moves back to Japan after years of living in Africa. Her new school has many famous DJ units and, after meeting Akashi Maho, they decide to form their own.

The Good: D4DJ is a music anime where four girls with different skills come together to form a DJ unit. It was neat learning about how DJing works, as well as the different roles the girls had in the performance such as Muni creating accompanying animations. The main group, Happy Around, also tries lots of different genres. I still liked the music from Photon Maiden the best. All of the main characters were fine, but Maho was my favorite. I rarely skipped the ED because it was just her at a turntable dancing and it was great.

The Bad: Rinku won me over eventually, but, speaking as someone who usually likes energetic and happy girls, she was almost too much even for me. Her introduction is bursting into the wrong classroom and giving an overlong too-much-information introduction. Then she keeps stalking Maho and giving her seashells. Rinku annoyed me a lot in the beginning, so thankfully she became more tolerable as D4DJ went on.

Overall: D4DJ is a solid music anime that covered things I'd never seen before thanks to its focus on DJing. Rinku was a bit much for me early on, but she slowly won me over, and the other three main characters were always good. It's always nice to watch an anime with fun characters and good music.