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TopicRobazoid Ranks 275 Anime and Top 100 Anime Characters (recommend me stuff too)
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08/10/22 7:00:59 PM
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231. Heroines Run the Show
https://myanimelist.net/anime/49692/Heroine_Tarumono_Kiraware_Heroine_to_Naisho_no_Oshigoto
Spring 2022 (12 episodes)
My Score: 2/10, MAL Score: 7.30/10
Best Character: Suzumi Hiyori

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UycYVhOULi8

Premise: Suzumi Hiyori has left the countryside to join the track and field team at a Tokyo school. To help pay the bills, she gets a parttime job working for the rising idol duo LIPxLIP.

The Good: Heroines Run the Show was actually pretty good for most of its runtime! Hiyori is a fun character who always gives her all to whatever shes doing. I liked that she didnt care about idols, so LIPxLIP were just guys in class or at work, not something to swoon over. Someya and Shibasaki were a fun take on idols, too. They werent portrayed as perfect. Offstage they were often surly and rude without going too far. Its a great starting point for them all to grow closer.

The Bad: What really killed this for me was the message that arose from it. At first, I enjoyed how it dismantled the perfect idol myth. It turned out that Heroines Run the Show was mythologizing toxic idol fanbases instead. Im sure anyone interested in idols has heard about scandals where one of them is caught hanging out with the opposite sex, which is a big deal because fans expect them to remain pure and available. Heroines Run the Show is perfectly okay with that and other disgusting expectations. It goes out of its way to defend toxic fans at every turn.

Overall: I understand why Heroines Run the Show takes the position it does. Attacking obsessive idol fans isnt the best way to convince them to spend all their money buying idol merchandise. Its just so disappointing as a non-crazy person to see how gross this anime became in the end.

COMING UP TOMORROW:
230: This anime was overrun by foreign hordes.
229: This anime washed up on a beach without any clothes on.

(We're officially done the 2/10 Bad Tier! Next up is 30 anime in the 3/10 Disappointing Tier. I doubt the two tomorrow will offend anyone, but quite a few coming up are very popular. Nothing in the Disappointing Tier is outright awful, mostly they just weren't for me or had some prominent plotlines or elements that rubbed me the wrong way. We'll also see the first character from my top 100 in this tier, which is neat. Thanks again for following along so far, everyone.)

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