Wake Up, Girls! Beyond the Bottom

"Wake Up, Girls!" was a promising series that attempted to break the common tropes of idol anime. With a mix of optimism and realism that is hardly seen in shows of its type, this anime series held great potential to be something great. However, the latest entry in the series, "Beyond the Bottom" serves as a…

Anime as whole has had a bad reputation for not being 'realistic' enough. Yes, there's the debate of 'different people, different strokes' and 'you can't please everyone' etc. This is why I appreciate the WUG narrative as a whole. Maybe I'm stretching it to the original series. But the anime & equally this film isn't…

In my previous review, I compared this series to "Hibike! Euphonium". Hibike! had a movie that did a speedrun through the second season and crammed what probably should have been one or two seasons into one movie. The comparison to Hibike! is apt, because this did exactly the same thing. It wasn't awful, but it made…