KailaKin

I really wanted to like Anonymous Noise, I did. In theory it was right up my street, but in reality it was not.

A large part of the reason for this was the female protagonist, Nino. She is extraordinarly annoying, and since she forms a large part of the anime (being the "lead" character), that dramatically affects the rest of the anime.  If you like watching protagonists that are constantly either a) crying, b) screaming or saying how much they want to scream, c) depressed, or d) acting like a crazy person on stage, then you'll love Nino. Otherwise, you're liable to dislike her. A lot. I certainly felt nothing even close to sympathy for her.

Unfortunately, the other characters don't particularly make up for that either. Of the two male protagonists, only one of them held any type of appeal, and that was Yuzu. I suspect that Momo may have been more interesting if we learned more about him and his situation, and if Nino wasn't constantly crying about how much she wanted him. Seriously. Also, if he didn't come across as completely nonsensical (from my perspective.)

Now, sometimes a story can stand up despite poor characters, but this is not one of those cases. It's such a "character driven" plot that it simply fails to work. It's difficult to enjoy it when the love triangle plays a big part, and you don't actually see any real meat to it.

The animation is okay, but the use of CGI during the stages was...distracting and ugly to say the least. 

But the music was probably the highlight of this show. Which is just as well seeing as how the show has a lot of it in there - even if half of it is renditions of Canaria, or the characters singing [insert appropriate swear here] Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Ack. I didn't even mind Nino's voice, which a lot of people didn't seem to like.

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All that said, I think my biggest annoyance is that it finally seemed like Nino might have developed some kind of motivation that went beyond Momo, that hope was crushed. It was about the only time I actually rooted for Nino.