Lots of cliches and tropes, the animation is as clunky as the dialogue is stilted. The conversations are unnatural like one person speaks, pause, next person speaks, pause, first person replies, pause. The second half of the series gets very convoluted as they try and do some "clever" twists that the writers clearly saw in some other shows and wanted to mimic but didn't understand what they were copying.
It's very pretty to look at and the story is vaguely interesting though massively overdone. There's just nothing too original and worthwhile about this series.
That being said, we watched all the episodes in one setting because it was an inoffensive albiet fairly bland show that had some characters we kinda liked but will forget by next week.
The writers and directors needed to be more confident of their ideas instead of mimicking things they liked in other shows. At it's core there's a lot of decent ideas and concepts it all just feels very unpolished and buried in cliche mediocrity.
It's not horrible it's just not memorable. If they do more id be interested in seeing it because you can tell they tried and wanted to do something really special but this felt like a pilot series rather than its own entity.
12 Reviews
Watch more than the first couple of episodes!
kikidee-1436726 June 2020
Wow. At first, it seems pretty predictable, as the previous reviewer mentioned. However they should have watched more than the first two episodes. At episode six the story starts taking some very different turns than expected. By the very end you understand that you really did not know what you were watching at the beginning. It was well made, beautiful visuals, beautiful songs, very good story. Definitely original. Very good anime.
Out of the box.
alhindib-055452 March 2021
Wonderfull
richardmoes25 October 2018
I went into this with little to no expactations, but this was one of the best anime i have ever watched. The plot line is wonderfull and a great joy to watch, it really touches your heart right when it needs to. I would recommend this to anyone.
Overlooked gem
jmjjmj32 December 2018
Great anime with plot twists, beautiful soundtracks, memorable characters and a mix of humor, suspense, action and romance. While not everyone may like the direction the story eventually takes, this is a strong entry among Netflix's original animes.
Extremely worth finishing
kerry2-746-4690422 September 2019
Anyone who didn't bother to watch the whole series should drop the idea of adding a missguiding review. To be honest - I wasn't hooked on it myself and after 2-3 episodes I stopped watching for a while. This is not what I do though so I continued, thankfuly. The story not only grew on me, being really good for what I initially thought it was, but also had a really really unexpected plot twist in store. This anime truly had my jaw dropping, it has all the ingredients of a good fantasy story that will have you shed a tear and cause goosebumps. Even if you're not convinced at first, just keep going as it gets better before it gets brilliant! Really satisfying watch.
Art is good but most of the anime is rather bland and unoriginal.....
Irishchatter7 June 2019
So I found out about this anime from watching Anime America's recent YouTube video being based around the "BEST AND WORST ANIME OF 2018!". Basically I decided to go check this out because the songs in it are meant to be good and I like good music as any person would lol. However after just 2 episodes, I dropped it for two reasons = the storyline being too predictable and character development.
When you see a fairy tale, you think of a good looking damsel in distress who is rather good for nothing, gets captured by the bad guys and waits around for a Prince to rescue her. Filos and Rin (she might as well be since she looks exactly like a spitting image of Snow White!) are that type of characters in all honesty. Yeah she sings but didn't the princesses from Disney belt out songs too? The only difference was the princesses from Disney sung better loveable songs then the songs from "Lost Song" .
Personally speaking I do not find this was one the best anime of 2018 but instead goes into my rubbish bin...
When you see a fairy tale, you think of a good looking damsel in distress who is rather good for nothing, gets captured by the bad guys and waits around for a Prince to rescue her. Filos and Rin (she might as well be since she looks exactly like a spitting image of Snow White!) are that type of characters in all honesty. Yeah she sings but didn't the princesses from Disney belt out songs too? The only difference was the princesses from Disney sung better loveable songs then the songs from "Lost Song" .
Personally speaking I do not find this was one the best anime of 2018 but instead goes into my rubbish bin...
A beautiful anime
WeAreLive5 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
At first when I had started to watch the anime, I thought it was rather generic and some typical singing anime, I was very impatient at the time, so i dropped it after the first half of the first episode. Then last week I decided to try again, since i have recently got Netflix and boy I can't believe how wrong I was.
I found out that the songs that were song had a power and a special meaning to them.
The story is about a cute girl called Rin who lives in a village with her two siblings and a boy called Ai. Rin has a dream to go to the song festival but her grandad would not allow it. She goes for a walk into the woods meets this handsome knight called Henry Leobolt who is from a rich family and severs as a guards to the beautiful song princess Finnis, who is forced to put up with this cruel prince who wants to marry her and use her powers for his own purpose.
At first they story is very typical and pretty much generic but it gets better as you watch along.
Animation wise it was good, dub was very good as well, the music was also enjoyable with subtitles provided by netflix.
If you haven't watched this yet, I will only say this you are in for one hell of a ride especially if you want to have a musical anime with a sense of adventure.
Episodes dubbed and subbed are available on Netflix.
I found out that the songs that were song had a power and a special meaning to them.
The story is about a cute girl called Rin who lives in a village with her two siblings and a boy called Ai. Rin has a dream to go to the song festival but her grandad would not allow it. She goes for a walk into the woods meets this handsome knight called Henry Leobolt who is from a rich family and severs as a guards to the beautiful song princess Finnis, who is forced to put up with this cruel prince who wants to marry her and use her powers for his own purpose.
At first they story is very typical and pretty much generic but it gets better as you watch along.
Animation wise it was good, dub was very good as well, the music was also enjoyable with subtitles provided by netflix.
If you haven't watched this yet, I will only say this you are in for one hell of a ride especially if you want to have a musical anime with a sense of adventure.
Episodes dubbed and subbed are available on Netflix.
Can not get past the objectification
milofergusemily20 May 2023
Breastage is a character in this show. I have tried to watch it more than once and I can not get past this objectification of the female characters.
The idea of the songs, the songstress and the means in which violence and power literally flattens characters is really interesting - but gets stuck on this fault line.
I mean if the male characters were all requred to be walking around with really huge penises, and these were constantly featured as key to their power their costume and stuck in our faces when ever we see them - there might be some equity in the storyline.
I am using this as a means to find some way of communicating how confusing this ' breastage' issue is to a story about feminine power. There is something off in the story message as a result of this issue.
The idea of the songs, the songstress and the means in which violence and power literally flattens characters is really interesting - but gets stuck on this fault line.
I mean if the male characters were all requred to be walking around with really huge penises, and these were constantly featured as key to their power their costume and stuck in our faces when ever we see them - there might be some equity in the storyline.
I am using this as a means to find some way of communicating how confusing this ' breastage' issue is to a story about feminine power. There is something off in the story message as a result of this issue.
Unexpected story. Rin (MC) is the wonderful character.
yosakrai23 October 2019
Art and motion is average 7-8 point. Song will peak more and more while the story move on. Character development is great. Plot twist is Dammmm.
And the greatest in this story is the wonderful of character, especially MC (Rin).
This is a must watch.
zach1000228 July 2020
I chose to pass on this show for an entire year because I didn't think I would like it. I was so wrong about it. This amazing story is extremely well written. I grew to care about the characters. It is a must watch. The music is incredible. It's perfect.
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