[Haak]

To be brutally honest, i just ended up hating this show and think little of the group itself. I don't want to be a killjoy though (which is why I didn't post much since i had little good to say about it. XP) so I'll put my thoughts in spoiler tags but I'm just warning people now that it's pretty negative.

Spoiler for rant:

The first season was decent enough but mostly thanks to the compelling drama between Takamina and Kanata and the initial episodes where there was still uncertain adventures. But for the second season, most of that was just pushed back for ridiculous drama that usually involved being overwhelmed by some emotion or another (or in Chieri's case based on drama that was hard to understand due to the lack of development in setting, most importantly why there's an entertainment ban in the place). I think pretty much the only episode of the second season that I actually liked was Makoto's episode. For all the rest, I was either uninterested or irritated at how it just seemed like its focus was more about marketing the AKB48 brand by constantly hammering us in the head about how much they need the "support" of "fans", rather than tell a sincere story and flesh out the storyline elements that needed fleshing out.

Of the real group I have little opinion on but I never really liked cutesy pop songs like that to begin with and i haven't exactly been impressed with their culture and behaviour to recent scandals *cough*Mii-chan*cough*. I'm certainly not adverse to idol-based anime (or at least i don't think I am) since I was able to enjoy The Idolm@aster fairly easily, but in that case the group was portrayed as the small guy with lots to learn and trying to develop, whilst AKB0048 seems to think very highly of itself what with them portraying themselves as the end all and be all of entertainment.