(L) Star-Mu (formerly "High School Musical Star")

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Plot Summary:

The story starts when Yūta Hoshiya enters Ayana Academy, a school focusing on show business activities, specifically music. The academy has a group of the three students with the highest grades in the musical department, and they are known as the Kao Kai (Cherry Blossom Flower Association). This organization stands at the top of the pecking order within the academy.

The shortcut to entering the musical department is to enter the Star Frame class, which is directly taught by the members, and to be recognized by them. Unfortunately, due to their own problems, students Tōru, Kaito, Shō, Shū, and Yūta are all struggling to even remain candidates for the musical department. By a stroke of luck, however, the five are spotted by Kao Kai member Ōtori, and they peak his interest.

An original TV series called High School Star Musical will debut in Fall 2015. The official site is up now:

http://hstar-mu.com/
Preview will be revealed later.

ANN source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...l-anime/.86165

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Promo video:

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New casts:

Nobuhiko Okamoto as Rui Tatsumi
Yūma Uchida as Eigo Sawatari
Kazuyuki Okitsu as Seishirō Inumine
KENN as Izumi Toraishi
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Akira Ugawa

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...l-anime/.88529

New CM:

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Hmm, it looks like there's a title change for the upcoming series. Now, it's going by the name/title:

Star-Mu

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...et-for-october

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New preview(s):

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Starts on 10/5
http://hstar-mu.com/news/index00290000.html

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Funimation will be streaming it according to their blog:
http://www.funimation.com/blog/2015/...announcements/

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Episode 1:

Well that was kind of fun I guess?
Hmm, we got the intro of the characters and music as well. Not sure how I feel about the Kao Council yet though. However, I do expect a lot from the Star Teams if they plan to impress the audience for the rest of the season.

[MisaoFan]

Spoiler for Episode 1:

Welp, this managed to be somehow entertaining, as I was feeling way too empty and bored until I stumbled watching this while thinking of it. The production values are extremely average so does the by-the number premise, but I'll get used to the characters once we get introduced to more of the main cast by the next episode. Yuta was ok, he certainly does have talent for a beginner and just wanted to join the music school to follow his mentor's steps who acts as the director of said establishment. The humorous tone of the series needs to be a lot more polished than what we got but not a terrible thing per se, the most impressive thing goes to the music by Ken Arai who previously did a very splendid OST of Parasyte, he certainly do not forget to give the score a synthetic feel once again with this. About time to wait for a while to see if it actually stands out from its mostly similar peers.

[ninjastarforcex]

is this music or gay show?

[kuromitsu]

Aww, and just when I hoped that finally I could hear Hosoya Yoshimasa make use of his beautiful voice again... he plays the deep-voiced gruff one.

So this is really a musical, huh... with random dance numbers and songs. I thought it was cute, in any case. (But so many pretty boys. So many.) Animation is whatever, but at least the dances were decently animated, voices as one could expect from the genre and the cast (except Hosoya, as noted above and Suwabe Junichi pitched his voice higher than usual), so overall it's pretty cute and harmless.

And it does serve as a reminder that I should finally catch up with Shounen Hollywood....

[GDiddy]

Hosoya doesn't sing? He's one of the few VAs out there who can seriously belt

[kuromitsu]

Originally Posted by GDiddy

Hosoya doesn't sing? He's one of the few VAs out there who can seriously belt

Nah, he does, but this is an idol anime, I wanted to hear his "pretty" voice, not the gruff one, both in speaking and singing. He really has a beautiful voice, why don't they want him to use it...

[GDiddy]

Originally Posted by kuromitsu

Nah, he does, but this is an idol anime, I wanted to hear his "pretty" voice, not the gruff one, both in speaking and singing. He really has a beautiful voice, why don't they want him to use it...

I'm seriously surprised he hasn't released something solo yet. He's really, REALLY good. I've never seen No. 6 but that song he sings is beautiful...


I tried getting thru this...maybe I'll watch it later on. But all I kept thinking was how much the Kao Council or whatever reminded me of the Student Council in Binban, especially the greenhaired guy....and how the lead singer looked like Rei Ryugazaki...

[PreSage]

Hmm, that was more entertaining than I expected.

I actually kind of liked that first song sung by that Kao Council...really enjoyed Daisuke Hirakawa and Junichi Suwabe voices in that song. Kensho Ono as Tōru Nayuki actually has quite a good voice, from what I can tell in that ED song when he sang his part when Nayuki appeared on screen. I actually like his voice better than the MC (Hoshiya). Couldn't catch Tomoaki Maeno's part in the ED song because of the chorus.

I'll continue with this series for now.

[AntonKutovoi]

I'll try to watch the first episode later. I just couldn't continue after student council's random performance. Especially since I watched Osomatsu-san right before it.

[Blue-kun]

I liked this. I felt like it had a similar tone to UtaPri, in how it's having fun with the whole 'idol school' concept, and the characters aren't exactly realistic but each have its own charming 'act'.

They managed to get across in one episode the traits one should expect from each of the guys that will be in the MC's Star Group, as well as give a pretty funny/interesting introduction to Otori, who's currently carrying the show for me. I just love the contrast of that 'irresponsible' personality of his, very playful, to the hilariously stern Kao Council guys, and seeing how he's going to handle the group of odd balls he picked for his team sounds promising.

Animation-wise, not too good, which is a shame, but I do think the dance acts were decent enough. Music, though, I was pleasantly surprised. Huge fan of Elements Garden and their work in UtaPri, so having someone else handle this kind of thing, Ken Arai, in this case, was weird. But I especially liked the Kao Council song – both composition-wise and lyrics. The latter are so fittingly over the top, you can't not have a smile when you see a guy singing about how they're 'the princes you can meet', and how they're 'legendary because they're real'. Good stuff.

I'll be tuning in next week for sure.

[Cloudedmind]

Well, I do love me some male idol shows and this was no exception. Enjoyable first episode. It'll be fun to watch how these guys eventually turn themselves into a decent group and how they'll go against the other Kao Councils Star Teams.

[ookamigirl]

Lots of pretty boys here ^^
Looks like they sing and dance too.
This might be fun to watch.
I'll give it a try.

[Master_Yoma]

Hmm seems like Uta no Prince but some of the are just so uptite and a litte jerky