No, Ave Mujica was great. You can criticize its direction, but please don’t call it AI works because there are real people involved behind it, who took a lot of care in composing, screen write, and animate it. They did a great job experimenting the format, incorporating horror element on a band girl anime. Especially, when there are worse anime out there made by people who know nothing about animation, e.g. Ex-arm.

The animation in half the scenes is like 12 FPS (because they couldn’t be bothered to wait for a full render)

That’s like the standard fps for an anime. Anime was animated in what they called on-2 (a picture holds for 2 frame in 24 fps), so any other anime also animated in 12 fps. They left it as stylistic choice, and I didn’t find the lower frame making the anime feels stiff or awkward

The characters lips move like goldfish eating flakes whenever they speak/sing.

That’s also the standard in anime, they only have mouth animated with 2-3 frame open and closing. Ave Mujica did a great job at making it emotive despite that limitations

They appear to have used stock mocap for the characters playing instruments and couldn’t be bothered to match up their movements to the music.

They actually took their VA performance’s motion capture with actual experience playing their instrument. Like any Bang Dream anime, Ave Mujica has a real band counterpart and you can see their live band performance on bandori channel. I think they did a great job to emote the performance and still keep it in sync.

So, please stop comparing it with AI

So excited for this one. Our journey with these girls isn’t done yet!

I highly recommend everyone to watch both Bang Dream! It’s MyGO!!! and Bang Dream! Ave Mujica, This is the right time to catch up before the sequel airs. It’s MyGO!!! was a soft reboot from the original series, so watching the main series is not needed. You can start right from It’s MyGO!!! then Ave Mujica.

Thank you, Ave Mujica, for filling my Thursday each week with a mind-breaking psychological trauma for the past 3 months.

I have never experienced the same excitement and on edge each week the same way Ave Mujica has given me. I also love reading the community reaction. Watching the community breaking down was part of the experience of Ave Mujica. Fans who come after will miss half of the fun.

Thank you for closing it with an amazing performance-heavy episode. MyGO with their poem in the interim and Ave Mujica with their stage play. What a way to end the series. (Umiri still brings her trustworthiness to the stage 😭)

Nevermind, they announced a sequel for AveMyGO!!! Trauma is back on the menu!

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NO WAY!!! This is getting an anime??? My favorite romance manga is getting an anime! I love their chemistry and how much the manga could show the love between these two without using a single word

What I will probably watch next season:

• Witch Watch: I’ve read the manga, it was written by the same author as sket dance, so its humor sit just right with me.
• Hibi was Sugiredo Meshi Umashi: Another P.A. Works original anime featuring working women like shirobako, sakura quest, and aquatope. I always enjoy their comfy SOL with some light drama.
• GQuuuuuuX: I’ve never watched Gundam before, but the visual and character design pique my interest. I’ll give it an episode or two before deciding if it’s worth the time.

I’ll definitely miss Ave Mujica, there isn’t seem to be another anime that can break me every week.

It felt a bit too rushed for me. The Hatsune/Uika stuff wrapped up a little too nicely. They just pretend like it never happened and hope things will be alright. What happened to the real Uika? Hatsune used her name to attend not just for Sumimi and Ave Mujica. Shouldn’t she have a say in this? Sakiko’s problem with her grandpa was solved just by giving the finger to him and pretending he had no power over her. And he just accepts it??? No interference from now on???

I’m just glad Sakiko finally can be happy, even only for this fleeting “happiness”. She now will take responsibility as the leader and re-debuting Ave Mujica. The only one with somewhat a nice resolution was Nyamu, she decided to face her insecurity head on with Mutsumi. Umiri got sidelined so hard, now she is still seeking validation from her band (thank you Taki, your comment really scared her for life). I don’t know what happened to Mutsu/Mortis situation. Did they merge? Is Mortis finally letting go and giving Mutsumi’s control back? Did Mutsumi stop seeking CRYCHIC? honestly, there were more questions than answers.

I know this was the penultimate episode, so we still have one more, from the preview it looked like they’ll cover band performances of both Ave Mujica and MyGO!!!, so there is little screen time to address the rest.

I was hoping they’d do a much grimmer conclusion for Ave Mujica, considering the moral of the ARG marketing they did was to abandon humanity and accept a doll persona. The psychological horror theme they are building throughout the season would fit nicely with a dark conclusion. But alas, this is Bang Dream, gotta end with a nice “hopeful” ending.

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