Five high school girls come together to form a band to play at their cultural festival to gain the extra credit for performing well at it.
Somebody I followed on Twitter was live tweeting their reactions to this series and it got me interested enough to track it down. I’ve always liked that whole K-On! subgenre of high school rock band anime and I’d never heard of this one. Turned out it was a promotional series for Sega arcade rhythm game Chunithm, starring the main unit from the game. At eight episodes of only three minutes, the story is extremely simple. The first episode introduces the band, by the last they’re performing at the cultural festival. The characters are all archetypes you’ve seen before: the normal one with the bad grades, the tsundere, slightly bourgie blonde, the lazy one who likes to eat, the clumsy glasses wearer, the shy, unemotional first year. They get together, they write a song to perform, there are some jokes along the way, they perform and achieve their quest for extra credit, the end. There is some potential in there and I wouldn’t have minded a full sized series instead. Never licensed in the west it looks like, so if you want to see this you will need to hit the usual spots. Fansubbed which means that at least the names of everybody are in the right, Japanese order (surname first).