This review was originally written on March 15th 2018 right before the TV adaptation of Ongaku Shoujo came out So I heard that an anime called Ongaku Shoujo was going to be made this year. Then I saw it was a 25minute OVA before that and I sat down to watch it. But I wont lie this OVA is really bad. I mean seriously. Ive never seen something so absolutely insipid vapid and downright annoying. Its basically about two girls a shy bluehaired girl and a perky blonde haired girl who run into each other thanks to singing decide to become idols and a lot of drama happens. Thats it. Theres absolutely nothing about its storyline that makes any effort to stand out it doesnt even try to make use of its potential or be interesting in any way. Its just a cookie cutter cutesy idol drama anime with no substance to it at all. Many anime Ive seen that were similar to this one happened to pull off the premise much better and the hamfisted drama near the end really didnt endear me to it at all. It doesnt help that the characters are bland empty and have no substance to them at all and their voice actresses overact to hell and back and every single line that comes out of their mouth is hammy screechy high pitched and downright grating on the ears which is a shame because I know these actresses can put on MUCH better performances. Honestly the only good thing about this OVA is the animation. Its bright and colorful very stimulating to the eyes and the character movement is very fluid almost KyoAnilike in its smoothness. Unfortunately thats where the OVAs good qualities end. But all of its flaws absolutely cannot compare to what I feel is the biggest detriment of this OVA: Haru. She alone basically ruined the entire OVA. Simply put she is annoying as hell Not only is her design really stupidlooking Why does she have that big bow in her hair along with all those other hair clips? Theyre not necessary and it looks way too tacky the show tries to present her as a fun perky enthusiastic cheerful girl who wants to be friends with Eri the blue haired girl but the way the anime executes her overall character makes her come off as unrelentingly bratty selfentitled selfish and almost creepily parasitic in her persistence in attaching herself to Eri in some of the worst most dangerous ways possible. Shes also a complete idiot who not only does stupid things but never gets punished for them. For example when she goes to school she brings a cat with her and the teacher doesnt even call her out on the fact that she brought a cat with her. Arent cats not allowed on school property? She also has absolutely NO respect for privacy and boundaries whatsoever. She goes through Eris belongings goes after her in the hot springs and worst of all when Eri is struggling with reading a book out loud in class whats Harus solution? Why mess with her body without her consent via physically UNDOING HER BRA RIGHT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE Oh and at the end of the OVA her solution to making Eri come up on stage is to put every embarrassing photo she took of her on display on a big LCD screen IN FRONT OF A MASSIVE AUDIENCE EVEN NUDE PHOTOS THEREBY HUMILIATING HER IN FRONT OF EVERYONE You see what Im getting at here? If someone did that to me Id report them for sexual harassment But does Haru get in trouble for it? Nope Well to be fair Eri does call out Haru on everything shes done but it doesnt stick because its all played for comedy and Eri is meant to be seen as just a prude who wont accept Harus socalled friendship. Sakura Eris friend is even worse in this regard because not only does she completely ignore Eris discomfort and never makes any attempt to help but outright encourages Harus dangerous behavior Seriously if this were a horror or a Lifetimedrama movie Im pretty sure Harus behavior would be presented in a much more dark and serious light as it should be. But the anime doesnt realize the ramifications of Harus actions and tries to make the audience see it as nothing but cute and endearing...which it seriously isnt. At all. Honestly I wanted to jump in there and save Eri from that parasitic little brat. She deserves better than to be their target. Also not helping matters is that Haru is extremely egotistical and selfentitled convinced that shes hot stuff and is a great singer...when she actually sucks really bad at singing. Eri even tells her such. So...yeah. This OVA really could have been something good. Unfortunately its just not good. At all. This my friends is the prime example of how a really really bad and badly written main character can completely ruin a show in its entirety. Thankfully it seems like the creators realized this as well since from what little they revealed recently the upcoming TV series features a completely different storyline with a plethora of new characters with Eri and Haru being just side characters now. I hope to God that the TV series doesnt make the same mistakes that this OVA did. Then again Birdy The Mighty Decode turned a flawed OVA into a great TV series from what Ive heard so it can happen. But in the end though Ongaku Shoujo is utter crap all because Harus a little shit.