English Dub Review: Actors: Songs Connection “Piu Mosso”

The lady Saku who’s the sister of Uta has made a name for herself as the music unit “Sakutasuke” and at first, everything seemed to be going well while recovering at a hospital. However, the Government of Japan, which has been watching over the world, gives them a notice that they will close the “7th ward” and renovate it. It is said that it is in view of the current situation where the user who was watching over the Actors in the appearances of white Roswell/alien people and Cats randomly disappearing from the 7th ward, He entrusts his hopes to the success of the singing contest for the sake of relevancy.

Our Take

Ok so this is quite a confusing plot, but at least we finally get singing this time. From what I can gather in this confusing story it’s kinda vague in places but here it goes…

The world these effeminate singing dudes are stuck in is clearly a virtual simulation game of sorts, in which the wards are kinda like districts and the main characters are part of Tenshou Academy, which is located in the 7th ward. Judging from the last episode’s big reveal, The paid players of this are cats that can interact with this virtual world, but aren’t supposed to speak directly with the titular “Actors” (which is the main cast like Saku, Hinata, Satsuma, etc), while the white Roswell looking alien people are the free to play players, who can’t be seen by the actors nor physically interact with them, under normal circumstances.

With this “7th Ward” school being at risk of the government stripping the 7th ward of it’s “autonomy”. Underneath the cutesy exterior and pretty-boy pop-songs, there’s this subtle sense of urgency and unease of how simple-minded these singing dudes are regarding the strange unraveling occurrences going on around them, especially Satsuma who seems to notice all the cats disappearing when he attempts to feed them in a park.

Of course, now that we have two episodes left. It’s only a matter of time before we finally understand what the hell is really going on and hopefully leads to something that’s actually more coherent than what we found out in this episode.