[Locke]

Just checked out the first episode of Yozakura Quartet Hana no Uta. I am also never writing that again.

Quartet has some decent character designs, but the animation is so so. It's very much a show where it hopes its imagination, and style, will distract you from some of the more glaring budget limitations. The sad thing is, a lot of the style is just fanservice. Not as gratuitous as Kill la Kill perhaps, but since all the girls look like children in this it's somehow worse.

That said, I have always enjoyed action anime where the characters have a grasp on their powers from the beginning and we're left to catch up, it just makes the action sequences that much more exciting when they don't have to slow down from anyone in the audience they think can't keep up.

Storywise there is nothing all that special about the premise, but the show does drop you right in the deep end, which makes the heavy exposition seem not so bad. It's also only thirteen episodes long, and I'd much rather watch a show this short that gets on with it than some 70 episode series with only five episodes where stuff happens.

Nothing earth shattering then, but still seems worth another episode or two.