Review of Tari Tari

Konatsu Miyamoto is a member of her school choir club but after an embarrassing incident at their concert the previous year she has been relegated to turning the pages for the pianist. Determined to sing in this year's concert she sets about starting her own club. The people she recruits aren't all keen to sing at first; Wakana is talented but gave up singing when her mother died; Sawa is more interesting in horse riding and archery but joins because she is Konatsu's friend; Taichi is the sole member of the badminton club and joins on condition that the club is known as the "Choir and sometimes Badminton Club" and finally there is Wein, he is called that because he has recently returned to Japan after spending most of his life in Vienna. Getting the required number of members will be the least of Konatsu's problems though; the school's vice principal, who is also the head of the choir, doesn't want there club to be allowed and even when it is it looks as if the concert everybody had worked so hard for will be cancelled.

While this isn't a classic series it is rather fun; the characters are likable and the viewer will sympathise with them as they encounter various difficulties. They are fairly typical anime characters but Wein does stand out a bit due to his amusingly old fashioned ideas about Japanese etiquette. The drama has enough comedy mixed in to keep it fun without that comedy seeming too forced. Inevitably in a series about a singing club there are a fair number of songs; these are pleasant enough but aren't such that the viewer is likely to rush to find the sound track. Overall Tari Tari is a pleasant way to pass the time.

These comments are based on watching the series in Japanese with English subtitles.