I seem to cover a lot of music based anime having reviewed items based on real bands and musicians, and later on will be digging up a shameless one for the cartoon vault, but to get me back in the swing following Gemucon I shall review Wandaba Style.

A late entry for ADV Films, Wandaba Style is about a boy genius named Dr Susumu Tsukumo who doesn't believe man really landed on the moon, so is out on a quest to get to the moon using the cleanest way possible from his strangely well funded island base that looks like a Disney World attraction.
Then we are joined by Micheal Hanagata, a poor mans Nabeshin who wants to use Tsukumo's ambition to get a mismatched pop group to perform on the moon.
This pop group consists of an Enka singer named Himawari Natsuwa, a rock singer named Yuri Fuyube, a deranged folk singer who can see macho green fairies named Ayame Akimo and a nursery singer named Sakura Haruno (No not that one)
The series runs as a wacky comedy with various failed attempts to get to the moon, followed by a strange afro-alien afterwards.
For it's time, it was very colorful and retro looking but doesn't seem to have spent an awful amount on animation quality saving the best art for DVD covers, promos and ending sequences.
The pop group Mix Juice, as their named in the series isn't a real band but consists of voice actors who are normally singers in real life.
Looking at the absurd plot, it can make for great laughs and the dubbing is top notch ADV at their best but I find a few things to be a little out of left field.
For starters it's explained that Dr Tsukumo made Kiku No.8 after building smaller prototype models as a child but it makes no sense how he got from simple inanimate objects to a little moe robot girl (sorry Satelite Girl) who is as bad at emotions as Tony Tony Chopper. And for a band consisting of different genre singers, each as different as the other, how come they can sing idol pop music so easily? I'm not even going to try and explain the afro-alien.
Tsukumo himself has a strange way of operating, he measures all his theories using the old Japanese Metric system and named all his experiments to the moon as Wandaba Styles, which fits the name of the anime but makes utterly no sense to anyone reading the title.
For all it's faults its still a fun series but quality wise it's less anime and more cartoon.
Final Verdict: With it's retro feel and high color count, it's an attractive series to watch and equally funny but forgettable as the quality is rather low for an early 00s anime and the title doesn't really strike you as being anything other than "what"