I have returned from hiatus after an incredible holiday and there is loads of stuff to upload and starting this run is Super Sonico!

First a lesson, Super Sonico is the official mascot of Nitroplus, a video game and software company specializing in visual novels; she was introduced at a music festival that Nitroplus sponsors, however Sonico is better seen as a fanservice idol whose figures, body pillows and well endowed mousepads make her a more mature alternative to Hatsune Miku, especially when you consider that Sonico is 18 years old and her music is more geared to J-Rock rather than synth pop, so what is this mascot doing in her own anime? Being herself in her day to day life.
Yeah that's pretty much 12 episodes of Super Sonico, a slice of life look at this busty idol.
Sonico is a University Student in Marine Biology, a part time Waitress in her Grandmother's restaurant, a part time Super Model with a demon masked manager and a Guitarist for her rock band First Astronomical Velocity; she's also slightly klutzy, seems to end up in fanservice clothes by force of nature, always wears headphones even in bed and showers, is a narcoleptic that needs four alarm clocks and five cats to wake up and the fact that she owns five cats qualifies her as a crazy cat lady, so why is she so much better than Hatsune Miku or even all the other idols Japan has animated over the past couple of decades?
Well Sonico is the most believable; the classic magical idol variation is nice and pure but is horribly boring and the reason why I don't review them much, while Hatsune Miku types are fun but seem too perfect and needs a good story to make said character interesting while the current idol shows have lots of idols in sparkly costumes but not much variation in personality; Sonico is better than all of those and is well backed up by a good dub voice as well. Everything she does is innocent, not always perfect, a lot of her faults are usually down to her busy lifestyle especially her sleeping problems, something I can relate heavily to and you can't help but love her for it.
The episodes are a mixed bag going from exceptional to down right terrible with no consistency, the best episodes are Sonico focused, the outright best episode is just Sonico traveling across Japan yet the worst ones tend to be the ones that go off genre with the weird zombie ship episode along with the stray cat episode with the downright worst episode being an annoying fake murder case.
There isn't much story to follow as even the last episode is just a 25 minute concert so you can take the episodes that are good and just watch them instead of the whole thing, but one thing that does shine the most is the 3D music videos at the end of each episode which are incredibly well made and as good as Vocaloid videos, which serves as Super Sonico's biggest selling point and going back to the best episode just being a tour of Japan, if Sonico just did those kinds of episodes it would be one of the best anime on TV, so there is room for a lot of great things in Super Sonico, you just need to look past the fan service to get there.
Final Verdict: Super Sonico is a great character to watch and the majority of the show is reliant on it making anything that takes away from that bad, stick to the Sonico focus episodes for best viewing, you won't lose much ignoring the bad episodes.