Review | Carole & Tuesday - Chapter 2

 Chapter 02: Born to Run
Carole leaves for her new job, leaving Tuesday the task of cleaning the apartment, which represents a challenge for her.
Angela starts working on new music with Tao, while Tao explains the role of artificial intelligence in the creative process.
Carole's job is to mourn and feign sadness at the death of a client of her boss, for what the girl tries to remember in a sad event of the past, but the result ends up causing the opposite.
Upon his return, Carole discovers the disaster left by Tuesday, as well as the fugitive girl is rich. After a talk about her tastes, Carole tells Tuesday that she wants to play the song they composed on a suitable piano, and after thinking a little, she talks to her friend about the memorial room for immigration on Mars.

 On the way to the room, Tuesday sees an interview with his mother, a governor and possible candidate for president. Meanwhile, in the room, Roddy adjusts the details for the presentation of a DJ named Ertegun.
The girls receive a refusal from the guard, but they also go on stage to play "The Loneliest Girl", while Roddy films them with interest. After the song, a guard interrupts them and the girls escape again. Later, Roddy uploads the video to the internet.
Gus, still at the bar, hears the song of the girls, (which has become popular virally), and recognizes the name of Roddy, whom he calls by phone to find out the identity of the singers. Roddy and Gus go to the girls' department the next day, and it is the latter who knocks on the door declaring that he will be their manager.

 Split music
Already in the first chapter we could see that the anime intended to show two different views of music: the orthodox, old school music made by the artists appealing to their feelings; and another more modern, full of digital sounds and more distant from emotions. In this second chapter, the characters appear on one side or the other, accentuating that division, so that we have Carole, Tuesday and Gus on the orthodox side of the music, while Tao, Angela and Ertegun correspond to modern music; in the middle would be Roddy, someone who seems to be as close to one as the other.

 In addition, it seems that the anime is heading to a kind of rivalry between both styles, because with Tao and Angela, and their apathetic attitude towards music and girls beginning to gain recognition with a song born of their feelings, we can glimpse a clash between both, and while it is something that I hope to see, I would not like it to go so far as to antagonize modern music. Instead, it would be very interesting if instead of seeing what style can be superimposed on the other, the anime will choose to show how both can survive and even influence each other, and perhaps one of the key pieces for that mutual understanding is Roddy.

 Final opinion
It was a pleasant chapter to see, both from the visual, where he maintained the quality of the previous one, and from the plot where he improved a bit and having the bases sitting, showing us something more of the previously introduced characters, as well as presenting Ertegun, a DJ played by the great Mamoru Miyano and Roddy, an interesting character who helped the girls indirectly and incidentally, connected them with Gus, (extra points for that shot out of El resplandor).

 The chapter put a little focus on the difference between music as an expression of feelings and the same as a product that can be manufactured based on consumer demands, so that we could again see the sequences jump from Carole and Tuesday to Tao and Angela, while the girls with their song and the producer with their sayings let glimpse the positions of both.

Something that can be easily noticed in both chapters is that the plot is slow in a matter of facts and information, and that it does not feel that way because the anime takes time to show the characters and their virtues or defects, (like the clumsiness of Tuesday, the flashback of Carole or the way of thinking of Tao), something that makes it entertaining to see but that can be overwhelming if it happens very often.

This chapter adds to the good start of the series, polishing some details that had been pending in the previous one, also brings us for the first time the opening, "Kiss Me", (also performed by Nai Br.XX & Celeina Ann, voices secondary of Carole and Tuesday), a song quite catchy pop, accompanied by a sequence with a nice style of animation, and that resembles a video clip that ends with the protagonists giving a street performance.

With several fun moments, some interesting character developments and a good step, Carole & Tuesday is on the right track, but this is a long one and as I said before, in an original production it is easy to make mistakes, so we only have to wait until it is not be the case.
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