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Lapis Re:LiGHTs is just an advertisement for a mobile gacha game with girls idols. About which I want to talk a little.

The anime is made at the young studio Yokohama Animation Lab (YAL), founded by Oogami Yuuma . Prior to that, he worked as a CG producer at the Silver Link studio, supposedly that's why there's so much 3D in the YAL studio projects.
Specifically, Lapis was engaged in sub-studio Cloud Hearts, which is made up mostly of former White Fox animators. You might have met them, for example, in Gamers!, where they outsource several episodes.

Moving away from production details, in terms of content Lapis is a anime about idols at the magic academy.

▶ Video The usual genre action (school education) and the final performance with songs, for example, Uma Musume was made according to the same scheme

The characters here are a complete standard, the events are standard, the 3D performances are rather weak.
Interest is boosted when the credits for the fifth episode contain the names of Shaft Studio workers, such as Ito Yoshiaki Itou and Hiroto Nagata.

▶ Video 5 and 6 eps are very funny: magical board games, hike and haunted house!

Although some of the backgrounds were not very good, Lapis is remembered for the setting.
Demonstrated in episode 10, Praça do Comércio Square hints that the local detailing clearly has a Portuguese flavor.

Commerce Square, Lisbon Architecture, decorative plates on the walls, ship "Santa Maria" - important details are missed from ignorance. (original article with pictures) The full name of the main character - Tiara Victoria Lex Waleland, lives in the Palace of Queluz. Princess Mariana Vitória de Bragança also lived there. The names are similar, aren't they? Who knows how many more such references can be found in the anime Definitely Lapis managed not everything, some episodes were not caught and passed by. Sometimes I was seized by nostalgia for the magnificent ShoujoKageki Revue Starlight (also advertising mobile game with girls, but more interesting). However, Lapis can also surprise and delight the viewer when he really wants to.