feet. Even though these are overused topics, they still can make a good anime if execution is good, we have good examples for this but Arte is not one of them. It tries to tell these topics to the viewers through discrimination against women in artist's worlds, but it always using the same formula in too many episodes that take place in Florence.Step 1: Our protagonist Arte wants to make something about art but people say, "You are a girl! There is no way you can do that!"Step 2: Arte accomplishes a difficult task that even men can do with difficulty, by forcing her body till the end.Step 3: The people who said, "You are a girl! There is no way you can do that!" to Arte getting impressed by her strong will.This formula has been used three times in six episodes and every event in the anime started to become more unnatural as the story progresses. Also, not only the events, but the characters' themselves, their reactions and dialogues are getting more and more unnatural... Until Arte goes to Venezia because of a work, and here our second part of the anime starts.Arte is going to this city for become a teacher of a noble girl. This noble girl, Katarina, is a stubborn child who caused all her former teachers to quit their job. Although Katarina doesn't like Arte at first, Arte manages to become a friend with Katarina very soon as you can guess. As if this concept itself is not cliché enough, the drama about Katarina was cheap. Because the dialogues in this drama scenes are cheap, just like the rest of the show...Okay, it was a bit fast, so let's just take a step back and look the characters in Florence.We have 5 important characters in Florence: Our protagonist Arte, her master Leo, Leo's old client Ubertino, Leo's patron Veronica (she is also a courtesan) and Arte's apprentice friend Angelo.All these characters have problematic writings but Veronica is something different. Her character is a total disaster except just one scene. Arte meets with this character in first half of the show and takes a job to draw her portrait. Meanwhile in Leo's workshop, when Leo and her bodies get closer, her heart starts to beat very quickly. It's a very natural react because Arte is a young girl but since Arte doesn't understand what is going on, she decides to talk about this with Veronica. After she tells the sitution to Veronica, this idiot courtesan tells, "OMG Arte! You are in love with Leo!" If you are a teenager and watched this scene, you need to forget immediately this scene. Because if you consider every sexual urge as love in your youth, you can make many mistakes like Arte does. Also, the only thing that Veronica badly affects Arte is not limited with this, she confuses Arte on many other issues too. If you meet with someone like Veronica in real life, you should get away from that person quickly. The only good advice that Veronice gave to Arte was: ""Whatever your job is, do it till the end with pride."Though, Arte still makes very bad decisions even without Veronica because her only good feature is her strong will. But this is very natural because she is very young. She learns from her mistakes and become more experienced. However, her character is become boring very quickly because of the formula that I said in second paragraph of this review.Just like Arte, Angelo is a boring character too. Because the only reason for his existence is there need to be some people in art industry who don't make discrimination against Arte. He doesn't have no other important function.Leo's old client Ubertino has least screen time amongst this five character but he makes a great contribution to Arte's development in bargaining. And since the best thing about this show is Arte's development, he manages to be a memorable character despite low screen time.And our last important character of Florence, Leo, is most cliché character of this anime. The author did not try to add an extra personality to this character, if you've watched or read any story between an apprentice and her/his master, you can guess everything about Leo's character and past at the first sight of him. I don't know what will happen in the future, but during the 12 episodes I've watched, nothing about Leo surprised me even once; because I've experienced this type of apprentice-master stories too much in the past. Leo was the most boring character of this show for me.When story and characters are poorly-written we naturally look to art & sound department for something good, but there is nothing significant in this departments too. Actually, art & sound even worse than story & characters and this is very ironic, because "Arte" means "Art" in Italian.Even though animations are not really bad, quality of visuals for both of character models and background drawings are poor. Especially in the scenes where they zoom in to character faces, quality is decreasing too much. I watched all the episodes of Arte in 1080p but in zoom-in scenes, character faces were looking like 360p. Also, in some normal scenes, even though background drawings were looking like 1080p, character models were looking like 360p.On the other hand, Arte also fails the class about architecture, which I think should be the most important part of a show that takes place in Italy. Although we spend time both in Florence and Venezia, we do not see any historical structure except a few cathedrals, and this makes the atmosphere boring.By the way, that's not the only thing that makes the atmosphere boring. Soundtracks are also an important factor in Arte's boring atmosphere. In historical anime shows, soundtracks are an important part of the atmosphere, but most of the soundtracks in Arte are plain and boring. Also the sound effects are very cartoonish for this kind of anime.The only aspect of this anime that I can praise other than Arte's character development is voice actings. Every voice actings are fit with characters, especially Ubertino, Leo and Katarina's voice actings are wonderful. The only voice acting of this anime that I didn't like was Arte's. Actually her voice acting was decent in first episodes, but despite the progress of the episodes, there was no change in her voice tone. Se spoke in the same tone in every scene, and naturally this became annoying after a point. While watching the last episodes, I had to watch the show at minimum volume for not to hear Arte's disturbing tone anymore. This very ironic, becuase one the my favorite character (Neko from K) has same voice actor with Arte and I really like Neko's voice acting.At the end of the day, Arte is a poorly written and poorly produced historical anime, it was one of the worst historical shows I've ever watched for sure. There is no target audience that I can recommend this show.