Thread: Licensed Uta no Prince-sama
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Old 2011-07-10, 19:21   Link #36
Irisiel
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Well we see that Haruka has talent with music notation at the very least since she did the musical equivalent of learning Kana in a few days and then jumping into weaving near fluent sentences not long afterwards. Seriously, what she did usually takes a few months to master at the very least, so we might as well call her a musical genius (also, did we get a hint that she's a good singer as well?).

Still lulzy, especially with the rule, which somewhat makes sense when you think about how hardcore Otaku can be about their idols' virginity (plus, a boarding school that churns out pregnant girls wouldn't stay open, or co-ed, for a very long time), but the way it's presented is just ham-fisted and obviously telling the watchers that the rule is added only for drama and making Haruka's inevitable emotional wavering more understandable.

On the Tokiya-Hayato thing I think they might be the same person trying to distance himself from his earlier stage persona and reinvent himself as a new idol. Especially with how Haruka recognized the pitch (again with her musical savant abilities, she's to music what Ichigo was to sweets!) and the principal had to jump in again with the twin excuse.

One of the funniest things with this series is the comments everyone has on the internet about it. Most call it trash, but funny trash which doesn't take itself seriously, and that Haruka's eyes are scary as hell (which kind of remind me of comments on Utena's designs).

So we're left with the generic twin-plot, Haruka's been revealed as a musical genius (thus explaining how all the guys will eventually want to pair with her), the principal is still flamboyant (and planning something that likely will involve Tokiya/Hayato), we got a hot-blooded teacher, everything's still ridiculous, but the animation haven't dropped by much so I'm going to continue to watch it! *Strikes SHINING Saotome pose*

Also rivalry pairings amongst the guys have been established (and yes, it is the pairings in which they sing in the ED concert, which just makes it the more lulzy and suggests that the ED concert will be in the last episode and that Haruka will have made them all friends/frenemies by then). Didn't expect the shouta to be so against being cute, though.
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