Hello everyone,
Today has been an hard work on the website. I've been working to attach to each image a particular description giving more information about the content and the characters showed. (only 660 description over the almost 1100+ wallpapers have been written, so there is still much work to do (Basically everything till Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica included))
Let's go ahead with another review about another recent anime series named Princess Lover and based upon an erogè with the same name. (We'll be talking about the tv adaptation, not the ero one)
Let's start with a synopsis :
Teppei Arima is a second-year high school student who lost both of his parents in a traffic accident on their way home from a family trip. His grandfather, Isshin Arima, happens to wield the puppet strings in Japan’s vast economy and demands that Teppei becomes his successor as the head of the Arima Group. To prepare for his debut into high society, Teppei enrolls in an elite academy for the scions of the rich and powerful.
Please do not expect much by this series, I don't know the original work how it was, but the anime was completely devoid of any plot. (Even less plot than Infinite Stratos and that's quite an impressive feat indeed)
All the focus is on the girls and how they relate (more like "fall in love without reason") with our main character, but the shabby storyline (really, there isn't much depth in any of the stories proposed) with very little focus in the backstory of each of the girls end up in a total mess without giving you much chance to interest yourself with the plot.
I found myself laughing hard at all the seriousness they put up in the first arc to "conquer" Seika Houjouin with all that crap about the "Social Club".
The characters are vary in personality and mostly interesting, but with the short length of the series it's difficult to relate with them in a half-decent way. (And that's very sad as there were quite some potential in the characters)
My favourite character is Sylvia Van Ossen with her quite dojikko character that appear in every situation that does not relate to fencing and few other particular stuff. (also she's imho the most beautiful of the pack)
The visual quality of the series is quite high and detailed (all the girls are fantasticly drawed), but the animation consistency is severly lacking resulting in some action scene to look really weird.
The sound quality is top notch, I liked all of the character's voice, especially Emiri Katou's role of Seika Houjouin and Ryoka Yuzuki's role as Charlotte Hazellink. Also of note were the Opening and ending song like "Princess Primp!" by Miyuki Hashimoto.
Concluding, this isn't a bad series by itself, it's just that you should go watch this only for the quality fanservice offered by the series and not for the plot as there is none.
I'll reserve my judgement on the game till I play it as maybe with a more permissive format in terms of time, they could have managed more depth in each of the character.
Interested to take a single volume of the manga and will probably insert it in the next order just to give a look and see if it's any good.
That's all for now!
See you soon,
feal87