Saturday
Aug012009
Princess Lover Ep 3&4 - Waiter, What Is This Suck Doing In My Awesome?
Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 10:00AM
I believe it's contrived plot line, sir...
When you start out from the heights that Princess Lover started from, the only way to go is down. It's not a great fall yet, but little annoyances are starting to show up. Animation quality varies here and there. Plot points are brought up and ignored. Situations are a tad too contrived. And let's face it, sometimes, this thing just gets goofy.
Supa Cleavage Defense!
These two episodes focus mainly on the one sided rivalry Seika feels toward Teppei. As the president of the Social Club, she has a chance to make Teppei dance when he tries to join because, well, because the other girls told him to. Seika uses an upcoming party to put Teppei to the test.
Good luck with that
He training starts in ballroom dancing, etiquette, and tea drinking. This is Japan after all.
This is going well...
Lots of introspection and fail later, the maid comes up with the solution to their problem.
...which everyone agrees is a great idea, Teppei aces the party, and Seika begrudgingly accepts his social graces.
Except he didn't actually do anything different based on Yuu's advice, far as I could tell. You get the idea they were trying to imply if he treats social training like martial arts training, he would succeed, but there is no indication that's actually what happened. I was expecting some silly scene where he catches a falling tray with a kendo move or something, but nope, he just becames a fast learner. As you may have guessed by now, this annoyed me.
Moving along to episode 4, we find out that along with being a royal pain in the ass, Seika is also a fashion designer and model. She will be employing Nezu as her patsy for an upcoming interview.
This will not end well
A positive development follows, as Teppei actually goes against normal anime charachter logic. When you find that your classmate has a deep seeded hatred of your last name, should you:
A) break into classmates room, read diary, almost get caught, and sneak out only to be caught due to the random item of underwear you accidentally took with you?
Or
B) go ask the guy who gave you said last name?
Amazingly, Teppei chooses B.
Old man secret time!
In a plot twist only a mentally ill mountain goat would miss, Nezu comes into school the next day under the weather. Apparently, rich people get special kinds of colds.
Next, he crapped unicorns
The following is just for the hell of it:
A FEVER FOR MORE COWBELL!!!
Naturally, Teppei now has to fill in and be Seika's interview partner. She explains the situation calmly and rationally.
What are you going to do, drink tea at him?
The interview goes as expected, cheap shots back and forth, both over and under the table.
Everything is a duel with this guy
But before long, Teppei surprises Seika with some genuine words of admiration. This allows us to finally get to the heart of the matter.
After you stop breaking his toes
Summary: Seika's grandfather had an affair with Arima's wife, and he tried to destroy her family's business. They seem to be doing well despite being on the hit list of the world's largest conglomerate, but in this case, the result is that Seika can't get her fashion designs into Arima's megastores.
Teppei, of course, knew all this, and to allow grandpa to save face, he takes over as director of the stores and agrees to let Seika peddle her wares with him.
Cost of soul - dinner
And with a simple business deal, 50 years of rivalry is out the window. It all seems way too easy, but I don't expect some double or triple cross to come out of this, I expect this was done to cement the harem members and move on to the next story line. And I can't think of any direction for the plot to go that isn't going to be a bit of a let down. This points more to the fact that I am not a writer than risk of a sucky future for Princess Lover, but where do you think the next plotline will take Teppei and the 4 Bustykateers?
When you start out from the heights that Princess Lover started from, the only way to go is down. It's not a great fall yet, but little annoyances are starting to show up. Animation quality varies here and there. Plot points are brought up and ignored. Situations are a tad too contrived. And let's face it, sometimes, this thing just gets goofy.
Supa Cleavage Defense!
These two episodes focus mainly on the one sided rivalry Seika feels toward Teppei. As the president of the Social Club, she has a chance to make Teppei dance when he tries to join because, well, because the other girls told him to. Seika uses an upcoming party to put Teppei to the test.
Good luck with that
He training starts in ballroom dancing, etiquette, and tea drinking. This is Japan after all.
This is going well...
Lots of introspection and fail later, the maid comes up with the solution to their problem.
...which everyone agrees is a great idea, Teppei aces the party, and Seika begrudgingly accepts his social graces.
Except he didn't actually do anything different based on Yuu's advice, far as I could tell. You get the idea they were trying to imply if he treats social training like martial arts training, he would succeed, but there is no indication that's actually what happened. I was expecting some silly scene where he catches a falling tray with a kendo move or something, but nope, he just becames a fast learner. As you may have guessed by now, this annoyed me.
Moving along to episode 4, we find out that along with being a royal pain in the ass, Seika is also a fashion designer and model. She will be employing Nezu as her patsy for an upcoming interview.
This will not end well
A positive development follows, as Teppei actually goes against normal anime charachter logic. When you find that your classmate has a deep seeded hatred of your last name, should you:
A) break into classmates room, read diary, almost get caught, and sneak out only to be caught due to the random item of underwear you accidentally took with you?
Or
B) go ask the guy who gave you said last name?
Amazingly, Teppei chooses B.
Old man secret time!
In a plot twist only a mentally ill mountain goat would miss, Nezu comes into school the next day under the weather. Apparently, rich people get special kinds of colds.
Next, he crapped unicorns
The following is just for the hell of it:
A FEVER FOR MORE COWBELL!!!
Naturally, Teppei now has to fill in and be Seika's interview partner. She explains the situation calmly and rationally.
What are you going to do, drink tea at him?
The interview goes as expected, cheap shots back and forth, both over and under the table.
Everything is a duel with this guy
But before long, Teppei surprises Seika with some genuine words of admiration. This allows us to finally get to the heart of the matter.
After you stop breaking his toes
Summary: Seika's grandfather had an affair with Arima's wife, and he tried to destroy her family's business. They seem to be doing well despite being on the hit list of the world's largest conglomerate, but in this case, the result is that Seika can't get her fashion designs into Arima's megastores.
Teppei, of course, knew all this, and to allow grandpa to save face, he takes over as director of the stores and agrees to let Seika peddle her wares with him.
Cost of soul - dinner
And with a simple business deal, 50 years of rivalry is out the window. It all seems way too easy, but I don't expect some double or triple cross to come out of this, I expect this was done to cement the harem members and move on to the next story line. And I can't think of any direction for the plot to go that isn't going to be a bit of a let down. This points more to the fact that I am not a writer than risk of a sucky future for Princess Lover, but where do you think the next plotline will take Teppei and the 4 Bustykateers?
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