Anyway, after
watching this first episode I fully understand why it has that 'comedy' tag in
the genre :3
I was
honesty blinded by all the singing and the nice voice acting from last season I
barely remember stuff there. BUT the opening of this second season of UtaPri made me remember why it was funny. Setting aside Shimono Hiro's and Terashima Takuma's fun characters, STARISH's opening performance seriously made me
laugh. I was laughing all the way 'cause they all look so… gay,
it was embarrassing to watch (≧∇≦)>
Okay. Now I'm going
serious mode (then fangirling mode later :3).
This second season
starts off with everyone's usual self as they welcome Nanami Haruka (Sawashiro Miyuki),
our favorite golden-eyed-heroine to their Masters Class. From where the first
season left off, STARISH's debut, we continue the story with each of the male
lead improving themselves to professional level idols. Each pair of STARISH is
assigned to their very own professional idol senpai who's suppose to teach them
what they need to know to become professional idols.
Aside from the
returning cast which was probably the reason we're still watching, three of the
four new characters were finally introduced as the senpai of the main cast. The
most noticeable among the three (for me) was Kurosaki Ranmaru (Suzuki Tatsuhisa).
His character basically screams bad news for both Hijikawa Masato (Suzumura Kenichi)
and Jinguuji Ren (Suwabe
Junichi). But both of them doesn't really care about Ranmaru's arrogant
character. In fact, Jinguuji seems more than ready to face him head on.
The next senpai that caught my attention is Mikaze Ai who's voiced
by Aoi Shouta who also voiced Asaba Yuki's (Kimi to Boku.) kouhai. What I noticed about him is how he also looks a bit
arrogant like Ranmaru but at the same time fun seeing how he approached Kurusu
Shou (Shimono Hiro) and made that funny
height-statement-joke. On a side note his voice kind of sound feminine (ーー;). I'm not happy
about it.
The third senpai
introduced is for Ittoki Ottoya (Terashi Takuma)
and Ichinose Tokiya (Miyano
Mamoru). Kotobuki Reiji voiced by Makaino Koji's (Bakuman.)
voice actor, Morikubo
Showtaro, isn't anything better than the previous two in terms of voice and
singing.
Finally there's an
unnamed member of their group (I forgot what they were called by I did saw
their name on a poster in the anime at the beginning), Camus (Maeno Tomoaki), who
apparently joined the other three in their performance. Whoever he is and
what's up with his character, I'm pretty sure that it'll be revealed a couple
of episodes from now (who knows, it might be next episode :P).
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| Tokiya's doing a bit of comedy this season :3 |
Now let's go on
fangirling over characters and voice actors.
First off, I'm
really glad to see Tokiya's character lighter than before. He was all snobbish
last season and seeing him make those chibi-comedy face was a nice touch.
Mamo-chan's voice is a nice as ever that it doesn't even matter if he's doing a
serious or comedy character at all (but I'm sure that I'll like him as Yogi in Karneval more). Terashima's voice as Ittoki is
really nice to hear again. Ittoki's my fave Terashima character and his
character in UtaPri is probably one of
my fave as well being the comedy relief together with Shou. Then there's the
pair of Shou and Natsuki who's probably the most amusing pair out there given
Natsuki's case and Shimono Hiro's voice acting :3 After tuning in to GJ-bu last Winter, I got used to hearing
Shimono talk like he's always being teased which perfectly fits Shou's
character. HAHA.
On a side note, I'm kind of wondering why Cecil's (Toriumi Kousuke) a main character in here when he doesn't even have any involvement
in the story (ーー;). AND did you notice that? He's got himself those cheaper versions
of Kirara (AKB0048
reference) - his fireflies. LOL
All in all, UtaPri's second season is nothing different
from season one. So viewers of season one will definitely enjoy this one. The
performances in here are the same as ever. It's fancy a little bit flashy (kind
of like AKB0048 but not quite).
