Princess Lover! #01 — Panty Singularities
July 5th, 2009
Don’t stare directly into Charlotte’s crotch, you’ll go blind.
New Season Disclaimer:
I try to watch at least the first episode of every new show in a season. However, do not expect anything I say to be fair or balanced. I value my own entertainment above all else and there are some genres or methods of presentation that I just plain do not like and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. I’ll attempt to at least make a cursory explaination of what did and did not please me about each show, but it’s just a simple fact of life that my tastes are mine alone. Feel free to express your own opinions in the comments, just keep it under control. This is just television after all.
High quality is for chumps and communists.
Impressions:
I’m actually kind of disappointed in how much this bleeds "harem porn game" from every single orifice. It’s probably made worse by the prolific censoring in the initial broadcast. I think I’d rather just see some panties and roll my eyes than be attacked by a white dwarf star obscuring everything within a two foot area of Charlotte’s waist. The music was also often extremely poor and almost never did a good job of complimenting the scene at hand. Sadly, Wakamoto’s playing it straight for this one too, so he’s not even amusing. Hearing Koyasu as Maria’s father was a pleasant surprise though. Outside of the music, the production was very strong all around, although much of it was directly from the promotional material. Let’s hope GoHands doesn’t read ARMS’ playbook and then give up for the next month. It was especially nice to see something approaching an actual sword fight for once instead of men grunting and then exploding.
We only got a real introduction to Teppei and Charlotte this episode. Teppei’s decent enough I suppose. He’s got the moves and skills to be a badass, but then spazzes out about stupid things like generic crappy porn protagonist #2441. Charlotte’s a coquettish little imp, which is one of my more favored female personality types and spends most of her conversation with Teppei teasing him about her boobs. There’s not too much to be said for Sylvia yet, aside from "she fences, wears really tight pants, and is almost as bouncy as Charlotte." There is some good potential there though, and a chance for a real love triangle out of a porn game adaption for once. Aside from Teppei and Sylvia both being swordsmen, she’s got the in as his fiance too. Although that does make me wonder where exactly Charlotte and the yet-to-be-introduced idol fit into all of this. Probably a forgotten childhood friend or similar nonsense.
It wasn’t bad by any stretch, but after the excellent promos, I feel a bit let down. They somehow managed to take a motorcyle riding swordsman and make him into a bit of an angsty weenie and it’s an unpleasant dichotomy. I’m hoping it’s just meant to show the culture shock (and the whole "dead parents" thang), but he’s nowhere as likeable as Yoichi ever was.
Princess Lover! OP
Preview:
First day at school.
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Care to explain more about Teppei’s weenie part? Imma go watch it soon, & that detail was rlly a let down to me cuz I expected him to be a badass charac. That aside, WTF did they do with the design? Gimme back mah game’s design, Goddamnshit. Remind me so much of fugly Shugo Chara’s design.