Oh, and there’s one special rule that all students absolutely must follow: All of the male leads are singing idols or musicians of varying degrees of fame, while the heroine has just enrolled in the school to achieve her dream of composing music, especially for one idol in particular… SO JUST WHAT is Uta no Prince-sama all about? Well, I’m still learning the characters myself, but basically, all of the characters are enrolled in an extremely high-profile vocational school for the performing arts. It was pretty obvious to me that this was going to become my newest guilty pleasure.

When the first word in the opening song is “dokidoki,” that’s kind of your hint as to what kind of anime you’re watching and what to expect from it. Just go check out my post featuring UtaPri episodes hereĪnd click Play on the first one for the same thing!] [edit: the video I used to have here was removed from Youtube, I just dove right into it and loaded up the first episode, and the opening dance number pretty much had me sold, as it was immediately clear that this anime is all about shameless eye candy. The anime I’ve been watching is relatively new, as it aired in Summer 2011 and has a second season on its way in Summer or Fall 2012. So this series stood out to me because I like the designs of the guys kind of a lot!) The game isn’t available in English (I don’t think?) but it’s been out on PSP since 2010. (I don’t really actively go out and find new otome games to get into, as I think many of them have less-than-interesting plots and if the artwork is overly-shoujo, I just get turned off entirely. So Uta no Prince-Sama (means “Prince of Song” and is often shortened to just “Utapri”) began its existence as an otome game – a dating sim visual novel, a genre I’ve grown fond of recently. I guess my weakness of bishounen-type characters in anime is stronger than I thought it was, because it only took a few posts of fan art of these characters on Tumblr for my interest to be piqued and I looked into this Uta no Prince-Sama series! And wouldn’tcha know it, it turned out to be something that I think is kinda pretty cool!

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