Quantcast Review: Princess Lover! (プリンセスラバー！)
imouto.my background image - Mio Akiyama (3 February 2012)
My collection of short anime reviews

Contain spoilers that you may hate, but never biased in any way!
Home || Review Index || Subscribe to RSS || Facebook || @imouto.my e-mail [login][register] || Privacy Policy || About || Contact Me

Oct
23
2009

Review: Princess Lover! (プリンセスラバー！)



The main protagonist may have a harem filled with beautiful girls, but deep inside his heart he actually swings the other way.

My review of Princess Lover! today would be my 10th review for this month alone, and I should be able to squeeze another couple of titles before this month is over. Princess Lover! is the newest 2009 anime I have watched, therefore it will have its chance to scare Wolf and Spice 2 off the ‘Anime of the Year 2009’ throne before the wolf-girl trashes its ass and dumped the carcass on the loser heap that also contained the remains of Koukaku no Regios, Tears to Tiara, K-On and Saki.


The backgrounds are nice, but would have been better if they are animated.

Story:-
Our main protagonist loses his parents in an ‘accident’, therefore he has to live with his rich grandfather. His grandfather then made him his successor, and then ships the protagonist into an elite school for the rich and famous. At that school, he then amassed some beautiful girls for his harem, before the story nose-dived in the second half of the anime.

Just like K-On, the story in this anime is crap. Just like K-On, this anime actually started well before tanking in the second half. In fact, the deterioration of the storyline quality in this anime is even worse than K-On; the last three episodes of this anime is painful to watch because the ending is so awful. Of course, just like K-On, this anime has good story development and pacing despite the crap storyline. Actually I want to slap the romance genre tag on this anime but I am truly a very kind man to not do that. You will see why when you reach the conclusion of this review. There are numerous fan service in this anime, but they are too one-dimensional unlike the ones you can see in Saki.

Unlike K-On, this anime doesn’t have a great character like Hirasawa Yui. With this fact, you may have realized that this anime will score less than K-On has. Unlike K-On, this anime has far worse character development strategies. This really applies to that social club president and also the main protagonist personal maid. I was surprised when the former declared that she has fallen in love with the main protagonist, because I haven’t seen any events that can be described as the turning point for her character to change from hate to love. Which one is it? Is it the scene where the two has dinner and the main  protagonist allows her to sell merchandise in his department store? Is it the scene before that dinner where they were interviewed? Is it the hot spring vacation? Or maybe all the above? IMO, even if all three events I have mentioned combined to become the catalyst for her character development, I don’t think they (those events) has enough impact that will justify the character change. For example, those three events combined doesn’t even have half the impact that the scene where the main protagonist saves the princess from the gangsters has.

As for the personal maid, it seems that she has already fallen in love with him by the time the hot spring vacation episode was aired. The number of any discernable turning point events (or positive flags as they called it in dating simulation games – which where this anime is adapted from) that will explain that development is zero. It is possible that the maid likes him from the start due to her position. But if that was true, it is safe to say that her character development is virtually stagnating (just like the main protagonist of Tears to Tiara).


Quoted For Truth.

Character Design:-
Just as you expect from an adaptation of a dating simulation, the characters in this anime basically has hairs that is anything but black (except the main protagonist and the maid), big boobs, long legs and impossible body shapes. This is not a bad thing actually.

Voice Acting:-
The voice acting in this anime is average and not very impressive, just like K-On. But unlike K-On, there are no outstanding characters in this anime that has good voice acting performance.

Music:-
This anime has good OST and ED theme, but not so for the OP theme.


The director tends to use camera angles that depicts people in horizontal position, for reasons inexplicable to me.

Animation and Direction:-
The animation quality in this anime is largely great, even in fast-paced scenes. In some scenes, the animation is not as fluid as it can be though. I’ve noticed that this anime tends to use very high quality backgrounds, kind of like what Makoto Shinkai does in his movies. It would have been nice though if the animation studio also animate those backgrounds, because seeing the main protagonist walking with his woman in a forest where the tree’s leafs are static (as if there are no winds) is very creepy. This anime also has some CGI animations, which are fluid and actually integrates seamlessly with the 2D animation. The directing is just average in general, for all the reasons outlined in the story section, plus usage of some inconvenient camera angles as shown in the screenshot above.

Conclusion:-
4 out of 10. The worst anime I have watched for quite some time. Still better than Macross 7 though.


A parody of an Apple computer, using carrot picture. The one in Doujin Work uses banana picture instead.

More from ranpha

ranpha recommends

Blog Margeting Related Posts Plugin For ranphaDo You Want to Become a Partner with ranpha? ／人◕‿‿◕人＼ Blog Marketing Related Posts Plugin Counter

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Incoming search terms:

Related posts:

  1. Review: Princess Princess (プリンセス・プリンセス)
    Princess Princess is definitely one of the better anime titles released this year. The final episode just come out yesterday, so here’s my take for this anime. Story:-A shounen-ai anime bordering on yaoi (should be expected because aarinfantasy subbed this one), this one is definitely not for everyone. A beautiful boy transferred into an [...]...
  2. Review: Princess Nine (プリンセスナイン 如月女子高野球部)
    This is a review of Princess Nine, a sport-based anime title. No virgins has been deflowered in the making of this anime. Story:-Just like ANN description says, the owner of a prestigious female-only high school creates a custom-made female baseball team to compete in the high-school baseball tournament with the aim of reaching the [...]...
  3. Review: Kaze no Stigma (風のスティグマ)
    The lecherous main male protagonist, on top of one of his sexual conquests. This review of Kaze no Stigma will be the last for quite some time, as the usual end-of-year activities eats up my free time. Kaze no Stigma is a shounen 2007 anime, which will then compete with the newly crowned ‘Anime of the [...]...
  4. Review: Infinite Stratos (インフィニット・ストラトス)
    The insensitive main male protagonist. As mentioned in the previous post, the audition for the first holder of this blog ‘Anime of the Year 2011’ starts today with the high-priority mecha anime titled Infinite Stratos. With the overdose of slice-of-life titles in Japan nowadays, a mecha anime title sure sounds like a breath of fresh air. [...]...
  5. Review: Shangri-La (シャングリ・ラ)
    The main protagonist in this anime, and just like the anime itself, she not in a very good shape. The 11th review in this month is another 2009 anime titled Shangri-La I mentioned not so long ago. This anime is much better than the previously reviewed 2009 anime Princess Lover!, but not good enough to depose [...]...
  6. Review: The Sky Crawlers (スカイ・クロラ)
    The main male protagonist. It has been quite some time since I last watched an anime movie, so voila, here is a review of one, titled The Sky Crawlers. Directed by the director of Ghost in the Shell series and catered towards an audience who enjoyed the Dogfights series in the History Channel, can this 2008 [...]...
  7. Review: Hakuouki Hekketsu-roku (薄桜鬼 碧血録)
    The main female protagonist who owned a harem full with swords-toting pretty boys. This review of the 10-episode Hakuouki Hekketsu-roku, the sequel of Hakuouki reviewed here before, is so late mainly because of Chinese New Year and a little bit procrastinating on my side. As a recap, the first season has done fairly well before during [...]...
  8. Review: Pretear (新白雪姫伝説プリーティア)
    Anyone expecting more screenshots like EDEN’s Bowy in this review of Pretear will be disappointed, as there will be only 2!! Muahahahaha. Story:-A shoujo anime with magic in the mould of Sailormoon, a girl in an immensely rich family suddenly finds out that she has to become a Pretear to save the world [...]...
  9. Review: Wolf’s Rain (ウルフズ・レイン) TV + OVA
    Jyu Oh Sei made me lost my trust in Japanese anime for quite some time, but after watching few episodes of Princess Princess D (it is decent, but nowhere near the anime version), I decided that I should try watching more titles in this entertainment medium again. So, I play it safe and [...]...
  10. Review: Jyu Oh Sei (獣王星)
    Actually I have finished off watching Jyu Oh Sei before Princess Princess, but only now I want to put this one up mainly because this anime is so bad. So bad, I will not put any screenshots so that there will be no incentive for you to download and watch this anime. Story:-The twin brothers [...]...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Written by in: anime review | Tags:
Creative Commons License
Unless stated otherwise, this work by ranpha (text only) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
All comments belongs to their respective Posters. Screenshots of all anime titles here belongs to their respective authors and/or companies.

1 Comment »

  • Ricky says:
    24th October 2009 at 5:55 am

    Hi,

    Great anime blog you have. Thanks!

    Your review of Princess Lover is very well-written.

    I have an anime blog, would you please take a look at it when you have time and let me know what you think of it? It is at http://www.upxy.com.

    Thanks in advance,
    Ricky

    Reply

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <br> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <img src=""> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

If you have any problems with the comment form, you can contact me using the contact form or by e-mailing me directly.
User's homepage links are nofollow-free.

If you want to insert images or screenshots, please use the likes of imgftw.net or min.us and not imageshack because this blog domain is not (and will not be) registered with them. You can use the HTML img tag to insert the image, but not with BBCODE [img] tag that are used in forums.

Please click the 'Submit Comment' button only once. It will take up to 30 seconds for your comment to be inserted into the database. Your comment will appear immediately unless it was flagged as spam by Akismet, which will then be reviewed manually later as fast as humanely possible.


Powered by WordPress and DNS Made Easy. Theme: TheBuckmaker. CopyPaste, Bauanleitung, BLOGbal.
Background image: Mio Akiyama (K-On!)

This blog is best viewed in high definition, using Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer 7+, Opera 10.x+ or any Webkit-based browsers.
My collection of short anime reviewsSubmit my blog ComicsBest Blogs Asia Directoryblog directoryBlogarama - The Blog DirectoryFree web directory, click hereBloggers - Meet Millions of BloggersBlogged.my
Blog Directory & Search engineBlog DirectoryListed in LS Blogs the Blog Directory and Blog Search EngineReadABlog.com Blog Search Engineipv6 ready
Blogs lists and reviewsblog search directoryStop Spam Harvesters, Join Project Honey PotGeo Visitors MapMy Ping in TotalPing.comPuppyURL - Free Directory
Get listed in a premiere web site directory for free This site is listed under Anime Directory
Blog Directory | Quick Link Submission Approval in 24 Hours - Submit your Website Today | This website is listed in Craig's Directory