Princess Lover – Introduction Post

プリンセスラバー！ or Princess Lover! is the story of Teppei and how after his parent’s death, started to live with his wealthy grandfather. On the day that he is supposed to move into his new home, he notices a girl in trouble while visiting his parents’ grave. He suddenly decides to ‘deal with it’ and starts his rescue attempt of the girl.

So anyway, I’m not going to write a whole long review and all because there are tons of other bloggers already doing that. What I’m going to do, is to introduce the characters, the show and perhaps gather a few more followers for this show.

Why am I doing this post? Because I watched Episode 1, loved it and realised that since bluesnow hates anything remotely ecchi and zenical seems to be busy and will probably skip this in favor of everything Hocchan, I figured I was the only one left to fight for this series.

The OP is Princess Primp sung by Miyuki Hashimoto. The song is kinda catchy, considering how I’ve listened to it over serveral times during the duration of writing this post.
A fun fact I discovered about Miyuki Hashimoto, is that she tends to sing for Animes that have the harem theme. Below are a few of the songs she had sung before.

Koko ni Iru kara… — TV anime Girls Bravo first season ending theme
and then, — TV anime Girls Bravo second season ending theme
innocence — TV anime Shuffle! ending theme
Nijiiro Sentimental — TV anime Gift ~eternal rainbow~ opening theme
Ai no kakera — Anime School Days ending theme

Source: Wikipedia

The main characters in the show mainly consists of Teppei and his 4 main Heroines, 3 of which have already been introduced in this episode.

Teppei.
The leading man in this harem. Voiced by Takuma Terashima of Chrome Shelled Regios fame.
Despite eventually being the guy who will be swamped by girls, I actually felt his pain in the scene before the OP in the 1st episode, the part about seeing his parents the last time. The fact that his parents’ death happened so fast was just shocking. One moment they were waving at him and going: “Ittarashai” and the next moment they’re gone.

Charlotte Hazellink.
The Princess of this story. Voiced by Ryoka Yuzuki of Utawarerumono fame.
Well everyone knows she’s going to be the one having the happy ending, unless of course the director decides to steer it in another direction to throw everyone off. By the way, she does look familiar.

Haha. Yes. She looks exactly like the awakened version of Akashiya Moka. Moka was voiced by Nana Mizuki, but carrying on…

Sylvia Van Hossen
The Saber lookalike. Voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi of Bamboo Blade fame.
Well, other than the fact that she looks like Saber, she is the first announced fiancee of Teppei. She’s good with swords, and she has a really cute sister.

-Meido-san-
Seeing how as her name was not given out this episode, let’s leave it as Meido-san for now. Voiced by Yuki Matsuoka of Bleach fame.
Umm. There’s nothing much to say about her. She’s a maid. Well, until there’s more character development for her or more of her scenes, I really can’t comment much.

Ok. That is the last of the 1st 3 heroines introduced. There are other cool characters in the show.

Isshin is Teppei’s grandfather.
Voiced by Norio Wakamoto.
Norio Wakamoto is a great male seiyuu. His most recent notable roles would include Oda Nobunaga in Sengoku Basara and the Narrator in Hayate no Gotoku!

Sylvia’s father, Vincent
Voiced by Takehito Koyasu.
Once again, another great male seiyuu. He voices Jade Curtis in Tales of the Abyss

Sylvia’s sister, Maria
Voiced by Kaya Miyake.
Maria is just KAWAII!!!! Haha. Yeah. Well, I like her character. Am I considered a lolicon now? Haha. I hope not.

Well. Those are the notable characters.

Story wise. It’s pretty clear cut. It’s a harem show. There will be probably be ecchi scenes every once in a while throughout the course of the series. There’ll be the usual misunderstandings between Teppei and one of the girls. There’ll be the usual misunderstanding scenarios.

The 1st episode itself barely had any ecchi scenes at all unless you consider a censored pantsu-scene and a slight touching of Charlotte’s oppai very ecchi.

The ED song is below.

It’s S.S.D! by yozuca. yozuca is yet another familiar name when it comes to harem animes. Her notable works are:

Sakura Saku Mirai Koi Yume — TV anime D.C.: Da Capo opening theme
going my way — TV anime Girls Bravo first season opening theme
Sakurairo no Kisetsu — TV anime D.C.S.S.: Da Capo Second Season opening theme

Source: Wikipedia

Well. That more or less concludes this post. Princess Lover is a great show despite it’s supposed ecchi content and harem. Well, maybe it’s because I’m a guy, so it doesn’t affect me that much. Oh well, now to wait for the next episode.