Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000%

Maji Love 2000% picks up the story where the first season left off. After making their - successful - debut, they are supposed to pick up the pace and become even more successful. They are to follow a special program while pursuing their careers.
I did read all the reviews before me, the general consensus seems to be that it is as good as if not better than the first season. I do not share that opinion.
In my opinion:

Story: While the story wasn't brilliant - not that I expected it from this anime - the first season, there was indeed more plot. To start ... with "cataract" Minami and her inability of reading sheet music, which was the leeway to her sickly childhood.
There was the individual stories of every single one of the boys, from family member coldness of Jinguuji, to burnout of Hayato/Ichinose. Not only that but more importantly all those single stories got connected somehow to one fluid plot.
The second season does not have fluidity. There are single episodes that deal with the members of Starish but those do not really connect to each other. Then final/highpoint arc is introduced, Heavens vs Starish, and ... no, except for my suspension point there is really no build up in the story towards the end. The competition is announced in episode 11 cataract-girl struggles in episode 12 and bum you have the - obvious and over the top - resolution in 13.

Art: Except for cataract girl I really have no complaints. One could say I actually watched it for the art, as in bishounen. And yes, they are so, so, so, so very beautiful! If I could scoop out the eyes of Minami I would be ecstatic. But all things said and done, the beauty of the boys and the landscape (seriously, the schools in both seasons are like castles and the greenery and the lake, ..., I really wanna be there too!) numbs my brains and I forget about her creepy eyes.

Sound: I liked the music in the first season so much better. In my opinion compared to first season the sound of second season is pathetic. I have heard more entertaining and effective jingles than the songs of the second season. And if that is not enough they are pale imitations of the first season.

Characters: Maji Love 2000% is trying to compensate for the lack of plot via introducing a bunch of new bishounen. While visually considered I have no earthly complaints, I have to say, the season ended and none of those characters really helped the plot in any significant or insignificant way. They were just very pretty to look at. When they were first introduced as the sempais to help Starish members to become more "idol"y I expected for them to do something. Anything. Guide, or help at a crossroads of life or something. At the end, they were there. And they were pretty. Then there were the 3 members of Heavens. The evil act was just so funny that I have no complaints. Albeit, I am guessing it wasn't meant to be funny.

Enjoyment: I did enjoy it. Because let's be honest, if you are going to watch this kind of anime, you do not have or you should not have high expectations regarding the plot. So I took it on the face value and I did enjoy myself watching all the bishounen and making fun of cataract Minami and laughing at the antics of Saotome. I was sorry to see less of Hyuga Sensei and Ringochan and Tomochan but it is understandable with only 13 episodes you cannot thin out the plot more than its already watery self.

Overall: If you are in the mood something light and soul uplifting; with a plot that won't engage your brain in the least, curb your expectation and watch this. It is an anime with a lot of bishounen and beautiful landscape and acceptable sound.

If your looking for an anime about singing and nothing else this is the anime for you! I came into this anime with the full intent to have a reverse harem and have her end up with the man of her life. I mean come on when you got ALL these hot boys around you how can you not help but pick one. This has been the worst reverse harem I have ever seen. This anime makes Bleach look attractive to say the least.

I really with that we would have gotten more subplot. Anime like Diabolik lovers does the love and singing to a whole ... new level. I would say that garbage anime was also better then this anime. Thats saying a lot becaause Diabolik lovers was bad to.

Hidan wished that this anime had a love story as well. In the loving words of our lover Jashin "ore me wa mou shindeiru"

TL;DR
When you have lime eyes with yellow in them you have a terrible time trying to succeed.

Ohhhhh dear.
Let's start of by saying this.
My rating went down very far (it'd be lower but I'm being generous here on MAL) due to two characters. Stalker Saotome and Soup Eyes. Yes. Stalker Saotome is creepy and shows up out of nowhere and at precisely the right moment. He has that odd laugh and does crazy acrobatics and spins a little too much. Spinning Stalker Saotome? Yes. Every time he shows up a little part of me dies. The second character that lowered the rating: Soup Eyes. I mean, we all know she's the target of the reverse harem and is that poor girl who ... cries emotionally every once in a while, etc. But her eyes are creepy. Really creepy. I'm not sure what's creepier, her eyes or Stalker Saotome. Please add something to her eyes so it doesn't look bland, glazed over, and zombie-like.
The other characters were mostly fine.

Now that that's over... let's discuss more.

Another time a little part of me dies is during most of the songs. The romantic lovey dovey scenes as the main characters sing their love to the main character while glowing and floating in space with hearts everywhere and ... okay let's not.

The music is mostly enjoyable if you don't pay attention to the fact that they're all about love. I like the OP and the ED.

I watched this for the anime watching challenge and it took me almost a month to finish these 13 episodes. Meanwhile I watched two seasons of another anime for the previous two challenges in three days. It was rated lower too, but it was certainly more enjoyable than this.

I don't even know why I'm watching this but oh well.

A fair upgrade from the disastrous prequel, I'd say. If you're here then that means you don't necessarily have expectations for this series to turn splendid & honestly are just here for the boys (like me) because if you didn't get the gist of it yet, this 100% caters to the boys, idol life & rabid fans who take these things at face value & I'm writing this in consideration that you have already seen the first season. Why would you come here otherwise?

Second season & with it, more boys & more adventure towards idol stardom but with less messy & inconsistent plotline. That's literally ... it. There's nothing special about the plotline except for the fact that this season gave each of the Starish boys a redemption arc & further glimpse of their characters, which is literally the meat of season two. The seniors who were assigned to Starish were, what I found to be, a nice addition to the cast. I mean, more boys, right? Also, Haruka has more of a purpose now, but is still intolerable.

As for the artstyle, high, high standards, but decent. Everything looks colorful & dreamy which is, at some times, rather excessive or unnecessary, or both. Haruka is still soup-eyes chan.

I don't have much to say on music really. You either like it or hate it, it's idol music & how much you like or hate it is on you, though from a personal perspective it's good, it can pass really. Therefore I can't make a comparison between first & second season's tracks.

Season two was definitely a better experience than the first one & if you like the boys but don't know if you should watch it because it might be worse, then I'd suggest it for all I care. All in all, reviews vary & UtaPri definitely isn't for everyone.