Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000%

Some of you may remember me from my repressed review of Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 1000% . But like a moth burnt by the flame, I never learn my lesson. I'm back, baby.

Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 1000% introduced us to some vapid and brightly coloured characters who quickly grew a place in our hearts like a shockingly virile parasitic worm.

There's, you know, "her" / "thing" / "soup-eyes-chan" / "pink" (or as some call her, "Haruka"), the girl who can't sing - sorry, I'm thinking of the rest of the cast - I mean, read music. And then there's the rest of the ... gigolos, "hime-cut", "manwhore", "blue guy with irritating vibrato", "heart-defect-kun", "guy who voiced a prison guard in Enzai", "yatta", etc. These, our beloved friends. They have returned to us.

Cecil is bored with being a cat and a grandmother and decides to enroll in Gigolo School with the rest of the cast. Unfortunately he brings with him a gaggle of other cast members. I would guess there was two dozen in all. It's difficult because they all came without their personalities. Don't forget your drinking games - drink when every new character is introduced and we'll end up colour-blind, hey girls?

Along with Cecil's janitor or whatever, there's the addition of a rival gang of senpai singers (presumably they were touring the world during the first season, or at least the countries that aren't anti-LGBT). Seems like these senpais finally noticed them. Well done boys. BTW, did you know the band's official name is STARISH? I thought it was Uta Pri. Not STAR, or STAR-like, just an 'ish'. Like, you know, they're not quite celestial orbs... more like glow in the dark watch faces. This is who we're rooting for.

As well as Senpais, STARISH (who knew, right?) are competing against HEBENSU for the Uta Pri Prize. Gee, with a name like that, I wonder who will win?

OK, sit back, 'cos I know you've edged towards the very boundary of what constitutes a seat. Time for some spelunking in what little depth this series has. Don't worry, we won't need a snorkel.

*Music*

The music this time round is much the same. Various themes used throughout were forgettable. We skipped the OP every time, it's an anal waxing of a song. The ED is a little better. Of course it's incorporated into the final episode (as always). It's bland, too many parts, and for a long time I thought it spelt out STARFISH, but no, it was STARISH. That is, until Cecil joined the band, who saw that coming? He obviously brought with him the 'F'.*

P.S. Image songs were enough to drive me to violent crime. Blue guy's especially verges on animal abuse.

*Animation*

Depressingly high standard as usual. There's a lot less chibi this time round, obviously someone read my review.

The fight scene in one episode went shounen for a while, it was an amusing aside to take me away from my crushing despair over everything this anime stands for.

Less inside mist than the first series.

Haruka's fashion is a bit more toned down this time round, or maybe my retinas are just scorched.

*Voice acting*

Made me wish I was deaf.

*Enjoyment*

I didn't.

Saotome is pretty much the saving grace of this series. Saotome is kind of Michael Jackson meets Goku. He talks in Engrish a lot and has a (sadly late) rivalry with someone called Raging who dresses like a pimp. I am shocked and saddened that we cannot date him.

All in all, 2000% no.

It's even more awkward, ridiculous and hilarious in all the wrong moments than the first season.
I have a problem - should I give it a 1 because it's a goddamn awful series, or 10 because it's amazingly entertaining?! It surely is an outstanding anime, but not in a good way.
The art is better than in the first season and the characters have more interactions with both Haruka and themselves, they don't exist as background to the main romance anymore.
The story made at least a bit of sense this time, actually. The main plot, at least. No shapeshifting cats this time around.
The music is bad ... and the choreography is even worse, but put it together and you'll have the time of your life, honestly. I cried of laughter during the last couple of episodes.
It's an anime for you if you're a tween girl or if you like making fun of stupid animes.