Princess Lover!

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Synonyms: Princess Lover!

Japanese: プリンセスラバー!

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 6, 2009 to Sep 21, 2009

Premiered: Summer 2009

Broadcast: Mondays at Unknown

Producers: Dream Force

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: GoHands

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Harem, Comedy, Ecchi, School

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 6.93¹ (scored by 76,261 users)

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Ranked: #3933²

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Popularity: #690

Members: 140,279

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Following an automobile accident that claims the life of his parents, Teppei Arima is taken in by his grandfather and introduced to the world of the rich and the elite. Compared to his humble upbringing, Isshin Arima's lavish lifestyle surprises and stuns the young teenager. In return for the gracious hospitality, Teppei is expected to continue the family business by replacing his grandfather as the head of Arima Financial Combine, and to prepare him for these responsibilities, he is enrolled into an esteemed high school. Along with his recently acquired celebrity status and affluence, Teppei is informed of an arranged marriage with the equally prosperous Sylvia van Hossen, thus, beginning the thrilling escapades of his new life!

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Hazelrink, Charlotte

Main

Yuzuki, Ryouka
Japanese

van Hossen, Sylvia

Main

Toyoguchi, Megumi
Japanese

Arima, Teppei

Main

Terashima, Takuma
Japanese

Houjouin, Seika

Main

Katou, Emiri
Japanese

Fujikura, Yuu

Main

Matsuoka, Yuki
Japanese

van Hossen, Maria

Supporting

Miyake, Kaya
Japanese

Nezu, Haruhiko

Supporting

Shiraishi, Minoru
Japanese

Alfred

Supporting

Akimoto, Yousuke
Japanese

Hossen, Vincent van

Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito
Japanese

Bezelheim, Hartmann

Supporting

Kosugi, Juurouta
Japanese

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Kanazawa, Hiromichi

Director

Takahashi, Hideo

Sound Director

Kudou, Susumu

Episode Director, Storyboard

Suzuki, Shingo

Storyboard, Animation Director, Chief Animation Director, Character Design, Key Animation

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"Princess Primp!" by Miyuki Hashimoto

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"S.S.D" by yozuca*

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Oct 28, 2009

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

Master10K (All reviews)

106 people found this review helpful

When asked about the nature of a harem anime, most anime fans think: average guy, surrounded by 3 or more seemingly unattainable girls, in an unusual setting chuck full of breast-grabbing and panty-flashing. Does Princess Lover fall into this abysmal group? Yes, however it had the potential to achieve a lot more than what most harems fail to achieve, seeing how it's based on a rather popular visual novel.

That potential was shown in its characters however that same potential was foolishly squandered with its mediocre story. The story itself is typical, yet intriguing enough to keep most viewers interested. It’s about your average teenage boy named Teppei, living an average life, with his average family... Then shit happens and our protagonist is later forced to live with his super rich grandpa and transfer to some absurd school for the super rich.

After watching this I thought the writer must’ve taken whatever he could find from “Ye ol’ book of anime clichés” and decided that was their plot. Strangely enough, it worked surprisingly well when it came to introducing the characters to this profoundly entertaining story. The first half of the story basically sets this kind of tone for an exhilarating short series but in the end it was a wasted effort once the “real” story kicks in and boy, are you in for a ride. By ride I mean a one-way ticket to idiotsville, because only an idiot would throw away an enjoyable story for the garbage that replaced it.

With all that said, this anime didn’t entirely turn into a steaming pile of crap and that’s thanks to the interesting cast of main characters. Harem protagonists usually fall into 2 groups: the losers and the kind-hearted saviours. Yet Teppei initially doesn’t fall into either, because within his playful character is a young lad struggling to deal with his past and moral dilemmas. Not to forget the 4 leading heroines, who were rather well developed, some more than others and 2 of which who seemed similar in design and personality to 2 more well-known characters from other series. Whether that was intentional or not is unknown to me but they happened to be the most interesting of the 4 heroines. However apart from Teppei’s grandpa, the supporting cast turned out to be far weaker than the loosely put together story and if a couple of them were killed off, the story could have done a whole lot better.

The production values are somewhat difficult to delve into since a fairly unknown studio (GoHands) took on this series. The music was just about as memorable as every breath I take and the sound productions overall really isn’t any good. Yet the art style and animation has a unique vibrancy to it, giving a colourful experience that’s pleasing to the eyes. However the jarring simulated camera panning/rotation and the out of proportion bust sizes really brought it down for me.

Overall Princess Lover is a series that I hoped would break the chain of generic harem that seem to appear year after year, yet all it did was add unto the already tarnished reputation of the harem genre. Some of the blame falls onto the villains, who were the worst villains ever constructed but I blame the real villain… the idiot who thought of this crap. Well if you don’t mind all that I’ve said then watch at your own discretion; however I feel it’s more worthwhile to sit wait for the next Key & KyoAni collaboration.

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Sep 24, 2009

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Meh_93 (All reviews)

54 people found this review helpful

You have a summary of Princess Lover, so I won't bother telling you that. I won't post any spoilers, so don't worry.

Overall 7
Princess Lover started off very good. It had a serious with light humor tone, with all the ecchi-ness included; but, then went way downhill in the second half which really hurt it overall.

Story 6
If I was only rating the first 6 or so episodes, this show would be a 9 because it was very enjoyable. It's very obvious who Teppi likes right from the start (Charlotte) and they have a lot of nice romantic moments. So why did read more

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Sep 28, 2009

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

Unregistered00 (All reviews)

37 people found this review helpful

This could have gotten a big fat "1/10" if not for the art/fanservice.

Basically an H-Game that should have been an H-Anime. The storyline is so poorly constructed and contained reasoning so shallow that I have thought to myself "WTF?" or "That's so shallow".

The deal with Princess Lover is that it's basically a harem anime but for the reason of making it feel different (in a disastrous way) from the rest, it goes on by inserting a serious side to the plot which can be seen halfway to the end.

This is where the story becomes irredeemable.

The first 2 or 3 episodes was quite interesting since it read more

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Aug 7, 2015

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

ChucriBZ (All reviews)

25 people found this review helpful

Story
At first this is interesting since the first episode, but as the episodes goes, it was ridiculous, there's a lot of plot holes and i felt that i was watching a mexican novel serie, filled with stupid plot holes that you can see even blindfolded, the thing is that the story could have been really good if this wasn't rushed, so i didn't like it because of those freaking plot holes, overall was fine.

[b][u]Art & Sound[/u][/b]
It was good on both, it really matched the scenes and the ecchiness was enjoyable too, the voice acting was good too.

[b][u]Character[/u][/b]
The characters weren't deeply developed, not everyone at least, read more

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