Paradise Prince review
Jan. 9th, 2009 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So two days ago I finally go to see Micchan's soragumi's latest kouen...
Tani still has a bit of The Squint going on, but it really was a good character for her. It was REALLY nice to see Ume-chan again, and the spunky role of Katherine suited her well. RanTomu reminded me a lot of Rika in her days as Mami's nibante. I think it was
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Ueda Keiko-sensei did a really good job of drawing out the ensemble cast. It was really easy to spot people like Masako, Chigi, Mii-chan, Tacchin, etc, and even down to the younger ones like Eri-chan, Re-re, Kai-chan, Kacha, etc. Ack, I apparently hang out with
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I also want to give a shout out to some of the older uppclassmen. Aoi-san and Susshi were hilarious as supervisors at the animation company. Miho Keiko wasn't in as many scenes as I would have liked nor got quite as big of a singing role as I would have liked, but she had a scene with Tani and Alice that really ripped my heart out. Also many props to Itsuki Chihiro for her really touching scene with Keiko towards the end <3
Now, onto Micchan's character of Ralph (because obviously I need to spend several paragraphs talking about her alone XD) Micchan briefly shows up in the prologue and then disappears for about 25 minutes. The problem is that she was often in the same scenes as Tani, and her antics were off to the side while other people were talking. This unfortunately means that the camera doesn't pan over to her nearly as often as I would like.
Ralph is...really hyper XD. Almost a little bit too much, but I find Micchan's dorkiness endearing, and besides we all know that I'm in too deep anyway. But she had some really funny moments <3 There's a twist about Micchan's character that's revealed at the end, and after knowing the twist it's really interesting to go back and watch Ralph's earlier scenes again.
If Paradise Prince had been a bad show, I would have been really annoyed about not seeing Micchan as much as in some recent soragumi shows. But because it was really good, I'm much more forgiving of Micchan's lack of camera time. Besides, I would much rather have a really memorable role like Ralph (even though she isn't on screen comparably as much) over a role like Breston in Reimei no Kaze (where Micchan is in a lot of scenes but has nothing interesting to do as an actress).
Oh, and the music was really catchy <3
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Date: 2009-01-10 07:49 pm (UTC)