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[Mara=^.^=]

You gotta let me know when you get farther into the series, Katie, so that I can pressure you into compiling a bangability index of your own

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Katia11]

I gotta get farther.  

[Mara=^.^=]

I do hope you catch up soon. This show has brought me such unfathomable joy I NEED to share lulz with someone.

 

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Katia11]

 where do you watch at? I found some on youtube... but they aren't in order I don't think. 

[Mara=^.^=]

I watch it here and here. The second season is here.

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Mara=^.^=]

AAAAHHHH the new song by Peyote-kun is outtttt on the interbutts I love the sound of his singing voice so much hhhnnnngggg

**obsessively fangirls and runs to download**
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...My interest in this show is no longer just ironic, guys. I love it. I love every stupid, ridiculous, implausible moment of it. **basks in rays of bishounen sunshine**

I MUST PROCLAIM MY LOVE, PROCLAIM IT TO THE HILLS




~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =
P.S. My cousin Emily changed her facebook cover photo to a picture of Barrettes. I'm so PROUD *sniffle*

[underwater]

I've enjoyed watching your descent into madness, Mara

 

in under 2 months you went from mocking the show to full-on loving it. Such is the power of bishie animated boy bands It turns even the smartest of us into fan girls with no capacity or desire for freewill

 

 

Corinne

[Mara=^.^=]

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Episode Ready, Sept, Go!
 
0:00 - lol this ad is trying to make Internet Explorer look cool. Haha, good one video player
 
1:52 - K gang, go ahead and get out your UtaPri bingo cards. You can start off the round by marking the space for "disturbingly lifelike marble statue of the headmaster"
 
1:56 - Peyote-kun got work doing a lipstick ad. He describes the job as "mature, strong, and manly"
The rest of my mansquad, and the universe at large, is understandably skeptical
 
2:23 - Tell me, Peyote-kun, how does one "practice" for a lipstick ad?

Oh
Right
 
 2:51 - Ugh, way to go, Barrettes blurt out the name of Peyote-kun's psychotic alter ego in front of the other guys, who don't know about his split personality
Good work son Guess the cat's out of the bag now

No no, not that cat. That cat doesn't belong in the bag, he belongs in the sack
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3:14 - I love how whenever we discuss Peyote-kun's psychological problems, the soundtrack starts playing random death metal riffs
 
4:13 - Dear God Peyote-kun is on TV singing about a cartoon duck   Don't tell me he's going to start manifesting a third personality in the form of Hugh Neutron
 
4:48 - BAHA Barrettes is reading fan letters  That is so effing adorable  C'mere Jellybean
 
5:29 - So I guess Barrettes volunteered me to go with Peyote-kun on the day of his lipstick shoot?
Well, it's not like I have anything better to do with my life  Might as well go watch grown men prostitute themselves to the friendly neighborhood cosmetics corporation
 
5:58 - "It's all right. I came too early"
Y'know I hear they have medicine for that sort of thing nowadays
 
6:30 - Nudge nudge Hey Peyote-kun Ryan Stiles called he wants his footwear back nudge nudge
 
6:38 - "Today, I only want you to be my Mara-chan. I love you so, so much"
says the guy wearing freaking bowling shoes outside in the street
 
8:05 - Whoa, Peyote-kun is subconsciously aware of his alter ego and wants to become stronger so as not to rely on him anymore? *sniff sniff* I smell CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
 
8:39 - "Be wilder, like you're roaring!"
We're trying to sell this lipstick to lions goddammit
 
8:49 - Some people are born assholes, some achieve assholery, and some have assholery thrust upon them
Then there's Twintard
 
 9:14 - Jesus Christ this freaking photographer is terrifying. "Hotter! Hotter! Don't forget the pheromones!" he screams in a voice like a squeaky hinge

Also, I need to talk to whichever one of these idiots thought it would be a good idea to put Peyote-kun's hair in a side ponytail
 
9:38 - Aww, poor Peyote-kun. They want his alter ego for the ad, and he's stuck being his derpy self. I better offer him some words of encouragement
Supportive BAMF Mode, Activate! 
 
10:16 - "You can ask me for anything..." ...................Oh shit I shouldn't have made that statement so open-ended oh shit oh shit
 
10:27 - So, if he becomes his scary alternate self whenever he takes off his glasses, does that mean he turns into a frothing ragemachine every time he takes a shower? Or does it only "activate" if he's around other people? Maybe I should consult the notes I took at last week's "Psychosis for Dummies" seminar and OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HE TOOK HIS GLASSES OFF
 
10:40 - HE'S COMING AFTER MEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
 
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11:00 - Whoa
The alter ego is asserting that he "protects" Peyote-kun from people who might hurt him... And apparently I qualify as one of those people
brb shitting bricks
 
11:22 - Holy Backstory, Batman! This flashback is informing me that as a small child, Peyote-kun had a music teacher that he loved and trusted and who promised him "anything", just like I did
Then the bitch took advantage of his prodigy-like talents and stole the freaking song he wrote her
The heartbreak traumatized him so much that it prompted his wee mind to create an alternate personality to act as a shield against would-be f*cknuggets
I'm not a f*cknugget, P-kun, I swear! I only occasionally fantasize about murdering people!
 
12:10 - FINALLY, COCKBLOCKING WHEN I NEED IT
Saved from berserker kisses by Barrettes, Firecrotch, and Twintard, who somehow magically appeared on the roof at exactly the right moment
 
13:04 - I see Firecrotch is dressed as Condiment Man agai- OHMYGAWD P-KUN IS ATTACKING MY PUMPKIN

Run, Barrettes, run!
 
13:34 - lol Twintard just called in back-up 
Looks like Richtits and Senpai are gonna join Operation: Return of the Spectacles Go go team effort, chase him down!
 
14:15 - Holy crap P-kun and Barrettes are literally doing PARKOUR at this point. Firecrotch, meanwhile, hoists himself up onto the building like an arthritic old man despite having been previously established as backflip-capable
: "Continuity is for fools, foo!"
 
14:38 - Pffft, obviously this calls for a woman's touch~ **violently throws self at door**
 
14:53 - Don't you dare close my fingers in this door you bastard I will CUT YOU
 
15:10 - Oh dear. He locked me in with him. That's even worse
 
15:51 - Quick, Mara old girl, psychoanalyze him! Psychoanalyze for your life!
Ah jeez, ah man, ah...hey wait. Wait, I've got it! I'll use Peyote-kun's song lyrics as a metaphor for his desire to merge with P-kun and form a single coherent personality! It was foreshadowed and everything!
BY GOD I'M GOOD
 
17:08 - looool and suddenly Cat Man is here
Gotta love how in this whole giant city we all manage to be in the same place at the same time
 
17:15 - Hey wait he's monologuing about how great his new sunglasses are I SENSE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE
Very clever, you cheeky writers, very clever!
 
17:28 - Holy craaaaap P-kun just willingly surrendered himself by putting on Cat Man's glasses?! And he told me (or was he talking to Cat Man?) that he can see why Peyote-kun likes me (or likes Cat Man? Seriously it's not clear).
 
17:52 - Okaaaaay that song number and special edition watercolor artwork came out of NOWHERE
 
19:01 - Wow the way those screenshots just overlapped made it look like both Cat Man and I were staring enthusiastically at Peyote-kun's bare abdomen
This series really wants me in a threesome doesn't it
 
19:40 - OK, it is creepy seeing anime mouths actually match up to the words they're speaking
 
21:37 - WTF. Cat Man has a chandelier in his giant honeymoon suite of a dorm room? I know he's a prince and everything, but come on
I think I'll go there under the pretext of delivering song lyrics, and then plot ways to steal the chandelier and his virtue
 
22:25 - Jesus Christ he sounds so happy. It's just a song, buddy, it's not like I'm returning your sunglasses or anything
You're never getting those back
 
 
Well guess that's it
Tune in next time for a special edition camping episode, in which I go deep into the mountains which are not misty with a company of hunky men who are not dwarves
 
YAAHH GURL

BACK DAT UP AND SPANK DAT SHIT

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

and his virtue

...AND his virginity!! You never saw that!!!!

[Mara=^.^=]

Well, yeah. "Virtue" is a polite, old-timey way of saying virginity. So the joke you just made...was the same one I already made in the liveblog OTL

 

Someone's shopping in the Department of Redundancy Department today  

 

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No no, not that cat. That cat doesn't belong in the bag, he belongs in the sack
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YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 
omg i love the CSI Miami sunglasses meme! 

 

srsly it never gets old to me

 

Corinne

 
 

[Mara=^.^=]

Phew, glad someone knew what I was referencing. The meme was big last year, so I was worried it might already be obsolete

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Well, yeah. "Virtue" is a polite, old-timey way of saying virginity. So the joke you just made...was the same one I already made in the liveblog OTL

 

Someone's shopping in the Department of Redundancy Department today  

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

 

Still hilarious, though!! I'd honestly thought that "virtue" meant something completely different!

[Mara=^.^=]

My cousin Emily saw the merchandise page, and guess what she decided she wants for her high school graduation? The freaking character-themed fragrance beads  Yes, that's right. High school graduation = UtaPri fragrance beads.

Now I'm gallivanting all over the internet trying to find a site that ships them to the US... Not only has this show destroyed my credibility as a human being, it's also doing the same thing to my precious baby cousin T_T

 

Sigh...goodbye, this week's paycheck, it was nice knowin' ya...   No regrets though

 

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Katia11]

LOL! Oh, Mara! 

[Mara=^.^=]

Well, looks like the fragrance beads are hopelessly back-ordered seriously, how popular IS this show in Japan??, so I guess I'll have to print out a bunch of fanart and découpage it onto a notebook or something. :-/ Off to pixiv to collect some pics!

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[underwater]

Hey Mara, I use a site called AmiAmi to buy my anime figurines (yes i'm a nerd who collects them, sue me...actually don't, I can't afford it). I typed uta no prince-sama into the search engine, and it looks like they have most of the fragrance beads still in stock. Two of them seem to be sold out, so hopefully neither of those are her favorites. Anyway, just wanted to let you know about the site, on the off-chance that you still want the beads, you can find them there ^.^

 

 

Corinne

[Mara=^.^=]

Corinne, you are a BOSS   Emily looked so disappointed when I told her they were out of stock...now I can surprise her with a show of last-minute cousinly heroics

EDIT: Ordered them! Her favorite is Firecrotch, and his beads were fortunately still available. The price was reasonable, but the shipping cost was murder...seriously, how do you afford to collect figurines from overseas? My poor wallet T_T At least I was able to resist the temptation to buy something for myself. All hail the stinginess gene which rules my life! MWAHAHA!

............I need to go to bed

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Mara=^.^=]

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Cat Man is back in action! With more adventure than Robinson Crusoe, and more wild than the proverbial blue yonder...where he going? Doesn't matter. New places - somewhere on the map between danger and fun - and he wants you to come along for the ride. Because for Cat Man, when it comes to survival, it's not just about staying alive.
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He'll endure savage attacks from ferocious wild animals


And encounter mysterious meteorological phenomena previously unknown to science


But most of all, he'll climb trees and stare soulfully into the camera...because without fanservice, what kind of show would this be?
Cat Man vs. Wild. Where guts meet glory, dudes frolic and sing, and Mara-chan gleefully objectifies eleven fictional men until the people around her begin to feel uncomfortable.
Only one question remains...are YOU wild enough to handle it?
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SPECIAL EDITION: CAT MAN vs. WILD

0:13: "Wow, I had no idea our agency had a resort house like this!"
Dude our agency has its own private island. A summer home in the woods really shouldn't come as a surprise

2:01: WTF? Did that chicken-like squawk of rapture come from Barrettes?

2:10 - Fairy Floss be tellin' my pumpkin that he's not allowed to have "too much fun"
Shut up you buzzkill Your hair is a dessert

2:42 - From the Gospel of Richtits, Chapter 2 Verse 42: "Teamwork is important to the group".
We all stare his way in shock. This does not sound like the Richtits we've come to know. This sounds like an actual...person
"Oh, whoops. Did I say something unlike myself?"
He's achieved introspection ladies and gentlemen who knows what he'll do next

2:52 - Gotta love how Twintard turns fishing, barbequing, and hanging out with us into a tiresome chore that he'd rather not do

3:07 - So I guess the plot feels a need to justify itself for once
Pinkeye, Pep, Fairy Floss, and Frosty would like the viewer to know that they came camping with us because they "don't know what we'll do if they leave us on our own."
To which I say...

3:25 - Aw poor Pep Look it him decked out in that nerdy fishing vest, all excited to go down to the river - only to be callously rebuffed by the other pioneering princes
It's OK Pep you can come fishing with me and my mansquad. We're way more fun anyway

3:42 - Shirtless Barrettes with a net, Peyote-kun and Senpai catching fish, shirtless Firecrotch splashing water, Twintard and Richtits frolicking amidst rainbow bubbles...
Yup just your typical camping trip here at Uta no Prince-sama

3:48 - "They're like children, aren't they?" says a smug Richtits to Twintard, who haughtily replies: "I agree completely"
Hypocrisy Alert Hypocrisy Alert You were both just frolicking with the rest of us a second ago

4:15 - Hey wait a minute...where the heck is Cat Man? I was under the impression that this episode was about him surviving in the wilderness
I'm beginning to suspect that I may have been misled by the trailer

4:27 - Hey WAIT A MINUTE...is that distant humming? Coming from...a treetop somewhere in the vicinity? There's only one person that could be!

4:51 - A Wild Cat Man appears! Mara uses "ogle". It's super effective!

5:41 - Oh my God these guys are all so freaking supportive of each other Like, they're all congratulating Cat Man because I composed a melody for him, and Richtits is offering to provide pick-up lines "phrases of love" if Cat Man runs out of ideas for lyrics
With this kind of cooperative spirit we can survive anything that nature throws our way! Bring it on, Mother Earth - we shall not be defeated!

6:05 - Goddammit I'm stuck inside doing homework on yet another vacation I thought this was supposed to be an exercise in fantasy wish fulfillment, not a reenactment of my real-life experiences with academia
Gaaahhh so stressed Having flashbacks Can't deal

7:02 - Oh my actual gaaawwwwd my mansquad put me together a picnic basket And they included a note signed by all of them saying "don't push yourself too hard" and "we support you" and "you can do it!"
I'm getting teary-eyed This really is an exercise in fantasy wish fulfillment *sniffle*

7:23 - Great googly moogly it was all Senpai's idea! First he cleans my room, then he heads up an improvised kitchen in the middle of the forest and prepares me a smorgasbord of delicious treats
Baawww could he get any more thoughtful and maternal I mean look at that kerchief
I think it's high time we all started calling him "Mama Senpai"

7:34 - Ope there's Cat Man balancing precariously on a narrow tree branch
Is this the part where he falls and twists an ankle, and the previously advertised life-and-death adventure begins?

8:03 - Nope guess not
Seems like we're getting a belated explanation as to how his ancient curse was finally broken (it was 'the power of my music'...or something)
Okey dokey then. Gotta love how this show denies me any meaningful agency and yet still somehow manages to turn everything into a hymn to my glory

8:42 - He is grateful for all the love I gave him as a cat and wants to "return the favor", but isn't sure how
Umm...I can think of a couple of ways, Cat Man...meet me in the woods in half an hour and I'll show you one of them

9:04 - la lala la laaaa running through a birch grove at sunset on my way to meet Cat Man
desire to sing "Colors of the Wind" rising exponentially with each new leap and bound

9:28 - Holy crap he looks so...distraught! D: Cat Man, beebee, what's the matter? Tell Mara-chan all about it

9:41 - Or you can pull me into a tight embrace and declare that you "can't hold back your feelings anymore"
That works too I am on board with that

10:02 - OK not only has this hug gone on through an entire cut scene, but now he's proclaiming his love for me in no uncertain terms
Y'hear that, other members of my mansquad? BETTER STEP UP YOUR GAME

10:06 - Exposition time! Apparently he's distraught because he joined the Master Course "to make me happy", but he found out that he likes making other people happy too and thus wants to become a fully-fledged idol like the rest of my man army
For some reason this desire to follow his dreams has filled him with extreme guilt and led him to believe that he has "failed at being my prince", because I've given him so much and he's "given me nothing in return"

.........................................That's not true, Cat Man! You've given me hours of entertainment on tumblr and deviantart and provided me with no less than a dozen inside jokes! You helped me discover a panoply of new songs with which to annoy my family and friends! You inspired me to draw a picture that led to tons of drama and a real-life fight right here on IDOJ! If it wasn't for you, I never would've found ARS MAGNA on youtube and begun stalking them on facebook, and I wouldn't have come up with the firefly theme for my entry to Hisanakuchiki's contest this summer! My cousin Emily never would've started watching UtaPri, and I never would've spent my hard-earned cash on a ridiculous gag gift for her graduation! So you see? You HAVE given me something, something that nobody can ever take away from me! You've given me laughs, you've given me feels, and you've given me HOPE


Here's to you, Cat Man! Now let's go get some chow I'm dying to see what Mama Senpai made for dinner

13:09 - HOLD THE PHONE EVERYONE... SENPAI JUST LAUGHED ALOUD This is utterly unprecedented you guys
I don't know if my fragile, waif-like body can handle all the character development occurring in this episode

13:38 - Cat Man is having some sort of religious experience out in the woods. I guess the local fireflies are eager to join in because they are swarming him like how I'd swarm him if I were a composite cloud of bioluminescent insects


Other members of the viewing audience, meanwhile, experience mild PTSD symptoms from their memories of the fireflies in Disney's Atlantis
.•*¨*•♫♪ Burn, baby, burn! Disco inferno! ♩♬•*¨*•.

13:46 - My inner anthropologist is pleased to see Cat Man communing with his goddess and HOLY CRAP HIS GODDESS JUST DID HIS HOMEWORK FOR HIM
Dude! Now there's a religion I can get behind Where do I sign up

15:43 - Looking up at the night sky, I tell my mansquad that they're "just like the stars" because they "twinkle so much, I could stare at them forever"
Smooth = nailed it

15:55 - Whoa, Richtits made a joke poking fun at his own tendency to turn everything into a sexual innuendo?
WHERE IS THIS SELF-AWARENESS COMING FROM ALL OF THE SUDDEN

17:51 - Ummm
Pinkeye and Pep are in the bath together...
Well it's good to know that someone in this goddamn show is getting some action Jesus Christ

19:04 - Dude it is amazing how frequently these song numbers devolve into full-on hallucinations I mean a wayward heart literally just attacked Pep as he approached our melody circle

21:28 - LOL I've got these men so whipped

22:00 - Oh my God, what's happening
No...no...noooooooo..... Cat Man just got a letter from his father? And the letter's all like "trololol hey son I heard you weren't a cat anymore~ Anyway I order you to come back home and be king now. kcool see ya"

Seriously, WTF. He can't go home...not now! I mean, we almost made out in the woods! He finally bonded with the other members of my mansquad!
DON'T DO IT, CAT MAN! REMEMBER - YOUR JEALOUS ASSHOLE FAMILY WAS THE ONE THAT CURSED YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE!

22:31 - NOOOooooOOOOooooo! D: D: D: He's gone!! And he left his pretty stone necklace and the song I wrote him behind! This isn't right! This isn't fair!
This episode was supposed to be about wilderness survival! It wasn't supposed to be a tragic tale about finding a new purpose in life, only to have it snatched away!

YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME, ANIME, YOU CAN'T -

Next week, on an all-new Cat Man vs. Wild: Cat Man travels deep into the forests of North America and shows us what happens when a simple hunting trip takes a turn for the worse


NO! STOP RIGHT THERE, ADVERTISEMENT!
YOU DON'T GET TO END THE EPISODE LIKE THIS - YOU DIDN'T EVEN DELIVER ON THE PREMISE OF TODAY'S EPISODE

He'll face untold hardships and struggles as he battles both the harsh terrain and his own inner demons


NO! STOP! THOSE JOKES WERE BARELY FUNNY THE FIRST TIME AROUND, YOU CAN'T RECYCLE THEM THIS QUICKLY!

And as hunger sets in, he'll eat whatever he has to in order to stay alive


I ORDER YOU TO STOP!!
YOU CAN'T TREAT ME LIKE THIS, ANIME
YOU CAN'T GIVE ME A WARM AND FUZZY EPISODE LIKE THIS, BUILD UP MY HOPES, AND THEN DASH THEM LIKE A PIGEON FLYING INTO A WINDOW
I'M SERIOUS, IF YOU DON'T STOP THIS INSTANT, I'M GOING TO -

Will he be able to make it out of the wilderness with his life - and his dignity - intact?
Find out next week, on an all-new episode of







~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Katia11]

I love your reviews! they are awesome!  always worth the read!