So yeah, there’s almost no romance.Īnother thing worth mentioning, there are lots of cringey/facepalm-worthy things in MLR. And that makes no sense either, since the guys are only in this in the first place BECAUSE they love her so much. Even worse is when the characters say LITERALLY the exact same thing multiple times, like an echo.ĭespite it having a romance tag and being based on an otome game, there is next to no romance, which is a shame, because most of the guys actually have nice chemistry with Haruka but the romance aspect isn’t developed upon at all. It’s actually quite astonishing the number of times the writers have used this “trick” to help pass the time. Get what I mean? These type of lines don’t help advance the plot and are essentially useless. Person A: “This problem is quite frustrating to deal with” Example (no, not an actual example from the show, I just made this up so you can get what I’m talking about): It was quite obvious that the writers had no idea what the characters should say, so to drag out the scenes and to waste as much time as possible (to fill in the 24 minute time slot), they had them say the same thing but in different ways. That brings me to my next point: just HOW these scenes were dragged out. Some scenes were just so slow that I paused it, sometimes multiple times in one episode, to go browse some other website and then come back. There were LOTS of scenes that were dragged out and felt excruciatingly slow. The main problem with this season was that it was extremely boring compared to the other seasons. Now onto explaining each component’s flaws and strengths. Almost every episode follows this format, except in the first 2 episodes, and in the last 4. Each episode follows the same format: Haruka has to compose a song for the group/QN member (that has a gig coming up as well) to sing at said gig, they come across some problem, Haruka (and sometimes all of the guys) help solve the problem, they perform the song she wrote, it’s a huge success and that’s it. In this season, QUARTET NIGHT gets a lot more screentime compared to season 2, so you’ll be seeing them a lot, by the way. Shining Saotome comes up with a “cross unit” project, where STARISH splits up into 3 groups (which means we get duets this season) and do all sorts of things that idols usually do to gain publicity (go on variety shows, do commercials, etc.) to prove that they’re good enough to perform at the sporting event. So now STARISH has to prove that they’re good enough to perform in front of all these people. QN was initially the one who was offered to perform, since they’re a more experienced group but since STARISH has been gaining more and more popularity, they might be able to perform in it instead. There’s a sporting event coming up and either STARISH or QUARTET NIGHT (their rivals/mentors) will get a chance to perform the opening ceremony, in front of hundreds of thousands of people. I’ll explain each of the show’s strengths and flaws more clearly, but first I’ll elaborate on the plot a bit since MAL doesn’t provide a proper synopsis. There were some good parts but they couldn’t make up for all the flaws, thus warranting a meager score of 4. The only feeling I got after watching it was disappointment and the impression that the writers really didn’t care most of the time about what they were writing. Was it worth waiting a year and a half? Nope. was pretty excited, I really liked the first two seasons and I just really couldn’t wait until MLR aired. When I heard Utapri was getting a third season, about a year and a half ago, I This is also my first review, so feedback is greatly appreciated. Also, this review is mostly for those people that haven’t watched Maji Love Revolutions yet (I’ll just be calling it MLR) and have watched the other 2 seasons and want to know if it’s worth watching but people who have already watched it are welcome to read it too. There are very minor spoilers in this review. Notes: There’s a TL DR with pros and cons listed near the bottom if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing.
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