I think my favorite part of this episode was when some guy in a newsroom yelled: "Change tomorrow's front page!" Apparently nothing in this world is more important than an idol contest. I would expect no less.
This week's episode focused around Starish's competition for the UtaPri prize, Heavens! And they're a bunch of jerks! Well, maybe not the dude who doesn't talk, but he doesn't really seem to have an opinion on anything, so I'm not sure if he counts or not. The other two are just as shallowly characterized, with the glasses guy making creepy faces and turning Haruka into an object to be "won" (dude, wrong show) and the thirteen-year-old (yes, seriously) acting just as annoying as you would expect from his age.
However, it's clear that the show is doing this deliberately. We're not supposed to be rooting for Heavens (although I don't doubt that they have their share of fans), since we already know that this is going to end in Starish's favor. That's the nature of the show. It kind of reminds me of fake "pro" wrestling matches that have backstories more akin to soap operas. You know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy and how things will end, but that doesn't stop people from enjoying the spectacle.
And if any show knows how to make a spectacle of something, it's UtaPri. Most of this episode is dedication to dropping a ton of exposition about not just Heavens, but another new character called "Raging." He's apparently been Shining's rival ever since his best-selling record was broken by everybody's favorite school principal. Now he runs the agency that represents Heavens and apparently jerk glasses guy is his son. Making things even better, Shining and Raging get into a one-up argument during the nomination announcement, agreeing that whoever looses will have to disband their group. Bye Heavens!
In any case, this is a lot of new information to take in. I'm just going to point at my comment from last week about how this could've been spaced out throughout this season instead of dumped on us all at once and leave it at that. I imagine that the next few episodes will deal with the harem getting ready to defend Haruka's honor through song and Haruka herself working through her angst about her songs being sung by people outside of Starish.
Or I could be completely wrong and they go to the beach or the moon or something. You never know.
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| Tokiya is sad because his character song was at the end of an episode that wasn't about him. |
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