#Utapri Fandom

[2dsimping]

Let me play these both

[phant0m-ch3rry]

eiioto yuri loosely based on next door bc i rewatched s4ep 9 n 10 again

[aonomiki]

I still think it's really funny that some people automatically assumed Dancing Star Precure was for men when the designs were like. straight out of an otome game. The target audience was plainly obvious.

[petalxdance]

2018 UtaPri fandom sure was something-

[amarviy]

people who reblog without putting tags on the post.. what are you thinking

[brondoesart]

Getting into new discords is the scariest fuckin thing ever man like. What if I'm actually really off-putting and hard to like and I'm barging into this new community and they all kinda mourn the vibes that were around when I wasn't there 😬

[verraisemacro]

[ resurrects from the dead ] so who do i need to kiss on the mouth for ai no uta to be reposted somewhere /hj

[hellcatinnc]

Uta No Prince Sama Fan Video I Made

For Tokiya & Otoya with Haruka

I recently did a video today to go with the video I made the other day for Uta No Prince Sama just in case you missed it I will post both of them on this post. I did one for Tokiya as well as Otoya hope you enjoy. I still plan to do one for Ren I will update when I do.

[AMV] Uta No Prince Sama - Tokiya and Haruka -Yours

[AMV] Uta No Prince Sama - Otoya & Haruka - Just Like That

[lilac-melody]

Aaaa....Quartet Night popped into my recommendation on yt....

[glitchdecay]

Saw this for a couple different fandoms and with Live Emotion Coming Soon™...

Spin the Wheel for an UtaPri character! (Girls and Teachers are included!!) and...

Tell us who you got in the tags!

[fudan-no-nijiiro]

UtaPri and Neurodivergent Headcanons: Yamato Hyuga

This might become a series at some point, because I think it's really interesting.

That said, I want to start out with a few disclaimers:

I am not an expert in psychology.

No identity category is a monolith. That holds especially true for neurodiverse folks; it is a huge and incredibly varied umbrella.

No UtaPri characters, to my knowledge, have a canonical formal medical diagnosis.

UtaPri is a Japanese franchise, and I am not Japanese. All sorts of intercultural misunderstandings may come into play, here.

It is entirely possible that others will find some or all of UtaPri's representations of neurodivergence and/or mental illness unimpressive, inaccurate, and/or upsetting; these are just my opinions as one fan. I'm truly just here to have a good time, and I'm also fully open to disagreements with my perspective or analysis.

That said, let's move on to Yamato!

Yamato Hyuuga and ADHD (+ possible dyslexia/other learning disabilities)

Yamato shows an impressively wide range of traits common among people with ADHD. In no particular order, there's:

Physical movement as self-regulation: Yamato regularly walks around on his hands, goes out running, and generally finds ways to move his body when given half a chance. He often flips onto his hands in the anime, and mentions fitting in runs whenever he can in Live Emotion.

Special interest in exercise: Yamato regularly tries to share what he knows with his peers, both as a way to bond with them and to help improve their fitness. According to the audio dramas, he goes training with Eiji to help him build his confidence; according to Live Emotion, he keeps up on different brands of protein powder. The first chapters of the "private stories" in Live Emotion involve instructing The Player/Haruka in the finer points of sportsware. In fairness, UtaPri tends to define its boys by their hobbies, but even given that, Yamato jumps more directly into a "teaching" mode than most of the other characters.

Struggles with sudden, intense emotions: Yamato's mood changes rapidly in a way he struggles to control, but he also returns to baseline more quickly than most people would. Anyone who's seen his episodes in the anime will have an idea of what I'm talking about here—his explosions towards Syo, which (deservedly) did little to endear him to the fandom, are the main thing I'm thinking of here. There's already been a reference to this in the early chapters in the main story: Yamato's mood is ruined in a split second by Cecil bringing up his brother, though he manages to hide the depth of the problem and not explode this time. There are a lot of possible alternative explanations for this too, in fairness, such as PTSD; more information about what happened with his brother would help to make things clearer. But emotional volatility is also a trait associated with ADHD in some cases.

Struggles with studying/mental labor: One of the main story chapters in Live Emotion involves Yamato struggling with ideas for lyrics, and the way that he tries to apply himself, rapidly gets frustrated, gives up, leaves, and then gets his idea (by engaging in his special interest!) really stood out to me as a relatable ADHD moment. In the Maji Love Kingdom audio drama, he goes out of his way to attempt to hide these difficulties in this area by insisting on working alone, which shows that this is a struggle he's all too aware of.

This struggle hints at possible comorbid learning disabilities—most likely dyslexia, though there are other potential explanations. A few details in support of this:

Trouble with reading: One of the repeated dialogues in Live Emotion, as well as a detail in at least one of the audio dramas, involves that there are a lot of kanji Yamato has trouble reading. (Bonus fun fact: Japanese dyslexia and English dyslexia are at least partially separate conditions! Some folks have one and not the other, independent of their first language. It's wild, but also given how different the writing systems are, it also makes sense. Yamato is shown sounding out words in English in Live Emotion, which I thought was a great moment, but either way it's unclear whether he experiences different levels of difficulty in Japanese and English.)

Trouble with writing: In the Maji Love Kingdom drama, Yamato is shown struggling with composition (coming up with what to write), and vocabulary (he ends up needing a lot of help from a dictionary and his unit partners to come up with his lyrics. Tokiya and Cecil were such a good team to help him with this!! "Kaleidoscope" was awesome for many reasons).

In addition, the franchise's commitment to the bit regarding Yamato's handwriting is impressive as well. Here's one of his birthday messages, for instance:

I thought at first that it was just because my Japanese wasn't great that I was struggling to read his writing, but I've also seen Japanese fans on social media scratching their heads over parts of his writing in the past. Not only that, his handwriting has been mentioned in canon (mainly HEAVENS Radio, if I'm remembering right?), with Nagi in particular complaining that his writing is often indecipherable.

There is no way to be sure, but to me, this combination of traits reads as an intentional depiction of ADHD and/or learning disabilities by at least some of the writers or character designers, even if it has not been named as such explicitly by the franchise (which, to my knowledge, it hasn't).

However, more than any particular character details, the overall arcs Yamato is involved in, and in particular the thoughtful way in which they're structured, that I find most meaningful. Yamato often says things that are openly brash, antagonistic, and/or unintentionally harsh to the people around him. However, the stories he's in follow through on this beyond the initial interaction: we find out afterwards why he's behaving this way (in the sense of his motivations, his struggles that were not visible at first, and so on). Then we get to see him reflect, either by himself or with the help of his teammates, and understand what went wrong. And finally, he often has a chance to revisit the situation with people he's clashed with, and find a more constructive resolution together with them.

I myself have been diagnosed with ADHD, although in my case, it's mostly inattentive type, and I mask it pretty effectively in my daily life. Still, I have a few of these traits: I can instruct others endlessly on my special interests, I get sudden flashes of temper, and I get easily frustrated by "simple" things in a way that can be difficult for others to understand or empathize with. These traits are ones I often feel guilt and shame about.

Yamato's strong personality is often on display for all to see, and it would be easy to turn him into a caricature or even just a villain. But instead, we get insights into his perspective, see him grow and overcome difficulties, and are shown time and again that he cares about the people around him and wants to learn to work with them better. Yamato makes me feel more confident in myself: however different I am from the people around me, and whatever mistakes I make, if I can stay brave and open-hearted, I can keep learning to be better than I was before.

[sewmice]

Hai as a decently new utapri fan I wanted to ask your opinion on how new fans should get into utapri after finishing the anime. Should they play through the otomes games or maybe try listening to the Masterpiece shows instead?

Welcome to Utapri! I hope you're enjoying the ride so far! And as someone who has been here for 12 years, welcome to Utapri hell, this is your life now! (with love of course)

Since the Masterpiece shows are all alternate universes/acting, it doesn't technically matter? So the real question is, do you like the idol side or the romance side more? Idol side, go for the masterpiece shows. Romance go for the games. And honestly switch around as you please. Just get to SOME game knowledge at some point because that's where you really learn about the boys after all. Personally it's best to know at least a little from everything.

Also the next most important thing will be whether you know Japanese or not. Because currently the anime, movies, and Starish special are the only things available in English. So what you can enjoy is more limited. Shining Live was in English for it's lifespan, and has some archives out there. Live Emotion we can only hope will have an English version but we do not know currently.

Now my answer to assist gets real long so gonna put it under a cut for everyone's sanity.

If you know Japanese, absolutely go enjoy the otome games, all of which have updated ports on the Switch! The release order and thus suggested order would be Repeat, Amazing Aria and Sweet Serenade, Debut, All Star, and finally All Star After Secret. And one day we'll have Dolce Vita.

If you want Quartet Night, while you meet them in Debut, their routes start with All Star. Ringo and Ryuuya have routes in Sweet Serenade and All Star if you're looking for them. Mitsuo in Amazing Aria is well....you'll see.

If you don't know Japanese, I still suggest looking into the games, but your options are more limited. ShiningWonderland has a fantastic crew pushing out translations. They're working on Repeat for Starish and All Star for QN currently. Couple of the routes are finished for at least one ending and others seem to be nearing completion. But I can't speak for that team past that. They are all wonderful people though!

If you don't mind getting a shortened, not amazing experience. There are some old summaries floating around from Breadmasterlee. Those, plus some friends who could understand enough, were how I learned parts of the games back in the day. Not the preferred experience though.

You could also technically struggle your way through with like Google Lens translation? Definitely not recommended though.

As for the masterpiece shows, again if you know Japanese, just enjoy them. If you wanna know what order they released in, the sets were as follows: Masquerade Mirage, Tenka Muteki no Shinobimichi, and Joker Trap Bloody Shadows, Pirates of the Frontier, Every Buddy!, and Polaris Lost Alice, Trios, and The Forest of Lycoris Dreaming of OZ, Never Again Neverland, and Faust Last Cantata

I know that next to last set, the Shining Masterpiece Shows, have translations by Kanasmusings. You can also find translations for some other dramas there, and subtitles for a majority of the stage plays (you will need your own file or DVD/BD).

The most recent Dramatic Masterpiece Shows seem to be works in progress at the moment. I know utapri-translations-uuuu is working on Heavens! And the CDs can be found in my masterlist.

The older ones I don't know off the top of my head if translations exist at all.

There are also Discord servers amongst the community, some public and some private, with resources and amazing people. But I'm not sure on how appropriate it would be to post the public ones. They don't allow piracy so as much as I push buying legally, uh, understandably linking from my blog publicly feels wrong. You can very likely find said discords via the Twitter fandom. Or talk to me in DMs.

This is a lot of info I know. Trying to cover as many bases as I can off the top of my head! Enjoy Utapri!

[blueesnow]

Also I just listened to the latest episode from Utapri FM Radio and.... h-huh...??? D-Did they really bring up the topic of Ai's Mune no Kodou's lyrics on the 2nd chorus huhh???? 😭

asdfghjkl big thanks to my fellow aiharu oshi comrade... 色彩さん、本当にありがとうございます！！！(;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

In case you didn't know welp for this part around mune no kodou's lyrics...

そして歌うんだ　光の海で 七色の草原で君へと 「愛」強く…　春風よりも柔く美しく

You can find both 七海春歌 and 美風愛(あい) names in it!!! (Well Ai's is more like a play word on his name but then again haruchan did say that the meaning of his name is 愛 so... lol)

I only realized this until after hearing the 七色 part and was like, "...wait a minute" lol and ever since then i've become an even more delusional aiharu oshi when did i ever not anyway lol

And then I see there's actually a lot of ppl bringing this up on the jp fandom, especially between aiharu oshis, and it just made me so happy knowing that I'm not the only one noticed it (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

So seeing that this got brought up on the radio and listening to terashii's comment....

「七海春歌っっていう存在をとても大事にしている歌ってもあって、それがすごく素敵ですよね」

TERASHIIII YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME!!!! 😭But yes.... yes he did 🥹

Like the song is already emotional enough as it is, but this little fact make this even much more エモいいいい + if you reverse the intro of the song you could also hear something like piano sounds in it too... like, here let me show you (the first half is the normal one, while the latter is the reverse one)

I remember someone said that the intro felt like Ai's trying to rewind time bcus he's afraid to what will come in the future and damn... (┬┬﹏┬┬)

Welp at least now he's not afraid of it anymore!! (based on his asas route + flake heart's lyrics)

Also talking about putting names in the lyrics, he also did the same thing for Innocent Wind around this part

風はいつも無垢に　美しい季節を運び 切なさを拭って　藍色の空　連れて行くから

and the mention of 藍色の空 is really エモいい especially if you played his asas route, it connected with his name's origin ;;;w;;;

Aiharu oshis really be eating good that day... Winter Blossom MV and the radio... 本当にご馳走様でした！！！

If you guys have time, please try and listen to the radio here!! It's free until 20 Sept!! (after that you need to paid membership to listen to it) Terashii also talked about Nacchan's Moon Rain and Cecil's Jounetsu no Dejavu Kiss too!

[teamgalacticcyrus]

About me post cuz it’s high time I did one:

Intro: I am CFO, or Justice if we’re close (Justice is my real name). I am Japanese and German. I am also a singer/songwriter/roleplayer. This blog is pretty casual. I just post things I like here. This is me:

Pronouns: He/They/She in that order

Age/birthday/star sign/MBTI: 28, July 15, I am a Cancer (: and my Chinese Zodiac is the Rat. I am an XNFP.

Fandoms: Team Fortress 2, Metalocalypse, Resident Evil, the Evillious Chronicles, Kingdom Hearts, My Chemical Romance, Ghost, EverQuest II, World of Warcraft, Vinesauce (specifically Joel), Utapri, Pokémon

Pets: a cat named Sea Lion and a toad named Hiromono (though I call him ‘King Idioet’ more often than not)

Steam name: justiceedgeworth aka I LOVE This Doctor! (NEW PLAYER)

Current hyperfixation: Uta no Prince-sama, especially Eiichi :3

Best friend is @baby-skitty ❤️💉 my Medic partner forever uwu

[utaprifordays]

THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE ASKS!!! ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

I'll get to them ASAP hehe I have the writing itch!!

I was wondering!! Would anyone be interested in an 18+ Utapri discord?? (I'm sure this fandom is so old we're mostly adults but,, just to be safe) ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧ gauging interest !