#factions

*At the fence*

Four: Dauntless are in charge of guarding the fence…

Tris: *Looks out*  What’s out there?

Newt: The maze.

Tris:

Newt

Four:

Tris: I’m sorry who are you?

Newt: Oh..  Lol sorry wrong movie set

Four: What the actual hell is going on

Tris: What’s your tattoo?

Four: You wanna see it?

Entire Audience:  YES.

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So this is something that I feel has been long overdue but I held off on it for the longest time (and no not just because I couldn’t figure out the issue with my dash on this website either) but I threw my hands up and went

“Screw it…WE’RE DOING IT NOW!”

With that let’s discuss UtaPri and the “factions”

So we can look at this subject any # of ways and we can use the Anime in a way (especially after Season 4 which people in the fandom can’t fucking let go of to the point I still gotta hear about it)

OR

We can discuss this in a way with how there is becoming factions where it feels like there are more and more people wanting to have HEAVENS in the game but there is a sharp adversary to this and that causes issues

OR

We can discuss how ,for a year and a half, there were people like me that just wanted to see the main story updated to get more songs added (and also because the fact that the game was legitimately blocking people from finishing tasks on the missions segment)

Things like this are things that have been going on now since AT LEAST 2016 and ,in my opinion, has gotten WORSE once SL became a Global game.  I genuinely believe that Broccoli has unknowingly (or possibly knowingly) done things that would splinter the fanbase and KLab got thrown into the mess once Shining Live came out.  It’s gone from something that has been one big family to factions of people wanting one thing but being told to basically “Shut the fuck up” by the other group

Let me give you an example

Shining Live came out in 2017 in Japan and then Globally in 2018.  Now is the game called “Shining Live” yes but I think that was a big misstep by KLab and Broccoli because I knew in a way (and its bared out that I was right) that this was going to cause problems

Why?

I have felt that one of the best things to do with UtaPri was to continue the Music series in some way.  We had ended on the A-Sides for QN and STARISH for season songs and then the Group songs for them.  It made sense that ,when the next game came out, that we would have the continuation of that and NOT a complete reboot

People forget that had there been a “Proper Music 4″ that we would have gone through the S3 B-Sides and then moved on to Season 4 and it would have more than likely started with the Duets and then have had the solos in the next Music game.  The point here is that they were going to have enough songs that were “publicly available” that “Broccoli’s Rule” wouldn’t have had to come into effect.

Nonetheless we got Shining Live and for the first year + we had a lot of content for the people that liked to play the events and then still please those that really…probably knew better than to play the events so we just played the main story and chilled out.  Keep in mind though this was also before they instituted the “Points Shot” and the mission that maxed out at the # 50 so for a while it was a bit weird…but you understood it!

Then October of 2018 happened and because of that the Collection event and the halt of “Main Story” content and I remember mentioning in the comments of one of the KLab Game Stations that I would have liked to see more “Main Story” content and that resulted in an argument with someone and that was my first real realization that there were going to start to become more “camps” like this in the future.

The biggest problem is always this one with SL

Again is the game called “Shining Live”?  Yes it is but that doesn’t mean you should get the right to exclude content from the game JUST BECAUSE its not from “Shining Productions”!  Remember kids:  “Shining Live” is a “Subtitle” of a game but “Uta no Prince-Sama” is the main part of the title…excluding one part of the series literally becomes a problem then!

Now one could say

“Well HEAVENS doesn’t have enough songs”

And yet they get new songs released (and mentioned in tweets) and yet we can’t put those songs in SL…right!

I think sometimes people forget that SL doesn’t exist in the universe of UtaPri like I think you do.  Like they could have literally said that HEAVENS was canonically a part of Shining Productions in SL and that would literally solve everything…now they DON’T so we go into this whole thing every time they tweet out something that involves song releases.  Like you all DO realize that there were 3 groups at Maji Love Kingdom right?  So therefore there were SIX songs performed outside of “Maji Love Kingdom” right?  I’m making sure you are aware of this because the way KLab has marketed this game (poorly in a way) is such that you genuinely forgot that HEAVENS IS a part of the UtaPri Universe!

Here is another one

Here in the States we had screenings of Maji Love Kingdom.  I went to the one in NJ and it was literally like walking into a morgue!  Now a big part of this is that Sentai fucked up royally and didn’t send out anything to theaters that this was to be treated more like a CONCERT than a MOVIE but they didn’t so what you ended up with was a lot of people not really singing along to the songs and it was literally so DEAD that I walked out before “Encore” finished!

Now one would think that ,if you had a bad experience and you wanted to talk about it, people would be more sympathetic…problem is that didn’t happen!

Here is what DID happen!

Apparently there was this one cat that felt they needed to do PR for Sentai and anyone that genuinely complained about it on twitter were being told by this one individual (no I will not name them but I bet you they know who they are) 

“Maybe your next experience will be better”

Alright shut all the way the fuck up!

The experience that I had (and some others apparently) LITERALLY SUCKED!  I get that we were in the minority but still…if there are people that had a bad time you don’t get to act any kind of way towards them…point blank period!

The reality is that yes the camp of people that had a bad time was small…we got that but at the same time those people deserved to be heard and if you negate those people that’s a problem because how do theaters get to fix their issues then?

But these are things I’m talking about.  We get to the point where the series here starts to get divisive because of different things.  HEAVENS not being in SL is a big one because…shouldn’t fans of the group be allowed to get cards of their faves too?

The other big thing we can get into is the fact that it was recently announced that there are going to be an “Animated Concert Series” starting in 2022 and first is STARISH.  I think we all know (based on past performances) that they are no doubt going to give STARISH and QN this treatment and that’s fine…but you have to be lying to yourself if you think for any amount of time that Broccoli gives any fucks about HEAVENS…they don’t…they literally DO NOT CARE!

If you say they do then answer me this question

“Why didn’t HEAVENS get a stage event like QN and STARISH?”

Or answer me this one

“Why didn’t they get to perform their solos but STARISH did at 6th stage?”

I mean…ANYONE with a clue knows why and its obvious.  When Agematsu tweeted out a photo from the Movie of course he tweeted it out specifically of STARISH but HE don’t get put on blast for his bias?  HE IS LITERALLY HARUKA’S PROXY FOR FUCK SAKES!!

Let me assure you all of something:  You know damn well that a lot of you really hate the fuck out of HEAVENS because if you didn’t then for FOUR YEARS (soon to be 5) you all wouldn’t have harped JUST on what happened to Otoya…nah you’d have given a fuck about Eiichi but we get it cos you all hate his guts right?

Y’all love to still post your Eiichi hate and I still get to see it SOMEHOW but don’t worry cos I got a spot on the bench for all of ya

That is all I needed to say here…talk to all you lovely people again soon