From the people behind the “Love Live School Idol Festival”, a new mobile game is released worldwide and its name is "Utano☆Princesama Shining Live.” Featuring the idol units ST☆RISH and QUARTET NIGHT the game was released in over 136 countries and regions in English and Traditional Chinese.
In terms of gameplay, the game holds an augmented reality camera features that will allow players to superimpose their favorite idols onto selfies or pictures. Other than this main feature, an incentive for downloading the game has also been revealed. Said incentive is a “Starting Celebration Special Event” wherein for 14 days, players will be receiving bonuses starting on their first login. They will also be receiving additional bonuses in celebration of the game’s English launch.
As for the characters of the game, they will be voiced by the respective voice actors from the anime and comprise of the following:
ST☆RISH
Takuma Terashima as Otoya Ittoki
Kenichi Suzumura as Masato Hijirikawa
Kisho Taniyama as Natsuki Shinomiya
Mamoru Miyano as Tokiya Ichinose
Junichi Suwabe as Ren Jinguji
Hiro Shimono as Syo Kurusu
Kohsuke Toriumi as Cecil Aijima
QUARTET NIGHT
Showtaro Morikubo as Reiji Kotobuki
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Ranmaru Kurosaki
Shouta Aoi as Ai Mikaze
Tomoaki Maeno as Camus
Any other details on the game can be found in its official website.
The game itself is based on the visual novel turned anime/manga, “Uta no Prince-sama.” First released in June 2010 as a Japanese visual novel aimed towards females, it featured players taking on the role of aspiring composer Haruka Nanami and holds seven different routes affected by their choices.
It was in July 2011 that the anime adaptation first came out. The series spanned for a total of four seasons and each one had a total of 13 episodes.
The plot for the franchise takes focus on Haruka Nanami, an aspiring composer who dreams of composing for her favorite idol. In order to achieve this dream, she enters in Saotome Academy, a prestigious performing arts school, where upon graduation, has a chance of working in the Shining Agency. The path towards this dream is far from easy however as the school is already filled with potential idols and composers. What’s more, just before graduation students pair up in order to perform a song that was both composed, written and sung by them and this choice is far from easy for Haruka as she meets seven interesting classmates/schoolmates.
Source: Crunchyroll News