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3	%%English names for everything, except to note name changes in the character entries (and in cases where we don't have English names yet).
4	%%Shorthand for the second game should be capitalized as mk2, not [=Mk2=] or mk-2. For the third game, use Victory, not V, since the English name has been confirmed to use the former, and the Japanese title has both.
5	%%Do not call mk2 a sequel, except where it's the name of a trope. mk2 is a continuity reboot, and therefore not a sequel to anything.
6	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1363287571-hyperdimension-idol-neptunia-pp_4797.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:350:Ultradimension Idol Neptune Takes The Stage]]
8	The first VideoGame/{{Neptunia}} game to debut on a portable, ''Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection'' or ''Hyperdimension Neptunia PP'' (Japanese title: ''Kami Jigen Idol Neptune PP'') is the first of [[RuleOfThree three spin-offs]] created for the Platform/PlayStationVita. The game still features [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe anthropomorphisms]] of the 7th generation consoles (and their handhelds), however, as [[IdolSinger idol singers]] competing for shares.
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10	The game centers around the main character, the producer, whose goal is to help the Goddess of their choice compete against rival company [[Music/{{AKB48}} MOB48]] in concerts to earn more shares. The main goal of the game is to get fans. By raising the selected [=CPUs=] various stats through training and lessons, and promoting through through advertising and media stunts, the CPU must aim to become the top idol in Gameindustri.
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12	For each concert, the number of fans and haters will change, though it all depends. The [=CPUs=] can be changed into various outfits before the concerts, and during the concert, special effects can be triggered and the camera angle can be changed to change the viewing experience. During live events, the CPU can use [[MundaneUtility HDD]] to transform mid-song, altering their singing voice and earning more points.
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14	The game itself was released in Japan on June 20, 2013. [[Creator/NipponIchi NIS America]] released it in the rest of the world in 2014.
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16	The question at the end of all of this isn't exactly why this game was made, so much as what took it so long in the first place.
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19	!!Tropes in Hyperdimension Neptunia: Producing Perfection:
20	* AlliterativeName: The subtitle, "Producing Perfection".
21	* AlternateUniverse: Judging from the looks of it, ''Producing Perfection'' is set in yet ''another'' alternate Gameindustri (these people really cannot stay in one place), that is quite similar to the V universe, however, the Candidates have their own counterparts in this universe, Neptune is Planeptune's Goddess and Plutia is nowhere to be seen. On the plus side, [[InSeriesNickname Lonely Heart]] is here.
22	* AmbiguousGender: Averted. While it would ''seem'' to be this way, due to being TheFaceless, TheVoiceless, and able to be given ''[[HelloInsertNameHere any kind of name in the book]]'', the Game Over screen shows the producer is indeed male. Although, the {{Bathtub Scene}}s should have already set the player off by now.
23	* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The main character of this game is not the Goddesses so much as the Goddesses' producer, a random human (apparently from the real world no less) who was transported to Gameindustri.
24	** According to NIS America's description of the game, [[IKnowMortalKombat said human was selected due to having had prior experience in training video game idols back on Earth.]] [[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster Hmm...]]
25	* BathtubScene: Each Goddess can receive one, after their love meter for the producer is at the maximum. Considering Blanc would probably kill anyone else, this makes sense...
26	* BittersweetEnding: None of the Good or True endings are positive, but aren't depressing enough to fit under DownerEnding.
27	* BlandNameProduct: ''Hmmmm'', the name ''[[Music/{{AKB48}} MOB48]]'' sounds so familiar somehow, [[SarcasmMode but we just can't put our finger on it.]]
28	* BraggingRightsReward: Earning the HDD forms and the CPU candidates tends to feel like this, due to earning them after working like ''bloody hell'' to get the True Endings for the Candidates sisters.
29	* ButThouMust: When being offered the job as producer, the player has three choices: "Accept.", "Accept!", and "Accept!!" And this is lampshaded by Neptune, naturally.
30	* DatingSim: Like ''mk2'' and ''Victory'', ''Producing Perfection'' has its own form of this, referred to as a "Love Scene", where you can actually date the Goddess who you are training to become an idol. Before anyone gets excited, it doesn't go anywhere, nor does it seem to have a huge impact on the game outside of a [[CosmeticAward trophy]].
31	* DemotedToExtra: Meta-wise, the Candidates receive all new artwork (that doesn't truly resemble Tsunako's work), while the main Goddesses...do not. Ironic, considering who the focus is on.
32	* {{Doppelganger}}: In one of her events, Nep actually meets a doppelgänger by the name of "32x".
33	** As it happens, 32x is actually a representation of Neptune's hard drive, apparently [[AWizardDidIt born from the songs]] she had been singing.
34	** Neptune also faces a robotic copy of herself, which was built by a lonely Nepgear. It looks exactly like Neptune, except for her expressionless face, robotic voice, stiff movements, mechanical whirring, and her tendency to ask for Nepgear's instructions after a few seconds when idle. However, it [[CurbStompBattle quickly defeated Neptune in one blow]]. After snapping Nepgear back into sense, the robot was reprogrammed into Neptune's rival in videogames.
35	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Noire gets away with a ''ton'' of abuse, both physical and verbal, towards the Producer. It's played for laughs, too.
36	* DownerEnding: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Bad endings]].
37	* ExactWords: Blanc once told the player "defeat doesn't exist in my dictionary". When he thought she was simply being confident, she revealed that the word ''literally'' doesn't exist in Lowee dictionaries, so that Blanc can say that phrase and be correct.
38	-->'''Blanc:''' I also erased the words escape and impossible.
39	* ExcusePlot: The "shares being stolen by [=MOB48=]". It really is just an excuse to get the Goddesses up on stage and singing (which makes enough sense, as only Vert and Neptune are attention-whorey enough to do it, Blanc would simply shout obscenities at everyone and Noire's pride wouldn't allow it).
40	* TheFaceless: While the standard silhouettes return, the new player character, the producer, doesn't even get one of these, this keeping gender ambiguous.
41	** This is the first time since the original Neptunia (Ganache, Yvoire, etc) that ''antagonists'' (the term used as loosely as possible), receive this treatment; while the members of [=MOB48=] do appear, they never receive actual art, only appearing as silhouettes. They do receive voice acting however.
42	* {{Flanderization}}: Blanc and Noire lost a fair amount of personality compared to previous entries, especially compared to the first game. Vert as well, though it isn't ''as'' noticeable.
43	* ForcedTutorial: It's a Neptunia game, did you ''really'' expect to get off so easily? At least it's not as lengthy as the others.
44	* [[ForgotAboutHisPowers Forgot About Her Powers]]: The Goddesses have a total of one song each in which they are able to use HDD in, and it is limited to that song, and that song ''only''. It makes you wonder why they do not simply use HDD in every song, given the spectacle it would cause the amount of fans it could garner. Heck, the moment you form a duo or a trio, you cannot use HDD from that point on, despise three Goddesses on stage singing would be a total success.
45	* GratuitousEnglish: A few phrases like this slip from the Goddesses' mouths, notably "Bye bye" from Blanc (and it is adorable) and "Nice morning!" from Noire. There's also the various Goddesses saying "Now Loading..." when a screen is...well, loading.
46	** The producer's name can also appear like this, with the player able to type it in English. Which is really fitting for the importers, who could otherwise unintentionally create hilarious names with the Japanese characters.
47	* TheGodsMustBeLazy: Actually averted for the first time in the series. Due to the shares being stolen by [=MOB48=], the Goddesses actually ''have to take initiative'' themselves and work to become idols.
48	** Heck, being lazy and doing nothing actually results in the BadEnding.
49	* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: The entire reason the [=CPUs=] became idols in the first place, to regain their lost shares. It would just be easier to [[Anime/HyperdimensionNeptuniaTheAnimation post weird pictures of Nepgear]] on the internet.
50	* HaveAGayOldTime: The producer mentions that the CPU(s) he's with when studying are "boning up" on their skills.
51	* IdolSinger: The Goddesses take up this role to regain the shares stolen by [=MOB48=].
52	* {{Irony}}: ''Producing Perfection'' centers around singing and idols. 5pb. is nowhere to be seen.
53	* [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Knight Templar Little Sister]]: Applies to ''any'' of the candidates. If you have the Goddesses work into high levels of stress, the CPU Candidates ''will'' get on your case, none more so than Nepgear, whose entire tone suggests she is extremely pissed at you. Rather ironic, considering the entire V plot was kicked off by Neptune not doing enough work...
54	* LighterAndSofter: Compared to mk2 and V, ''definitely''. [[spoiler:No mass slaughtering or inter-dimensional rifts here.]]
55	* MultipleEndings: The usual Bad, Good, and True endings are present, as well as a harem route upon getting the True ending for every CPU.
56	* MundaneUtility: You know that SuperMode used to combat the physical god-like forces of piracy in the past three games? What would be the best other use for it? ''[[SarcasmMode Singing]]'' [[SarcasmMode of course]]. Although, considering the official artwork and anime show HDD being able to be used to attend parties and about a dozen other things, this really isn't surprising...
57	* NeverTrustATrailer: More like never trust the opening, at the ''very end'' of the opening sequence of the game, ''Next Stage!'', you see all four Goddesses on stage in HDD form. Not only are groups limited to ''trios'', but you can never have more than one Goddess use HDD on stage, and never in a ''group''. See [[ForgotAboutHisPowers Forgot About Her Powers]] above.
58	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In an Event, you can encounter an Eggplant wielding a lance riding a horsebird, an enemy that also appeared in Victory.
59	* OfficeRomance: The producer with any of the Goddesses.
60	* ShoutOut: [[ShoutOut/{{Neptunia}} This series has its own page.]]
61	* SelfInsertFic: You, as the player, act as the producer.
62	* TheVoiceless / HeroicMime: While the producer does converse with the goddesses and receives text, they have no voice acting.
63	* TookALevelInJerkass: While Noire is similar in her behaviour towards the [=CPUs=] and Uni, her default actions towards the Producer is immediately to demote him/her, say they're completely pointless and that she doesn't need them, and act harsher than Blanc would ever be. Uni is also meaner than her last appearance, though she's at least better than her big sister.
64	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The [=CPU=] Candidates have an event where they can knock out the producer, drag him to a place where he's never been, all for the purpose of introducing themselves properly. When asked why they chose to knock him out, Uni says they didn't have any chloroform. And then they agree to resort to MORE violence to take him back, and when none of them can decide who will knock the producer out, they all just gang up on him. This is all possibly justified in that, as [=CPU=] Candidates, the girls are older than the children they appear to be anyway.
65	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite being a similar universe to the Ultradimension in Victory, Plutia is nowhere to be seen, with Neptune being the definitive Planeptune Goddess. In addition, ''none of the makers'' appear this time (with the exception of IF and Compa, who can be unlocked as back-up dancers), which is just further demotion from Victory, where the makers were DLC at the very least.
66	* WhatTheHellHero: The Candidates will give one to the player if their respective sister gets too stressed out for too long.
67	* ZeroEffortBoss: The entire game is very difficult to lose in general, which led to very negative reception in the West. However, while easy to win, it isn't so easy to get HundredPercentCompletion.

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