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EP. REVIEW: Princess Principal

I found it an especially strong scene when Chise was trying to make the hurt go away.

PFdaCIA wrote:

You are completely wrong! Absolutely wrong! First: the story is fictitious, but it works with real historical themes. In this case, it is not just the introduction of the character, it has an importance in addition. From the way the review is made, it just seems like a meaningless treatise, and a killer who "passed by" and then decided to kill a guy he did not like.

Boy, you're reading what you want into what I said.

No, I didn't go into explicit detail about why the treaty modifications were being sought, partly because a) the episode doesn't give us a lot of specifics on that, and b) it's not relevant to the main thrust of what's going on in the episode, which is Chise's introduction. Also, the intent of these reviews is to give an analysis, not a detailed play-by-play. If the treaty stuff becomes important in a future episode or a plot focal point then I'll bring it up then.

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The background of the story concerns an agreement between the Kingdom and Japan, an agreement that would be ratified because it already existed, ie bilateral ties would be brought up to date. This has to do with historical bilateral relations. In previous episodes there are hundreds of important details about the global consequences of the war between the Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Albion.

Then list out those hundreds. Seriously! You're assuming an awful lot more than what is actually shown, partly because you're assuming it follows actual history very closely even though there's not a lot of evidence to support that. While I might have missed or not given full weight to an odd detail here or there, I seriously doubt that I've missed "hundreds" of such details.

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I say this, because Animenewsnetwork reviewers often act very badly on the original series.

Other examples? Again, seriously! If you're going to make blanket accusations like this then be prepared to back them up with specifics.

About what you said about the bad faith of the reviewers: I brought history details, and were ignored, will I be heard about the reviewers' practice on the site?

Next Princess Principal - Episode 6 "Case 18 Rouge Morgue"

Source: They announce the next episode's case number and title on http://lantis-net.com/pripri-radio/ which releases new installments shortly after the latest episode airs in Japan each week.

Studio 3Hz once again delivers an impressive performance for a young and seemingly tiny studio. Their Japanese Wiki page lists only four people, Tachibana Masaki, the director of this show, Barakamon, and Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Koichi Arai, a key animator with a list of credits as long as your arm, and two others. I wonder if they actually have any staff, or if they largely manage free-lancers. The Wiki page lists 3Hz in the field of "planning and production of animation."

I hope the cash from overseas investors like Sentai and Amazon keeps this talented bunch going. Flip Flappers averaged fewer than 900 copies per release. Princess Principal might have more mainstream (and male) appeal. I've been impressed with the number of excellent original anime productions we've seen in the past couple of years like these two, Re:Creators, Shingeki no Bahamut, SHIROBAKO, Sakura Quest, Little Witch Academia, and Yuri!!! on ICE. I just worry whether "boutique" studios like 3Hz can survive.

So yeah, even though there's not much of an overarching story yet, I'll take more of this quality any day

The problem with the lack of progression on the overarching plot is that it leaves Princess in the side lines doing nothing. It's a shame as she looked like an interesting character to explore and develop but the show hasn't done much with her.

1idd0kun wrote:

The problem with the lack of progression on the overarching plot is that it leaves Princess in the side lines doing nothing. It's a shame as she looked like an interesting character to explore and develop but the show hasn't done much with her.

To me having Princess being mostly in the sidelines is a good idea because she is aiming to be queen, and it would not a good idea for her to be front and center with the other spies.