Marginal Prince: Gekkeiju no Ouji-tachi

I am leaving a review for episode 4 alone. This is the single greatest episode of an anime I've ever seen. It's the episode about the pink haired guy and it's the story of how he and Yuuta skip school because he got a phone call and so they hitchhike their way to town with lady who has been waiting for her son Carlos to show up for 10 years so they can hang up a sign together, who is also a so-called professional singer who can't sing worth a damn for some reason. Then the generic anime debt collector squad shows up and Yuuta ... takes legitimately 30 seconds to run the equivalent of 1/16th of a city block.

The pink haired guy really does bash a thug with a pipe while badly lip-syncing to the show's saccarine "Love Makes the World Go Round" soundtrack, and then he lapses into a bad slideshow vietnam flashback where this anime implies and expects me to believe that this pink-haired high school student has somehow trained for, been to, and not only survived but excelled in some kind of vague armed conflict, and came back a broken man.

The anime as a whole is trash, but this episode is notable for being a gift from Pope Jesus in an intellectual property that had me questioning my faith.

Episode four is a perfect 10/10. When Gandalf said a Wizard arrives precisely when he needs to, he was talking about episode four of Marginal Prince.

Rest of the show 1/10, 2006 didn't deserve this.

Marginal Prince is a low-budget, poorly-written hot mess, but it is also /hilarious/ in the way it's bad. Worth watching, just for the scene where the boy with long pink hair bashes a thug with a pipe while singing "Love Makes the World Go Round".

So essentially, Marginal Prince is based on a cell phone dating game. Since they couldn't really include the "main character" of the girl, they pretty much just removed her. Unfortunately, they didn't really have anywhere to go with the storyline without her, so they clearly made up a story on the fly. Plus, with the ... main character now being Yuta, it comes across very BL-like, despite not being actually BL.

Most of the show is a series of largely unrelated events that introduce a large number of underdeveloped characters, and the attempt toward the end to tie up some of the vague plot threads is too little too late. Out of the characters, I found Henri, Red, and Sylvain to be at least interesting, but even then we don't get a lot of development, they're just the ones whose personalities stand out at all.

On top of that, the creators wanted to stick with what was apparently a theme in the dating game--the singing. As I was once told by a friend: "They burst into song at least once an episode whether it's appropriate or not. And it's never appropriate." The music is actually enjoyable, pretty standard VA theme song fare, but it generally makes no sense with the story and often ends up being hilariously out of place and/or overdramatic.


As I said before, this show is enjoyable because it's bad in ways that make it funny. If you're looking for a laugh at an overdramatic weird musical anime, it's probably worth sitting through at least some of, although it's short enough that watching it all is doable. If you're looking for a GOOD former dating sim anime, I'd recommend Meine Liebe.

I dislike being mean when i give a review, but i promised to myself to be sincere every time i give one.

Marginal Prince falls under the category of "it was so BAD it made me LAUGH". People who reviewed about this being terrible weren't joking to you, truly... the only reason i didn't drop it off from the start was because it gave me a sheer amount of laughter in every episode.

Welcome to the world of Marginal Prince! The worst Anime based of a dating game yet to be made.
Main character (who is a dude instead of the main girl in the game) is ... the new guy in this amazing all-boy academy. At the beginning it seems that this will fall in the category of "new guy in school who gets fawn over by everyone", but in reality Marginal Prince is wrongly labeled, it is NOT a shounen ai... and that makes the story even more pointless.
The thing is that THERE IS NO STORY. We have random pieces of plot scattered everywhere dealing with the character's back stories that we don't really care about.

The worst yet most hilarious part is that the characters sing. Yes. They sing. Out of nowhere. IN THE RAIN.
I love my good musicals, but... this wasn't suppose to be a musical, or is it?

Everything is random and pointless.

I don't suggest you to watch it but if you really want to i bet you at least will get a few laughs on how WTF everything is.