Princess Tutu

Oh God, this anime. As you can see, I didn't finish this. I simply couldn't bring myself to. I dropped this so hard and dashed as far away from it as I could and I'm still surprised that people call it a "masterpiece" left, right and centre.

I'd like to start by stressing that I'm really not a fan of magical girl animes. I've seen a few before but Madoka Magica was really the only one I'd say I definitely enjoyed. The only other one I rate highly is Sailor Moon for purely nostalgic reasons.
So your first question is probably why I chose to watch this ... at all - I sort of didn't. A friend streamed her DVDs of it and I ended up watching the first 9 episodes as a result. She'd streamed Utena for me too, which I also don't really get the "masterpiece" praising for. This review isn't about Utena though, so after that short background we get onto the portion of this anime that I managed to sit through without killing myself.

Story - 4
The basic premise of this anime is that a duck turns into a ballerina magical girl with weirdass two tone hair and reclaims the pieces of a boy's heart that he no longer has - making him little more than monotone and dull to behold. It's not that interesting sounding a plot and it wasn't really interesting to watch either. What I saw of it was rather predictable and not that gripping. Some of the comedy was ok but a lot of it was rather cliché magical girl stuff - which is fine if you're into that sort of thing, which I've already explained that I'm not.

Art - 3
Whilst I appreciate this anime's pretty old now, I just wasn't a fan of the art style at all. The flicky weird hairstyles were offputtingly grotesque in particular and whilst it matched the odd childish vibe the entire anime gave off, I just didn't find it visually appealing at all. The characters themselves had rather cliché character designs too, with everyone perceived good wearing white and the opposite wearing black. Whilst this made it easy to tell who was on what side (or perhaps moreso how we were intended to feel about them), it didn't feel very creative at all.

Sound - 6
The music in this anime was rather nice, since it was all ballet music to keep to the theme. The fact that it wasn't really an original score and was just classical music is what kept me from rating it higher. It was music most of us have heard before and there wasn't really anything new or breathtaking about it in that regard.
I also watched this anime's English dub, which was... awful, to be frank. At least Chris Patton was in it, which is always a relief to hear.

Character - 2
Oh God, these characters. Duck in particular is horrifically infuriating, as well as her monotone dull love interest. I don't even remember his name, he bored me so much. The only character I really liked at all was Fakir because he made me laugh and it was only really during his conversations with monotone love interest that I was really truly engaged in this anime at all. The only other character worth mentioning in a positive light is the ballet teacher - who's an anthro cat in a green shirt, no less. His over the top comic relief was pretty entertaining, in a "were they high when they thought of this" sort of way, but he wasn't in it nearly enough to distract from Duck and her squeaky voice.

Enjoyment/Overall - 3
I did not enjoy this anime. That's rather an understatement. I mostly couldn't wait for the stream to end and only stayed there to talk with my friends. It got to the point that I was only staying for the outtakes I was promised at the end of the DVDs, and I eventually talked my friend into not showing anymore when I was told there were only two sets of outtakes to watch.

Actually, the outtakes would've made a better anime.
Do yourself a favour and give this one a miss.
Watch the outtakes instead.

I don't normally write reviews. In fact, I don't think I've ever written any.
But this anime though, this anime takes the cake. This anime is like the biggest scam ever.
Now, if you don't like spoiler, then stop reading.

First of all, I've watched this show back when I was still a little kid. I used to really like it, way before I got into Majo DoReMi... Okay, maybe not the ending. I think I hated it so much that I've mentally blocked it off my head. For nostalgia's sake, I revisited this show. Oh boy, how much I want my 2 hours of my life back.

Let's ... get into the story for real. The story wasn't anything fantastic by today's standards, but it was definitely something uncommon during 2002-2003. It's a spin-off of the Swan Princess story, and that is really right up my alley. The characters within Princess Tu Tu weren't out of ordinary, but was decent enough to keep me interested. That's being said, as much as it hurts me, I have to give this a 2/10 overall because of the ending.

So you're telling me, that very person who drank the evil crow's blood all her life (and then soaking a piece of the prince's heart into such magical blood), the very person who never once stop hurting the others (except that one dude who somehow fell in love with her and she was like ayy lmao I won't cut off your heart just so I could feed my crow dad), somehow got married with the prince. AND! That duck who fell in love with the prince, the same prince who liked her back, somehow got confessed to by the evil crow princess... and he immediately goes, HUH? She saved me, that must mean that I love her too!

SMFH. I'm glad there is no season 2.

RIP Ahiru and the knight.