*Warning: Spoilers*
Dreams are wonderful things. We can make anything fictional into reality in our dreams, we can go from here, to the ends of the universe in our dreams, even if we cannot remember them.
In Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100-nin no Ouji-sama, they took the dreams-can-be-taken-away-concept and made it into an absolute mess.
This summer, my goal was to watch and rate every single otome game anime adaptation that's ever been made. I've cringed, I've cried, and I've wanted to die. But, no matter how bad any of those animes were, they weren't boring. They had a good concept, just portrayed terribly. But, Yume Oukoku isn't like that. Yume Oukoku is just, well. Boring. Very boring. Hell, they couldn't even stick with the story 50% of the time. (I'll go more into detail about that later.)
Now, let's begin my review on Yume Oukoku.
Story: 5/10
In Yume Oukoku, a young girl (whom we never learn the name of cause they literally just call her Princess.) has found herself transported to another world. She is apparently the "Princess" that's supposed to awaken every single one of the boys inside a Royal Ring. Except, they literally only do it once. "Why are they inside a Royal Ring?! @_@" You may ask. Around whatever years ago every single prince from every country teamed up to attack the dream-eaters, but they have been sealed away into their royal families ring. From that, it sounds interesting, right? A young girl traveling across the world to save all these princes?! Well. They only save 1 prince, and the rest of the entire show is them traveling across the world helping princes who are supposed to be sealed away. They don't keep up with the story at all, it's boring. Honestly, in my opinion, I'd prefer it for them to go to awaken princes.
Art: 4/10
Honestly, the art, in the beginning, was really okay, I feel like as the show went on, it got lazier, messier, and awkwarder (is that a word?). When the shots would be from far away, their eyes would be too big, when we were close up their mouths looked out of place, or too big.
Sound: 3/10
I don't know if the room they were in was echoey, but sometimes the characters sounded really far away from the microphone, even in normal scenes. It was really distracting.
Character: 3/10
So, we have the normal personality-less female lead, we have the bubbly male lead #1, and we have the edgy male lead #2. The female lead was really annoying. Both male leads were annoying. I only tolerated like a character in this and it was that mermaid dude, he had like 3 lines but still had more personality than the mcs.
Enjoyment: 4/10
At first, I thought this anime was gonna be cute n cool, oh boy was I wrong. I ended up skipping through 4 episodes cause nothing plot development worthy was happening. Rather than having fun, watching this felt like a chore like I HAD to watch it. I was very, very bored.
Overall: 5/10
I think this anime had a lot going for it in the beginning, I feel like the team working on this got lazier as each episode passed, like they didn't wanna keep working on it like they were working on it cause they had too. This anime is very uneventful, boring, and cliched. I'd recommend you watch Meiji Tokyo Renka instead of this.
