[Story-3/10]
Lets cut straight to the chase, Shirayuki-hime is the same thing I've seen in a thousands of different movies, anime, books, games whatever medium of entertainment you could ever indulge in, there is always going to be a Shirayuki-Hime, its been done to death, the nice prince and the peasant girl vice verse, while I would love to say that this show is trying to celebrate the ideas of old romance tales, I just can't, it feels too much like it's trying to be something different so It doesn't feel like its celebrating the cliches of the genre in which it subsides, but feels more like it wants to pander to the audience and the masses that will enjoy it because it feels familiar while also trying to be something different, it feels so conflicting with how it presents itself and makes for a lacklustre story and overall experience.
The story itself follows Our young Mary Sue (Who everyone unconditionally loves or comes to love), her name is Shirayuki and only Shirayuki, why she doesn't have a family name I'll never know, hell she even meets her father yet there's still no explanation for this, but whatever, enough pedanticism, were all waiting for the meat and crux of the story, basically massive douchebag Prince raj decides he wants a lovely female companion, and guess who he decides, why of course the very well loved Shirayuki, I mean who could ever hope to stand up against Shirayuki? Isn't she just fucking perfect?
[Side thoughts about - Shirayuki]
I should most likely write about Shirayuki in the "character" section of my review, but I just can't contain myself, Shirayuki is loved by everyone, everything goes well for her, even what seems like a curse is secretly a blessing in disguise, another thing I absolutely despise about Shirayuki is the fact that she is presented as the type of girl who don't need no man in her life, but this idea is constantly being contradicted with behaviour around characters such as Zen and Obi, if they wanted to present the strong female character then why the fuck does she always need to be saved by the prince, they very clearly want us to believe that Shirayuki is a strong female lead while also trying to make her some sort of wish fulfilment for men and women, its contradictory and fucking annoying to watch.
[side thoughts concluded. On with the show!]
So prince Raj, wants to marry Shirayuki, but being the strong female lead she is, she goes and says I'm out of here, of course she believes that price Raj doesn't care about her personality and only cares about her illustrious and stunningly beautiful red hair, so what does she do? She leaves prince Raj devastated by leaving him her hair, so where is our strong and independent women supposed to go now? Fend of by living on her own? Learning to accept her fate and unwillingly become a concubine? Continually hiding from prince raj and learning how to fend off in the wood son her own? Nah fuck that shit, lets throw in a hot guy, oh and lets make him strong and a prince boom problem solved no need for any of the other potential ideas, maybe instead of making Zen a rich prince, maybe make him a self righteous commoner boy who is just like zen but is held down by constraints such as poverty and famine, instead of making him the prince therefore eliminating all challenges in his way with his title, I would watch that anime instead of watching what we got with this show, anyway back to the story! Now despite what you might be thinking prince zen was suspicious of Shirayuki at first, that is of course until about 6 minutes into there initial meeting, some lite banter and a bit of Shirayuki pretending to be the the strong female character she so desperately does and doesn't want to be.
So this her Ladies and Gentlemen, is the failure of a story that was Shirayuki-hime, It may see like I have been absolutely shitting on this anime so far, but I would be reminisce if didn't say that I enjoyed some of it. As little of the political stuff we get to see, it was easily the most interesting part, I would have liked to have seen a more historical and political series but thats not what I came to Shirayuki hime for, I came for a good romance, and for the most part the romance is good, its very clear that zen and Shirayuki have good chemistry and are a good source of wish fulfilment, other than does few and far factors, Shirayuki hime story is a pitiful disgrace to humanity.
[Art-9/10]
Credit were credit is due, the art is very good, in fact I think it looks quite beautiful, while the character designs are nothing but absolute garbage , the art itself was very good, the animation wa Clean, polished and slickly made, no complaints about the art.
[sound-8/10]
sound was also very good, while the voice acting isn't all to memorable they all mostly did good jobs, the Ost was great, it brought a bit of life to each setting and character, the scores were very fitting and made the anime just a tad bit better, the openings and endings to the anime are slo very good, I think overall they deserve the score of 8/10. Well done.
[character-4/10]
I've already said what I wanted to say about Shirayuki so I'll just quickly skim over each major character.
Shirayuki- typical Mary Sue with no real personality.
Zen- Cute anime boy
Obi- Cute anime boy, but this time the boy is less righteous and a bit more rough for all you naughty girls.
Mitsuhide- stereotype number #456712, he's basically your average and run of the mill, "must protect the master" type of character.
Kiki- Copy and paste Shirayuki but give her a sword and do what Shirayuki wanted to be, Kiki unlike Shirayuki actually is independent, why wasn't she my dear Fräulein instead.
Ryu- SHOTACON!
Garack- MILF!
my point is, it that each of these characters aren't characters, there shallow cutouts of a character, while I can skip out on the fact that characters in series like Jojo and Hellsing are shallow and two dimensional, in those shows it seems to add to the enjoyment while here it makes the show crumble.
[Enjoyment and overall score-4/10]
I have no more words to describe how I feel about this show.
1. I basically said all wanted too
2. i'm tired of writing about this
so boom,
4/10 bad anime don't watch.
