In this anime, there are two main disappointments, fortunately over-compromised by positive factors, that may be a hindrance to your indulgence of this show or not be so depending on what they are.
The first disappointment is the obligation you feel to accept a humour that you feel a slight restraint towards. Your thoughts sometimes run contrary to what the show expects you to think; you rather end up thinking that the princess’ actions are too detached from the real world, where her selfish actions would not be tolerated; the thoughts are intrusive like in that moment when you notice a grain of rice glued to the cheek of the person you are talking to, to whom you aren’t intimate with enough to give a remark. Some episodes are too heavily reliant on the trope of characters to beget this humor that obliges you, thereby causing some boredom. But the main trope of this show, which is the princess’ selfishness, will still beget some pleasant laughter.
The unexpected kindness with which the demons deal the princess, the second disappointment, is the root of those intrusive thoughts and the first disappointment’s existence. Expecting a harsh environment for the princess when you read the summary, you are at first disappointed with the kindness the demons show because their kindness nullifies the point of calling them demons in the first place, but you gradually accept it as part of the personality of this show.
I am impressed by how the show facilitates your absorption into this anime, which falls under the category other than “action,” under the category of which viewers get absorbed into anime the most:
- The injection of cartoonish scenes, the loosening of the artists’ binding to drawing the characters according to the script, is evident when we see them turn into chibis, their eyes come in contact with each other in shock, or them exert an unnatural strong power that correspondingly reflects the character’s emotions. (For example, how could the princess cut down a tree with a pair of scissors without a cartoonish element?).
- Meticulous scenery details, character actions and interactions stimulating “tsukkomi” (noticing and commenting in a humorous way) from the viewers, are present. The backgrounds with vibrant colors, clean, well drawn and shaded, and the smooth and professional animation-sequencing ascertains your watch time is not a waste and are some of the main reasons for coming back to this anime every week; not many shows attract viewers by its art - only the good ones do that.
- The idea to get the Princess’ VA to set a monotonic tone to the vocal range of the princess so befitting to the princess’ personality enhances the creativity you were already enjoying from this anime. Without it, the show would never be the same.
- Of the plot, it is an advantage there are no cliffhangers. It’s pleasant to know you won’t go in and out of an episode blue balled. The peculiar and invisible character development progresses with undetectable footsteps and will probably affect this anime to end with wholesomeness and melancholy.
By the way, those teddy bears are very adorable and precious!! The princess herself is also quite adorable and precious.
In terms of the genre that this show is in, it deserves a 10 or 9; I can’t imagine another studio to adapt this story better than this studio did; I can’t find anything to improve in terms of all the rating categories, except plot-wise: the aforementioned heavy reliance on tropes.
