Hello everyone! Its Elliot.B here and today I’m going to talk about one of my favorite childhood anime Princess Tutu.

Princess Tutu is a magical girl anime with two thirteen-episode Cour’s making up the series with episodes 4, 9, 22 and 23 written by Chiaki J. Konaka, The writer well known for series like Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze. Along with Ikuko Itoh as the chief animation director, she is mainly known for her work on princess tutu but also directed the first 4 seasons of sailor moon.

Princess Tutu Is a culmination of several ballets such as The ugly duckling, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Coppelia with some simply inspiring costumes and character designs.

I found this show when I was fairly young, back then my taste in shows was lackluster, I watched copious amounts of media, princess tutu is one of the few shows that I watched when I was young that stayed in my heart, and that I can still go back to and watch from time to time. Princess tutu Is kind of like Avatar The Last Air Bender in that aspect, Both children and adults can enjoy it for differing reasons.

The show starts with our main protagonist Ahiru talking about how sad the prince Is and how she wants to dance with him. Drosselmeyer takes advantage of the moment and offers Ahiru something she cannot refuse, The ability to transform into a human, Of course, the caveat to this is that she has to help retrieve all of the prince’s heart shards each containing a different emotion.

After that, for about 8 episodes it follows a formula of Ahiru noticing a strange person. Then the strange person gets screen time to develop their character, then Ahiru detects a heart shard and transforms into princess tutu to retrieve said heart shard. This may sound boring but it is pulled off very well and the sprinkled in bits of comedy and drama throughout the episodes also contribute to it not being boring.

So now I’m going to recommend that you go and watch it for yourself its on Hulu and the usual piracy websites, and if your a really big weirdo you could buy the blue-ray re-release that came out last year but like that shits 60$ you could buy a whole figurine and make a shitty review for that much.

In conclusion, Watch It. thanks for reading and see ya next time I make a blog post!