A random user 6,763 Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 On a planet far from earth, 12 years old princess Yuki lives her life smiling with the inhabitans of her, soon to be, kingdom along with her loyal vassals and her childhood friend Joshua. who swore to keep his friend smiling at all cost. On the other side of the Kingdom there is Stella, a brave but reserved soldier who sole purpose on life is smile because she would not be able to advance on life without it. However, all smiles can't last forever... Studio Tatsunoko Productions (Speed Racer) celebrates it's 55th anniversary with this 12 episodes long anime original. OP - Egao no Kanata ED - A Bouquet For This World Crunchyroll is simulcasting the show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A random user 6,763 Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share Posted February 9, 2019 *clap Mid *clap Season *clap Review *clap What got me on the first episode was the world building, I was fascinated at the characters explaining how everything works around them. Besides that it seemed average at best. Then that cliffhanger, then episode 2 and later the switch of perspective. And so I thought this may be the real deal. The world building and drama of the characters are fleshed out well, being the switch between Stella's and Yuuki's perspective among it's strongest storytelling points since not only highlight the difference between them but between the Kingdom and the Empire. However, there are flaws, the obvious one is the fight secuences, a bit dry despite being dynamic and sometimes the overall plot can seem pretentious. I mean, at first sight it seems is pushing the old "WaR iS bAd, ThErE No GoOd oR bAd jUsT a GrEy LiNe" but after this last episode it may be something else. (A coming of age story perhaps?). In any case, so far it has a lot of interesting elements that make this show unique among the current line-up of winter, but it still need to take those elements to the next level to make this truly the surprise of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A random user 6,763 Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 ðŸ‘seasonðŸ‘finaleðŸ‘review👠Yep, I was right in keeping this as a potential surprise of the season because it never took off. On the second half, the hints about the empire being the bad guys got too obvious with the kingdom's clear disadvantage. However, the disadvantage did not stopped there, storytelling wise it was heavily one-sided in favor of Stella's side over Yuki's which led to the script to be extremely pretentious on it's objective of humanisation of the "bad guys" which instead of improving the show just held it back by no giving the same chance to Yuki's side, which served for world building and plot progession. Overall, good start, strong world building and fleshing out characters but failed to put all those thing in a overall story and execute it well. Still a recomendable watch for the world building and characters' constructions and development as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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