Akagami no Shirayukihime
Short Synopsis: Little miss bland is bothered cause she’s getting courted by a terrible prince only to run away and get courted by a more handsome terrible prince.
Look, I know I am not the right person to judge this show. I have an ingrained hatred of the shoujo genre that just interferes with any enjoyment that could be had. Every single line that comes out of that white haired prince’s mouth just makes me want to punch him in the face. I just can’t understand what people can see in such a bland and boring girl such as our MC and it just bugs me that she makes such a deal about this being her story yet from what I saw she was just a prize to be won. I am sure there are girls who look at harems and think the exact same way, I even agree with them. Plotwise i find it contrived, because this girl has red hair she is being forced to be a prince’s concubine who happens to be channeling the spirit of Shinji from Fate. Runs away and just so happens to run into the prince of a neighbouring country who takes a liking to her immediately. Terrible prince decides the best thing to do is send her poison apples, white prince eats an apple for some reason and then when Miss bland is about to agree to be a concubine rather spiritedly, white prince pops in an flaunts his authority. Only to take her for himself. It’s just so…irritating. I understand if you don’t agree and I don’t fault you if you like this show but I just can’t bring myself to feel the same.
Potential: 0%
Jitsu wa Watashi wa
Short Synopsis: A boy goes to confess to his crush only to find out she’s a vampire.
The thing that’s likely to make or break this show is how well the humor is executed because other than that there isn’t really much heard that hasn’t been seen before. The comedy doesn’t even work on me making it hard to gauge its value. Aside from the comedy it’s a pretty typical harem that eventually leads to the old harem purgatory of no progress or results. The animation seems fine and characters are decent but again its the comedy that will make or break this. But even if all you want is a decent fairly average harem show you will likely get your fix with this.
Potential: 10%
Classroom Crisis
Short Synopsis: A transfer student is taken hostage and his class makes a rescue effort.
It’s still not clear as to what this show will actually be about seeing as this first episode acted more as an introduction to our main cast and potential main character. For one I like this business transfer student who can manage to negotiate himself out of a hostage situation and its interesting that he’s mainly being sent to the class to find ways to downsize their budget. But I am just rather confused about the setting as the “classroom” is more like a club or a company. So far the school setting looks completely unnecessary and these characters could be easily made adults in the working world. It would also make more sense seeing as no matter how futuristic the school is, I highly doubt they would allow students to do something as dangerous and expensive as spacecraft building and piloting. Some of the characters are enjoyable and the setting on Mars colonized by different nations is interesting. But I would just like to know what exactly I am in for the rest of the episodes.
Potential: 35%
I like Akagami no Shirayuki-Hime…;_; Oh well. But I have to admit, it’s better than a lot of shoujo anime I’ve seen in the last few years.
Hi AidanAK47. I hope you can give Akagami no Shirayukihime a second chance. I have been reading the manga and the characters are lovely. I would say that the first chapter has the worst plot of all. After that, it gets better. Every character is decent – even the prince who is “channeling the spirit of Shinji”. They show that they are growing as the story progresses. There is almost no one that is completely unreasonable. If the anime won’t deviate much from the manga, I believe that watching it will be a pleasant experience.
By the way, thank you very much for your reviews. I miss psgels already. Our tastes usually jive. However, you are filling his spot just fine. Your views are interesting as well. Keep it up.
I like Akagami no Shirayuki too. I loved the part where she left her ponytail behind so he can have her red hair if we wants it that much. She really showed backbone there.
I don’t think that Shirayuki is anyone’s for the taking. Yeah, she seems to have love at first sight, but she’s not the classic Snow White.
This season is pretty boring to me…
And while the Shirayuki show has great execution, I have to agree with you it was so bland… I don’t even know how they do it. But I’m not big on shoujo stories either (even though I’m a girl so it’s supposed to be for me?? meh). somehow they’re all very predictable and cliché and that takes a big part of the fun away :/