AoD Advance Review: Princess Tutu Vol. #1

[Chris Beveridge]

Review

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In Summary:
Princess Tutu is a very simple and easy show to get into for obvious reasons, as most fairy tales are simple in their basic nature but their natures can change with their re-interpretations over the years and into other cultures. This title is something I'd been looking forward to for quite some time and was very happy with it as it's a beautiful little piece that's rich in style and story that keeps a number of anime traditions to it in addition to fairy tale traditions such as there not always being a happy ending for everything and things having a dark edge to them in general. There's a lot of ways this show can go but the opening act of five episodes has not only me hooked but my entire family. It's not often a show is able to do that and it's not often that I have my kids asking to watch it again themselves the next day.

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[Pfil]

A+/Positive. I won't go into details since I think I've gushed about the show enough in the past [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img], so I'll just repeat that I think this is easily the best anime of recent years. Certain choices could have been made better for the R1 release, but since they're just minor annoyances I still feel mostly Positive about the release.

As many agree, 1/25/04 can't come soon enough. This anime will appeal my inner little girl [img]/images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif[/img]

[ic14]

*On my list to get when it comes out in the UK*

Reading the review has made it hard for me to do that though [img]/images/graemlins/sad.gif[/img]

[B-Rad Lascelle]

For the curious out there, I've been posting clips from the dub over in the English Track over the past week and will be spreading out a 7-part review on the dub and the release in general over the next few days.

ADV will be conducting a chat on Thursday night with the dub's director (Jin Ho Chung) and the lead VAs for Duck/Princess Tutu (Luci Christian) and Mythos (Jay Hickman). Feel free to join in if you'd like to pass along any comments or questions on this release.

[Mahlernut]

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Hunter Pfil said:
A+/Positive. I won't go into details since I think I've gushed about the show enough in the past [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img], so I'll just repeat that I think this is easily the best anime of recent years. Certain choices could have been made better for the R1 release, but since they're just minor annoyances I still feel mostly Positive about the release.

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Agreed (though not necessarily about whether or not you've gushed about the show enough) [img]/images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif[/img]

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Mahlernut said:
Agreed (though not necessarily about whether or not you've gushed about the show enough) [img]/images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif[/img]

Well, I will not eliminate the possibility of further gushing in the near future. [img]/images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif[/img] But I have been going on about it for like two years now. [img]/images/graemlins/shy00000.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]

[EmperorBrandon]

A+ and positive, of course. [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img] (and gets even better from here...) I've had the opportunity to see the series in Japanese a while back, and I've been looking foward to collecting for a while now (even before we knew who had licensed it). Certain things I've learned about ADV's release have annoyed me a bit, but those are all very minor. Hearing that the dub is great more than makes up for that. As my luck would have it, I probably won't get this one until later on next week... [img]/images/graemlins/sad.gif[/img]

[Pelianth]

*reads Chris's review and cackles evily*

[Mahlernut]

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Hunter Pfil said:
Mahlernut said:
Agreed (though not necessarily about whether or not you've gushed about the show enough) [img]/images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif[/img]

Well, I will not eliminate the possibility of further gushing in the near future. [img]/images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif[/img] But I have been going on about it for like two years now. [img]/images/graemlins/shy00000.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]

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So why stop now? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] In the end, having the R2 Japanese volume 4, I must say the biggest shame is that we're not getting the beautiful booklets that came with the Japanese release. Considering how good ADVs been with booklets of late, I was still kinda hoping... Ah well! C'est lat vie [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img]