Difference between revisions of "Princess Tutu"

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Genre

Fantasy Magical Girl Shoujo Shounen

Sum it up in a Sentence:

A duck who becomes a human ballerina and her companions must fight against their assigned fates.

Main Description

Princess Tutu includes elements of fairy tales and famous ballets, particularly Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The series follows Duck, a duck who has transformed into a young girl who attends school and takes ballet, and her efforts to restore the heart of her mysterious schoolmate Mytho by transforming into Princess Tutu. The series explores the consequences of her actions and how they affect her and those around her, particularly Duck's classmate Rue, who is in love with Mytho, and Fakir, Mytho's childhood friend. It becomes apparent that Duck, Rue, Mytho, and Fakir are meant to play out the roles of characters in a story written by a writer named Drosselmeyer, but the characters begin to resist the constraints of their assigned fates and they fight to keep the story from becoming a tragedy.

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Personal Opinions

IShallRiseAgain

This series is better than what I expected it to be. The story is not presented in a traditional manner. In fact the show is about the nature of storytelling itself. This can lead to some surreal situations, but it never gets too nonsensical. The characters themselves actually develop and surprisingly avoids some cliches. The soundtrack uses classical ballet music to great effect. Overall, its a good series that is worth checking out.