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Princess Tutu article.

If you don't feel like taking Connolly's advice about buying the series,

Starts off as a delightful magical girl anime with potential and ends up not only living up to its promise but also delivering much, much more. It doesn’t just go beyond the magical girl genre, it completely blows it out of the water. And it doesn’t do this by undermining the genre, or satirising it, or becoming an otaku moe-fest. It follows the simple route of completely transcending it. It doesn’t hurt that the main character is both lovable and interesting, whatever her transformation – duck, ballet student or Princess Tutu. It also doesn’t hurt that our understanding and appreciation of the other three protagonists (Mytho, Fakir and Rue) end up in completely different places from where they started. Or what starts as a children’s story ends up going to some dark places indeed. Or that it plays some very adult post-modern games with our expectations. Or that who ends up with who defies normal fairy tale conventions. Or that some wonderfully surreal things keep popping up before our eyes. Or that the fate of the main character is satisfyingly apt, if bittersweet. Above all, Princess Tutu is a celebration of the joy and wonder of anime. Classical music (ballet scores for the most part along with large doses of Pictures at an Exhibition) is an integral part of the story and accompanies all the climactic scenes that are inevitably resolved through dance. The sheer beauty of it creates an intensely emotional response.

(Luckily in Oz, Madman sells it in a "fatpack" so each disk has its own spindle.)

it's a wonderful little series

I recommend it too for reasons stated above, but at the same token it is highly overrated. Don't get me wrong. It's a good anime, but overrated. All Tutu has going for it, is the story.

No tits,

wouldn't call that action, repetitive, story drags on like Monster

I don't agree I watched it as much for the characters as for the story.

Character makes the story.

If you expect tits in every anime then, yes, it is not for you.

If you haven't noticed, almost every anime uses fanservice. That means it is a necessity/ custom. Now rest should be self explanatory as to why people may not like Tutu.

This is an amusing accusation to read form someone that rated Bleach as a masterpiece. I don't mean to be offensive. I'm just curious how could you find it annoying that Princess Tutu is repetitive and 'dragging on' while Bleach does exactly the same things to a much greater extent?

Sorry, but have to say this. Only an idiot makes slurs and judgments based on an out-of-date ranking system/ many people here do not use (well I don't).

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Only reason it was a success overseas is because the anime heavily incorporated Western themes.