A duck turned girl with magical powers must help save a prince from an unfinished fairy tale.
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S1.E26
The Raven attacks Mytho. Duck tries to help, but she's helpless. Fakir seems only capable of writing what is happening. Mytho resolves to shatter his heart once more.
S1.E1
Turned into a girl, all she wants to do is put a smile on Mytho's face. However, Duck will have one big ride with doing that.
S1.E13
A heartless Mythos is about to destroy his heart shard. But is she doing the right thing?
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| Takahiro Sakurai | ... | Fakir 26 episodes, 2002-2003 | |
| Christine M. Auten | ... | Edel 26 episodes, 2002-2003 | |
| Jessica Boone | ... | Princess Kraehe / ... 26 episodes, 2002-2003 | |
| Jay Hickman | ... | Prince Mythos 26 episodes, 2002-2003 | |
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Nanae Katô | ... | Ahiru / ... 26 episodes, 2002-2003 |
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Nana Mizuki | ... | Rue 26 episodes, 2002-2003 |
| Chris Patton | ... | Fakir 26 episodes, 2002-2003 | |
| Sasha Paysinger | ... | Lilie 26 episodes, 2002-2003 | |
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Jennie Welch | ... | Narrator 26 episodes, 2002-2003 |
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Naoki Yanagi | ... | Mytho 26 episodes, 2002-2003 |
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Cynthia Martinez | ... | Pike 24 episodes, 2002-2003 |
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Ahiru (literally 'Duck' in Japanese), is a petite young girl in a junior high school's beginner ballet program. She's prone to stammering and clutziness. She has a huge crush on her sempai, Mute, a sad-seeming young man who doesn't speak much. Ahiru discovers that Mute is actually the prince out of a story written by the mysterious writer Drosselmeyer. When Drosselmeyer died, the prince and the evil crow he was battling in the story escaped. The prince defeated the crow, but only at the expense of shattering his own heart. Mute is a boy without feeling or understanding. Drosselmeyer, however, has somehow returned, and has offered Ahiru a chance to help Mute. She must become Princess Tutu, a magical ballerina, and help reclaim the pieces of her prince's heart. There is a catch, of course--Mute is being controlled by his roommate Fakia, also a dancer, who seems to want to keep the boy soulless and heartless. Drosselmeyer also told Ahiru that a certain dream she's been having is real. ... Written by SkiSchool2
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Drosselmeyer: [as Duck and Fakir prepare to go up against Princess Kraehe to save Mytho] Welcome to the stage I've been saving. Now. tell me the best story that was ever told! Tell it to me with no regard for your lives![laughs sadistically]
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Princess Tutu is ostensibly a shoujo magical girl series, from its name all the way down to its romantic quadrangle, and it fulfils the expectations of that genre wonderfully. But there's also an element of artistry that elevates it beyond simply being a well-done genre work. It's not just that the series wraps itself in high culture like ballet or literature -- it's that it actually manages to comment intelligently on these things while creating a beautiful visual work.
Princess Tutu filters the usual magical girl narrative through the strange logic of fairy tales and a healthy coating of Utena-esque surrealism. As the series progresses, the story begins to fall apart in an intentional and revealing way, and things get increasingly metafictional. What results will be a delight to both anime fans looking for entertainment as well as postmodern aficionados like myself.
There are a lot of relatively stand-alone episodes, and these tend to drag. I won't deny that the middle section of Princess Tutu bored me most of the time. But the end pulled it all back together, and it might have one of the best conclusions of any anime series I've watched. Don't be fooled by the silly title -- this show deserves to be taken seriously.