I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons

This show kept pissing me off. First the story. (spoiler free as possible) The show is called I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons, but there is very little of princess lesson actually happening. Through the hole show there is only ever 2 episodes that actually show the main girl in them. It's more of her trying to leave and be free but then falling in love with the man she is supposed to marry. It's boring and at time anger inducing. An Example, there one episode where a friend hears the man guy say something and the friend can't believe it. Then what Ican only explain is the worst game of broken telephone. Miss communication plages the whole episode only making things worse. But then nothing came out of it. It built up to nothing!!!! The whole show is pledged with horrible stories. There are no stakes in this show whatsoever. Second the characters. Everyone sucks. The main girl is the worst. I don't know why we have to hear her breathing ALL OF THE TIME!!!! Like it's an ungodly amount of scenes of her just breathing really loud really loudly and it's so gross. I make me feel like she's in my ear. YUCK!!! I just kept yelling "STOP BREATHING SO LOUDLY!!!" It makes me unconfutable. Also, her and a few characters (but mostly her) will turn to the audience and info dump a bunch of information. I don't understand why they just can't have the characters have inner monologues. It's like if they don't have them saying it to you, you will never know and never will, because there no other way you give information in a show!! Everyone is very bland. They are all one note. They just ... suck!!!! They all are so pointless. Finally, the art. When you see the cover art for the show it looks really nice but when you get into the show and .... it's not great. It looks different enough that I felt cat fished. Theres also some animation errors threw out the show. While I normally don't hate a show for only the animation but when you have a lot of problems other than this, it's just makes it worse. Overall, I can't say I would recommend this show. It has a lot of problems and it's not worth the migraine you will get after yelling that the main girl to stop BREATHING IN YOUR EAR!!!!! IT'S NOT CUTE!!!!! MOUTH BREATHING IS CREEPY AND DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!

I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons — What kind of literacy crap is this? If your answer is Stockholm Syndrome, you're right! Let's all agree to disagree: with power comes responsibility...except that when this power is being used to hold someone captive, which turns up the dials to 11 of a love-hate affair, it is not a wise way to commit a rash act, the size of a politically-wedded marriage in the making. Yet, this is what mangaka Izumi Sawano concocted with his/her series of Kisaki Kyouiku kara Nigetai Watashi a.k.a I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons, a show where a princess gets heldcaptive and tortured for most of the strictly decentivized scenarios, only to want out when the prince consistently gaslights her into being in communion with other girls than the one he's wedded to. One thing's for certain: escape is foolproof; staying is insanity-proof. In fantasy shows, political marriages happen for 1001 reasons, which can lead to either good or bad outcomes depending on the situation at hand. But when you're the daughter of a duke who's betrothed to the crown prince from a young age and being forced to be subjected to strict education a.k.a princess lessons while your future husband goes around to cheat with other women, that's just a relationship of red flags all over. This is the scenario for the red-headed "not so Shirayuki-hime" of Leticia Dorman being roped into a political marriage for fame and fortune, something that her Dorman family desires but not the young girl herself, forced to take on princess lessons from headmistress Laila until the day of her certified marriage with Crown Prince Clarke. And enough is enough, for Leticia can't bear to see her going through hardship when Clarke himself is just fooling around like a dork and subjugating the red-headed girl into pure Stockholm Syndrome a.k.a forced love; that escape is imminent, and she'll risk it all just to get out of the control that her loved ones have on her. If it isn't already obvious enough, everything about this show ranges from cringe to pure weird, and even for a romance that's set in medieval times, arranged marriages don't get as creepy as this one does. I admire Leticia's relentless pursuit of freedom, but when her captors are one and far away, the many within the mansion itself, even having to think about escape, become second nature, guaranteed each and every time. And in hindsight, you'll definitely blame the crown prince for initiating this whole romance farce in the first place, but reality is far from the sweetest taste, because while Clarke genuinely had "love at first sight" with Leticia, it's at the circumstances of which he is in control of the entire situation, but he chooses to ignore it for the sole basis of teasing Leticia every now and then for her failures in escaping. Call Clarke every bit as deranged as you want; the red flags were there from the very start. And even though the contributors, ranging from Leticia's brother Nadir (who orchestrated the whole scenario) to the opposing kingdom outsiders of Prince Louis and his aide Lyle, are as ludicrous as they can come, this "comedy sitcom-cum-romance parody", while funny at times for breaking the 4th wall, is just painful to sit through and try to understand that this is a show where everything is "not" supposed to be taken seriously. I just don't get the gist of trying to subterfuge genres to create a thing that the outcome (as we know it) will turn out as bad as we foresaw. Not even the 3rd-rate studio of EMT Squared nor the OST does wonders. This is just bare-bones animation at its finest (while it does look beautiful at times), and the OST is just completely forgettable...or, I might as well say it: charred to the brim. A happy-go-lucky relationship that needs endless forms of psychological torture just to make ends meet? Sorry, no thanks, I'm outta here to puke my spit into a garbage waste trash for an infamy that we can "agree to disagree" is legitimate trash.

Small preamble first. Before even watching this I couldn't help but notice its unnaturally low score and the wild reviews-to-views ratio. Reading through a few of the negative reviews however, it was quite clear something was off. They all read like sought after outrage, rather than legitimate reviews, to a point I felt none of them even watched it, so I just had to see the film for myself. After all, it just seemed like any other romantic series aimed at women. Now, going into the film with this predisposed knowledge I certainly didn't expect to ever enjoy it myself, as I expected some sort ofTwilight/50 Shades-esque woman oriented romance slop, which regardless of "troubling content" I likely wouldn't be interested in as a guy. Little did I know, and what is apparent from the very get go, compounding my suspicion of these "reviewers" actually ever watching the show, is that it's simply a silly, lighthearted comedy, primarily targeted for young women, or teen girls even. Now, enough "commentary", onto the actual film. The premise is quite simple, a medieval tale of this noble girl set for an arranged marriage (a concept clearly unfamiliar to many) with a prince she doesn't want to marry, at least initially. What follows are comedic hijinks of the to-be-princess clowning around, with a cast of equally goofy characters joining along the way. What definitely most surprised me about this series was the likability of all the characters, and that it was actually quite funny at times. I mean this is a straight up comedy, complete with your — *looks at camera* "get a load of this guy" — moments. It's nothing more, it's not creepy, it's not "dangerous" and the goofy-ass prince, the supposed horrible villain if others are to be believed, is almost always the butt of the jokes. It's genuinely sweet, wholesome and funny, and I'm not exactly the target audience for this, and clearly the people it reached aren't either, if they can't separate reality and a fictional medieval comedy. But I felt like putting out this positive review here, in hopes it might, however minuscule the effect, help the show actually find its way to its target audience. The production is certainly ass though... shame that.

What happens when a show has a single idea, and goes all in on it and nothing else? Well usually we'd either get some absolutely hilarious comedy like The Disastrous Life of Saiki K, or perhaps even an absolute joke of a parody like Gakuen Handsome. This show is just, pretty boring, it's whole premise is all it tries to be, a princess trying to escape from princess lessons. It's actually pretty funny for the first 1-3 episodes, but after that it gets old. The show keeps running the same gag that stopped working at episode 2 or 3 for 12 episodes, with a bunchof incredibly bland side characters with no depth or good jokes on them to tag along. It's attempts to switch things up to keep it entertaining are at best moderately enjoyable to boring. The complaints this show gets about the prince are irrelevant because this show is a comedy. Who the heck cares if he's forcing her to stay in the castle, it was part of the gag. Lettie is probably the best thing about this show for better or worse. She's incredibly simple minded, wants to be free to enjoy nature and enjoy the world, and of course despises princess lessons. If the whole show was about her enjoying the world and nature I think it would've worked better than this poorly executed escaping gag. Some may still find this somewhat to decently entertaining like I did, but I also highly doubt that entertainment will last for 12 whole episodes, as was the case for me. Not Recommended 4/10, you might find some entertainment value here, but not an amount worth 12 episodes alongside the possibility this show's gag just isn't for you.