Series in one sentence:
Prince who hates his wife discovers her family also hates her and she was given to him as a consolation prize, and he thinks that's super cool.
Series in more sentences:
In order to maintain peace, a prime minister has promised to give his daughter's hand to the eldest son of emperor Ye, but the spoiled girl refuses to marry a stranger, forcing him to approach his other, discarded daughter to take her place.
Xi is the child of a persecuted "witch", and as she's believed to bring bad luck because of her ability to see ghosts, was dumped since a young age with a physic master to live in the mountains. Though she has many talents, none of them are useful for the role of a dainty princess.
This would've been a very easy "good" with some minor changes, but it doesn't even have an ending.
Psychic Princess is full of cool ideas and interesting storylines, but all rushed, abandoned, or just not explained well. It's clumsy in its storytelling, as wants to do too much and takes forever to answer very simple questions; like what the deal with Xi's powers and banishment is.. and then you get only one sentence of info to work with until the next hasty comment, episodes later.
Love interests are introduced, but pretty much leave the scene right away, the ghost sidekicks and supernatural elements itself could've been left out, and then there's the idea everyone believed the main character was a man just because she had her hair in a ponytail. This was by far the most laughable thing in the show.
Or well, there's the intro song, but after laughing the first time, I finally saw the truth and realized it was a bop.
Xi is a mostly fun character and her reluctance to get romantic with anyone was nice at first, but by the time the romantic plot officially made its start, this character trait overstayed its welcome.
Not that it mattered, the romance doesn't reach a conclusion. Like I stated at the beginning of this review, nothing the show starts on is finished. The first half is more or less about Xi getting ignored and making use of her free time, meanwhile, the threat of a Trojan horse-like war is coming up, but in the next half of the anime, it just forgets all about the war and focusses on the growing romance with the one prince I didn't expect Xi would get with. I honestly thought she and that other prince were going to hook up.
When the romance started, I'd say it was mostly done right. I see what they were trying to do with prince Ye, though I don't know how the discovery his wife's the wrong sister made him suddenly want to try and connect with her. It's backwards.
He should've already fallen for her weird behaviour and antics if that's what supposedly did it for him, but the guy was rude and locked her up for it at first. This switched sister-reveal should've been a test of love, not the realisation of it.
Psychic Princess was a tolerable watch, it kept me entertained, but in the end, offered little for my time. I'd watch a season 2 for that closure, but it doesn't look like it'll ever come. This show is from 2018.
Psychic Princess is full of cool ideas and interesting storylines, but all rushed, abandoned, or just not explained well. It's clumsy in its storytelling, as wants to do too much and takes forever to answer very simple questions; like what the deal with Xi's powers and banishment is.. and then you get only one sentence of info to work with until the next hasty comment, episodes later.
Love interests are introduced, but pretty much leave the scene right away, the ghost sidekicks and supernatural elements itself could've been left out, and then there's the idea everyone believed the main character was a man just because she had her hair in a ponytail. This was by far the most laughable thing in the show.
Or well, there's the intro song, but after laughing the first time, I finally saw the truth and realized it was a bop.
Xi is a mostly fun character and her reluctance to get romantic with anyone was nice at first, but by the time the romantic plot officially made its start, this character trait overstayed its welcome.
Not that it mattered, the romance doesn't reach a conclusion. Like I stated at the beginning of this review, nothing the show starts on is finished. The first half is more or less about Xi getting ignored and making use of her free time, meanwhile, the threat of a Trojan horse-like war is coming up, but in the next half of the anime, it just forgets all about the war and focusses on the growing romance with the one prince I didn't expect Xi would get with. I honestly thought she and that other prince were going to hook up.
When the romance started, I'd say it was mostly done right. I see what they were trying to do with prince Ye, though I don't know how the discovery his wife's the wrong sister made him suddenly want to try and connect with her. It's backwards.
He should've already fallen for her weird behaviour and antics if that's what supposedly did it for him, but the guy was rude and locked her up for it at first. This switched sister-reveal should've been a test of love, not the realisation of it.
Psychic Princess was a tolerable watch, it kept me entertained, but in the end, offered little for my time. I'd watch a season 2 for that closure, but it doesn't look like it'll ever come. This show is from 2018.
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