Karandi reviews and discusses anime.
What started as an alright modern take on a fairy tale slowly became something that just wasn't very fun to watch. So what went wrong and what did it do right? Let's have a look at 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams. Review: My first impressions of this series were not hugely enthusiastic … Continue reading 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams Series Review: Meandering Fluff
If you missed it, earlier today the best of the season came out so if you would rather celebrate the successes of the season than wallow in, or jeer at, the misfires I recommend you check it out. In the meantime, a reminder that worst anime of the season is still an anime good enough … Continue reading Get Your Tomatoes Ready Because Here We Have the Worst Anime of the Summer 2018 Season
Last week I said the only way this could be resolved in a way that would make sense would be the characters waking up from a dream. Well the characters didn't wake up and this ending does not make sense other than the power of friendship, prayers and dreams. Now why on earth did I expect anything more?
I'm almost hoping that this series ends with the characters waking up and realising the whole thing was all just a dream because that's about the only way this is going to make actual sense. Then again, I guess I wasn't expecting all that much from a villain who sits around for 90% of the series doing nothing but watching because to be honest you have to really question how motivated they are to do anything at all.
The Cheshire Cat continues to run away from Avi, Kihel and Navi while dragging his 'Alice' along (not that she's Alice but whatever). In the process, Avi and Navi get held up by some talking trees due to an inability to make anyone laugh so Kihel goes ahead which just further cements the idea that he's going to be about the only character getting any actual story here.
The concept is raised as the Princess and the two Princes find their way into a modern city-scape but we very quickly abandon this line of questioning as the characters find themselves onto a rooftop garden and from there it is all pretty standard antics for an episode focusing on Alice in Wonderland style tropes.
If we forget for a moment that other than Avi none of these princes are sleeping and that the dream eaters no seem to be some sort of controlled minions, I still have to ask what the villain actually thought was going to happen this week. That was one terribly planned out kidnapping.
If we forget for a moment that other than Avi none of these princes are sleeping and that the dream eaters no seem to be some sort of controlled minions, I still have to ask what the villain actually thought was going to happen this week. That was one terribly planned out kidnapping.
Leaving the pirates and other Princes behind, we are now travelling through the snow. I'm glad the characters reminded us they were travelling to defeat Dream Eaters because I'd almost forgotten the main plot point from episode 1.
After the build up last week, episode 5 was mostly a let down, unless you are watching this just for the Princes, in which case there were many here and they had plenty of screen time.