Princess Tutu
| Princess Tutu | |
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プリンセスチュチュ (Purinsesu Chuchu) |
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| Genre | Magical girl |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
Junichi Sato Shogo Koumoto |
| Written by | Michiko Yokote |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | Hal Film Maker |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | NHK, Kids Station, Anime Network |
| Original run | August 16, 2002 – May 23, 2003 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Mizuo Shinonome |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Champion Red |
| Volumes | 2 |
Princess Tutu (Japanese: プリンセスチュチュ Hepburn: Purinsesu Chuchu?) is a Japanese magical girl anime series created by Ikuko Itoh in 2002 for animation studio Hal Film Maker. Inspired by ballet and fairy tales, particularly The Ugly Duckling and Swan Lake, the story follows a duck who is transformed into the mythical ballerina Princess Tutu in order to save the shattered heart of a storybook prince come to life.
The first season was broadcast in Japan in 2002 and the second in 2004. It was also adapted into a two-volume manga. Both the manga and anime series were licensed by ADV Films in 2004 for distribution in North America. The series explores the concepts of fate and free will. Reviewers point out that although Princess Tutu is nominally a magical girl series, it is more of a "fairy tale set to ballet with a few magical girl elements mixed in," and its use of dance in lieu of violence to solve conflicts carries "surprisingly effective emotional appeal."
Once there was a writer named Drosselmeyer, who had the power to make his stories come to life. But he died before he could finish his final tale, The Prince and The Raven, leaving the two title characters locked in an eternal battle. After many years, the Raven managed to break free into the real world, and the Prince pursued him. To seal away the Raven's evil, Prince Mytho shattered his own heart with his sword, causing him to lose all his memories and emotions.
Drosselmeyer, now a ghost, decides the story must have an ending. He finds it in the form of a little duck, who has fallen in love with Mytho. He gives her a magic pendant that can transform her, first into an ordinary human girl, then into the graceful ballerina Princess Tutu, another character in the story. As Tutu, it's Duck's job to find all the scattered shards of Mytho's heart and return them to him.
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