Audience reviews
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Joe_Devaney
Overview:
"Scrapped Princess" is yet another anime from the 2000s that you will rarely hear anybody talk about nowadays, mainly because there isn't anything that makes it especially stand out among other anime that aired around the same time. You may think that this makes it a series you shouldn't waste time on, but you'd actually be wrong. While it may not be particularly original, it doesn't really feel like anything you've seen many times before either, and provided you're not too picky about what you watch, this is an anime you could very well end up enjoying.
Story (7/10):
Has there ever been a point in your life when you felt like the whole world was against you, and it would be better for everyone if you just disappeared forever? Well, 15-year-old Pacifica Casull probably knows how…
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Scrapped Princess isn’t bad… but it’s also not good. It’s the definition of had potential.
I didn’t notice at first, but after reading other reviews I realized — yeah, the plot really is overexplained. And it’s loaded with clichés. That said, there are some unique touches, like the sibling trio traveling in a horse cart. I loved that little worldbuilding detail… too bad they had to sell it later.
The side characters? Pretty meh. My favorite? Uh… yeah, I can’t even remember their names. That’s how bland they were. Honestly, the backgrounds and scenery were more interesting than most of the cast.
The pacing is also weird. Around episode 21 or 22, the setup made me think, “Wait, is this the ending already?” — but no, it keeps going, somehow feeling both slow and drawn out.
There are inter…
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When fantasy and sci-fi make love, out comes "Scrapped Princess".
Very good anime, solid story and characters, it steers clear of tropes and has plenty of Chekhov's guns on its shelves.
The backstory is kinda explained at some point but there is more to it and you have to think and piece together a puzzle to grasp it in its entirety.
It doesn't suffer from lazy writing or "Japanese humour", so to speak, and everything has an explanation.
Definitely worth watching, if only for the novel experience it provides.
The theme is somewhat melancholic... Ok, very melancholic at times, and stuff DOES go wrong. People make mistakes. And they get scared and try their best and fail and retry and just you know, behave like actual people rather than stereotyped characters. Fresh air for my poor lungs…
Read at the sourceLovewyrm
If you are, or were a drifter with some family sadness in your life as a youth/young adult, then this show will either be one of the best things, or one of the worst things.
To many, Bocchi, from Bocchi the rock are "literally me, fr fr" but to me, when I watched this, both Pacifica and Shannon were that to me.
I have a sister, we were both kind of unwanted, but I had a slightly better life, etc, not gonna write an essay on that here, but I'm sure you can imagine why this show would hit that spot in someone.
That aside, I really enjoyed the character designs, the music, the setpieces, and ....the color design. In fact, other than my own personal emotional connection, this show stayed with me for how the artists set up night to day transitions, as well as rain.
The color changes were alw…
Read at the sourceGintokiee
I am shocked to see no comments this is a very good one shot anime it is easy to understand because of how well they explain the series
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the dialogues and conversation are deep and meaningful and upon that a good MC who doesn't always feel sorry
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All n all what a Great anime this was and the ending was so wholesome
and the classic art style adds to the beauty as for some people this may not be as good but compared to other anime which is made on this topic it holds a candle so if u spare time u can watch this
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if they'll remake it I'll be there until next time... bye..
Read at the sourceTyrant_Inferno
This is one of the best non-isekai fantasy anime I've ever watched to far.
Story 9/10
One of the biggest problems I've noticed with 24 episode retro anime's is that the story sometimes feels like it drags on for too long due to an abundance of filler episodes. This is not the case with Scrapped Princess. The entirety of the show has no fillers and it leads up to a complete ending. Plus, the more you watch it, the more gripping the story becomes and I never at any time felt like I was losing interest. There are some minor questions I had that went unanswered, but for the most part the story was consistent.
Art 9/10
The art and animations fit in perfectly with what you expect from early 2000's anime, but it's also ahead of it's time. I find the art and animations to very similar to Mushok…
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Scrapped Princess
An anime that actually has almost everything, a subtle plot, mostly sympathetic main characters, satisfying dialogues, and a subtle adventure setting.
Even if I'm mostly negative here, I have to say that the anime still entertained me, it was pleasant for in between, but still nothing.
Although there is so much there and the expectation was high at the beginning, the anime could hardly think of anything. Not only was the implementation to blame, but the ridiculously slow pacing. The anime could have ended with 20-21 episodes with ease, if not all the scenes that consisted of 4 dialogues were stretched to 3 minutes, while the characters per scene simply stared at each other for 10 seconds without saying anything. And if they said anything else, they repeated themselves…
Read at the sourceHyperversum
So, I'm 100% biased towards this show and I willingfully admit it.
I have given it a 10 for my personal experience with it, but trying to critical is either 8/9, depending on what you value more.
Art & Sound.
I have a soft-spot for the style of this show and, in general, for late 90s and early 2000s shows. They have a unique feeling between older shows and what more common style (including how the animation is handled) we will get to see with late 2000s and the start of 2010s seasonal anime.
Here and there it's sprinkled with quite well animated sakuga moments, but overall it's pretty average.
The same can be said about the design of the characters. I really love some of them while others are... just strange. Not bad, strange. I will never get why a commoner nobody like Winia has such…
Read at the sourceBloodlustRico
This series started out promising where there is a prophesy of the scrapped princess ending the world (it's not a spoiler since it's presented straight from episode 1). It started out watchable with the brother and sister team protecting their little sister the prophesized SP, with one specialising in fighting and the other in magic.
As the story progresses towards the ending, it becomes a mess with mechs appearing and a storyline full of plotholes and a serious case of plot armor.
For example, you have a general which is reputed to be the most logical choosing to go after the princess, using normal human soldiers, when she is protected by this OP mech that has the ability to obliterate entire kingdoms.
**spoilers**
Other really stupid logic lapses includes the knight promising to pro…
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This entry has a severe shortage of negative reviews on both MAL and Anidb, so I'll contribute my opinion to keep people like me from wasting their time with these 24 episodes.
Scrapped Princess is about Pacifica, a princess who is prophesized by this world's religion to destroy the world when she turns 16. As such, she was abandoned as a baby by the king and found by a family who have been guarding her for her entire life.
As a thematically focused series, Scrapped Princess fails on every account, but that will take time and spoilers to explain so I'll comment on more its more basic aspects first. The plot meanders too much in Pacifica's episodic travels and has large exposition dumps that diffuse all of the mystery in its setting at once. The places where the plot meanders is also us…
Read at the sourceWickardo
Scrapped Princess presents an outstanding setting and plot. As the writer Arthur Clarke says in one of his laws: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". This concept, alone, is enough for two genres as disparate as fantasy and science fiction to become completely compatible, but also, the transition from a medieval, magic-filled world into something more complex, with such an harmonious and right pacing, gives this anime its own style and a feeling that might be imposible to replicate in any later works. In other words, this series is simply unique in this way. The world is also vast, consistently built and explored in detail: the viewers will travel through several places and, if paying proper attention, will find subtle tracks about the background story, w…
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Never imagined a show with a hotch-potch of sci-fi, mecha, adventure, fantasy could actually be this good. The story surely starts a little slow but when it get going it really shines then. The plot actually surprised me and even in those episodes where I felt the story was a bit too slow I never got bored of the antics of our main characters. The comedy and the interactions between the characters are surely one of the brightest spots of this anime.This show surely deserves more attention that it had gotten over the years. Definitely a hidden gem. Would have liked a bit more if they elaborated more about the alien race and why the peacemakers were not able to kill Pacifica by their own hands. Minor nit-pickings aside it deserves a solid 8/10.
Read at the sourceFlashoftheBlade
I felt very compelled to write something for Scrapped Princess though I don't really write up reviews much so I apologise if it's too short. In this short review, I will be mentioning some minor spoilers though it's necessary for some of my points to get across. I will try my best to not spoil too much of what goes on.
You felt a real deep connection with Shannon/Raquel, for wanting to protect their younger step-sister (Pacifia) at any cost. The comedy between Shannon/Pacifia was really entertaining and it was effective in making you care for their relationship when things got tough. In fact, I would say the interactions with the side characters were really good. At times, it could feel like Pacifia can be annoying with her perspective but when you factor her position, you kind of realiz…
Read at the sourceJoby05
Eh... it was just OK. The development of the story was good and it was a lot more fun when it was the crew running away from the authorities and getting out of troublesome situation. IMO it jumped the shark in the last half of season 2 and had all sorts of complicated things, unnecessary mechs, a huge fighting scene that was built up for 6 episodes and lasted 2 minutes. Honestly it was all sizzle and no flavor. By around episode 18 I was begging for it to end. I would rate the seasons: 1 as a 7.5 and 2 as a 5.
Read at the sourceThe_Doof
Spoilers in this review.
This series really let me down. There were times when I downright loved the show, such as those moments early on with Pacifica and her siblings. One such moment was when Pacific, when feeling depressed, went up to Shannon and leaned on him. The way the scene was shot and executed really sold me on their relationship. Despite Pacifica always whining and complaining, the way it was played off with her siblings made it feel like they all loved and cared for one another.
One segment I particularly enjoyed was Episode 16, where Pacifica loses her memory and gets taken in by another man was another episode in which I enjoyed a lot. I wasn't expecting to like it as they had her forget her memories (a plot device I have never been particularly fond of), but her chemistr…
Read at the sourceilluminatibg
Religion and free will. If you want to contemplate about those topics, here is an anime for you.
Now, when I see something tagged mecha, I automatically close the tab. We live in an era, where inter-continental weapons that are able to target specific person/object precisely and AI making fast decision making are in development. The idea of giant robots fighting with swords seems childish and ridiculous to me. However, the tag "mecha" on the "Scrapped Princess" is quite misleading. Yes, there are fights between people and human-like race using technology, but it hardly seems like robots (or anything mechanical in that sense). It is perfectly understandable "God" to have technology superior to human.
Story: 8
Meet Pacifica - a princess that everyone in the whole world tries to kill, becau…
Read at the sourceDarkRavie
The story takes place in what appears to be a fantasy world and revolves around a girl named Pacifica Casull, the sister in a pair of twins born to the royal family of a kingdom called Leinwan. Pacifica is abandoned at birth. The 5111th Grendel Prophecy predicts that she is the "poison that will destroy the world" if she reaches her sixteenth birthday. To prevent this, she is dropped off a cliff as an infant ("scrapped").
Note: (There's a bit of a spoiler near the end of my thoughts.)
My thoughts:
Scrapped Princess was a superb anime in my opinion. Pacifica although kind of simple in the mind, did show some intelligence in her own way. You had to explain in simple words for her to comprehend things. She encounters many people who come to realise that although she is the poison that will…
Read at the sourceGrayRealm
This is a flawed gem. IT is a very nice looking anime with interesting and amusing characters ... that also suffers from pacing problems, uses ridiculously cliched plot devices, and can't properly handle dramatic or tragic elements.
I was unsure if I should rate it 5 or 6, and in the end decide on 6 (and still have my doubts about it)
Detailed breakdown below:
The story has somewhat interesting premise and a bit unusual settings. It starts interesting enough, however, after 1/3rd it stumbles and starts having problems. Roughly at this point anime suddenly decides that it is now the time to explain the world in great detail, while the idea is great, it feels forced. Somewhere between half-way and 2/3rds the series decide to use the most cliched device possible (you'll know what I'm talkin…
Read at the sourceDai_to
Join the "Scrapped Princess" Pacifica, her wise-cracking brother Shannon, and her sweet, innocent, yet dangerously powerful sister Raquel on their covert journey to find safe haven.
Story: 8/10
While Scrapped Princess has what can be called a traditional story, it takes some very untraditional twists and turns. There is a lot of emotion here as we watch Pacifica buckle under the pressure of having this existence thrust upon her, being hunted down like an animal for reasons she is not even certain of.
Art & Animation: 8/10
Scrapped Princess was animated by Bones, so it goes without saying that it looks beautiful. Though the show is a bit older than the similar-looking Fullmetal Alchemist¸Scrapped Princess far exceeds it in terms of animation and artwork. There are no "soft-spots" where th…
Read at the sourceKaeis
When I first began watching the series, it was fairly satisfying to watch. But little did I know that it would quickly become one of my all time favorites. The pace at the beginning was relatively slow and peaceful, but gradually builds up to something rather amazing. Theres a fair bit of heart wrenches and universe twists in the second half of the series. The story was very good and well paced. However the ending seemed lacking in comparison and the pacing in the beginning may have been a tad too slow.
The art, animation and sound were all very good and high quality for an anime of its time. The environment and props fitted together well, most of the time. I found myself disagreeing with the anime's idea of fashion and advanced weaponry, but those are very much personal preferences.
Man…
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