Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
FLASHY_WOLF_
Hear me out!!This anime is not bad but it can be really predictable and tough to watch plus there is nothing to look forward, everything is crystal clear from the start,how the characters will end up, how the show will go forward etc.This is the type of romance anime I would recommend for new anime watchers who are seeking to watch a romance anime to watch. As for me I found the show to be too much predictable, but this is definitely the kind of anime I would have loved to watch when I just started watching anime, instead I got recommended to watch Sword art online, which I really regretted.
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Akagami no Shirayuki-hime, the story of one Mary Sue and one Gary Sue, a tale of love and dreams, a story that Panders to the generic fanbase of 12 year old girls, the boring and uninspired tale of Snow White with red hair.
[Story-3/10]
Lets cut straight to the chase, Shirayuki-hime is the same thing I've seen in a thousands of different movies, anime, books, games whatever medium of entertainment you could ever indulge in, there is always going to be a Shirayuki-Hime, its been done to death, the nice prince and the peasant girl vice verse, while I would love to say that this show is trying to celebrate the ideas of old romance tales, I just can't, it feels too much like it's trying to be something different so It doesn't feel like its celebrating the cliches of the genre in which it subs…
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I'll tell you the problem in the first episode. You see it , you've seen the whole anime .there is NO change I'm their characters ,story, relations that's what's the problem
Also shirayuki is supposed to be a very different and against all the stereotypes (so ironical) but you find her doing what literally every disney princess do
As you can get from the name of anime (snow white with red hairs) ..she is special because she have red hairs( special enough I guess , whole first EPs is about it ) and SO ,prince raj wants her for that. She had 2 choice go to prince or to run away, which is a hard choice for her
Shirayuki cuts her hairs (till shoulder length) for prince raj and runs away and it is extremely painful do her since it's her homeland
My question was if she is so determined to tell p…
Read at the sourceTomm01p
"Most shoujo female protagonists tend to be weak, so let's make ours the strongest willed person to ever walk across this god-forsaken world."
I guess this was roughly the general idea when creators were coming up with the premise of Akagami no Shirayuki-Hime. And I'd gladly support that under normal circumstances. Having a female character who doesn't blush every three minutes does spark a lot of interest and promise in an otherwise very average piece of fiction. Sadly enough, the show is not able to capitalize on its strong premise and instead gives us a world full of empty characters and meaningless emotions. Which is a shame, because this anime really wasn't doomed from the start.
It doesn't take a lot of time to realize that the supposedly strongest aspect of the show, that being Sh…
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Akagami no Shirayuki-hime has been riddled with so many plot holes it had hurt my eyes.
I tried for a few years to just get past the first half of the first episode and it took me until my fifth time through to get through just that. I found myself always pausing to rant about a certain plothole or just how stupid and contrived a situation was. All throughout the first half, I saw ranting and screaming at every stupid situation that was presented to us. Every situation is supposed to build up the main character Shirayuki who is so stagnant as a character that it melts the mind. The whole appeal is that you get this cute love story between a prince and a commoner and it just makes me want to hit my head step of the way. I genuinely thought that only one seen had been competently executed…
Read at the sourcePakiUSA
STORY: 7/10
CHARACTER: 10/10
ART: 9/10
SOUND: 9/10
ENJOYMENT: 9/10
OVERALL: 8/10
Like everybody else I was expecting a Snow-white anime but was surprised at the misleading title or so I thought since the MC’s name Shirayuki translates to Snow-White! In addition, the 1st episode drops a few hints from the original show too. Shirayuki’s flashy red hair gets everyone’s attention including the Prince of the country (Prince Raj) who intends to make her his concubine! Shirayuki escapes and meets with Prince Zen who happens to be the 2nd prince of the neighbouring country and that’s where the story progresses. She accompanies with Zen where she practices to become a skilled herbalist and must accommodate living around with a prince and his world. And amid all this, an adorable romance springs up…
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This anime is so bland and so shallow. I hate it when they serve romance in a silver platter without even any particular backstory or challenge. In this anime, protagonists: Shirayuki and Zen just suddenly fall in love with each other for no particular deep reason. Just, for some reason they're attracted to each other and for some reason they're suddenly inseparable and the best of friends. This anime has no particular solid plot whatsoever. I have picked up this anime just because it was recommended as something similar to Akatsuki no Yona. Believe me, it's a real disappointment. True enough, Shirayuki has balls of steel, can fend for herself and all that and has red hair just like Yona, but it's just that. No other similarity. Anime has other characters you would barely care about as the…
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I’ve tried watching this anime twice now. The first time when it came out I got up to episode 5 before I stopped. The second time I decided to watch all the way through, because I rarely disagree with anime that are rated highly on myanimelist. I go through the anime on this site that are highly rated, when I'm wanting to watch an anime and have no idea to watch. This is actually the first time I have disagreed with the overall good rating of a show.
I don’t get the hype. At all.
Sometimes, even if I don’t like an anime, I can see why other people like it: It’s just not my taste. I don’t click with the characters. I’m not particularly fond of the art style. Etc etc. But I honestly just can’t understand why this show rated so well. In my opinion, there’s barely anything good about it.
I…
Read at the sourceBanjoTheBear
(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
(As supplementary material for this review, please refer to my writing on the similarities of this anime, Shirayuki and Snow White Similarities, found here: http://thechuunicorner.com/2016/01/04/shirayuki-and-snow-white-similarities/)
“Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?” This iconic phrase is most often credited to the animated, Disney-made film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. That is actually a pretty difficult question to answer, no matter what is being compared.
I would consider myself a big Disney fan. I like Goofy and Donald – mostly thanks to my extensive time playing the Kingdom Hearts series – but I have an affinity for its fairy tales, too. Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, and Ala…
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Shirayuki, why are you so special and so loved by everyone you meet? This is the question I cannot help but ask with each episode I watch of this anime. The specialness of this very bland, boring, ordinary girl with a supposedly unusual hair color just goes way too far. If I'm not feeling it, then why are all of these idiots in her world?
Those who claim this anime sidesteps the usual shoujo anime tropes couldn't be more wrong. It falls awkwardly and unawares into most of them and sloshes around in the ditch water like a pig wallowing in its own filth. We have a very cliched protagonist, Shirayuki, who is the Mary Sue of anime.
First, she has a very unusual name in any culture, "Snow White." If that doesn't scream "Mary Sue," then I don't know what does. Second, she has a rare hair color…
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Akagami no Shirayuki-hime follows Shirayuki a beautiful red head girl who lives in a town called Tanbarun was she was raised and grew up living. In this town she worked in a herb shop where she made medicines and remedies. Until one day the king of Tanbarun was looking for a beautiful bride the most beautiful girl in his kingdom and one of his guards mention a women with red hair which is very rare in there country. So him being the king and wanting to have a item that most people don't have he sends his guard off to snatch her up she gets away and cuts her hair leaving it and her old life behind to start a new one. She ventures away from her hometown for the first time and after going far away from this place she starts walking through a forest as it starts to get late she is tired and hu…
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Okay the score is a little low but this is based on my opinion so everyone who's seen this and really liked it please put your knives down...
Story 3/10: the main reason for the low score was the story, I had high expectations for this anime when I heard about it, a girl that has to run away from her kingdom because the prince wants her and all that, but when the anime aired I realized that the first episode was the only good one. It wasn't bad, it was just boring! I found a complete lack of plot, and the only thing it had was romance. I mean don't get me wrong I love romance anime but there has to be a scenario that can back it up.
Art 7/10: the art was what initially made me want to watch it, it's not something unique but that's not really a bad thing in this case, it's good art.
Charact…
Read at the sourceKaiDestinyz
Before I start, I'll have to disagree with megaan about some of the points mentioned, and that giving this anime a score of 4 is the biggest insult in anime history.
First of all, to state that the characters' personalities are outright flat and that their conversations with each other are boring already showed glaring flaws in the review. Akagami no Shirayuki-hime is not your typical anime nowadays that over-dramatize everything to invoke humor/or just to bring a point across.
This anime focuses on its more relaxed nature and keeping its innocence. It's like giving a bad review/score for a romance anime because it doesn't have good fighting scenes. Her review is just flawed in that sense. I will only agree that the plot is abit on the bland side, though a well tradeoff to preserve its…
Read at the sourceGonzyChan
Like many Shoujo shows, they are sweet. Sweet as in they are sugar-coated in ingredients that entice people who quickly go for anything similar. Not that people who follow Shoujo are easy to impress, but it's a genre that many are akin to when they do not want a complex story or complex characters. There are some exceptions to this, and they have become classics in their own right. However, others try to do this formula, such as Akagami no Shirayuki-hime, and come across as painfully average.
When I say that it is average, I mean that parts of it work tremendously to help prevent the anime from being bad, but other rusted parts feel unstable and slightly bring it down a notch. If you do not fit into the demographic that this show typically panders to, most of the problems might not be an…
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I'm not gonna lie: the anime industry isn't what it used to be. Now, I don't mean to sound like one of those crotchety old people who say "back in my day things were much better!" However, there's no denying it: anime now just isn't as good as it was years ago. True, there were some duds, but creators back in the 70s, 80s, and even 90s were able to churn out many episodes of whatever the heck they wanted, loved doing it, put a lot of effort into them, and as a result, many of them are well known and beloved, with some titles being Rose of Versailles, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Gundam, the World Masterpiece Theater, Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Digimon, etc. There's a reason they're all so well known and loved, and that's because people back then did everything they could to write passionate,…
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I am reviewing this show after the final episode that aired a few days ago. Akagami no Shirayuki-hime, translated to Snow White with Red Hair in English, was a romance anime running in the summer anime season of 2015. It was the only romance anime running in the season, or at least the only noticeable anime to have romance as its main genres. This I believe is the reason the show got the kind of views that it did, as it was the only choice this season for the romance enthusiastic.
Let's get started.
This time around there will be four categories that I will score separately and collect their averages to give a final score out of 10. The categories are, Story, Characters, Production and Enjoyment. I decided to remove production from the bigger category of Enjoyment, because I feel like i…
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This review will not contain any spoilers regarding the series.
Story:
Akagami no Shirayuki-hime's story is straightforward and simple, it's concept and how it is formed is something that is very common with the demographic that it resides in. So in that regard, it is not something that has not been seen before. Despite it being so simple and straightforward, it gives the feeling of being magical and soothing. How the events unfolds towards the character is incredibly seamless.
While it may follow the specific tropes that come from the demographic, it tries its best to either break the trope and become surprising or execute it in a way where it is appreciated. Many people may hate the 'damsel in distress' trope, but this series tries its best to avoid it, as much as the synopsis/first e…
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(This is a spoiler-free review adapted for this site)
[Synopsis]: Shirayuki(Hayami, Saori), a strong-willed girl with exceptionally rare red hair, led a normal life as a town herbalist in the kingdom of Tanbarun until her beauty attracted the attention of the first prince Raji (Fukuyama, Jun) who requested that she become one of his concubines. Unable to outright refuse his demand due to her social status, she fled the kingdom and had a chance-encounter with a stranger by the name of Zen (Osaka, Ryota) who, after curing him of a poisoned apple meant for her, is discovered to be the second prince of the kingdom of Clarines. In Zen's company, Shirayuki continues on to Clarines and attempts to start her life anew.
[Characters]:
Shirayuki, the protagonist of the story, offers refreshing eno…
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Roses, tomatoes, and human blood. What do these all have in common? If you guess their color, then you would be correct. A certain girl with noticeable red hair also exists in a fantasy world where the colors of red decorates its colorful storytelling. Akagami no Shirayuki-hime (Snow White with the Red Hair) isn’t exactly a Disney tale where there’s just prince charming or Cinderella shoes. Rather, this show is what I’d envision as a unique fantasy story of vibrant coloring.
Adapted from the manga of the same name written and illustrated by Sorata Akizuki, the series focuses on a young woman named Shirayuki. She is born with her trademark red hair that catches the eye of almost anyone she meets. This unfortunately attracts the attention of a prince named Raji who wishes to marry her and i…
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There are anime series which excel because they have an original story (Clannad After Story, Stein's Gate and Madoka Magica) and there are those which soar due to well-written characters who carry an otherwise generic story. Akagami no Shirayuki-hime may be dismissed due to its straightforward nature which seems to religiously follow the shoujo genre but a deeper look reveals its characters that defy the tropes which makes it special.
Story: 5/10
The legitimate weakness of this series is that its story does not stand out. We were introduced to Shirayuki, a girl who ran away from her home because their prince wanted to make her a concubine then she met Zen, a prince from another country. The premise basically rings a familiar trope that was used too many times before (Disney, anyone?).
T…
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