Audience reviews
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unseen_habitt
Kaizoku Oujo turned out to be more enjoyable than I expected. Even though the plot holes are everywhere and the character development is really thin, it’s still pretty solid for a short adventure anime.
The sense of adventure is definitely there — the journey, the mystery, and the crew dynamics make it fun to follow. At first, I was skeptical and worried the ending would be a cliffhanger that forces you to wait for a season 2 that might never come. But the ending was actually neat and acceptable, even if some parts felt a bit rushed.
The characters aren’t explored much, but since the pacing is fast and the story focuses more on the treasure-hunt plot, it’s pretty understandable. Overall, it’s not a perfect anime, but as a short, light, adventure-themed show with good visuals, Kaizoku Ouj…
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What a terrible story full of platitudes. You have the choice: should this world be destroyed, or should it continue to exist? The fate of your mercenaries is predictable; they will all die, but you can change that by making them “holy” so that they drift indefinitely on this strange phantom ark between this world and the next, accepting only the purest souls so that the world can be reborn. The whole story is just very emotional without pursuing any particular goal. Just the contradiction between virginity and the descendants of your bloodline. Surprise, surprise, when you bring children into the world, you are no longer a virgin... I could puke.
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Fena: Pirate Princess is bad. Most importantly, Fena is not a pirate, and only tenuously a princess. I say tenuously because most things in the show are paper-thin, including any attempts at providing Fena a meaningful backstory. Halfway through the show, the characters' camaraderie is as if it were a 24-episode affair, but the moment-to-moment pace makes it feel like it was storyboarded for a 6-episode OVA. The animation has a lot of effort put into it, but is incredibly sterile. The 3-minute long denouement was good, but slogging through the other 285 minutes wasn't worth it. I do Not Recommend.
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When this first came out I was extremely excited for it. Saw a couple screen shots and watched a little of the trailers. The title alone sold also sold me a bit. I had shelved it for a bit as I finished other shows I was watching at the because I wanted give this one my full attention, then I started it. Man was I blown away with the action animation being put on the table though that was not the only thing. The mystery story hooked me in quickly, the show blends a little bit of pirates vs ninjas/samurai which in theory sounds cool and was at first executed well. The princess was my favorite character throughout the show, she was level head and had funny jokes along with the rest of the cast. The villains at first were great and sexy too, their decision making and aura were awesome. But as…
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Starting from episode 4 it was satisfactory but when it got to episode 5 there big wtf moments that made no sense. they were a complete contradiction and I'm pretty sure this is anime with identity politics at play. starting from their then anime become more dumbfound very disappointed. what ruined it was no capacity to learn from their mistakes. the characters were the worst part of the show. the all-female mercenary was the worst about and the main protagonist was also terrible she had no whatsoever care for her life and no consideration for others after only they got hurt. how do you not gt notice that your bing followed . expected more awareness and its really surprised they caught so fast.
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You know the "three episode rule"? This show was a clear 10/10 at that point. Hell, I didn't even need three episodes, just a single scene from episode 1 of our goofy princess's "escape plans" or even a single frame of her angry expression was enough to win me over.
It would have been a great show it it was actually about that goofy princess, or about travel and adventures, or about pirates vs. ninjas, or solving a legendary mystery, or any of the things the start of the show leads you to believe it is about. Instead, all those things turn out to be irrelevant, obviated by an absurd nonsense ending. It's impossible to explain or justify my disappointment with it without spoiling it, so I will just stop here.
I guess different people can handle that to different extents - just like willi…
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This was certainly one of the best anime with a romance and adventure theme that I've ever had the opportunity to watch! At first I didn't care for anything, but as the work progressed I became very attached and enchanted by the characters, the two protagonists are sensational and even the antagonist had her perfect ending!
The art is beautiful, that whole universe was beautiful, the mix of stories, stories, it had everything! The soundtrack was certainly one of the best I've ever heard and was one of the main reasons for me to burst into tears in those last two episodes, the dubbing was incredible and fascinating, I don't have any negative points to mention, only positive ones! If you haven't watched it yet or are afraid to watch it, you might as well fall in love!!
1000000/10.
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Do you think others will enjoy/dislike this series, even if you didn't? Why?
TLDR; Do not let them cook
Is the story unique?
Fena is a unique series in a bad way
Unpredictably bad because of the how the story unfolds
It felt like watching a train suddenly come across a broken bridge
The pacing of the anime is questionable and more episodes might have helped
Do you think the art style is fitting for the story? The art style has very vibrant colours that help tell the story but not merit enough to be worth watching the show for
Were the characters well-rounded? Did they have flaws and strengths, or were they unusually strong/smart/stupid?
Most characters did not get enough development / screen-time
It would have been more interesting and entertaining to see more dialogue between character…
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Fena is the name of the female protagonist. Orphaned at a young age and working in a brothel as a servant is the setting that she has found herself in. However, all that changes when a mysterious stranger or strangers 🤔 saves her and reveals to her the truth about her family and a secret that only she can unlock.
Review: This anime is a underrated gem. From the animation quality, the cinematography, the music and the plot, it is surely an anime to watch. Let's begin with the characters, Fena, she is 23 years of age which is such a relief considering how plenty female protagonists always seem to be minors which is such a ick personally. Fena is funny, brave, a bit odd but that's what I find intriguing about her. The support characters in this anime play a essential role in how the story…
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For something that had a unique and interesting premise, this severely did not deliver.
Fena was a princess...a witch...a prostitute...a maiden... a pirate...pretty much anything you can think of, she was. Not only was this confusing for the audience, it was confusing for Fena. In one episode, she explained that she had all these coined names given to her, but despite that, she didn't know who she really was. And dejectedly, the ending didn't answer that for us.
As a protagonist, because she was unaware of her own purpose in the world, she often relied on others to get where she needed to go. Even when she had moments of "clarity," if you will, when she no longer doubted her choices, it seemed as though it was not really Fena making the decision, but rather an entity possessing/guiding…
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A promising pirate tale made laughable by contrived storytelling and convoluted fantasy elements.
Fena: Pirate Princess is a somewhat misleading title. Fena is a princess, but not a pirate. There’s more emphasis on romance and drama than swashbuckling sword fights or buried treasure. Imagine if Princess Peach went on a globetrotting adventure—a damsel to constantly get kidnapped by one-dimensional villains and a MacGuffin to steer the plot. Except, Fena lacks the charm of your imagination. Her ditzy and energetic personality loses charm quickly; Especially because she’s intentionally annoying. A running gag is that she talks too much, which never becomes funny. The swaths of men who vie for her affection, or to simply spend a night with her, do so because she is irresistibly attractive (s…
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Imagine you see a group doing their adventure, you see them develope and encounter dangers and in the end it all doesn't matter because the protagonist gains the power to rewrite the course of history, bringing people back to life and defeating the meaning of the story. This anime had potential in the beginning but the last 2 episodes destroyed everything because the protagonist gains godly powers and is able to change everything.
Sorry the Review needs to be longer, even though it needen't be because there isn't anything left to say, so here are some random words: Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated…
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I was enjoying this anime quite a lot. It reminded me of Pirates of the Caribbean and other similar Disney movies. Adventurous show with upbeat cast and hint of darkness laying underneath the plot.
Closer we got towards the end it was becoming more and more clear that this show will crumble under its own weight. Storylines had to be dropped and characters were abandoned. Promise of an arc with Shitan or some sort of development for Fena were not fulfilled. Instead Shitan and rest of the crew ended up with only surface level characterisation no more important than Abel's generic soldiers. Nobody could even be bothered to mention the banishment from the island ever again. I guess they were just allowed to go back in and those concequences for their actions were non-existant.
So we got al…
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At first, the show had a strong start and seemed like it was going to tell a compelling and interesting mystery, romance, and adventure story. The more the plot unfolded the more interesting it became, especially when antagonists were introduced. However, the end of the story felt rushed and wasn't explained well. There wasn't enough backstory or development on the characters to understand their motivations and connection to the main character, except for Yukimaru, and the last episode was essentially an explanation dump that left more questions than answers. Overall, the anime should have had better pacing, more character development, and a better idea of what it was trying to get across when it came to the ending - let alone what it was trying to say as a story.
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Fena Pirate Princess is extremely mediocre. It has some positive attributes, such as its good animation and short watch time, but is dragged down by (mostly) awful characters and a (mostly) predictable story.
Animation- 8
The animation of this show is very smooth. I enjoyed the vibrant colors and the backgrounds were beautiful. There isn’t too much to say other than it is very good. It doesn’t stand out as one of the best, but it is very respectable and helped make the show more fun to watch.
Characters- 3.5
To me, the most important part of any show is the characters, and unfortunately, Fena: Pirate Princess falls way short.
First I want to talk about Abel, who was my favorite character by far. The show was at its best when he was on screen, and he was given a complete side story,…
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I had really high hopes for this anime. Based on the trailers and after watching the first few episodes, my initial scoring was a 9, maybe even a close 10. It's funny when you check the reviews that 90% of those which have only seen the first 6 episodes or less have given the series a very high score like me, while most of the people who finished also feel like Kaizoku Oujo being a huge letdown.
The biggest reason I was so hyped for this anime is that it offered me the same nostalgic feelings I only felt when I was a little kid watching cartoons almost two decades ago. Interesting and laid-back adventures with a funny and lovable cast, in a mostly episodic style season, where each episode begins a small adventure but it is also finished by the end (with of course a mandatory overarching s…
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Dear lord, you have no idea how much I wanted to like this show. I really wanted to like this. I really did. More so than Demon Slayer, even. When Crunchyroll decided they wanted to try their hand at producing their own anime, a lot of people had mixed emotions, excitement and trepidation. Unfortunately, the latter wound up being more justified, as the majority of Crunchyroll's self-produced anime usually wound up being either mediocre (Tower of God and God of High School) or outright bad (Gibiate and Ex-Arm). The only one I was even remotely looking forward to was Fena: Pirate Princess, which promised to be a rip-roaring adventure series in the vein of stuff like Future Boy Conan and Mysterious Cities of Gold. So you'd think after the disasters that were their previous shows, that Crunchy…
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Talk about a tone shift towards the end. I know people hate the comparison, but all I could think about while watching this show is how I could have been watching season 2 of Yona of the Dawn, only to remember that there is no season 2. I went into this show hoping it could at least give me something similar to enjoy and it honestly had that at first until the story took a dramatic turn and devolved into “Fena does amazing things because ancestors, please stand in awe” the series.
By the end of the show, I honestly couldn’t remember most of the ninja pirates’ names. Most of their personalities were one-note and every single one of them, with the initial exception of Shitan, were there to bask in Fena’s presence. And I swear, this show just straight up forgot they had a dog.
Like others…
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TL;DR: The ending of this show is a really, really weird bit of writing. Kind of spoiled the whole thing for me.
It starts well and I loved the dynamic between the crew members. The little bit of mystery to start with worked well and felt like it was building to a larger story. It's bizarre in retrospect how all the motivations that felt complex at the start end up feeling so simple and uninspired by the end.
The story really starts to weaken with the more supernatural stuff that gets hinted at and then shown more and more. The main character loses all personality with their "chosen one" trope kicking in. By extension, the cast around them become more boring as well as they just sort of follow her around.
I feel the ending has two major issues.
The first is that the characters really…
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Spoiler Warning:
We finally got a new pirate anime that isn't One Piece. No offense to that franchise though, it's still a masterpiece. After the success of anime originals, Fena: Pirate Princess delivered a decent story with incredible animation for a Crunchyroll original series. Along with the various similarities to other forms of media, this original can have its mishaps along the way, which were notable, but I didn't have a problem with it. Besides all the flaws this anime had, it also has its moments that were stunning to watch. With that, here are the pros and cons of Fena: Pirate Princess.
The plot itself focused on pirates in the show's beginning, but it soon adds other aspects that may be confusing to follow, such as samurai. However, it was able to mash those two together perf…
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