From the title, I thought the princess was the one being murdered, but it turns out it’s the other way around. Alita Forland is the kindhearted princess of her kingdom, but the sneaky royal scientist stages a coup d’etat with the aid of demonic creatures and his strangely cute robotic constructs. Alita’s friends and family make a stand in the throne room and are mercilessly slaughtered, buying time for the princess to escape out the emergency tunnel and head towards the neighboring kingdom. Unfortunately, her escape party draws the attention of the forest guardian beast, which proceeds to make a meal of her bodyguards. Alita blindly flees to a dead-end cliff where Valis, a skilled bounty hunter, had been hunting demonspawn near the forest with her partners Dominikov (some sort of reaper gremlin) and Pete (a Frankenstein style grunt). They both end up falling off the cliff together, but somehow end up swapping souls and bodies in the process. Dominikov and Pete manage to catch them, and after a period of confusion, the group deals with the persistent forest guardian.
Afterward, Alita begs the trio to help her retake the kingdom, but Valis initially refuses. However, Alita tells Valis that she can have the princess’s body as collateral, and will be the ruler of the kingdom if she retakes it. This is definitely an attractive deal, so it’s off to the races on a flaming motorcycle from hell. Yes, that part was totally out of left field. And so, Valis proceeds to wreak bloody havoc on the traitors and reclaims the throne for great justice…and herself.
I wasn’t expecting much from this OVA, as the merest mention of Bee Train’s involvement set off alarms in my head, but it wasn’t terrible. The first episode of Murder Princess combines light gore and random bits of comedy into an odd medley. There are so many cliches thrown together in a chaotic fashion that the show almost seems like a parody at times. Being an OVA, the production quality is quite good, although there were a few rehashed battle animations. The death scenes aren’t super hardcore, and I have yet to see Valis kill someone in cold blood, so methinks the title is rather misleading. Claymore fans in search of more sweet brutal action will not find it here. At least there’s some trashy action-adventure potential, though it remains to be seen as to whether the producers know how to capitalize on it.
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I actually loved this one and can’t wait for the next episode.
Oh, and all of your images lead to an 404 …
I was pleasantly surprised at how watchable this was! As silly as it was with all the various fetishes thrown in, it just worked, and I actually liked when Vallis took over Alita’s body. The part where Vallita (the DBZ fusion, I suppose) threw the doctor off the
thrownthrone and made her little speech got me all tingly.In my mind, Vallita == Vallis in Alita’s body, and Allis == Alita in Vallis’ body. This is going to be even more confusing than having two characters named Nana =\. And no “THIS… IS… SPARTA!!!!!!” caption on the last image?
I fixed the images. Somebody thought it would be a good idea to save all his images in the .bmp format, but then have all the src attributes in the img tags point to .jpg files -__-.
I really liked this one as well. Its an odd mix of action, comedy, and clashing art styles which somehow turned out really well. You wouldn’t think demon wolves, fountians of blood, hawt sword-chix0rs, chibi-loli-androids-of death, and extras from Teen Titans (Dominicov and Pete) would work together in one series but they do. I liked the music as well. Can’t wait for more
Also Vallita looks just like Arcueid Brunestud. When will Shiki show up?
The Bee Train factor is basically what averted me from this show even though the title is rather interesting. The fact that it might not be as shite as one might presume makes me more inclined to check it out, but only after I get through this backlog of mounting awesomeness. This season is shaping up to be pretty decent, which is more surprising than it bloody should be. -_-
Oops, I totally screwed up the formats. I was experimenting with a new batch-converter program to speed up the picture formatting process, but I guess I still need to work out the kinks.
I thought Vallita looked suspiciously like Arcueid too, and spend much time furtively looking for a connection between the artists of Murder Princess and Tsukihime.
At this point, the series looks like it is teetering on the verge of being either totally ludicrous or totally awesome. The incongruous elements seem to be clicking at the moment, but I don’t know how long the producers can keep it up. Personally I would like to see some political intrigue, but that’s not likely given the short series length.
Speaking of political intrigue…
These expensive projects are always monitored. What did the scientist’s budget look like? Did he just get a massive invoice from a single online shop specializing in gothloli robot parts, or did he shop around? What did the staff in charge of his accounting think of all this? How will the taxpayers react?
Because of the scientist’s reckless spending, the kingdom did not even have enough money to police the nearby forest. It’s stuff like this that always gets the scientific budget cut, like with a sword.
This series is Wickd!!!
I apsulutly cant wait 4 the nxt eppisode to come out its frikn awsme!!!
n the start up music is kewl as 2!!!
Politics are over rated at the mo put some more sword fights in it who cares bout the reasons for the castle being over taken the way she charged right on in on a bike was totally hysterical you go gurl!, its just a cartoon make it look awsme and i wont complain!!! its like a naruto eppisode (if you have seen them) the best ones are the ones where he kicks ass! not when hes walking around doing stuff all.
XMUWX