Cover Image
  • Animation:
    5
  • Depth:
    4
  • Design:
    5
  • Characters:
    5
  • Story:
    5
  • Music:
    5
  • Dub/Sub:
    6/8

Category: comedy

Type: oav

Tagline:

AAP Award: Most Insane Anime
Archen's Judgment: average
Review:

Fairy Princess Ren

Also known as: Elf Princess Rane


Summary: >

Probably the best way to describe Go would be a young Indiana Jones on crack. Go is always in search of treasure, and for once he finds a clue which could actually lead him there. He finds an elf named Rane. Go and Rane have a sort of language barrier, but the two seem to know enough that they could help each other. Even with a lot of obstacles facing them, they seem to be on the right track... even though they're not exactly sure what they're searching for.


Thoughts: >

Some would call this anime charming, others would call it funny. It is perhaps both of these things, but most of all, it's absolutely INSANE. In between laughing now and then, I found myself saying... "what the hell?!.." The story has a very strange coherency, that is fairly hard to follow. Although it is very blatant, in-your-face, and sometimes confusing; I believe that is what gives this anime its charm. I found this anime to be rather interesting, although I would recommend that people who are rather new to anime, avoid it.

The subtitles come at about a million miles an hour (but that can't be helped), and even I had a hard time keeping up (I think of myself as a fairly capable subtitle reader). One of the characters also talks backwards, and I think it was a rather poor decision to subtitle backwards as well (sort of voids the point of subtitles doesn't it?). If you think you can keep up with the subtitles, and your looking for a totally outrageous piece of anime, this is it. I rather liked it.... but I'm weird like that.

I have dubbed this anime the title of "Most insane anime ever". And as such I've found some people have actually challenged this. But don't confuse "insane" with "stupid". Yes, I have yet to see any anime this insane that approaches Fairy Princess Ren, even discounting the stupidity in many other titles.


Screen Caps: >

screen cap from Fairy Princess Ren screen cap from Fairy Princess Ren

reviewed by archen in 1999