Murder Princess

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Murder Princess

Postby paizuri » Thu May 03, 2007 4:18 am

This is the official Murder Princess discussion thread.

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Postby angelx03 » Thu May 03, 2007 5:25 am

Based on the manga by Sekihiko Inui of Comic Party fame (which by the way, the 1st volume is released right now by Broccoli Books), comes a quirky action-adventure series where the sexy female bounty hunter named Falis somehow switched bodies with a runaway princess named Alita. You can read the synopsis here:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclo ... hp?id=7216

This is in fact a 6-episode OVA animated by Bee Train with a new episode being released monthly, and with the 2 episodes so far, this by far the most action-paced series they've done. This also wins with a bunch of quirky characters like for example those enemy gothic-lolita robot girls, and that spiky-haired skeleton guy with the scythe and the giant ogre who hangs around Falis. So far it's a fun series to check out. And of course, if we bump these two a little, then maybe....... :roll: :twisted:

And dammit, it's supposed to be an OVA!!!
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Postby OmniStrata » Fri May 04, 2007 12:31 pm

I like...

Not original, but the premise and fighting is worth watching. Unlike Slayers [which this series resembles to a fault] I didn't think there'd be THAT much blood [though human and nonhuman]

My one problem is the stickfigure physiques of these girls. That animation tech is sooo damn old these days...

[Give me fat chests and round bottoms ala Ichigo 100%]

But aside from that, the schizo atttude as well as soul switch was DAMN cool to see...
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Postby angelx03 » Tue Jun 05, 2007 11:06 am

More bloody, action fun in episode 3 especially since [spoiler]Milano's/Alita's brother came back to save her after Alita/Falis got totally beaten down. There were also some friction going on between Milano and Alita at first when Alita accidentally broke her glass doll. [/spoiler]

Next episode looks promising since [spoiler]that dark knight appears, and Alita is going head to head against him. And not to mention that doctor with the gothlic loli robots looked like he got killed.[/spoiler]
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Postby OmniStrata » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:35 pm

I hope he got killed, his annoying presence on my screen begged to get slaughtered by the uber sexy/powerful Murder Princess...

Her Dagger/Sword combo is a hot dual wield as well I think.
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Postby angelx03 » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:04 am

Episode 4 has an interesting turn of events!

[spoiler]The black knight is actually the prince! And the professor did get killed. But the worse part is that Alita was no match for him! :(

And not to mention that busty magic user was pretty formidable. I wonder what behind that sealed door.[/spoiler]
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Postby Anlushac11 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:59 pm

On Episode 4

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[spoiler] Alita seemed to do very well against the Prince except for the magical enhancements the magic user cast on him. She could hit him but couldnt do any damage. She was unarmored and thus couldnt take any punishment [/spoiler]
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Postby OmniStrata » Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:46 pm

NUUU MAH SEXEH ALITA!!!!
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Postby angelx03 » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:33 pm

Second to last episode! We got interesting developments here and what it looks like it setting up for the final battle. Like for example:

[spoiler]- The world's setting is......like Scrapped Princess or even Utewarerumono. :|

- Those monster buddies are actually more advance forms of androids than those gothic loli twins. Hell they even have kickass second forms! 8-)

- I DEMAND Falis and Mirano start making out. I mean Falis exclaimed to that dark knight that she'll protect her so what better way of proving that affection than to make out! :o

(of course it's obviously not happening :x)[/spoiler]
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Postby Bakadeshi » Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:40 am

angelx03 wrote:Second to last episode! We got interesting developments here and what it looks like it setting up for the final battle. Like for example:

[spoiler]- The world's setting is......like Scrapped Princess or even Utewarerumono. :|

- Those monster buddies are actually more advance forms of androids than those gothic loli twins. Hell they even have kickass second forms! 8-)

- I DEMAND Falis and Mirano start making out. I mean Falis exclaimed to that dark knight that she'll protect her so what better way of proving that affection than to make out! :o

(of course it's obviously not happening :x)[/spoiler]


Although I have to agree I get Yuri vibes from those 2 all the time, its probably not happening :lol:
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Postby angelx03 » Mon Sep 03, 2007 5:13 pm

Final episode!

[spoiler]Pretty standard stuff. The black knight was actually acting on his own ambition and wants to destroy the world using that lost technology, Teoria. This obviously led to a pretty slick battle between Falis and that magic user and later against the black knight (and unfortunately this led those other guys to fight the soldiers off screen).

So in order to stop the device from destroying the world, Falis has to activate the emergency switch. Unfortunately everything that's related to the Teoria has to disappear which includes Falis' monster buddies and those gothicloli cyborgs.

Obviously she had to do it for good of the world, so that's that. And hers and Alita's opportunity to use Teoria to re-switch their bodies back is now lost. And the episode ended with Falis leading an army in order to attack enemy troops, and she gained the title Murder Princess! [/spoiler]

Final thoughts: This is pure fluffy entertainment. You're not going to get anything too deep with this OVA series, and you might have fun identifying a bunch of RPG and fantasy-related plot points. Before anyone gets an idea that there's should be more, realize that this where manga ended as well (well the manga is supposedly only 2 volumes long).
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Postby OmniStrata » Tue Sep 11, 2007 6:38 am

A well thought out oav...

I had fun with it, though as far as 'holy shit must buy' vibes...

They're not happening for me here.
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