| Princess Tutu | |
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| プリンセスチュチュ (Purinsesu Chuchu) | |
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| Genre | Magical girl[1] |
| Created by | Ikuko Itoh |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
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| Produced by |
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| Written by | Michiko Yokote |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | Hal Film Maker |
| Licensed by |
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| Original network | NHK, Kids Station |
| English network | |
| Original run | August 16, 2002 – May 23, 2003 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ikuko Itoh |
| Illustrated by | Mizuo Shinonome |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| English publisher | |
| Magazine | Champion Red |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | August 19, 2002 – May 19, 2003 |
| Volumes | 2 |
Princess Tutu (Japanese: プリンセスチュチュ, Hepburn: Purinsesu Chuchu) is a Japanese anime television series created by Ikuko Itoh and directed by Junichi Sato and Shogo Koumoto. Inspired by ballet and fairy tales, particularly The Ugly Duckling and Swan Lake, its story follows a duck who is transformed into the mythical ballerina Princess Tutu in order to save the shattered heart of a storybook prince come to life.
The series aired from August 2002 to May 2003, with 26 episodes across two seasons, and was also adapted into a two-volume manga series. Both the manga and anime series were licensed for distribution in North America by ADV Films in 2004, then by AEsir Holdings; Sentai Filmworks distributed the Blu-ray release of the anime series, as the latter two are parts of Section23 Films.
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Transcription
Plot
There was once a writer named Drosselmeyer, who had the power to make his stories come to life. However, he died before he could finish his final tale, The Prince and the Raven, leaving its titular characters locked in an eternal battle. After many years, the Raven managed to escape into the real world, and the Prince, Siegfried, pursued him. To seal away the Raven's evil, he shattered his heart with his sword, causing him to lose his memories and emotions.
Drosselmeyer, having used his power to write himself as part of the tale to preserve his consciousness, laments that the story has come to a standstill and wants it to become a never-ending tragedy. He finds a way to restart the flow of the story in the form of a duck who has fallen in love with Mytho, the empty remainder of Siegfried. He gives her a magical pendant that can transform her, first into a human girl, then into the ballerina Princess Tutu, another character in the story. As Tutu, Duck is tasked with finding the scattered shards of Mytho's heart and returning them to him.
However, not everyone wants Mytho to get his heart back. Rue, the Raven's daughter reborn as a human, has also fallen in love with him, and fears that he may not return her feelings if he has a heart. Her desire to prevent him from regaining his emotions awakens her ability to transform into Princess Kraehe, Tutu's evil counterpart. Fakir, a boy who found and cared for Mytho after he escaped the story, also tries to stop Tutu, fearing that the story progressing means the Raven will return and Mytho will have to risk his life fighting it again.
As well, Duck learns that part of Princess Tutu's story is that she can never confess her love to Mytho, or else she will turn into a speck of light and vanish. However, after it becomes clear that Mytho wants his heart to be restored, she persists despite Fakir and Kraehe's interference.
Eventually, Fakir accepts Mytho's choice and decides to help Tutu, even discovering her true identity as a duck and befriending her. As he learns he is a descendant of Drosselmeyer and inherited his power to make what he writes a reality, Rue learns she is not the Raven's daughter, but a human child he kidnapped to serve him.
After most of Mytho's heart is returned to him, the seal imprisoning the Raven begins to break. Finally able to feel love again, Mytho realizes he loves Rue as the Raven kidnaps her. Duck discovers that her pendant is the final shard, meaning she must give up her ability to become human to return it. She eventually finds the courage to do so, and becomes a duck again.
Mytho and the Raven battle once more, but Mytho is outmatched and considers shattering his heart to seal it away again. Duck begins dancing to show him he must not give up. As she does, Fakir writes a story about how she never stops, no matter how many times the Raven's minions attack her. Together, they create hope, which gives Mytho the strength he needs to rescue Rue and defeat the Raven. Mytho asks Rue to be his princess and they return to his kingdom inside the story. Duck and Fakir remain together, although the narrator implies that Fakir is writing a new story. With nothing left to do, Drosselmeyer departs in search of another story.
Media
Anime
Princess Tutu was conceptualized by Ikuko Itoh, who also designed the characters, and directed by Junichi Sato and Shogo Koumoto, with Michiko Yokote handling series composition and Kaoru Wada composing the music. It was produced by Hal Film Maker and TUTU, a production committee consisting of King Records, IMAGICA Imageworks, Dentsu, Marvelous Entertainment and Memory-Tech. The series originally aired in two seasons, from August 16, 2002 to May 23, 2003.[2] The first season, "Kapitel des Eies" ("Chapter of the Egg"), consisted of 13 half-hour episodes. The second season, "Kapitel des Junges" ("Chapter of the Fledgling") in R2 DVDs, and "Kapital des Kükens" ("Chapter of the Chick") in R1 DVDs, was aired as 25 quarter-hour episodes and one half-hour episode; to conform to the format of the time slot, each episode was halved. These were brought back together in the DVD release as 13 complete episodes.
North American release
In 2004, ADV Films announced that they had licensed the anime series for distribution in North America.[3] ADV Films produced English adaptations for all episodes and, beginning in 2005, the series was periodically released as single DVD "volumes" that each contained several episodes. In 2007, the series was released as a complete DVD collection of all 26 episodes. In 2011, AEsir Holdings announced the licensing of the series and the release of a complete DVD collection of all 26 episodes distributed by Section23 Films.[4]
In 2018, as AEsir Holdings and Sentai Filmworks are parts of Section23 Films, the latter released a complete Blu-ray collection of all 26 episodes on December 11, 2018.[5] Steelbook release was made on December 21, 2021.[6] Anime Network formerly offered all 26 episodes of the series, English dubbed only, from their internet streaming site for North America.[7] After the service was shut down, the series was moved to Hidive.[8] Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video both have the English dub available for streaming.[9][10]
Manga
A manga adaptation of the anime series was published in Japan by Akita Shoten in the manga magazine Champion Red from August 19, 2002 to May 19, 2003. The manga was written by Mizuo Shinonome and series creator Ikuko Itoh and illustrated by Shinonome. Two tankōbon volumes of the manga were published in 2003. It was translated to English and published in North America by ADV Manga in 2004 and 2005.[11]
Volume list
| No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 01 | March 13, 2003[12] | — | November 30, 2004 | 978-1-4139-0193-1 |
| When a spellbound pendant transforms Ahiru into Princess Tutu, she thinks she can finally dance her way into her beloved Mytho's heart, but there's one problem. Mytho doesn't have his heart! Princess Tutu will have to twirl her way through a dark and lonely world as she searches for the missing pieces of her true love's broken heart and wounded spirit. | ||||
| 02 | July 17, 2003[13] | — | January 25, 2005 | 978-1-4139-0235-8 |
| Ahiru is now the beautiful and graceful Princess Tutu, but a happy ending for this fairy tale is still out of reach! She may have returned the pieces of Mytho's broken heart, but the jealous Princess Kraehe is determined to thwart her. Yet an even more intimidating enemy awaits Princess Tutu, and nothing but fate will decide who wins the prince's heart... | ||||
The English version of the manga uses the untranslated Japanese name "Ahiru" rather than the translated "Duck" used in the English version of the anime.
Reception
English-language reviews of Princess Tutu, both before the official localization and after, have generally been very positive. Reviewers have stated that although Princess Tutu is a magical girl series, it is more of a "fairy tale set to ballet with a few magical girl elements mixed in," and its use of dance in lieu of violence to solve conflicts carries "surprisingly effective emotional appeal."[14][15]
- The first DVD volume included episodes 1 through 5. Theron Martin reviewed this volume for Anime News Network and awarded grades from "C+" (art) to "A" (music).[16]
- The second DVD volume included episodes 6 through 9. Zac Bertschy reviewed this volume for Anime News Network and awarded grades from "B+" (story) to "A" (most everything else).[17]
- The fourth DVD volume included episodes 14 through 18. Theron Martin reviewed this volume and awarded grades from "B" (animation) to "A+" (music).[18]
- The sixth DVD volume included episodes 23 through 26. Theron Martin reviewed this volume and awarded grades from "B+" (animation & art) to "A+" (music).[19]
- The 2011 Complete Collection (DVD) release was reviewed by Chris Beveridge and given an overall grade of A−.[20]
References
- ^ Loveridge, Lynzee (February 16, 2018). "Princess Tutu Celebrates 15 Years of Musical Magic". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 14, 2018. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
- ^ プリンセスチュチュ. Hal-Film.co.jp. Archived from the original on March 30, 2008.
- ^ Macdonald, Christopher (April 4, 2004). "Anime Boston Saturday Licensing". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ "Section23 Films Announces October Slate". Anime News Network. July 20, 2011. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
- ^ "Sentai Filmworks Official December 2018 Slate". Sentai Filmworks. August 28, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
- ^ "Official Sentai December 2021 Slate". Sentai Filmworks. September 28, 2021. Retrieved December 21, 2022.
- ^ "Watch Princess Tutu". Anime Network. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ^ "Binge Princess Tutu". Hidive. Archived from the original on August 4, 2018. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
- ^ "Princess Tutu on Hulu". Hulu. Archived from the original on October 2, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
- ^ "Watch Princess Tutu - Season 01 | Prime Video". www.amazon.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2021. Retrieved January 11, 2020.
- ^ Cooper, Liann (November 20, 2004). "RIGHT TURN ONLY!! - Sugar Rush". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 12, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ^ プリンセスチュチュ(1) / 東雲水生. Suruga-ya.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
- ^ プリンセスチュチュ(完)(2) / 東雲水生. Suruga-ya.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
- ^ Agnerian, Maral (March 3, 2003). "Princess Tutu". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ Beard, Jeremy A. "Princess Tutu". THEM Anime Reviews. Archived from the original on December 19, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ^ Martin, Theron (June 17, 2005). "Princess Tutu DVD 1: Marchen". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ Bertschy, Zac (October 26, 2005). "Princess Tutu DVD 2: Traum". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 22, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ Martin, Theron (May 1, 2006). "Princess Tutu DVD 4: Prinz und Rabe". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 28, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ Martin, Theron (August 8, 2006). "Princess Tutu DVD 6: Abschied". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 22, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ Beveridge, Chris (October 11, 2011). "Princess Tutu Complete Series Anime DVD Review". The Fandom Post. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
Subtitles
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Once upon a time, there was a man who died.
The man's work was to write and tell stories, but he could not defy death.
The man's last story was about a brave and handsome prince, who vanquishes a crafty raven.
But now, their battle will go on for eternity with no end.
''I'm sick and tired of this!'' cried the raven.
Princess_Tutu_02(.vorbis)[Ahiru][ECF29034].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
The man was writing a story about a brave and handsome prince, who vanquishes a crafty raven.
When the man died, the raven and the prince escaped from within the story.
The prince took out his own heart to seal away the raven,
but it was a forbidden power that had been granted solely to the prince.
The raven was completely sealed away,
Princess_Tutu_03(.vorbis)[Ahiru][5182733F].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
The story was interrupted and along with his heart,
the prince lost his kindness towards people
and even his memories of having fought bravely.
And scattered throughout the town,
the shards of the prince's heart sought places to settle
Princess_Tutu_04(.vorbis)[Ahiru][201F07F9].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, there was a sad love that would never be requited.
But that alone does not give birth to a story.
The man with the task of spinning this tale of love was no longer of this world.
The story lives on with the love forever sorrowful.
Having lost its storyteller, the story is now wandering in search of its conclusion.
Princess_Tutu_05(.vorbis)[Ahiru][F9964FDD].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, there was a happy prince.
The happy prince knew no painful past and he knew no painful future.
One day, the prince obtained a comforting warmth.
However, this warmth emanated not only tranquillity, but also unhappiness, pain, and loneliness.
What are you looking at?
Princess_Tutu_06(.vorbis)[Ahiru][D0C8DCF1].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, a witch's curse put a princess into an eternal sleep,
and one young man appeared, intending to awake her.
But a voice whispered,
"Awaken the princess from her sleep? What a cruel thing to do."
Is the princess not wishing for the kiss of awakening,
Princess_Tutu_07(.vorbis)[Ahiru][96E6E646].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, there was a child.
For the child, the world was filled with wonder.
How? Why? How come?
When one mystery was solved, two new mysteries would arise.
When two mysteries were solved, four new mysteries would arise.
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Long ago, there was a warrior.
In order to protect his friend, the warrior took his friend's life.
Long ago, there was a sword.
This sword had continued to fight for the sake of peace.
It realized that in order to protect the peace, it had no choice but to kill the one who wielded it.
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Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved to dance very much.
The girl made the mistake of putting on a pair of red shoes that would force her to dance for eternity once they were on.
The girl continued to dance day and night...
Oh my. This is a different story.
But...
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Once upon a time, there was a maiden.
The maiden wore tattered clothes and was called Cinderella,
but she became a beautiful princess by magic and danced with the prince.
Then at the stroke of midnight, the maiden left a glass slipper behind and returned to being Cinderella once again.
The prince took the trouble to find this maiden and took her as his wife, but...
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Once upon a time, there was a maiden with wings of freedom.
The man who loved this maiden thought, "If I could just bind those wings,
we would never have to be apart, even for a moment."
But when the man wrapped the maiden's wings in a magical shawl,
the wings fell off almost immediately and the maiden died.
Princess_Tutu_12(.vorbis)[Ahiru][9C28B44B].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, there was a handsome slave.
What bound him were not heavy chains, but the princess's love.
Every day, every night, the princess whispers her love to the slave and the slave responds in kind.
Bound body. Bound emotions.
The slave or the princess?
Princess_Tutu_13(.vorbis)[Ahiru][06323367].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, there was a prince who fell in love with a beautiful white swan.
However, the prince fell into a foul trap set by the black swan
and ended up betraying his beloved white swan.
The prince swore his love unintentionally to the black swan.
But even so, the white swan abandons herself and tries to protect her beloved prince.
Princess_Tutu_14(.vorbis)[Ahiru][6B5D54E8].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, there was a man who died.
The prince and the raven from the man's story escaped from the story and fought.
Their battle ended with the prince taking out his own heart and sealing the raven away by using its forbidden power.
The prince, who had lost his heart, met a duck in a certain town.
Because of her love for the prince, the duck turned into a princess and gathered together the lost shards of his heart.
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Once upon a time, there was a man who fell in love with a doll.
Perhaps the man's love made itself felt, for one day, the doll came to life and began to dance.
The man was delighted.
He thought a doll would never betray his love, and that now he could have the world's
most pure and innocent love all to himself.
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Once upon a time, there was a girl who loved flowers more than anyone.
She prayed every day for the whole town to be filled with beautiful flowers.
To make that happen, she pulled up all the ugly weeds in town.
Eventually the girl's prayers were answered and the town was blanketed in flowers.
But they say the town that was filled with blossoms of all colors looked gray somehow.
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Once upon a time, there was a young man with a beautiful face.
The people loved the handsome young man, but he never showed interest in loving anyone.
This was because all he loved was himself.
When the young man, who neglected to love and sought only to be loved, found someone he truly cared for,
he realized that he had lost even the words to express those feelings.
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Once upon a time, there was a knight.
The knight never faltered in his duty, no matter what it was.
He did not even falter in taking the life of his lover.
That was what he took pride in.
But the knight could not do anything but carry out his duty, and even after his death, he still seeks a duty to carry out.
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Once upon a time, there was a maiden in love.
"I want to tell my beloved how I feel, but my love might be over the moment I say it."
Every day she suffered, agonizing in this way.
She took no meals, and she was unable even to sleep.
And finally, she died without ever having been able to communicate her feelings.
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Once upon a time, there was a young woman.
The young woman was to marry a groom chosen by her parents, and not her sweetheart, whom she loved.
She knew that her groom loved her very much, but did her sweetheart care for her even more than that?
The young woman wasn't certain.
In the end, after wavering between the two of them, the young woman even became unsure which one of them she really loved.
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Once upon a time, there was a man who died.
All the stories the man spun came true,
so the king, the nobility, and the kingdom's rich all went to him
to get him to write them stories.
But when their wishes were granted they feared his power, and began to abhor him.
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Once upon a time, there was a princess raised by loving parents.
One day, the princess snuck past the guard at the gate and slipped out of the castle for the very first time.
However, no matter how far she went, outside the castle, there was only an endless forest as black as pitch.
Before she knew it, the princess ended up unable to either escape the forest or return to the castle.
In that kingdom, the inside of the castle was the entire world.
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Once upon a time, there was a princess who was held captive.
She was imprisoned in the demon king's castle.
And with her freedom taken from her, she had no choice but to dance like a puppet
to the tune set by the whims of the demon king.
One day, a hero came to fight the demon king, seeking to save the princess.
Princess_Tutu_24(.vorbis)[Ahiru][79A1BDC8].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
Once upon a time, there was a man who died.
The story the man wrote was about a happy prince who loved everyone and was loved by everyone.
The people fought, each wanting him to love them and them alone,
and an evil raven pecked at their loving hearts one after another.
The more the prince loved them and tried to save them, the more the people's love just fed the raven.
Princess_Tutu_25(.vorbis)[Ahiru][C2DFA349].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
The man had the power to make stories come true,
so his hands were cut off by the people,
who were afraid of tragedies becoming reality.
When the man died, the people heaved a great sigh of relief.
However, when his hands were cut off, the man had been writing a story in his own blood.
Princess_Tutu_26(.vorbis)[Ahiru][6E9D31BF].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
The man tried to keep spinning a story even after his death, but the story just wouldn't move along.
The man lost patience and called a duck into the story.
The little duck tried her best for the prince, and eventually she transcended her standing in the world and came to love the prince.
However, she was only a duck.
She was fated to someday turn into a speck of light and vanish.
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Yume miru you ni koi o shita no
Fukuramu kokoro ga fukuramu no yo
Ikiteru tte suteki na koto to omotta
Asu ga machidoushii
Anata no chikara ni naritai no
Princess_Tutu_Clean_OP(.vorbis)[Ahiru][43F16AB5].ass (DOWNLOAD SUBTITLES)
The voice calling, come now, wake up
Yonde iru koe saa me o samashite
Nakigao nugutte
Wiping a tearstained face
Mabushii hikari kigi no tsuyu umareru
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Promotional Video
Quack, quack!
Guess what? I've found a prince.
He's handsome and kind.
The reason his smile seems lonely is because he's lost his heart.
External links
- King Record (King Amusement Creative) site
- Kids Station site
- Imagica Entertainment site
- ADV Films site at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-07-20)
- Sentai Filmworks site
- Princess Tutu (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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