Fena: Pirate Princess

What can I say about Fena: Pirate Princess?  Well, I guess that mainly it is great visually, and even the soundtrack is quite pleasant, although the screenplay is just another weird mishmash that does not really hold together. It seems like it is just another streaming anime series that I am going to easily forget in a few weeks. The narrative has a lot of unnecessary and untapped plot lines and also has characters that just simply show up for a while to set up some kind of plotline that could have perhaps been interesting, although then they just disappear and nothing really happens. What was the point of having those two old soldiers sworn to protect Fena, who could have been used as an interesting comic element, or that bunch of female pirates, who could have perhaps even become involved in some romantic subplots with some of the other supporting characters, yet somehow did not end up with enough opportunities or much screen time? What is equally strange is that after they decided to change the purpose of their mission, the potential subplot concerning the samurai warrior, who was chasing after them and was supposed to be stronger than everyone else ended up going nowhere, so everything eventually wound up with an unbelievably unnatural happy ending. I mean, this is an anime series where even the main villain ends up with the best possible outcome. Any strength and poignancy in the narrative are killed off by the generic romantic storyline which is like something out of a trashy novel, and a lot of things, including the submarine the main characters use, feel like a punch in the face. In conclusion, this is evidence that pretty visuals are really not everything, and so these pretty graphics are not going to get more than an average 5/10, because this is a perfect example of a show where fifty percent of the things I like are unfortunately mixed up with fifty percent of the things that really irritate me. (24/10/2021)

Imagine a world. A world where there are ninjas who are something like goblins, who shoot curved arrows and travel around Europe in a submarine. There they meet a white-haired lady with a Dutch name who is rescued by two seeming Englishmen from a retirement home on a Tortuga-like island, accompanied by a Pomeranian. Random excursions in the company of a terminator and pirates on a quest pilgrimage await them for a painting of a La Puzzle doll and for a block of glass in search of the mysteries of a world no one can remember. Fena and Brule exchange a bonk, dance and hair; the end. I understand your confusion and I ask the same question you are asking: Where is James Bond, Formula One, and the fight for Jupiter's independence? In all honesty, the script is the kind of drivel that would frighten the inhabitants of Lunik IX. I respect the screenwriter's opulent creativity, her grandiose vision, but you can't come up with 23 mysteries and 59 conspiracies if you can't pull off a single one. Or, alternatively, the main character solves them in a way that makes Indiana Jones, da Vinci, and Einstein look like total losers. The vast majority of the characters are about as important as a salt shaker in the desert, the villain is a hard-luck child with a poster fetish, and in general a bunch of them disappear off the screen faster than the French out of the war. Logic and physics are out the window - for example, a character calmly paddles a sailboat. Treating an injury? Who on earth has time for that, right? The character motivations were running sushi, I didn't know where my head was from that story and the only somewhat sensible element was the more tender romance present, which admittedly doesn't deliver anything we haven't seen before and was overdone with pathos in places, but I found moments that appealed to me. I didn't mind the incorporated elements of adventure and the feel of the western hemisphere. I was very pleased with the almost literally Disney-esque artwork, but that's finito with the list of pluses. Next time it might want to get its thoughts in order, organize the art direction a bit more moderately, so that the phenotype of similar anime will be successful and then I won't have to blow-dry it like this with my undisguised disappointment (besides, longer hair is easier to blow-dry!). You can keep the empty vases. A barely managed 3 stars (25/10/2021)