PPY Exceeded All My Expectations
I finally, finally got my copy of Petite Princess Yucie vol 6 today.
Our post office sucks. It'd been delivered to someone else and thus I assumed lost forever, and 3 days after it'd been "delivered" I contacted Amazon asking if I could get a refund or a duplicate. Amazon customer service is marvelous by the way. I'd been dreading another two week fiasco with people who could read English but apparently not comprehend it like with Overstock last year, but I received a reply only two hours after my query email. They shipped out a duplicate, and today I received notice that the previous package had been returned to Amazon, citing customer refusal. Why the post office couldn't have brought it to the correct address after being informed that it'd been delivered to the wrong one, I'll never know. *kicks them*
So one week and one day after I should have gotten it, the final volume arrived in my hands.
It was totally worth the wait too. I couldn't believe how good it ended up being. Can't let Danielle watch them for a few more years because of the waterworks that would ensue, but the final four episodes were wonderful. I cried through the last two episodes. OMG I cried. Hiccuping and tears just streaming down my face. And the two times that Glenda lost it, I lost it too. Outright sobbing and a huddled up death grip on my pillows at those two points. It all just really, really touched me.
And if I didn't get quite the shipper-centric happy ending I wanted, I at least got a sneak preview of what it could be like a few years down the road. XD OMG the wedding and kisses! Multiple kisses! After all those years of watching anime and there never being kisses, I have been vindicated by this series! *pumps fist in the air* And they were all such cute kisses too.
Still, I wish a lot of the earlier episodes had been more plot driven. I still have so many questions that were left unanswered.
Why was Cube kicked out of the Demon World? How did he come to live with and serve Gunbard and Yucie? Is he related to Glenda?
What was the deal with Glenda's mom? Why'd she leave her family? For that matter, what happened to all the other mothers? (Not that the Papa love doesn't give me warm fuzzies like woah.) And Yucie's parents? Everyone else was really a princess, was she? And we're told why she was a glowing baby, but why did she float down out of the sky?
What would all the other girls look like as adults? Particularly, how much larger would Glenda's chest get because her 10-year-old body has quite the rack. O.o;;
What does Arc really think of Yucie? How disturbing would it be to realize you were developing feelings for someone who looks like kid? Would it have disturbed him since he had no problem propositioning a nun in front of said kid right after he'd met them both? (Arc's a nice guy, really. So nice. So cute. So adorable with his "Forehead." Makes me go squeeeee! rather than squicky!) Do Beth and Cocoloo ever hook up? Because ghostie steward's "I think I love you" impersonation of Beth had me in stitches!
And Diabolos and the power of the tiara? More on the world enders, please.
And how long is it going to take the girls to grow? They're already 7 years behind! Also, while I'm assuming Arc regained consciousness and was his normal adorably aggravating self since Yucie did not appear in the least devastated, I would have liked to see him for-real-for-real at the very end too. *pouts*
So, yeah, I am completely and totally in love with it and all the characters contained therein. Watched the ending with the biggest, sappiest, dorkiest grin on my face and tears still trickling down my cheeks. I just want to hug them and love them and SQUISH them.
I don't think PPY would be everyone's cup of tea at all though. It is completely and unabashedly shoujo and soooo pokes fun at all the other magical girl series at times, has hints of shoujo ai, a semi-lolicon-ish romantic relationship (guy in his late teens/early 20s and a girl who's 17 trapped in a 10-year-old's body), magic use galore, a Satan which is totally warm and fuzzy loveable despite his appearance and title, a Kami-sama which would never be nominated for Father of the Year, etc. But I do let me 4 year old niece watch it. It starts off really slowly though, and there are several job-of-the-day episodes that a 26 episode series could have done without. (The plot! I don't care if it's based off a video game, stick to the plot!!!)
But I still love it. Seriously, when the final credits rolled I had this incredibly strong urge to just hug my TV. Didn't act on it, but it was definitely there. ^_^;;
Our post office sucks. It'd been delivered to someone else and thus I assumed lost forever, and 3 days after it'd been "delivered" I contacted Amazon asking if I could get a refund or a duplicate. Amazon customer service is marvelous by the way. I'd been dreading another two week fiasco with people who could read English but apparently not comprehend it like with Overstock last year, but I received a reply only two hours after my query email. They shipped out a duplicate, and today I received notice that the previous package had been returned to Amazon, citing customer refusal. Why the post office couldn't have brought it to the correct address after being informed that it'd been delivered to the wrong one, I'll never know. *kicks them*
So one week and one day after I should have gotten it, the final volume arrived in my hands.
It was totally worth the wait too. I couldn't believe how good it ended up being. Can't let Danielle watch them for a few more years because of the waterworks that would ensue, but the final four episodes were wonderful. I cried through the last two episodes. OMG I cried. Hiccuping and tears just streaming down my face. And the two times that Glenda lost it, I lost it too. Outright sobbing and a huddled up death grip on my pillows at those two points. It all just really, really touched me.
And if I didn't get quite the shipper-centric happy ending I wanted, I at least got a sneak preview of what it could be like a few years down the road. XD OMG the wedding and kisses! Multiple kisses! After all those years of watching anime and there never being kisses, I have been vindicated by this series! *pumps fist in the air* And they were all such cute kisses too.
Still, I wish a lot of the earlier episodes had been more plot driven. I still have so many questions that were left unanswered.
So, yeah, I am completely and totally in love with it and all the characters contained therein. Watched the ending with the biggest, sappiest, dorkiest grin on my face and tears still trickling down my cheeks. I just want to hug them and love them and SQUISH them.
I don't think PPY would be everyone's cup of tea at all though. It is completely and unabashedly shoujo and soooo pokes fun at all the other magical girl series at times, has hints of shoujo ai, a semi-lolicon-ish romantic relationship (guy in his late teens/early 20s and a girl who's 17 trapped in a 10-year-old's body), magic use galore, a Satan which is totally warm and fuzzy loveable despite his appearance and title, a Kami-sama which would never be nominated for Father of the Year, etc. But I do let me 4 year old niece watch it. It starts off really slowly though, and there are several job-of-the-day episodes that a 26 episode series could have done without. (The plot! I don't care if it's based off a video game, stick to the plot!!!)
But I still love it. Seriously, when the final credits rolled I had this incredibly strong urge to just hug my TV. Didn't act on it, but it was definitely there. ^_^;;