I'm done with Princess Tutu.

Actually, Princess Tutu was way too cute and fairytale-ish for me.

The use of music in the 'classical' repertoire like Pictures at an Exhibition, Scheherazade, The Nutcracker etc. was a bit too much for me. While the music might have suited the story somehow or another, it seems to be a mere compilation of readily available 'program music' from the western masters plus 'fairytale' characters taken out from the Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Ugly Duckling set in a real town named Nordlingen in Germany.

The animation is a little kiddish too, reminding me of the animes I used to watch more than 10years ago. The theme is, well, those of the prince who's got to save his princess and we've got to defeat the monster in order to save the princess. Everyone in this town seemed to be characters in the story 'Prince and the Raven' that Herr Drosselmeyer (this guy is the same person who gave Claire a Nutcracker in Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker) wrote.

I don't even know how a normal girl came to become a duck in the story which was turned into a girl. And with a pendant (which is actually a piece of the Prince's heart), she turned into Princess Tutu, whose purpose was to find all the lost pieces of the Prince's heart and return it to him. This reminds me of Tsubasa Chronicles whereby Syaoran and Sakura set out to retrieve Sakura's feathers of memories.

It is also odd that the ballet school would have a Cat as their ballet coach, an alligator, a snake, a cow and an anteater for ballet students and a goat as another of their teachers. The Cat would always threaten the students and especially Ahiru (the duck aka Princess Tutu) with marriage. (They would never fail to play the famed Wedding March there!) That part I always find quite funny - his catty reactions whenever the students reject him.

All in all, it's quite a good story with good bits of comedy but there're so many twists in the story that sometimes make me roll my eyes.