The Princess Trap
(This review contains
spoilers!)
As Princess
Principal begins winding down and approaching its finale, the series has
finally decided to drop its kind of annoying out-of-order narrative to create
what looks to be a fantastic three part finale.
Picking up right where last week left
off, Ange and Dorothy have been given orders to assassinate Princess. The two
are obviously none too happy about this, but things get even worse as the organization
is restructured right under their noses and their friends are all displaced.
Chise is reassigned to a new school, Dorothy is cornered by someone mysterious
in the early moments of the episode and doesn’t appear again (considering we
never see the body it’s fairly obvious she’ll be back), and Beatrice is…just
kinda not there this week. Oh well.
With most of the rest of the cast
missing or decommissioned, this leaves Ange and Princess the primary stars of
the episode. Ange takes the biggest role, as we finally get more of an insight
to her psyche and what her breaking point is. For how great a character she is,
she’s often just been used as either the ultimate spy heroine or the comic
relief, which makes it even more of a treat when she gets a much deserved
starring role.
Ange and Princess think up a plan to escape
the new team of evil spies assigned to ensure the assassination takes place,
and a whole manner of switcheroos begin. Ange is Princess, Princess is Ange,
and so on and so forth. Obviously the assassination takes place, but the way
the episode ends is interesting.
Upon learning the truth, Princess
leaves Ange on a blimp bound for Casablanca, and then returns to the team of
evil spies posing as Ange dressed as Princess. “Ange” is then introduced to the
lead of the royal guard as the real Princess Charlotte, meaning they know about
the switch when they were kids.
What’s really interesting here is that
they don’t give away whether that really is Princess pretending to be Ange or
if it’s the real Ange. Judging by the way the episode ended I’m guessing it’s
the first option, but it’d be an interesting surprise to see them go the other
way.
Like most penultimate anime episodes,
this episode only really serves to set up what’s going to go down in the
finale. The whereabouts of Ange the other girls are a mystery, as is the
identity of Princess/Ange at the end. Despite this, it’s yet another stellar
episode in an incredibly good series. Princess and Ange still have the best
chemistry of anyone in the show, and it’s good to see more of the lead
character as we approach the end.
FINAL SCORE
8/10
Great
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