Saiunkoku Monogatari

A very typical shojo with a very atypical decency bonus. At the head of us, as it should be, is a girl around whom a crowd of bisenens is scurrying (considering that there are a lot of episodes, there are just a lot of bisenens, but somehow I immediately fell for him and only loved him to the end). The girl is smart, beautiful, from a decent family, and even embroiled in all possible palace intrigues. Oh yes, I forgot to say that the action takes place in medieval Japan/In China, where everyone wears beautiful traditional clothes, the world is ruled (as it should be) by a stupid emperor, there are also robbers, wars, palace coups, missing heirs and so on. In general, the presence of only one girl (the rest do not stay longer than 2-5 episodes) is a little annoying, everything is too unnatural (although what am I, shojo). But the presence of anime politics is ennobling, sycophancy and "fake romance" fade into the background, leaving a good plot in the first place. Sometimes it looks like a detective story, because the heroes are mostly state inspectors who nail "bad officials". Everything is divided into arches, quite interesting and thought out. But the tightness catches the eye, everything is very slow. They walk slowly, they talk slowly, the camera moves slowly across the backdrop, everything is soooooooooooooooooooooo. I also didn't like the finale, 80 episodes to muddy the water and never show it transparent!
Nevertheless, there is a very good anime on the total mass, and for a shojo-harem there is a chocolate bar at all!

очень даже неплохая концовочка))) понравилось, как выросли главные герои. их чувства тоже стали несколько другими, более осмысленными, что ли. наверное и правда, чем выше твое положение, тем ты более одинок. действительно важно иметь человека, который смотрит на тебя, а не на твои титулы, заслуги и прочую шелуху))

ааааа, какие они упрямые. буду болеть за императора. хочется, чтобы Шурей так повернула свои дела, чтобы придти прямо к нему)) тогда идеально будет :)

Unfortunately, the first season is much more interesting than the second.

я рыдала. этот рыжий мерзавец мне настолько понравился, что не смогла сдержать слез. понимаю, что сердцу не прикажешь и все такое, но как-то тяжело смотреть на то, как он мучился. умный человек, утративший интерес к жизни. но как круто любовь может все поменять :)