Review of Fena: Pirate Princess

Struggled between a 5 and 6 for this, but overall was pretty disappointed. For some reason, I'd started this with the expectation it would have some similarities to Yona of the Dawn, either in characters, story or execution. And it did originally give off that vibe, then went elsewhere, which isn't bad in itself... just, if you're starting it for that reason, find something else. I can admit, the first couple of episodes were really good. I'd go as far as to say the first half of the show was good. I binged it easy, but then started to slow down cause I had startedit whilst it was still airing and didn't want to watch it episode by episode, so waited.

Maybe it's just because I'm on an anime burnout? I don't know, my interest of it started to drop.

But, the good things about this anime are the soundtrack for one. I LOVE the sound and some of the visuals are stunning. One scene in particular gave me goosebumps (either the last episode or the episode before) in terms of meaning and visuals. The characters are super fun but they're nothing new. I think this is genuinely down to me having watched enough anime to notice the typical character tropes. And the FL and ML are not any different from many other action/romance anime.

They're still fun though, so that's something. I particularly like one of the twins (deffo a personal thing) and Yukimaru did have some interesting character development. Not to mention his ears turning red is adorable lol. Fena was your classic "nice but not too nice" character. Tbf, she had an interesting relationship with Yukimaru. Not wholly original but not exactly copy and paste.

The art style was pretty basic, icl. Nothing special. The story felt a little all over the place and I ended up liking Helena and Abel so much more than Yukimaru and Fena, which should say a lot. I even cried over them. Fena's story felt... cold. It was boring, kinda confusing and just felt like it was made up by a child. I didn't enjoy it. Some parts of the story, I did, but overall? No.

Now, if they made an anime about Helena and Abel completely, THAT would've been interesting. With Fena in the background of course, but I'd personally like to see a story like that (open to recommendations <3) from the "villain's" POV. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone and after writing this review, I've decided that I'm changing my rating between a 4 and a 5.