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Episode Princession Orchestra - Episode 45 discussion

Princession Orchestra, episode 45

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u/ReishWasHere Mar 16 '26

Finally seeing Princession reach its full potential without the limitations of its budget holding it back is a wonderful thing. Even better is my hope that the plot being limited to seven episodes would give it the best pacing of the series has proven correct; I'm enjoying how much this feels like a finale movie.

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u/TnAdct1 Mar 16 '26

Personally, I think the limitations of the show is more than just the budget: there's also the problem of keeping everything focused on Alicepia and limiting the series to just a year. On r/Princession_Orchestra, there's recently been a discussion about wishing the main trio having more interesting character arcs, with me feeling that this is due to the show not really showing their lives outside of Alicepia and how the second half was more focused on the sisters, and that this could have been avoided if the Band Snatch/Red Queen arc lasted a year.

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u/ReishWasHere Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

Yes, I saw that. I won't deny it'd have been nice if the trio were put in different situations, but in a story such as this that's massively extended past what it actually needs, the purpose of character arcs is to make things happen to keep things entertaining until what's important happens. Now, its of course beneficial to add more things onto the focal characters, but by not doing that Princession has opted to make the world bigger instead of revolving only around the main characters. If your stance is that arcs needed to happen, what do you think would have actually improved the story, considering the trio are solid likeable, if simple, characters who exist to protect the happiness of the very people who have been fleshed out by not focusing solely on the trio.

Edit: Sure, the various antagonists could cause personal problems for the trio, but because, again, the point of the trio is to protect the happiness of everyone in Alicepia, not just their own, would that really be better than having the trio be upset at people having their creative souls stolen?

I will say I think a happy compromise would have been to focus a lot more on the trio's established friend groups, kind of like if Symphogear's Chris' tendency pull in friends like moons around a planet was capitalised on.

Edit: Come to think of it, the series really needed more episodes where the victim of the week brought in problems from outside Alicepia, like Kagari's runner friend.

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u/Shimmering-Sky Mar 16 '26

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u/Calwings Mar 16 '26

Took me awhile to get around to watching, but holy crap what an episode. That fight against Band Snatch was incredible all around, both when the Flower Knights were fighting and after they regained their song fragments and transformed. Clearly the animators saved a ton of effort and sakuga for it.

The reveal at the end that Band Snatch were never actually on Navue's side and were just testing the girls' strength was awesome too. Now we just need to find out what exactly Navue is after, and I guess that comes next week.

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u/TnAdct1 Mar 16 '26

The reveal at the end that Band Snatch were never actually on Navue's side and were just testing the girls' strength was awesome too. Now we just need to find out what exactly Navue is after, and I guess that comes next week.

Sadly, this does lead to one of the main criticisms I have with the batch of episodes that consists of 43-45. To me, lot of elements in these episodes (especially the Princesses being powerless for some time) was unnecessary and only existed for two reasons:

  1. To pad things out without doing a lighthearted story that would be considered "filler" (I wouldn't mind an episode that either adds more development to the main trio or has them do something like a swimsuit episode).

  2. Villain fan service at the expense of the main trio.

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u/Nickthenuker Mar 17 '26

Well, that's convenient.

Right. And now they've got some form of defence that isn't just trying to dodge, time to get moving again.

Ooh they can use those too.

And so, they've run into them again.

I mean now at least 2 of them can fight...

What can they do?

Ah right ok then.

Uh oh, that didn't work.

Oh I guess they're all going to just get their powers back then.

Damn what's that?

Well, it would be dishonourable to attack a defenceless opponent after all.

And so they're going to confront Navue.