I think you should watch it

The first half may have a lot of plotlines that seem frivolous or melodramatic, but it provides great contrast for the actual masterpiece second half. If you're even a little entertained, watch until the end.

The story takes place in the years preceding and during the French Revolution. It's historical fiction: emphasis on fiction, a lot of the shit even with real people just didn't happen. So consider all the characters as just characters. I think the anime does a great job at development: character development and world development. Slowly over the course of 40 episodes you can see France change and the characters change with it. Oscar starts off as a noble and very loyal to the queen, but she's also a person with an extremely upstanding moral character, which, without giving too much away, doesn't lead to her staying that way.

It feels like a 70s anime for sure, but also the best 70s anime to exist.

I think Oscar may be my favorite anime character ever.

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    2 years ago

    That scene was completely unnecessary too, even the characters involved decide to forget about it. Could strip it out of the show and nothing would change.

    I also got bothered by the fake miscarriage plot in episode 15 literally never being brought up again, and after episode 19 certain events got brushed aside for Fersen shit for a while and

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    Polignac and Rosalie's arc kind of became an anticlimax and happened mostly off-screen

    But otherwise I think the show was really great and the ending was especially so good it made me forget about problems I had earlier in the series