Greetings anime fans and fellow otaku! I have decided to take up making my own reviews based on the animes i watch, I'm no pro at this so i hope you will enjoy them anyway, and comment/offer your own (constructive) thoughts on the animes that i will review! this weeks review is from an anime called scrapped princess! WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!!!!

Story:

"The story takes place in a fantasy world and revolves around a 15-year-old girl named Pacifica Casull, who is the sister in a set of twins born to the royal family of a kingdom called Leinwan and then, literally, thrown away. The 5111th Grendel Prophecy predicts that she will be the "poison that will destroy the world" if she reaches her sixteenth birthday. To prevent this she is dropped off a cliff as an infant ("scrapped"). Believed to be dead, her survival remains no more than a rumour until she is already 15 years old.

Pacifica is rescued by a court wizard and adopted by the commoner Casull family. Her foster siblings, Shannon, a swordsman, and Raquel, a wizard, become her protectors. Both siblings are extremely powerful, and more often than not they easily break out of whatever difficult situation they face.

Her siblings travel with her throughout most of the story, protecting her from the numerous attempts on her life by people who fear the outcome of the prophecy. Both siblings' skills see constant use. By contrast, Pacifica is mostly a typical fifteen-year-old, and her inability to defend herself is a recurring source of self-doubt for her, as is the constantly repeated insistence that she will destroy the world. As the series progresses, the truth about the prophecy slowly comes to light, but even as more of the truth is revealed, more questions arise. Pacifica must discover her hidden destiny, even as powerful beings called Peacemakers, who are worshipped in this world as demi-gods, continually manoeuvre to have her destroyed, and, at the same time, a mysterious being called a Dragoon comes to the assistance of Pacifica and her guardians, offsetting to some extent the attack of the Peacemakers. It turns out that Pacifica is not only not "the poison that will destroy the world" but, in reality, mankind's last hope, and all part of a plan that was set in motion 5000 years before by scientists among the human resistance to aliens during what were called the Genesis Wars.

Before the Genesis Wars, the Peacemakers were created by humans as weapons against mankind's alien foes, but, determining to protect their human creators and prevent them from destroying themselves, the Peacemakers switched sides and assisted the aliens by imprisoning the survivors of the war in an artificial environment, and at the same time backing up their cultural development to the Middle Ages. The Peacemakers were able to do this with the help of a gifted psychic named Celia Mauser, whom they encouraged to leak information to them in exchange for the lives of her brother and sister. (Celia and her siblings bear a noticeable resemblance to Pacifica, Shannon, and Raquel). She was too late, her siblings died, and Celia Mauser's treason was for nothing. Celia was then kept in an area of phase space in a sort of virtual reality for 5000 years while mankind continued to live on unknowingly in an intangible cage, isolated on a single continent called Dusbin (literally, Dust bin). Her powerful mind was programmed into the artificial environment's control system, and the religion concocted by the aliens to control humanity worships her as a god.

The Peacemakers have watched over mankind, occasionally wiping out much of the population to keep the level of civilization down so mankind would not find out that they were trapped. As the Peacemakers put it, "You don't know you are trapped if all you've ever known is your cage." Humans are completely incapable of resisting the will of the Peacemakers. Just looking a Peacemaker in the eye renders a human obedient - even Shannon and Raquel are not immune to this. Pacifica Casull is the only human being in 5000 years who is immune to this control, and her ability will become communicable to others once she reaches her sixteenth birthday. This is why the Peacemakers are determined to destroy her, and why they have used the Grendel Prophecies to induce anyone who can to do the job for them. (Pacifica cannot be directly attacked by the Peacemakers. She must be attacked indirectly by a controlled human or group of humans). As things turn out, Pacifica's real brother, Prince Forsythe, who has seen the suffering inflicted on his people by the Peacemakers in their attempts to eliminate Pacifica, asks to meet her, and when her guardians allow it, he stabs her in the back, ten hours before she turns sixteen. This causes her to be removed to the phase sphere, where she meets Celia Mauser, who allows her to choose whether mankind will remain in their prison or not. Pacifica chooses freedom."

Now when i went into seeing this anime, i was skeptical, but at the same time very interested, some people in various forums would only describe this as being a matrix ripoff, and upon finishing it, i guess i can see (some) similarities, but only some, and i do belive that the story, while being recycled from multiple genres, i really did enjoy its "simple begining" and was blown away when after ep 11 or 12 when the rug was pulled out from under me and everything was changed (this is when it apparently goes the way of the matrix" whats starts off as swords and sorcery, ends up being that and a conspiracy involving a war 5000 years earlier against an alien force that set mankind back into the dark ages (think final fantasy 3/6) most common people have no knowlege of this any more and so they go about there lives. if one pays attention, you will notice little things during the first half of the anime that seem out of place things like character names being based on modern world weapons: casull, socom,peacemakers,parabellum, and others like it, also in ep one 2 girls talking about learning their fives multipication times tables (?) things like rank (colonel,brigadier general, spec ops captain/teams are all giveaways that something is not as it seems in this world)

as a result i have to give this animes story a 10 of 10 for all of little details and bait and switch plot points

voice acting: I loved the eng dub of this anime, and its really hard to not love it when it has basicly every really good voice actor you can think of here are some:

pacifica casull: kari wahlgren (wolfs rain (cher degre)final fantasy ff7 dirge of cerberus:shelk, final fantasy 12: ashe

shannon casull: crispin freeman (wolfs rain: tsume) xenosaga:albedo (also in ghost in the shell sac/2nd gig) noein (karasu)

raquel casull-bridget hoffman (mizuho kazami: onegai teacher) kos mos: xenosaga

leopold "leo" scorpos-yuri lowenthal (bleach) (girls bravo) gurren lagann,chrono crusade

winia chester: michelle ruff (rukia: bleach) chikane (kannazuki no miko)

zephiris: kate higgins (saber:fate stay night)

other voices include: steve blum and lia sargeant (spike speigel:cowboy bebop/ shion uzuki from xenosaga
good voice actors one and all, so i give the eng dub a 10/10

soundtrack: i wont stay on this very long only to say that the soundtrack fit the animes multi themes of happy/sad/orchestral/ and science fiction elements just fine

rating:10/10

over all: i have to give this anime a perfect 10, as it had just the right amount of action and commedy, while still being dramatic without making some of the darker issues to oppresive and forced, the animes outcome was complete and to my satisfaction as it had a really good ending, without being warped like the ending from neon genesis evangelion HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!