Kisaki Kyouiku kara Nigetai Watashi

Duchess Leticia Dorman has been betrothed to Crown Prince Clarke since age seven. She was once a rambunctious and free-spirited child, but the strict education she’s receiving to make her a fit future princess has really put a cramp in her lifestyle. Her only hope is that the prince might someday take an interest in someone else—so when Clarke shows up to a royal ball with an unknown woman at his side, Lettie is overcome with delight, presuming her dream has come true and her engagement has been broken off! She wastes no time retreating to an easygoing countryside life, but her newfound peace is cut short when the prince shows up and claims she’s still his fiancée! Clarke is determined to win Lettie over and marry her, while Lettie is determined to resist his charms and escape! Who will emerge victorious in this heart-pounding battle of wills?

(Source: J-Novel Club)

Dorman, Leticia Main

Shiraishi, Haruka Japanese

Clarke Main

Fukuyama, Jun Japanese

Neil Supporting

Okiayu, Ryoutarou Japanese

Maria Supporting

Suegara, Rie Japanese

Sebastian Supporting

Iijima, Hajime Japanese

Queen Laura Supporting

Maihara, Yuka Japanese

Matias Supporting

Natsume, Maki Japanese

Nathan Supporting

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Dale Supporting

Sakaguchi, Daisuke Japanese

King Maurice Supporting

Gouda, Hozumi Japanese

Tagashira, Shinobu Director, Character Design

Gouda, Hozumi Sound Director

Fukuyama, Jun Theme Song Performance

DIALOGUE+ Theme Song Performance

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Mar 23, 2025

TheEasternModie

Recommended

Funny

I am recommending this show to every hobby writer out there... to see how hard you can fumble simple concepts. I am not even going into the whole "kidnapping" aspect which you should already know to avoid (at least if you are trying to build a romance and not a horror show). But this show is a perfect example in how to not write a story. From setups that have no payoff (like Clarke saying that he doesn't want to take Leitica away from the village she started a new life in that never results in anything), to thematic cohesion (there are several side stories ... where the moral is to give someone or something its freedom even if you dislike that which obviously clashes with the main idea of the show), right until bottled character arcs (in which Prince Clarke notices, his decisions are the reason for why something is not as he would like, but instead of changing, he is just waiting for it to get better... and it does at some point), this show breaks with every basic rule of story telling. So if you are an upcoming writer and you believe that you are able to go against established story telling rules, watch this show to see how fast this can create a mess of a show.

Oh and while we are at it, if you are an art student, maybe check out episode 7 to see which colours you should not combine, because they make it really hard to read the text (not that it matters, but it's fascinating that this show even fails this simple task).

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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Mar 27, 2025

Comet_Official

Mixed Feelings

Now I normally try to look at all the positives of a series and objectively rank it but DAMN, I found myself skipping through this anime because it was super cringe. Now don't get me wrong there are aspects of this show I enjoyed. I loved the initial idea of the MC leaving the crown prince after finding out he was 'engaged" to someone else. Similar to 7th Time Loop or Trapped in a dating Sim. Honestly they should have stuck with that story line and split the Princes character into two characters. The childhood sweetheart and the Prince. Had she left the prince and ... maybe married the childhood sweetheart this anime could've been an 8/10. But instead we got some Stockholm syndrome BS where he essentially locks her up until she remembers she was "in Love" with him like 10 years ago. Although there are some cute moments in here I wouldn't recommend this unless you are REALLY bored. They should have split the prince's story line and made something more believable honestly. I would've been fine with the fake engagement, him coming after her thing, if he renounced his status and went to live the slow life with her too! That would have been more palatable but atlas we got this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 23, 2025

KANLen09

Not Recommended

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I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons — What kind of literacy crap is this? If your answer is Stockholm Syndrome, you're right!

Let's all agree to disagree: with power comes responsibility...except that when this power is being used to hold someone captive, which turns up the dials to 11 of a love-hate affair, it is not a wise way to commit a rash act, the size of a politically-wedded marriage in the making. Yet, this is what mangaka Izumi Sawano concocted with his/her series of Kisaki Kyouiku kara Nigetai Watashi a.k.a I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons, a show where a princess gets held ... captive and tortured for most of the strictly decentivized scenarios, only to want out when the prince consistently gaslights her into being in communion with other girls than the one he's wedded to. One thing's for certain: escape is foolproof; staying is insanity-proof.

In fantasy shows, political marriages happen for 1001 reasons, which can lead to either good or bad outcomes depending on the situation at hand. But when you're the daughter of a duke who's betrothed to the crown prince from a young age and being forced to be subjected to strict education a.k.a princess lessons while your future husband goes around to cheat with other women, that's just a relationship of red flags all over. This is the scenario for the red-headed "not so Shirayuki-hime" of Leticia Dorman being roped into a political marriage for fame and fortune, something that her Dorman family desires but not the young girl herself, forced to take on princess lessons from headmistress Laila until the day of her certified marriage with Crown Prince Clarke. And enough is enough, for Leticia can't bear to see her going through hardship when Clarke himself is just fooling around like a dork and subjugating the red-headed girl into pure Stockholm Syndrome a.k.a forced love; that escape is imminent, and she'll risk it all just to get out of the control that her loved ones have on her.

If it isn't already obvious enough, everything about this show ranges from cringe to pure weird, and even for a romance that's set in medieval times, arranged marriages don't get as creepy as this one does. I admire Leticia's relentless pursuit of freedom, but when her captors are one and far away, the many within the mansion itself, even having to think about escape, become second nature, guaranteed each and every time. And in hindsight, you'll definitely blame the crown prince for initiating this whole romance farce in the first place, but reality is far from the sweetest taste, because while Clarke genuinely had "love at first sight" with Leticia, it's at the circumstances of which he is in control of the entire situation, but he chooses to ignore it for the sole basis of teasing Leticia every now and then for her failures in escaping. Call Clarke every bit as deranged as you want; the red flags were there from the very start. And even though the contributors, ranging from Leticia's brother Nadir (who orchestrated the whole scenario) to the opposing kingdom outsiders of Prince Louis and his aide Lyle, are as ludicrous as they can come, this "comedy sitcom-cum-romance parody", while funny at times for breaking the 4th wall, is just painful to sit through and try to understand that this is a show where everything is "not" supposed to be taken seriously. I just don't get the gist of trying to subterfuge genres to create a thing that the outcome (as we know it) will turn out as bad as we foresaw.

Not even the 3rd-rate studio of EMT Squared nor the OST does wonders. This is just bare-bones animation at its finest (while it does look beautiful at times), and the OST is just completely forgettable...or, I might as well say it: charred to the brim.

A happy-go-lucky relationship that needs endless forms of psychological torture just to make ends meet? Sorry, no thanks, I'm outta here to puke my spit into a garbage waste trash for an infamy that we can "agree to disagree" is legitimate trash.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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