Princess Rouge: Legend of the Last Labyrinth – Yes, another 90s OAV!

If there is one show I watched with complete indifference it is Princess Rouge: Legend of the Last Labyrinth. What can I say about this show? The characters are flat. There isn’t any significant plot development. There is only two episodes and it just ends like there is going to be more when there isn’t. So, it’s incomplete.

You have this guy who is late for school and a random chick, Rouge, comes flying out of the air into his arms. She doesn’t remember who she is. Well, I’ve seen this plot device a thousand times. Some stuff then happens. Really, this show is uninteresting. This is honestly something you put on when you just want noise in the background but aren’t really paying attention to it. Then Rouge’s two sisters come by and start living with the guy and what not. So, it turns into a sort of weak version of Ah My Goddess.

Although, the relationship between the main guy, Yusuke, and Rouge tries to get somewhere at least unlike the relationship of Keiichi and Belldandy in the beginning. Like Rouge gets angry when Yusuke lies about Rouge’s background, and such. It isn’t really said out right but Rouge probably likes Yusuke.

A lot of the “plot” seems to be said in passing and mentioned briefly. Some points are never explained! Like the one sister shows Rouge a scar which was inflicted on her by Rouge. This is never explained how or why this happened. So, yeah it’s very incomplete.

There are a few fight scenes which are also boring and uninteresting.

There is a pretty huge difference in animation style from episodes 1 to 2. It’s weird. Like Rouge has a dark green hair color and longer hair in episode 1 and then light green and shorter hair in the second. There may have been a pause in time during the development of episode 1 to 2. I dunno, but a lot of the characters look different especially Rouge. Seems like they were trying to go for a more moe design in episode 2. I honestly like the style in episode 1 more.

There isn’t much else to say. I like the song used in the credits. :/ I could have been doing better things with my time which I was. I was actually filling out some of my study abroad stuff while I was watching. It really turned me off after about five minutes. This is a genuine overall bad watch. It’s not that it’s good bad like some of the other OAVs I’ve seen from the 90s so far. It’s bad bad. It could have been better, and maybe it could have been if they had some more episodes to work with, better plot and character development.