Reviews for 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams

(I've never played the game, this review is in the eyes of someone who only watched the anime.) *Warning: Spoilers* Dreams are wonderful things. We can make anything fictional into reality in our dreams, we can go from here, to the ends of the universe in our dreams, even if we cannot remember them. In Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100-nin no Ouji-sama, they took the dreams-can-be-taken-away-concept and made it into an absolute mess. This summer, my goal was to watch and rate every single otome game anime adaptation that's ever been made. I've cringed, I've cried, and I've wanted to die. But, no matter how bad any of thoseanimes were, they weren't boring. They had a good concept, just portrayed terribly. But, Yume Oukoku isn't like that. Yume Oukoku is just, well. Boring. Very boring. Hell, they couldn't even stick with the story 50% of the time. (I'll go more into detail about that later.)

Now, let's begin my review on Yume Oukoku.

Story: 5/10

In Yume Oukoku, a young girl (whom we never learn the name of cause they literally just call her Princess.) has found herself transported to another world. She is apparently the "Princess" that's supposed to awaken every single one of the boys inside a Royal Ring. Except, they literally only do it once. "Why are they inside a Royal Ring?! @_@" You may ask. Around whatever years ago every single prince from every country teamed up to attack the dream-eaters, but they have been sealed away into their royal families ring. From that, it sounds interesting, right? A young girl traveling across the world to save all these princes?! Well. They only save 1 prince, and the rest of the entire show is them traveling across the world helping princes who are supposed to be sealed away. They don't keep up with the story at all, it's boring. Honestly, in my opinion, I'd prefer it for them to go to awaken princes.

Art: 4/10

Honestly, the art, in the beginning, was really okay, I feel like as the show went on, it got lazier, messier, and awkwarder (is that a word?). When the shots would be from far away, their eyes would be too big, when we were close up their mouths looked out of place, or too big.

Sound: 3/10

I don't know if the room they were in was echoey, but sometimes the characters sounded really far away from the microphone, even in normal scenes. It was really distracting.

Character: 3/10

So, we have the normal personality-less female lead, we have the bubbly male lead #1, and we have the edgy male lead #2. The female lead was really annoying. Both male leads were annoying. I only tolerated like a character in this and it was that mermaid dude, he had like 3 lines but still had more personality than the mcs.

Enjoyment: 4/10

At first, I thought this anime was gonna be cute n cool, oh boy was I wrong. I ended up skipping through 4 episodes cause nothing plot development worthy was happening. Rather than having fun, watching this felt like a chore like I HAD to watch it. I was very, very bored.

Overall: 5/10

I think this anime had a lot going for it in the beginning, I feel like the team working on this got lazier as each episode passed, like they didn't wanna keep working on it like they were working on it cause they had too. This anime is very uneventful, boring, and cliched. I'd recommend you watch Meiji Tokyo Renka instead of this.

EARLY TL,DR: Do you play 100 sleeping princes (like I do)? You might actually enjoy this anime. Otherwise, be wary. STORY: As usual, it's your typical reverse harem in a fantasy setting. Don't expect anything groundbreaking as they don't really dive into the specifications of the heroine's powers, or the stats and skills of the princes, or the relevance of their typing, or anything that they do in the game. I feel like they could have referenced those more, as it would add at least more to the princes. The arcs are very straightforward and simple, I wish more could be done but given the time frameand the VAST amount of princes in the game, it would be difficult to accommodate.

CHARACTERS:

Other than Prince Avi and Kihel, the other characters don't really get a chance to grow to a big extent. I was a fan of several of the princes already shown, so I did enjoy the screentime, but them going away in favour of a new arc in a matter of 2 episodes just made me upset and longing to know them better, if that made any sense.

SOUND:

Didn't really enjoy the OSTs, they were really generic. BUT I do like that they implemented some of the music from the mobile game into the anime.

ART:

Basically, it's decent. Nothing extraordinary, but nothing I visibly cringed at either.

ENJOYMENT:

Here's the thing- I'm trash for the mobile game. The reason I find myself liking this anime is because I love playing it's game equivalent. If I had not been a fan of the game beforehand and had not been attached to the princes ***CHARACTER NAME SPOILER*** (particularly Avi, Douglas, and Graysia), I would not enjoy this series.

OVERALL:

Honestly, taking out my own personal enjoyment it'd be around a 5.5-6 for someone who's not familiar with the franchise.

Edit: If you're interested in seeing more of the princes, the shorts you can watch through the game itself give more personality and relationships to the princes- except the heroine princess isn't there.

A better effort than Senjuushi, just with subpar story plot, art and animation. That's all folks! Or was it...? In the times of recent, there is more anime popping up hoping to garner the niche female target audience, and yep, we all know how all these end up: un-original, un-inspiring and boring. And Yume Oukoku to Nemureru 100-nin no Ouji-sama (The Dream Kingdom and the 100 Sleeping Princes) is no different. Welp, another reverse-harem isekai? No, not anymore, yadda yadda, so please stop! Story; Can you believe it? Senjuushi-esque formula with ACTUAL plot! (Nah, just kidding, not a good one either.)Just like Senjuushi, don't expect the number in the title to purposefully reflect itself in the anime as it has a lot of loopholes apart from the game source. Now I have never played the game, but after watching this adaptation, it's immediately apparent that the production staff didn't have a complete whack of ideas how to progress this, and just said: "Hey, let's dumb down the game representation to our kingdom Princess and the various male Princes and let them commune with one another! And while at it, let's have some dream-eater villains participate in what seems to be some nonsensical stuff!" And believe me, I was stoned from beginning to end, no feelings, no cheats.

Director Yukina Hiiro, coming from her hit series Hitorijime My Hero, most likely did not find anything to talk about the source material, but tried the best she could to accommodate, and the sorry ass effort of the production staff backfired much.

Characters:

Let's just say that with the boring storyline comes equally boring MCs: namely the curious late-actress Princess of Traumere (it's so weird that she is not given a name, but then again it won't help either), and the 2 main princes (Avi and Kihel) who are like her personal bodyguards, travelling with her on the journey to rid of dream-eaters who are attacking the "many" Princes who have their dreams stolen. Other than that, the character designs are unappealing (female fans cry out loud?).

Art and animation:

I have never expected anything from Project No. 9, much alone their prowess in quality animation. The initial moment this anime appeared in the beginning with no studio representation (in MAL), I fully know the extent that this anime will fly under the radar and be unnoticeable for the future to come. The last time the studio was impressive (by that I mean the highest-registered MAL score) is on Ryuuou no Oshigoto this Winter and Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? in 2016. That should tell you how much quality was sacrificed to input for good storytelling.

Music:

At least this series had the cheek to have a decent OST. Both the OP by Moumoon and the ED by Prince Avi and Kihel are pleasant indeed to listen to. But that's the only good thing to make this series stand out and be noteworthy. Other than that, there is nothing much to say about everything else.

I will say this much: Unless you are a female fan of such anime like this AND are invested in the game, check this out. To the many others, just let this glide through your list, forget all about it and go for others instead.

TL;DR: Don't even bother. L;DR: On one fine morning, I crawled out of my dumpster and went to twitter for a morning's perusal of Kappei Yamaguchi's account. He'd retweeted something from an account called "yume 100," and being as nosy as I am, I realized he had voiced a super-minor character in this mobile otome game I'd never heard of. I love otome games, hitting the genre's peak demographic, and my curiosity dragged me to this MAL page. Well, Mr. Yamaguchi himself doesn't appear in this anime, but hey, I like ikemen, so I thought I'd give this show a shot. Why am I telling you the storyof how I wound up watching this anime? Probably because it's a more interesting plot than the one actually presented in Yume 100. Don't ask me to summarize the plot because I don't think I could tell you any of it, despite having finished this show literally minutes ago.

And characters? With a personality about as charming and and intriguing as a plastic water bottle, nameless-protagonist-heroine-princess provides little of substance to this anime. Luckily, her two male (princes, of course) companions are very good looking and also have something resembling a personality, and are probably the only things that kept me watching this thing till the end.

Do you want story?

Yume 100 doesn't have that.

Do you want romance?

Somehow, Avi and Kihel have more tension than Princess-heroine and... anyone. So this is the wrong place to look.

Do you want worldbuilding?

Hey, nothing here makes sense. What is Traumere? Eh. What kind of world is this? Who cares. How does this "dream" thing work, that big plot point about dream-power? Beats me. It's like if someone played a game of telephone and told Yume 100 "hey, remember, when world building, show, don't tell, okay?" and then Yume 100 went, "Okay, don't show, don't tell!"

Do you want animation?

I think if I misclicked my tabs and ended up watching one of my fourth-grade power point presentations with all of the crappy transitions included, I would still be witnessing better animation than Yume 100. It's not terrible(?), but I really could not believe this show came out in the last couple of years, since the quality makes me think of the 2000s. The character designs could be horribly off model at times, and the "fight" scenes reminded me of stickman flipbooks I used to draw in the corner of my math textbook. It's not good, folks.

Do you want... like, anything?

Let me give you a MAL tutorial real quick. You press the "anime" button at the top, then you press "top anime," and there you go--anything from 1 to 4,000 is more worth watching than this white bread of a show.

But, to be fair, my otome-game-loving heart still kind of enjoyed Yume 100. Yeah, it's mindless, trashy, and terrible in every sort of way, but then again, so am I.

Basically Senjuushi without the shitty plot twist and it actually has a plot. The characters look nice, The animation looks meh, BETTER THAN SENJUUSHUI. And enjoyment is a 2/10. Its one of those animes when they air im like for fuck sake do i really have to watch this? Im not into dropping animes so i want to finish it. It seems like a shitty plot and it has the most cringe english name. Dont even look at the english name you'll instantly regret even comming to this page. All i can say is, Are you really bored and do you wanna fucking kill yourself? Gothis. ( Or when this became a meme like SAO ofc )

I usually don't leave a bad review over anime adaptation of an otome game, normally we could still enjoy watching a bunch of ikemen. But after 4 eps i didn't get what's the point they want to show in this anime. They really give us unecessary flashback in eps 5. It's like they just want to throw a bunch of character introduction without really put an engaging plot. I don't think people curious about the game after watching this. Good thing about this anime is the artstyle. They're all so pretty. But that's it. No unique/engaging story, no explanation about what's their goal, no maps, no emotinalattachment to the characters. I think you wouldn't enjoy it at all.

Sorry (◞‸◟ㆀ)

Good OP. What a song! "Afureru Hikari" (Overflowing Light) by Moumoon goes straight to my Top-3 this season's OP (struggling at the podium with Tonegawa and Banana Fish ones). They are a Pop duo (guitar player/other instruments man and vocalist/percussionist lady) highly influenced by international folk and Jazz with astonishing artistic skills (miss YUKA is a heck of a singer; powerful, elegant and with a lovely tesiture) and an undeniable good taste for composition. The song sounds neat and polished, yet spontaneous... the word "delicious" is not too much to qualify this melody. Apparently fragile though solid in the inside. If you are abled, try to listen the acoustic liveversion Moumoon displayed during an online show at their own SSMM (SELF-SPAM ALERT: I excerped a clip from it in my own accounts -I'm too polite to link them here-).

I wouldn't dare to say that version is better than the official OP song, with its arrangements and post-production and stuff.

But by no means it's worse.

If you dislike this song, we cannot be friends.

Addendo: Mmmh... I feel kinda I was forgetting somewhat...

Addendo2: Ah! I remember it now! The anime!

Well... it is based upon a phone video game with puzzles and cute chibi guys and sh*t...

I mean... What you reasonably could expect from that?

Too good they managed to generate a not-that-terrible Isekai world out of it, too good they're holding the inverted harem's ground against the obvious mc's urges to start fujoshing as if tomorrow never comes.

So far they are holding her, I mean (those Fujoshi gals... you kow, they are unbeatable).

They even had stomach to put some decent self-parody gags here and there and did a re-interpretation of Alice in Wonderland not worse that the Tim Burton's ones...

.. wich is not exactly talking big, I'm aware of.

All in all, I'd like to see some of the artists and technicians involved with a better primal source.

The original ONAs weren't that bad, as well.

Addendo3: But what an OP! What an astonishing and delicious and wonderful song!

We will never say this too many times.

I initially started watching this anime, as the story seemed interesting; I knew that otome game based anime are not always the best, as the protagonist is usually kind of empty, but this show won over all the empty characters out there. I have NEVER seen such a plain, boring, and lifeless protagonist in any other show. Watching her adventure bored me to death, the only parts that kept me from abandoning the show are the boys' scenes, who try to cheer up the mood with some funny vibes, but are in any case destroyed by the inconsistent plot. This anime really sounded great reading theplot, and it's a pity that it turned out this bad.

I'll pray for a better remake. :)