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

Queen Laura Supporting

Maihara, Yuka Japanese

Catherine Supporting

Oka, Junko Japanese

Sebastian Supporting

Iijima, Hajime Japanese

Matias Supporting

Natsume, Maki Japanese

Dale Supporting

Sakaguchi, Daisuke Japanese

King Maurice Supporting

Gouda, Hozumi Japanese

Nathan Supporting

Shimono, Hiro Japanese

Huang, Zhiyu Assistant Producer

Tagashira, Shinobu Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Character Design, Animation Director, Key Animation

Gouda, Hozumi Sound Director

Higashida, Natsumi Episode Director

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Mar 23, 2025

TheEasternModie

Recommended

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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

Marinate1016

Not Recommended

Simply put, this was the worst show of Winter 2025. I don’t know who this series was made for, but it certainly wasn’t for me. An emotionally abusive story where no one respects the main character’s autonomy or allows her to make any choices, a weirdo prince who stalks her and a brother who enables the abuse. This is bad. The only reason it’s not getting a lower score is because Lettie was pretty, I found myself laughing at a few of her escape attempts and the art style was nice, but it’s one of the few shows where there’s nothing redeemable about it. ...

Arranged marriage series are usually ass, but at least they tend to have some redeemable qualities. Maybe some nice world building, character development, wholesome, SOMETHING where you could be like “yea, this wasn’t great, but it’s ok” Kisaki is actually impressive in that it has NOTHING good going for it besides the main character design. This show accomplishes nothing in 12 episodes other than making it seem like the way to get the girl of your dreams is to stalk her, lock her in a castle and force your way on her. Yes, I get the twist that happened 8 episodes in is supposed to make all of this go away and make me feel sympathetic for the prince and Lettie, it didn’t. If anything it made me angrier and resent the author more for not just starting the series with that instead of subjecting us to two months of what amounted to emotional and mental abuse. Like seriously, the “I’m going to marry you no matter what and you’ll want it too” gimmick is so uncomfortable and borderline rapey that each week this tested my no drop rule. I ended up sticking this out which is probably one of the greatest accomplishments in my seasonal anime watching career, up there with finishing Gibiate, but this is bad, and not in a generic tropey way. As a shoujosei fan I know a lot of authors like taboo stuff or “toxic” relationships but this was just horrible and not even cute or sexy in a forbidden sort of way.

As I said, the art style and character designs were the best part of the show. They look bright and aesthetically pleasing. Animation is horrible for most of the show, but there’s two episodes or so where it looks solid. Lettie’s seiyuu was great.

Don’t be like me and waste time watching this. There’s many better shows to watch from this past season and coming up next season, no need to burden yourself with this.

I want to escape Princess lessons gets 2, out of 10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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