The last title I will be looking at today is Dame x Prince Anime Caravan. The story is about the princess of Inako, Ani Inako, it begins with her going to sign a treaty of peace in the country of Selenfare, which is the median between her country and Mildonia, the kingdom that threatens hers.

The story begins with Ani riding with Theo Colton, who is her knight on this journey. When they arrive, they take notice of how Selenfare's garden and castle is bigger than their own, and how Mildonia's army is much larger then the own. It is explained later that Inako is a small country, and it faces the threat of being eaten up by bigger, stronger countries. Really the only reason they make note of those things is to emphasize how much of country bumpkins these two are, as the show says. Ani herself is nice, she is also smarter than this show depicts her as, there is just a lot of absurdity that ensues so she is constantly confused.

So after she heads into the meeting, she encounters Luze Selen El Philizar, the prince of Selenfare. Luze is a boy who looks very much like a girl, he comes off as kind, but everything he says, he tells Ani that his country's prime minister had to tell him, making him seem like he would be incapable of making any decisions without the prime minister by his side, he probably couldn't make it through the day without him. It is shown later that the prime minister is just using him as a puppet and doesn't actually care about him.
Then there's the prince of Mildonia, Narek Ishru de Mildonia, who makes a incredibly dramatic entrance by way of blowing up the door and making various poses as he emerges from the smoke. Every sentence is about himself, he especially likes to talk about how handsome he himself is and even postpones the treaty meeting just to go have himself painted so he can give the portrait to Ani, since apparently, he can't take a hint. Luckily, the plot moves forward when 3 other representative of Mildonia enter the room.

After nothing else particularly interesting happens, Ani and Theo return to Inako and tell her parents that the mission was a success. The next day, her mother tells her that she wants her to go to Mildonia as a spy. But she's her daughter and the princess. Actually, it is stated earlier in the episode that Theo is the only knight their country has, and there doesn't seem to be any civilians in their nation either. Maybe they just neglected to show them?

It was possible to make this show about a princess who befriends the princes of the neighboring kingdoms and them going on adventures and such, which could of made for a cute concept if they were all pretty small, but the threat of war doesn't allow for that. But while this does have a few good jokes, it's a bit too silly in nature. I feel like this might of worked better as the visual novel it was based off of, and maybe the game just didn't translate into animation very well. It would of been nice of this were more of a action-adventure feel to it, and the story was more structured with that in mind, Ani design inspires that sort of feel as well. But what we get instead is a reverse harem that has too much emphasis on comedy, it could of been more but it falls short of that. That is it for now, but be sure to also read my impressions on Poputepipikku and IDOLISH7, and I will return tomorrow with more first impressions, until then, thank you for reading and have a wonderful day.