Princess Tutu

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Genre: drama fantasy
Author: shinonome mizuo satou junichi itou ikuko
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Year: Aug 19, 2002 to May 19, 2003
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Status： Finished

13-year-old ballet student Ahiru is clumsy, good-hearted and sweet... and has a big secret. The mysterious Drosselmayer morphed a young duck into a girl to give her a mission: help a Prince to get the parts of his heart back. With that in mind, she morphs into Princess Tutu, whose magical dances ease the pain and purifies the bad feelings.

(Source: ANN) Princess Tutu was published in English by ADV Manga on January 18 and October 11, 2005, respectively.

Associated Names

Japanese: プリンセスチュチュ
English: Princess Tutu

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Arima Ahiru

Main

Ahiru (which translates to duck in Japanese) is in all reality, a duck herself; however, in the beginning of the series she was turned into a human girl by Drosselmeyer. He also bestowed upon her a pendent which causes Ahiru to transform into her other-se...
Fakir

Main

Fakir is the Knight of the story, and works through life watching over Myuuto to protect the Prince as planned. He is purposely cold and rude near the beginning of the series in an effort to focus solely on Myuuto, and also tries to sabotage Princess Tutu...
Kuroha Rue

Main

Rue is a very difficult character to read. When the tale begins, she is in a relationship with Myuuto more just because than anything else, yet once Myuuto is threatened from being taken away from her by gaining his heart, she finds that she does indeed c...
Myuuto

Main

Myuuto was once a heroic and kind Prince who protected the helpless, yet in one of his many battles he encountered a raven. The only way to defeat the monster was to shatter his heart to seal it away. In doing so, he lost all emotions and was left rather ...
Mai

Supporting

Mai is a brilliant scientist and one of the top assistants to Emperor Pilaf, the other being Shu. She is much brighter than Shu and Pilaf who are mainly comic relief characters while Mai is not, but she is always incompetent at her mission. She mainly app...
Neko-sensei

Supporting

Neko-sensei is a teacher at the ballet school that the main characters attend. He has an odd obsession with being married, and even threatens his students that they will have to marry him if they keep making mistakes in class. Quite often, Ahiru is the on...