[Ended] The Royal Tutor, Simple is as Simple does.

My Opinion: This is a Pretty Boy show, or Bishounen as I believe it is called. It's just fluff about a bunch of charmingly drawn guy characters faffing about in whatever colorful slice of life setting the author chooses, in this case, the tutor of a Monarchy's second to fifth princes. Honestly, that's about all it amounts to at the end of the day. There's never really any suspense, because right out of the gate they establish that Heine is the be-all-end-all solution to all problems. I will give the show credit for Heine's backstory having proper depth, but since all of the show is otherwise shallow, that amounts to merely average instead of outstanding. Leonhard was especially annoying for the early episodes, but since I ended up finishing the show, I guess I can't say it was too bad, he grows out of it to a decent degree. A realistic degree, I'm tempted to say.
I fell like with a longer length, they could have played a few things weaker and slower, and also given the First Prince more screen time, and more material to flesh out the Counts story in all this in relation to the First Prince. It seems like there could be some dramatic depth there, but there isn't enough in the show as it is for me to judge whether that would have been well executed or not.

Impartial Opinion: This is a lovely and simple show, and nothing more. Nothing amazing stands out, but it also doesn't have any glaring flaws. Some tropes may grate on the nerves, but that will ultimately amount to a personal problem, because the whole point of the show is that the Princes grow as characters, so things never grate for too long.

Do you like Bishounen shows? Maybe you want to see what a Bishoujo show looks like in the mirror? Honestly I never cared for these kinds of shows, but I watched this all the way through to the end, so if nothing else, it's easy on the eyes and mind.

I do not feel strongly about this one, one way or the other.

It doesn't feel like I wasted my time, but on the same foot, I strongly wish I had more shows begging for my attention over this one. Perhaps in a more exciting set of season releases I would have overturned or dropped this one, but it filled time nicely and without incident.

[New][April 2017] The Royal Tutor

Roughly my reaction

Last Seen: Episode 2

Summary: The "Royal Tutor" is a special tutor carefully selected for the task of teaching the prince, and a title given only to the best teacher in the nation. Heine Wittgenstein has been called to the kingdom of Grannzreich to take on the role of the Royal Tutor. He's been ordered to raise the princes into worthy candidates for the throne, but he's greeted with four princes of completely different and unique personalities, all brothers, and all appear hostile to him from the start. How will Heine handle these princes who the previous Royal Tutors all fled from?

First Impression: Waste of Time. Episode 2 softened that up a bit.

My Opinion: At the first glance, this looked like Man-Service anime. What do they call it...Bi-Shounen I think? Basically a reverse harem. By episode two, I'm willing to roll back on that a pace. For starters, the main character is also a guy, not a girl, and he seems to pointedly be here for his own private interests, or so he says. The first episode made this show seem ridiculously shallow, and I'm not going to relent on that point. It is shallow, just not as shallow as I thought. Each of the characters are going to be defined by their generic archetype. The one thing I'm willing to 'spoil' from the second episode is that the main character, Heine Wittgenstein, is the Deus ex Machina of this show. That's basically all you need to know about the show, I believe. It's going to be about him interacting with four archetypes, and magically having the resources to always know the answer, while vague and effervescent 'plot' skulks around in the shadows. For the time being, I think it's amusing. I'm eager to see episode 3, and apply some more concrete material to my thinking. So far, we've only just seen the main character introduced to the four other mains. (five? six maybe? Does the dog count?).
Watch at least to episode two to get a grasp of the basic idea of the main characters, and if they're annoying you, I don't think there's going to be anything particularly amazing here, just a sort of light drama-comedy maybe. I'll report back with more if anything changes, of course.