With their being a ton of anime produced every single anime season it's understandable that people would forget about one or two of them. With the show that i'm about to review for you all today being one of the shows that alot of people seem to have forgotten about as it's a show that isn't really talked about all that much anymore at least not as much as it was when this show first airing in 2015 and so then join me as I review the episode of the show that is a better version of Snow White then the upcoming live action Disney remake with the episode in question being called simply just "Encounter... Changing The Color Of Fate" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when a young herbalist is ordered by a snooty and arrogant prince to be his mistress she runs away from her home country and quickly befriends a group of people who might change her life for the better. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as the plot of the show was rather fun and silly which is something that's to be expected from the first episode of an anime like this one with the plot itself being almost really like a fairy tale in nature as well as being really rather entertaining and was also really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Fairy Tail star Brina Palencia as Shirayuki and anime voice acting legend Todd Haberkorn as Raji Shenazard. Also starring in this episode is Dragon Ball Z star Robert McCollum as Sakaki , Attack On Titan star Josh Grelle as Zen Wisteria Clarines , Ian Sinclair as Mitsuhide Roen , Fairy Tail star Jamie Marchi as Kiki Seiran , Cole Brown as Yoshi and Wendy Powell as Kino.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the episodes cast doing their best to turn in a really good performance. It's a just a shame that the script for this episode just isn't that as that good as it doesn't really give the cast a whole lot to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities are even meant and as a result of that the acting in this episodes does suffer as the cast can't give the type of performance that we know that they can give as the episodes just really won't allow them to do so as it is just that bad of a script that really does let the actors down really quite a bit as the script is just that generic with there not really being anything new added to the script that would be able to help the actors in any given way shape or form in the slightest.
Doing the animation for this episode and the series as a whole is the legends and the greats that are currently over at BONES. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with the episodes animation being alot better then what it really had any right to be as this kind of show really doesn't require great or even passable animation and yet this episode has some really stunning in it which really shouldn't be all that surprise as alot of Japanese anime has alot of really good animation in them with this show not really being all that different with the backgrounds in this episode being really stunning to look at and the characters having some really nice and fluid looking movements to them.
As a romance this episode does a fairly solid job of setting up the main romance of the show with both characters being rather perfect for each other. However what lets the romance is the fact that both characters really don't know each other before deciding that there meant for each other and while yes there is a case for love at first sight that's not something that always works all the well in works of fiction with this being one of those examples as both characters barely talk about their feelings towards each other with both characters just rushing through any conversation that they have as the episode has to move along to the next plot point when it should have been just as focused if not more focused on setting up this romance properly as it's this romance that will ultimately carry the show on moving forward where the plot of the episode won't really be remembered at all past this very first episode of the show.
One of the things that I really didn't like about this episode is the fact that this episode doesn't really take full advantage of it's fantasy setting. As there's nothing in this episode that just screams fantasy with the episode just looking like that it could take place in medevil times and not some far of fantasy world with the episode not really doing all that much to make this episodes setting look like a fantasy and while that might be the point as it's essentially a fairy tale told in anime form the makers of the show still should have some effort to make the setting of this show look like an actual fantasy setting and not look like something that would be right at home in a low rent Disney film which is ultimately what we end up with this very episode and it's something that really does let the episode as all it does is remind you of the lost potential of this show's setting instead of giving us a new setting that looks different and unique we instead get a setting that looks like every other fantasy setting out there with really nothing new added to it in the slightest at all.
This episode does somewhat include a love triangle except it's not something that really works all that well. As the other person in this love triangle isn't really given any ice qualities about him with him only having a crush on Shirayuki and nothing more then that which is a shame because a love triangle is something that could have set this show apart from all of the other romance shows out there and it would have given Shirayuki a chance to see that there's more to this other character then what she's been told but yet as the makers of the show didn't go that route what we're left is a character that just like all of the other characters in this episode feel rather undercooked which means that anything cool that the show could have done with it's characters in this episode would just feel out of place as the episode doesn't really take the time to fully develop it's main characters which is understandable as this is only the first episode but if you start the characters of on rocky ground then it doesn't really matter what you do with them next because the foundations will always be rocky at best.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty four minuets and thirteen seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for any TV anime to have and to this episodes credit not only does it make the most that it can do with that running time but it does also have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that large of running time with the only real issue being that this episode is far to short as you very easily could have had this debut episode be around forty five minuets which in turn would allow for the story to be more fully developed and it would also allow for the episodes to start to be more fully developed but yet as it is the story comes of good but the characters come of a being rather undercooked but I will admit that this very really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode some rather cute and funny moments in it the only real issue being tho is that episode puts more focus on the romance side of things when as it's a romantic comedy the focus should be fifty fifty and not leaning harder on either one and as such this episode does feel alot more like the first episode to a straight up romance show then it does the first episode of a romantic comedy but what comedy we do get in this episode was both cute and really funny to see in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this wasn't a bad first episode as it does show alot potential the issue being tho is that the episode doesn't take steps to reach potential and be as good as it really could be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Akagami No Shirayukihime fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the official Akagami No Shirayukihime fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that really alot of the images that are on the official Akagami No Shirayukihime fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.