Bianca, Hime, Cindy, Zade, and Iria! All of them go to princess school so they can learn to be beautiful.
Little Princess School is a series of films by Vídeo Brinquedo. It's a knockoff of Disney's Disney Princess line with a few name and design changes.
Some films consist of three shorts. The shorts follow the adventures of a group of princesses at Princess School: Bianca (Snow White), Cindy (Cinderella), Hime (Mulan), Iria (Tiana), and Zade (Jasmine).
Iria is from a previous film by Video Brinquedo called The Frog Prince.
Little Princess School provides examples of:
- Ambiguously Related: Madame Drástica resembles Snow White's stepmother, but it's unclear if she is related to Bianca. Before you're tempted to think they're Unrelated in the Adaptation, Madame Drástica's name is actually a play on "madrasta," the Portuguese word for stepmother.
- Ambiguous Situation: Are the princesses younger versions of fairy tale heroines or their daughters? It would make sense for Cindy to be Cinderella's daughter with the prince, since she seems to already be a princess. Likewise, one of the adult teachers, Zel, is implied to be Rapunzel. On the other hand, it's possible Bianca is related to Madame Drástica because her father hasn't married her yet.
- "Arabian Nights" Days: In the episode about the genie, Zade is implied to come from one: she has a pet camel; when she wishes the genie makes the Princess School remind her of "home", sand dunes cover the forest, and, according to the dwarf janitor, the local animals have changed species: swans into macaws, wolves into crocodiles, and a dragon into a camel.
- Artistic Age: The princesses are 6-years old, but they don't look 6 and they don't sound 6 either. The characters they're based on are also all teens.
- Blush Stickers: Hime permanently has blush stickers on her cheeks.
- Bratty Half-Pint: The princesses casually make mean remarks about each other, their teachers, and students from another school for no reason.
- Butt-Monkey: Iria. The other princesses are pretty mean to her when she gets turned into a toad. Hime even outs herself as a fantastic racist.
- Captain Ersatz: The little princesses' designs and names clearly evoke their counterparts from Disney:
- Bianca is a Romance language (e.g., Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) name meaning 'white (feminine gender)', referring to their "Snow White" character (known in Portuguese as "Branca de Neve", in Spanish as "Blancanieves", and in Italian "Biancaneve").
- Cindy, while a legitimate girl's name, is here a shortened form of "Cinderella", and looks eerily like a mini version of the Disney one.
- Madame Drástica ("Madam Drastic"), the Stern Teacher, is based design-wise on the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
- Bela, one of the teachers, is a dead ringer for Belle, from Beauty and the Beast, also with her signature yellow dress.
- Dissonant Serenity: The princesses never stop smiling, no matter now dangerous the scenario is.
- Dull Surprise: All the characters have only one facial expression.
- Eyes Always Shut: Hime, the Asian princess, is always seen with her eyes shut.
- Fairy Tale Free-for-All: The series basically transplants versions of Disney Princesses to a school where they are taught ways to become princesses. Some episodes have the group interact with other fairy tale characters: Zel (Rapunzel, but not a version from Tangled) is the PE teacher; Goldilocks; the witch and her gingerbread house from Hansel and Gretel; Beauty from Beauty and the Beast; Iara, the mermaid from Brazilian Folklore.
- Five-Token Band: The princesses are intended to come from different ethnic backgrounds: Bianca and Cindy are white, and Hime, from her name (Japanese for 'princess'), seems to hail from East Asia. Iriá is from Video Brinquedo's The Frog Prince, which features an African princess. Zade is an Ersatz of Jasmine from Aladdin, which would make her Middle Eastern or Arab.
- Genie in a Bottle: In another episode, Zade finds a magic lamp with a genie inside in the same depot where Sleeping Beauty's spinning wheel is stored.
- Idiot Ball: The princesses find the spinning wheel from Sleeping Beauty. One by one, their reaction to it is "Hey what's this?" and poking themselves on the spindle, even after seeing the others fall asleep. One of the adults even pokes herself on the spindle just because. The only one who isn't carrying the Idiot Ball is, for some reason, Cindy.
- Informed Ability: Hime is supposed to be a really good swordfighter, but we never see her fight, although, in one episode, a sword is visible in her room.
- Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Hime is probably meant to be Chinese, but her name is the Japanese word for "princess" and she even wears a kimono. In this case, may be partially justified, as, in another episode, Hime explains she can read some Chinese texts despite being Japanese, since her grandmother is Chinese and taught her the language.
- Limited Wardrobe: The princesses never change out of their ballgowns, even when going to bed or in PE class.
- Magic Mirror: In the one about Sleeping Beauty's spinning wheel, one is held within a depot of magical items. The spirit of the mirror is the face of a big-lipped Black man with a purple afro hairdo.
- The Mockbuster: It resembles something out of the Disney Princess line, but it's an unauthorized film with a few changes to avoid legal problems.
- Oddly Small Organization: The school, despite its physical size, seems to only have five students.
- One-Gender School: The school is specifically for princesses. In one episode, there is a school for princes.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Bianca can communicate with animals.
- Talking Animal: One of the girls' teachers is a pink-furred talking rabbit.
- Wizarding School: The school is implied to teach magic, particularly in the second episode. All the characters mention magic casually, the girls are assigned to find a magical mandrake root, Zade wishes her teachers would demonstrate how to pronounce spells so she wouldn't have to read them, and Madam Drastic mentions how magic is prohibited in a sports competition.
- Writing Around Trademarks: Most of the characters resemble their Disney counterparts and have similar names to them. They also have traits from their Disney versions, such as Hime being good at sword-fighting and Bianca being a Friend to All Living Things. However, their exact fairy-tales are never addressed by name.
