YMMV / Kilala Princess

• Cliché Storm: Dark elements of the plot aside, the starring cast is pretty typical for a shoujo series with its clumsy and sweet Genki Girl protagonist and the irritable but charming Bishōnen love interest.
• Complete Monster: Valdou is the leader of a race of mechanical humanoids who sees humans as naturally inferior, and leads a coup in the magical land of Paradiso. His ultimate plan is to create a land without any emotions where only machines rule; thousands of human dissenters are captured, brainwashed, or killed in concentration camps. During his search for the Seventh Princess and the Magic Tiara, he brainwashes Kilala's friend Erica to retrieve the tiara, then orders his men to shoot her in the head. After dropping his friendly pretense, Valdou shoots Kilala as she reunites with Rei, then captures the prince and plans to torture him into being thoroughly brainwashed, trying to kill Kilala several times. When he uses Princess Sylphy as a mole, Valdou plans to brainwash her too, and threatens Princess Jasmine's life in the world of Aladdin. His final, most despicable act of cruelty is to set a village on fire, endangering children orphaned under his rule, and mocking Rei over Kilala's apparent death in the blaze.
• Friendly Fandoms: With the Kingdom Hearts fanbase for its similarities.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Rei and Valdou are looking for "the seventh princess," with the six Disney Princesses being the first six. It's kinda funny when you consider that they could be looking for Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Anna, Elsa or Moana.
  • Also: six Disney princesses and a seventh being exclusive to a new story...huh? The seventh isn't Kairi? (We’ll also note that this time Ariel is amongst them instead of Alice.)
  • The concept of a Disney manga in general, since the manga style we all know today can be credited to Osamu Tezuka, who had Disney itself as one of his inspirations. And the Disney characters featured in the manga are drawn as close as possible to the original artstyle.
  • A royal trinket giving the titular character the ability to interact with the Disney Princesses and talk to animals. Are we talking about the Magic Tiara or the Amulet of Avalor?
  • Kilala’s name is written in Hiragana as “Kirara”. Come 2015 and we get Go! Princess Pretty Cure not only also having hopes and dreams as motifs but also featuring a main character named Kirara. And her name is written in Hiragana as well!
• Narm:
  • Ursula trying to make Rei her husband is distasteful, but her wedding dress is hilariously horrendous.
  • After defeating Valdou, Rei runs into the ruins of the church and runs to Kilala’s unconscious body. He weeps, believing he has lost her... and then there’s Tippe, also unconscious and curled inside Kilala’s collar.
• The Un-Twist: Kilala is the princess Rei is looking for. Really, if you know anything about shoujo manga, it should be obvious.
• Values Dissonance: Kilala kissing Rei, a complete stranger then, believing he needed a "true love's kiss" to wake him up like in the movies when he really was just sleeping, may turn off some readers.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Valdou is remarkably androgynous. For the record, he's male.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It's a shoujo manga starring the Disney Princesses, but it has remarkably dark moments for its target audience. Rei and Valdou's kingdom Paradiso is revealed to have been overtaken by robots enslaving the human race in concentration camps. The final volume has Valdou setting a church filled with children on fire as a last-ditch attempt, and Kilala running into the inferno to rescue them. They find out later she didn’t die, but Rei is so overtaken by grief he unflinchingly slays Valdou.

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