It's a big call, but I'm going to go with Princess Tutu. Whenever I mention the name to people, they give me a look that is somewhere between confusion and amusement. I will agree, it has one of the silliest names ever. But, title aside, the show is completely fantastic. There is so much attention to detail in the art, even if it is almost ten years old. The characters are interesting, and the second season makes you question reality. There's also a lot of free will/determinist stuff kicking off, which is awesome for literary nerds, such as myself.
One of the things I loved about the show is its inclusion of classical music. Instead of being used in some gimmicky way, ballet and classical music is used to enhance the show, as the oprettas in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera are. I also love that the show has a very open-ended conclusion for the two main characters. While the less popular pairing gets to go off, get married and live happily ever after, the main heroine is left with nothing. Well, nothing except an incredibly hot ballet-dancing knight-turned-writer, who loves her unconditionally. Which is lucky for her, because she ends up stuck as a duck, with everyone else forgetting that she ever existed. One could say that the ending is very bittersweet, but that's what makes it amazing.
The shipping in this show is awesome. You really can't predict how the ships are going to go from the beginning. Actually, unless you've read spoilers, you've got next to no chance of guessing what's going to happen in the show. All of the characters go through a massive development process. Despite all the fairytale/ballet allusions, the characters in the show are very real, and display a lot of raw emotion. What you'd expect to be a children's anime turns out to be a very emotional and sometimes harsh journey. Like Drosselmeyer, the omnipresent story writer and controller of fate, I am a sucker for tragedies.
Is it sad to say that I miss this show? Because I do. I think I will go watch an episode now...
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