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I finished Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts. It wasn't bad, but I didn't love it either. Main girl Sariphi is the latest human girl sent as a sacrifice to the titular King of Beasts, but they wind up falling in love instead. The rest of the story is their struggle to have their romance accepted by the rest of the human-hating beast kingdom. There were some cute and heartwarming moments along the way, as well as some decent tension in a few of the arcs. For me, though, the big problem was the characters. Everyone felt incredibly flat. Sariphi was just a self-sacrificing idealistic good girl the whole way through. The King fell in love with her too quickly, in my opinion, and from then on a large part of his personality was just "loves Sariphi". Some of the side characters were fine, and I really liked the lizard and hyena royal guards. I hated the Anubis advisor, though, and he was by far the most important supporting character so that sucked.

I went into this hoping for another anime like Kakuriyo (which is fantasy/romance about a human girl who is kidnapped by an ogre god). Sadly, Sacrificial Princess was nowhere near as good as Kakuriyo. Like I said, I didn't hate it, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it to anyone else.