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I stayed up late to finish my rewatch of Snow White with the Red Hair. It was just as good as I remembered! Shirayuki is a great character, she's so cheerful and proactive that she's always a joy to watch. Even when she gets into trouble she does everything she can to solve it herself. Zen is good too, he's not just some hunky prince for the main girl to swoon over. I like that their relationship is two fully realized characters with their own dreams coming together to bolster each other. Most other anime rarely handle romance in a way that I like, they're so often fraught with harems or dumb drama that the characters could solve if they just talked to each other. Snow White with the Red Hair is such a pleasant story by comparison. As an almost thirty-two year old man, I am not ashamed to say how giddy certain moments made me feel.

Everything else about it is good too, from the interesting herbalist stuff to the setting to the side characters and the subplots that bring it all together. This is one of the few anime where I would legitimately struggle to say anything bad about it, everything was great whether it was a stand-alone story or a longer arc or just the characters hanging out with each other. I guess the worst thing about it is that there's only 24 episodes, I would've happily stayed in that world a lot longer! Only the sheer strength of the shows I rank above it keeps it out of my top ten. I'm glad I rewatched this.