7.524 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestKohaku's insecurities get the best of him as he gets in a fight with Yoi. Will the couple make amends?
Yoi Takiguchi is a first-year high school student, admired for her handsome looks and honest heart, which earned her the nickname “Prince.” One day, she bumps into Kohaku Ichimura, an upperclassman and another “Prince.” As the two grow closer, is what blossoms between them friendship or love? A youthful love story about a boy and a girl who are both called “Princes” begins.
Acting
Ichinomiya's layered delivery makes Yoi's guarded heart devastatingly readable
Direction
Moonlit visual motif turns every encounter into charged intimacy
Writing
Subverts 'tomboy falls for boy' trope with genuine mutual confusion
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Prince' archetype in shoujo manga historically served female desire for androgynous ideal partners; this series weaponizes it to explore how performing gender roles isolates both performers.
The title's 'clear moonlit dusk' refers to a specific Japanese poetic concept (oborozuki) describing moon visibility through haze — perfectly encoding the series' central theme: clarity emerging through emotional ambiguity.
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