As a fair warning, the first few episodes might make you twitch. The artwork is amazingly twee, and it's initially set up to look like your typical saccharine pure and angelic magical girl crushing on the handsome bland prince who's dating the beautiful rich girl, and the prince's mean best friend keeps getting in her way, but it soon moves so far past that setup that you kick yourself for letting that hold you back.
Here's an award winning MV that supposedly has the power to seduce anyone to watch it:
There are strong fairy tale and fairy tale (and like) based ballets themes running throughout. The strongest ones from beginning to end are The Ugly Duckling and Swan Lake(why UD will be obvious in the first ep, SL elements are there from the start, but not really obvious for a few eps.) Each ep in either the first or last half (or maybe both...I can't remember which off the top of my head...I think the first half) opens with a narrated version of a well known or lesser known fairy tale, with a "what if" at the end, and then the actual episode's adventure is based on a ballet, with elements of the fairy tale mixed in.
It goes into extreme fairytale and storytelling deconstruction and meta, but any more than I've said is really, really spoilery.
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Here's an award winning MV that supposedly has the power to seduce anyone to watch it:
*it is possibly my favorite anime at this point*
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It goes into extreme fairytale and storytelling deconstruction and meta, but any more than I've said is really, really spoilery.