Snow White with the Red Hair

While the title of this one is a bit of a misnomer as it really doesn't follow the Snow White classic storyline at all, it is, so far, a charming slice of life style romance: Snow White with the Red Hair.

I'm on just episode 6 out of 24 and it's been pretty charming so far. Shirayuki is a girl with abnormally (for the area) red hair and is working as an apothecary in a kingdom that starts with T (it's not terribly important, so I'm not bothering to look it up). The prince of that country is...well, he's a dick. He decides he wants her as a concubine because of her beauty/strange hair. So instead of "reporting for duty" the next day, she instead prepares all the medicine that people might need, cuts off her long hair, and takes off for the next country.

While taking shelter outside an abandoned mansion, she runs into Zen (of the white hair, though it is short, but OF COURSE I am predisposed to like him). She doesn't know it at the time, but he's actually the second prince of this new country (Clarines?). However, Asshole Prince has people following her and they leave her a basket of poisoned apples (hear ye, hear ye, shades of Snow White). She isn't the one that takes a bite though -- Zen is. Then she's taken and is about to give herself up for the antidote for Zen when Zen bursts in through the door, announces who he is, and convinces Asshole Prince to give her up...or else it could start an incident between the two countries. He's a coward, so he does.

Shirayuki then moves off, finds a room to stay, and ultimately applies (and gets in) to be a court apothecary on her own merits. There was a Lord Asshole who wanted her removed, thinking some "nobody" should not have such easy access to the prince, but she does overcome it. And she's kidnapped (that red hair again) and I did like that, while Zen did come to rescue her, she also helped rescue herself with ingenuity and bravery. 

The main characters are very sweet together and I like the supporting cast of Zen's retainers (Mitsuhide, Kiki, and Obi). Am hoping it will have a decent resolution to the anime though I see from a search when I was grabbing an image that there was no 3rd season due to disappointing DVD sales or something, so not sure there's gonna be enough of an ending. But, we'll see. So far I am enjoying it.