Prétear

Prétear (also known as Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Purītia or Prétear: The New Legend of Snow White) is a Reverse Harem magical girl series that was originally a four-volume manga published in 2000-2001 by Kadokawa. It was adapted into an thirteen-episode anime in 2001. In North America, both the anime and the manga were originally distributed by ADV, and the anime was later re-released by Funimation.
==Canon Overview==
Prétear follows Awayuki Himeno, a sixteen-year-old who is having trouble adjusting after her widowed father falls in love with and marries a rich woman with two daughters of her own. Things get more complicated when she meets the Leafe Knights, a group of men with magical powers who need the help of a magical girl called a Prétear to purge evil energy and prevent the awakening of a being called The Princess of Disaster. Himeno ends up agreeing to be the Prétear, but not all of the Knights accept her, and she comes to suspect that there's more to the connection between the Prétear and the Princess of Disaster than she's been told. The story incorporates many elements of Snow White as well as other traditional European fairy tales.
The series is notable for a few reasons. First, it stands out as an example of 2000's-era "mature/dark" magical girl stories, featuring tropes that would show up in later deconstruction-type series, such as a heroine who has martial arts abilities and the enemy being another magical girl who has turned evil. Second, Himeno's powers involve literally combining with members of the Leafe Knights in a transformation sequence that is fairly suggestive, which was a point of interest for many fans. Wikipedia: Prétear
==Fandom Overview==
===Tropes===
* Reverse Harem
===Pairings===
* Sasame x Takako
* Himeno x Hayate
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
* 30 Kisses: Hayate and Himeno by Candyland (Nov 2005-May 2006)
* Pretear: The Second Snowfall by prettyinpinkgal (September 2005-January 2009)
* Good Again by Omnicat (September 2015)
===Fanart===
* Pretear Sasame by namrudah11 (October 2006)
* Scripture by left lateral protein pruritus (March 2014)
* So there’s this very old not very well known magical girl anime called Prétear... by lzzlefzzle (November 2017)
===Cosplay===
* Pretear Cosplay by Raymar-Neko (February 2008)
* Pretear of Sound by Tesh-chan (August 2010)
* Fenrir by Erisaka (February 2012)
===Vids===
* (MAD) New Legend of Snow White Pretear by Shuri (February 2008)
* Pretear Love Story by Purpletastic18 (September 2009)
* Is This How It Ends? (ASMV) by Panta Na Xamogelas (May 2020)
===Meta===
* Echoes Fading Into Darkness by Ria (kessie), a Sasame character essay for reflections_2 (November 2004)
* Prétear Drinking Game by fiftyeightminutes (June 2012)
===Other===
* 30 Day Character Challenge: Day 26: An underrated character a gifset by madness-of-lost-memories (March 2019)
==Links & Resources==
* 新白雪姫伝説プリーティア | Shin Shirayuki-hime Densetsu Prétear | Prétear - The New Legend of Snow White at Archive of Our Own
* Prétear at FanFiction.Net
* pretear and leafeania at LiveJournal
* Shin Shirayukihime Densetsu Pretear at Yahoo! Groups (defunct)
* Project: Shirayuki (archived version), a Prétear character shrine collective
==References==
Category:Fandoms by Source Text
Category:Manga
Category:Anime