Princess Principal/Quotes

Quotes from Princess Principal
"Chise: I see Ange isn't the only one with a knack for lying. Dorothy: Spies are all liars. You're lying to me now, Chise. Chise: As are you. beat Dorothy: So what do you say we try being honest with each other? Chise: The idea has its charms. But if we stopped lying, we wouldn't be able to stay friends. Dorothy: Is that really friendship? Chise: Even parents and children lie to each other."

- Case 13

"Lily Galveston (after being called on her behaviour by Chise): Princess, I think you should choose your friends with more care. Princess: But I thought of you as a friend. Are you saying I should reconsider?"

- Case 11

Quotes about Princess Principal
"The reason why it wasn't in chronological order is because we wanted to show all of the characters in the first episode, so you could see what they do as a spy. However, the second episode is actually the first chronologically, but it isn't the flashiest one. We wanted something that would be an effective first episode. For example, Chise appears around the middle of the season and she doesn't exactly have too much screen time, but we did want to show her earlier in the series. That way it builds up this mystery with the viewers, so they could wonder about what happened to assemble the team. When it comes to what happened between the cases, truthfully speaking, we have the ideas, but nothing has officially been decided. But it might change depending on how the show does."

- Masaki Tachibana, director of Princess Principal, in conversation with Rai Kelly of Anime News Network, December 14, 2017

"The Black Lizard Planet was there ever since the first version of the script [Ichiro] Ohkouchi wrote up. It kind of explains Ange's personality of being a very strange, if not very unique, character. It emphasizes her lies. It signals to the audience when she is telling a lie. When it is something about her past that she wants to separate from her current self, she puts it in the perspective of the Black Lizard Planet. She uses it to set herself aside from what she used to be. I think the importance about having it as the "Black Lizard Planet" is the fact that everyone could understand that is a lie. But why it's specifically the "Black Lizard" Planet... Ohkouchi is the only one who knows about that."

- Masaki Tachibana, director of Princess Principal, in conversation with Rai Kelly of Anime News Network, December 14, 2017