Always a Catch! Review — C+

A cute girl who loves violence marries the prince who dumped her thinking she was somebody else. I enjoyed this. It’s cute. But I can’t help comparing it to the recent “May I Ask for One Final Thing?”, which has a similar premise of a cute princess who punches things. And in comparison “Always a Catch!”… lacks a punch. I’m sorry. But really. It comes across as half-assed. The first episode ends with the prince pulling a total asshole move of publicly dumping his fiancee and mistaking her for someone else, and ends with the hilarious joke of “Did you forget your glasses?”. Whereas Scarlet ends the first episode with a beautiful bloodbath. Then the prince is excused and rehabilitated. He actually dumped her because he loved his brother! Like, sure, but… it just doesn’t have much impact. The actual romance between Mimi and the prince wrapped up pretty quickly. Same with his brother and Mimi’s friend. It felt like we were padding things with Mimi fighting random bandits, the flirty…