Princess Knight
penny April 13th, 2008
It was the early 80s, and I was watching a lot of Candy Candy (I had a doll of Candy Candy, which, much to my shock, was given away 
Worst thing) and my brother was into meccha (like Voltes V, Daimos, and Mazinger Z.. there’s another one with planes I can’t remember the title… ). I couldn’t have been more than 5 years old.
Finally, I found info online about Princess Knight (Ribon no Kishi).
I couldn’t remember its title for the longest time. It might have been called differently. The last I remember of it was watching it on TV before I started school. I can remember a hazy story about a princess (Princess Sapphire), forced to disguise herself as a boy (Prince Sapphire) because of an evil relative threatening to take the throne in the absence of a male heir. I was so frightened by the concept of her being found out and get hurt. There is a romantic angle to this story that was disturbing to me then. As the princess posed as a prince, she fell in love with a boy (and was loved back by this same boy when she was her girl self). Very peculiar but intruiging to a young viewer eh? And I remember thinking, “She’s a girl but she looks cute as a boy too!” Ambiguous thoughts indeed.
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Hope I can take pictures to show!
I’d easily pick Jazz. I would’ve picked Optimus Prime or Bumbleebee but people everywhere are also choosing them. So I’d go with the lesser known Autobot. More than that, Jazz is an uber cool car taking the form of a Porsche. Jazz for me is cooler than Bumbleebee, Ironhide or Ratchet. Prime’s cargo exterior is still a mystery for me (where the heck does it go whenever Prime transforms?!). Hot Rod will be another choice as he is another sports car in the cartoons but he is not one of the original robots of the show. And when Hot Rod became Rodimus Prime, kids all over are craving for him.
Anyway, back to Peter Cullen. It’s difficult to dig for photos of voice actors since they often are camery shy. There are some who dislike having their photos taken at all (like that woman doing the voices of Bart Simpson’s aunts). So I didn’t find a decent photo of him. But well, you can always look for yourselves.
