Love Through a Prism Is a Beautiful Fantasy That Forgets Its Own History
Love Through a Prism is a Netflix original anime, a historical romance set in 1910s England, and a new review takes its measure. The review praises the series' lush background art and romantic tone but finds its treatment of the period's social realities hollow. Class divides, sexism, and racism are reduced to personal obstacles easily overcome by earnest speech, while the British Empire and colonialism go unmentioned. The final act introduces major historical events only to gloss over them in favor of adventure-novel plot points, which forces the reviewer to accept the show as pure fantasy rather than grounded fiction. The verdict is that the romanticism is real and the craft is real, but the chosen setting is decoration the story declines to engage. The complaint lands harder because the show picked a real time and place and a diverse, international cast, then stepped around the history that came with that choice rather than confronting it.