If you loved Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2, try Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 1
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2

Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 1
What they share
Both films are directed by Masaki Tachibana, and they both carry the neon soaked, playful mood tags, and they sit in Action / Adventure / Animation / Drama / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 2, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Princess Principal Crown Handler: Chapter 1 is
Fog over gaslit bookshelves, winter 1899. A cracked teacup rolls across a prison van floor as three girls in skirts disable armed guards with clockwork precision. Meanwhile, a bishop’s chess piece sits upright in a surveillance drawer—this is le Carré with steam engines and switchblades.