The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (Season 1)

The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt (2022) is a Japanese comedy fantasy anime you can watch online on iFILM. Prince Wein has a plan: quietly auction off his tiny kingdom and retire in peace. He is, after all, far too smart to keep suffering through statecraft.

The problem is that nothing works as intended. Each scheme to accelerate the kingdom's collapse somehow ends in an accidental military victory or a surge of public loyalty. Wein, voiced by Soma Saito, reacts to each success with the quiet horror of a man whose exit keeps being cancelled. Rie Takahashi voices his indispensable aide Ninym, the only one who fully understands what he's doing — and why it keeps failing.

Directed by a rotating team including Motohiro Abe, the series ran twelve episodes in 2022 as a comedy of political incompetence played entirely straight by everyone except the audience. Stream The Genius Prince's Guide online on iFILM.