NOTE: Stopped watching after episode 2 of season 2.
Series in one sentence:
A girl and a fairy fall in love, but only for 3 seconds per episode.
Series in more sentences:
After the death of her mother, Anne vows to follow in her footsteps and even surpass her by becoming a master sugar artisan. She plans to attend the upcoming competition for that much wanted medal, but can't travel the long and dangerous road without a bodyguard.
In a world where fairies are casually enslaved and made to assist humans, she settles on hiring a warrior fairy to escort her.
Though the stoic Challe makes for difficult company, she recognizes the kindness in him and the two agree to keep travelling together when she loses and is forced to extend her journey to success.
Rushed and unexciting story.
I don't like Anne. Her whole personality revolves around making sugar statues, and it's just not interesting to watch someone obsess about a matter that has no real consequences if she were to fail at it. Her mother is already dead, and wanting to symbolically send her soul off to Heaven only after having acquired some job title is not a conflict. I don't care. No one should care. And Anne herself doesn't care, because after all the whining and crying, she doesn't get the medal and then concludes it doesn't matter, as there's always next year.
What the hoot? Well, thanks for that, Sugar Apple Pie Fairly OddParents. Tell me nothing matters without telling me nothing matters.
Anne's mother should've been deadly ill or something. If Anne started this quest to status to save her mother or make her proud before dying, that would've made sense.
The warrior fairy is your typical eyes-closed-and-leaning-against-the-wall character. The speed in which he fell for Anne was really sudden, and every episode is basically the same deal; where the guy hardly speaks, and then a somewhat romantic scene with him and Anne randomly transpires for a few seconds. That's all he was good for. And for getting compliments about his appearance from other characters, even though the series is filled with human men who'd qualify as "beautiful" fairies if you stuck elven ears onto them.
There's a small fairy friend Anne travels with as well, and as is the case with all small variants, he is loud and annoying. Only the human-sized ones have any grace. How convenient for romance.
The heel turn antagonist was funny at the start. Psychopathically random is a good way to describe it. I didn't think Anne was especially nice to him, she downplayed his feelings for her constantly, so really, I thought "Lewl, good on you, weird little boy" as he rode off in his carriage, but he overstayed his welcome immediately.
After going on about wanting to marry Anne and acting so sweet, the sudden poisonous vitriol he exudes the rest of the series felt odd. Why did you want to marry her in the first place if you hate her? Was that an act, and if so, for what purpose?
He should've been a non-murderous rival from the start, it would've made the rest of his story arc make sense, because as of now, I don't even understand why Anne allows him to approach her. Why is this boy not in jail? He tried to get you eaten alive by wolves, fool.
Near the end of the season, the story suddenly reveals that the practise of sugar creation is a gendered profession. That's the conflict now, hope you like it.
Not once was this mentioned in the rest of the series, feels like lazy last-minute drama, but one that would've worked if that were the anime's main conflict since episode 1.
The reason women aren't welcome is because of some Adam and Eve rendition where the woman fell in love with a fairy, though it apparently just concerns a king and queen in a time period where all of humanity already exists.
..So, having that said, why is this one queen deemed the spokeswoman of all women..? I guess we can argue the same thing about the character that is Eve, but really.
This backstory also made me wonder what the point of all the fairy hatred even is. They never seemed to be a threat to the humans and I don't feel like the anime gave a good reason why this war and fairy slave trade came to be. The human king used to be the fairy king's slave, except not really, they were good friends..? Okey? The only "proper" reason people give in the show is basically "Because God said we are cool and fairies are not".
There's so much more they could've done with this. It's said that any living creature that stares down an object may birth a fairy, but I don't think it makes sense for human-like beings to emerge because a deer looked at a berry. Humanity needs a reason for their hatred, so why not change the story that only humans can create fairies, and when that happens, their life span is halved and their lose their soul to that fairy, rendering them unable to enter Heaven? That sounds like a fair reason to dislike the fairy race, or perhaps kill them as an attempt to get your soul back. Or maybe the slave trade emerged because fairies got guilted into serving the humans for existing.
Anything is better than "humans just be evil".
I wasn't planning on watching season 2, because I didn't expect it to give me anything worth my time, but I was presented an interesting cliffhanger. It hinges on the supposedly romantic relationship between Anne and Challe, though, which isn't developed at all. Like I said, every episode only spends a few seconds on it. It's also strange to know they've supposedly travelled together for a year, and their relationship hadn't already developed past to what it was on day 3 of knowing each other.
So then, why should I care that the guy sold his dick so Anne could win an objectively useless award in order to get an arbitrary job title for something she can practise and sell without?
Well, because if anything, I was curious if the anime was going to up the antics and present a real conflict worth following.
And of course it didn't.
Challe gives himself to a young lady who's madly in love with him, but very conveniently hasn't "disgraced his honour" in the days she's locked the man up inside her bedroom. They only kissed once, hugged, and she wanted her head caressed by him as she fell asleep. And listen, I'm kinda happy that this didn't turn into a molestation horror story, but it's very much what my pessimistic mind expected from this show. Season 2 barely started, and Challe has basically already been saved. Riveting.
I'm not watching more of this. I'm sure it'll be fine for some people, but I can't pretend to care for Anne's plight, nor this romance that looks like a list of bullet points getting crossed off.
I don't like Anne. Her whole personality revolves around making sugar statues, and it's just not interesting to watch someone obsess about a matter that has no real consequences if she were to fail at it. Her mother is already dead, and wanting to symbolically send her soul off to Heaven only after having acquired some job title is not a conflict. I don't care. No one should care. And Anne herself doesn't care, because after all the whining and crying, she doesn't get the medal and then concludes it doesn't matter, as there's always next year.
What the hoot? Well, thanks for that, Sugar Apple Pie Fairly OddParents. Tell me nothing matters without telling me nothing matters.
Anne's mother should've been deadly ill or something. If Anne started this quest to status to save her mother or make her proud before dying, that would've made sense.
The warrior fairy is your typical eyes-closed-and-leaning-against-the-wall character. The speed in which he fell for Anne was really sudden, and every episode is basically the same deal; where the guy hardly speaks, and then a somewhat romantic scene with him and Anne randomly transpires for a few seconds. That's all he was good for. And for getting compliments about his appearance from other characters, even though the series is filled with human men who'd qualify as "beautiful" fairies if you stuck elven ears onto them.
There's a small fairy friend Anne travels with as well, and as is the case with all small variants, he is loud and annoying. Only the human-sized ones have any grace. How convenient for romance.
The heel turn antagonist was funny at the start. Psychopathically random is a good way to describe it. I didn't think Anne was especially nice to him, she downplayed his feelings for her constantly, so really, I thought "Lewl, good on you, weird little boy" as he rode off in his carriage, but he overstayed his welcome immediately.
After going on about wanting to marry Anne and acting so sweet, the sudden poisonous vitriol he exudes the rest of the series felt odd. Why did you want to marry her in the first place if you hate her? Was that an act, and if so, for what purpose?
He should've been a non-murderous rival from the start, it would've made the rest of his story arc make sense, because as of now, I don't even understand why Anne allows him to approach her. Why is this boy not in jail? He tried to get you eaten alive by wolves, fool.
Near the end of the season, the story suddenly reveals that the practise of sugar creation is a gendered profession. That's the conflict now, hope you like it.
Not once was this mentioned in the rest of the series, feels like lazy last-minute drama, but one that would've worked if that were the anime's main conflict since episode 1.
The reason women aren't welcome is because of some Adam and Eve rendition where the woman fell in love with a fairy, though it apparently just concerns a king and queen in a time period where all of humanity already exists.
..So, having that said, why is this one queen deemed the spokeswoman of all women..? I guess we can argue the same thing about the character that is Eve, but really.
This backstory also made me wonder what the point of all the fairy hatred even is. They never seemed to be a threat to the humans and I don't feel like the anime gave a good reason why this war and fairy slave trade came to be. The human king used to be the fairy king's slave, except not really, they were good friends..? Okey? The only "proper" reason people give in the show is basically "Because God said we are cool and fairies are not".
There's so much more they could've done with this. It's said that any living creature that stares down an object may birth a fairy, but I don't think it makes sense for human-like beings to emerge because a deer looked at a berry. Humanity needs a reason for their hatred, so why not change the story that only humans can create fairies, and when that happens, their life span is halved and their lose their soul to that fairy, rendering them unable to enter Heaven? That sounds like a fair reason to dislike the fairy race, or perhaps kill them as an attempt to get your soul back. Or maybe the slave trade emerged because fairies got guilted into serving the humans for existing.
Anything is better than "humans just be evil".
I wasn't planning on watching season 2, because I didn't expect it to give me anything worth my time, but I was presented an interesting cliffhanger. It hinges on the supposedly romantic relationship between Anne and Challe, though, which isn't developed at all. Like I said, every episode only spends a few seconds on it. It's also strange to know they've supposedly travelled together for a year, and their relationship hadn't already developed past to what it was on day 3 of knowing each other.
So then, why should I care that the guy sold his dick so Anne could win an objectively useless award in order to get an arbitrary job title for something she can practise and sell without?
Well, because if anything, I was curious if the anime was going to up the antics and present a real conflict worth following.
And of course it didn't.
Challe gives himself to a young lady who's madly in love with him, but very conveniently hasn't "disgraced his honour" in the days she's locked the man up inside her bedroom. They only kissed once, hugged, and she wanted her head caressed by him as she fell asleep. And listen, I'm kinda happy that this didn't turn into a molestation horror story, but it's very much what my pessimistic mind expected from this show. Season 2 barely started, and Challe has basically already been saved. Riveting.
I'm not watching more of this. I'm sure it'll be fine for some people, but I can't pretend to care for Anne's plight, nor this romance that looks like a list of bullet points getting crossed off.
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