Dec 31, 2010
One of the few ‘weird’ titles in my list, this one. Me being both male and adult…completely the opposite of the target-audience for the show. I started this because I was interested in what is currently made for the little ones in Japan, and wondered whether it would make me feel nostalgic. Or if I would even consider it good. Fairy Musketeers was picked because it was (and is) legally available for streaming on ANN and looked childish, so yeah. There you have it.
Plot- and premise wise, Fairy Musketeers is pretty unoriginal (no surprise, and no complaint): Take a Fairytale Book from your average shelf
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here in Europe, mix all the stories, add a LOT of über-cute à la Japan, put in an ‘our world’ in a separate dimension, an evil sorceress who wants to take over the world and make 3 classic heroines who originally have nothing to do with each other member of some order who act as a cute ‘special forces’ unit in service of a king.
Good things first: It is certainly watchable. It’s clearly not meant for me, but character interaction is good, morals and themes are where they should be and the tales are generally simple but effective (and still recognisable). Music-wise it’s repetitive, but joyful, cute and fitting. Also a big kudos for putting a human side to our evil sorceress, yet still make her dark enough, and not someone to reason with. Some quite good characters by the way (Gretel comes to mind). And I can really see 6 year old girls watching this without me raising a brow.
Still, when I said ‘some good characters’, much of the main cast fall outside that. They are quite bland, and some traits are really stupid and serve little purpose. Like our boy Souta’s talking to flowers for example. I guess they wanted to show a soft side, but he already is more that soft enough without it. Other examples include the constant (and irritating) yawing of our ‘Sleeping Beauty’ or the jealousy of Souta’s friend from school towards Snow-White’s advances on Souta. But maybe all this is negative because of my perspective. It’s all really harmless, both to the audience and to the story.
In short, Fairy Musketeers is a show for little girls that is morally sound, simple and over-cute. But there is nothing wrong with that. 5 or 6 on my rating scale for me, at least 7 for it’s target audience I would say.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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