Fairy Gone Part 2

This review will cover both seasons of Fairy Gone.

The best thing about watching an anime train-wreck is seeing your hope and exceptions for a series get destroyed like dirt. Like many others from the net, I was excited for Fairy Gone. It had a great appealing poster that stood out compared to other anime of the season. I really thought that Fairy Gone was going to anime of the year material alongside with Fruits Basket 2019 and Vinland Saga thanks to its great premise. Instead, what I got was a badly directed, uninspired, and incoherent train-wreck of a show that contradicts almost everything that ... I value in anime.

The biggest problem with the anime is that it doesn't explain the plot. It has a lot of things going on yet the show doesn't even bother to explain shit. It doesn't take the time to give you the character motivations instead of stuff that just happens for the sake of it. It doesn't feel like a story at all and because of that the show ultimately becomes pointless just like a pre-made asset flip game on Steam.
Sure you may have the assets of the project that you want to make but there should be a purpose of all this and in Fairy Gone case a story that is worth telling. One of the reasons why people have gotten interested in this medium is for the stories that the writers have in-stored for us to experience. The varied story-lines, the intriguing themes and character growth.

The fact that this action-fantasy show doesn't have a story is not only insulting to the eye but it completely contradicts why people watch anime in the first place.
You can get away from being plotless in a slice of life series but for an action fantasy show, it's really pathetic. By the time I got to the second half of the series aka Fairy Gone Season 1 Part 2, I stopped giving a rats ass about the plot as it was so incoherent. I tried to care about many of the events of the second half but once again the show still didn't learn from its mistakes that plagued the first half.
This is what happens when you don't explain the story to the viewer and as a result the writing and characters suffer because of this.

Fairy Gone is an anime original project yet the writing is on par with generic light novel garbage. It hamfists you with info-dumps, flashbacks, stock cliches, monologues etc.
Now here comes the sad part of Fairy Gone, the characters. I really wanted to like the characters because they could have been good but the light novel garbage writing and the show's failure to explain the story competently killed these characters as they came off as husks rather than actual people. Not only are there so many characters that the show expects us to care about every one of them. I can only remember 1 character in the show Marlya.

The rest of the characters I had to go to the Fairy Gone Wiki just to remember the other characters names and if I have to use outside assistance just to remember the names of your cast then something is wrong.

Getting back to Marlya, she's one of the most annoying and blandest female characters of 2019. Not only she's a total Mary Sue but her motivation is weak. I also hated how she contradicts the show's setting. She gets a spirit by touching one while people like Free have to get surgery just to get a spirit. I think the writers in Fairy Gone had no idea of what they were doing, and they just had to contradict the setting to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

I really wanted to like Free but the show wouldn't allow me to like him. He seems to be a cool character that has a decent amount of personality but thanks to the show's failure to explain the plot properly it breaks this character to a point where just becomes just another generic male action lead. The rest of the characters just exist for the sake of existing. They are not even worth mentioning all just like this lifeless shell of a plot and it includes Veronica who is nothing more than a plot device for Marlya.

Fairy Gone visually is on par with other P.A works in terms of art-style, background scenery and character designs but at the same time, it's not as consistent or colourful as other P.A works shows. For starters, the style gradually gets more inconsistent as it progresses.  The first 3 episodes are visually pleasing but after that, the show starts to deteriorate to mediocre territory making it the worst anime from P.A works visually. Animation while competent at times is rather stiff.
The kicker of Fairy Gone visuals is the crappy CGI. I honestly have never seen CGI used so poorly in a long while. It makes the show look cheaper than it actually is with still frames, horrid fight, choreography and choppy animation. It just breaks the immersion drastically.

I honestly forget this show had a soundtrack. Despite the show having a great number of tracks, the show seems to play the same handful of tracks over and over again to a point, it becomes grating.
The opening themes, on the other hand, were good and easily the best thing about Fairy Gone. The ending themes were good but nothing special.
Both the Original Japanese Audio and the Funimation Dub are solid. The voice actors suit the roles nicely and the line delivery is consistent.

Fairy Gone is a textbook example of great ideas but poor execution. The series had everything right from its great premise and setting but the writing, empty characters, inconsistent production values and atrocious story structure ultimately killed it.

There is so much better action and fantasy out there like Bungou Stray Dogs, Golden Kamuy and The Ancient Magus Bride. Fairy Gone is a failure that is a void of passion, substance and creativity and you should avoid it like the plague.

Welp, a finale is here and here I am, once again writing a review on this anime that was for no particular reasons split in two. But whatever, lets begin.

Story. Did it improve? Not really, but at least we got some movement and a somewhat OK antagonist. But it still looked like they had most of names, organisations and groups just as white noise to create a "look it is a believable world!", so no need in them.
Art&Sound. Well, it is the same. It is kinda ok, looks cheap when not a close view, opening is nice but the rest is really mediocre.
Characters. Any development? ... Not really, once again. Characters do change, but they just pull a complete 180 out of nowhere, even though before this they did not change no matter what happent. So pretty disappointing. Most characters still have plot armor and don't care about any shooting, until the time for them comes to die and they just perish without any notable resistance. I'd say that characters are the main problem in this anime as they do a really bad job of giving life to the world, of giving us emotions to care about and follow. They are just way too shallow, dull and one-dimensional.
Enjoyment. Well, I watched it - and I can't say anything more about it.
Sadly, S2 is just a way too minor improvement compared to a failed S1, don't waste your time on it.

Wlep with only 4 guys who made a review of this sequel, I'd say that only one rated this a 10 while the rest rated it either a 3 or a 4, cu'z while it was an original work by studio PA Works through Shimizu, Takako, well it was pretty obvious that he make quite a good action pack anime with his works with Banana Fish thought it was just too gay for me, Garo and Jojo which I find it way too over hyped. But having this anime have a good ending was nice though it was a bit lackluster with it's 1st season, ... when you talk about Dorothea being a government agency that was basically a rock in hard place when it's an honest organization that was surrounded by corruption and enemies from inside of the government, in which we always get to see them fumbling as if they're incompetent. But in this sequel we now see them making up for their fumbling when the Ein's Organization came out and decided to their evil plan into action. So, how do I rate this:

Story- Good 7: It did have a good plot, when we talk about mankind where after the Unification War, some sees mankind that needs to be culled and reduce to a population that need to be rebooted by a single leader that was chosen by the secret organization. The story plot also puts a government agency by the named Dorothea that operated in a very difficult situation, where it has to do things by the book even though someone was making things hard for them when it involves a secret organization within the government thus in the end up being a bunch of fumbling fools. However in this sequel they somehow were able to get a break when they finally knew who's behind all the trouble brewing within The Unified Zesskia Empire, also the fact that this has a good ending was enough to make up for this anime's short coming from the 1st season.

Art-Fair 6: fair enough as in one won't be seeing any marlya, or Ver's or any of the female cast's fanservices.

Sound-Good 7: That for the ending theme , Stay Gold (K)NoW_NAME:Ayaka Tachiba.


Character-Very Good 8: Well.when we talk about the characters we have Marlya Noel, who started a Gui Carlin's security detail until she was recruited by Free Underbar into Dorothea, but the thing about her was at one point her character was more like a wallflower where she doesn't do much at all , even when she has a rifle she seem to be very much of a poor shot , not only that she basically has some lesbian love for her former friend Veronica Thorne about her well you could say that her characters an antagonist was very much well played though In could've wished that Marlya could have killed her. Free Underbar was basically a kind of protagonist that charges first and think later, in fact that what he always does, in which his character most of the time was annoying, there was also the part where I would feel that he's a homo for Wolfran Row another antagonist whose role was well played where he was portrayed as a smartass that was able to outwit them Dorothea guys a lot, frankly I can say that this was one anime where the protagonist weren't having it easy against them bad guys, so I guess at one point this doesn't make this anime boring.

Enjoyment-Decent 4: Given that them Dorothea guys keep fumbling up and them making it up for this sequel was basically one part good but two parts boring.However given that this has a clean ending it did provide a something good as to my enjoyment.

Overall- Decent 4: It might not be the best anime, but it did provide a clean ending.