Plot- and premise wise, Fairy Musketeers is pretty unoriginal (no surprise, and no complaint): Take a Fairytale Book from your average shelf 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.
