Fairy Gone Part 2

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.

The real score is 7.5 because it's the average between the two. I also watched the whole series so I'l explain briefly (for real) why this isn't perfectly good but at the same time why it isn't so utterly awful. - So why it isn't that great for many of us? It didn't have much plotwists. Plotwists are the very essence of an amazing story but this was just a bunch of adults fighting each other, I get it. They could have done better and some dialogs were too plain an obvious. - It's not that horrible, because the animation was nice to watch, the CGIwas great and it had solid action scenes PLUS women were extremely overwhelming in this one, you can't deny that. Did you realise that there are "revelation" scenes after most of the endings? Also, the OST was beautiful and well put and edited, that gets a point from me just for that. They left an open ending... Yes.

Hmm...I'm not really surprised at how sub-par this ended up, yet somehow I'm still disappointed. Maybe that's me asking too much of P.A. Works, but I guess that's really par for the course at this point. Story: With the peace of Unified Zesskia threatened by several different looming parties, the independent defense force of Dorothea is forced to buckle down and challenge the groups that seek to break down what was built up during the War of Unification. Which, along the way, our protagonists learn of the secret of the fairies and what the destruction of the town of Suna meant. Considering the fact that the entire firstepisode of Season 2 is a recap of the entire series up until that point, the quality and pacing of Fairy Gone's second half was to be shaky at best. While I wish I could say that Season 2 is just a continuation of the story, the reality of the show lends S2 to being a series of seemingly random events that are only loosely based on what was revealed in S1. The series achieves this weird result by introducing completely new characters and different threats to the unification that were never previously mentioned before. Plot points like the Black Fairy Tome, several character motivations, and the burning of Suna are used solely as connecting points to bridge new arcs to the series, acting like some antagonists and threats are things the audience should've known in the past, even though they were never mentioned prior. As a result, the series feels incredibly disjointed from episode to episode, often times speeding through doing something like raiding someone's house in less than half an episode before transitioning to something completely different that's only tangentially related to the events at hand. So much happens in the series, but almost none of it matters because the substance it provides has almost no handle in the endgame due to only a small fraction of the total character count having any kind of impact to the story. The story also has a problem with repeating or reminding the audience about certain events, character grievances, or even character names (first and last) ad nauseam, making it as if the repetition makes these things more important when really it doesn't matter since we've known about the burning of Suna since the first episode; repeating it for the 40th time doesn't do anything. The one point of the story I will give the show credit is the massive injection of Fairy lore given to us during the midway point. It's the one thing in the series that I've been wanting since the beginning, and its introduction and backstory to the fairies, Suna, and the Suna survivors actually had me invested in the series for a period of time. Still not worth waiting one and a half seasons for though. While S2 resolves the issue of the show sporting divergent storylines that end up meeting in the middle somewhere, the direction of S2 was still faulty at best. With random plot points and leads sprouting out of nowhere and multiple investigations, backstories, and talking points all appearing in the same episode, the structure and narrative progression of Fairy Gone II only exacerbates the show's running problem of fitting such a giant narrative with many moving parts into a relatively small timeframe. This is made worse when character motivations evaporate at the first instance of characters actually talking things out instead of being stubborn to their only character trait, thus getting rid of a lot of previous tension in favor for the endgame's looming threat mentioned nowhere else in the rest of the series. Characters: Honestly, there's not a lot to really talk about here in terms of the 'main' cast. Probably the only sticking point is the fact that practically everyone who was carried over from last season to this one has the same singular trait that makes up their character. Marlya still sees herself as the 'cursed child' (until she's told she's not), Free still struggles with the idea of him being an article of war (until he's told he's not), and Veronica's bloodlust for the man who burned down her village persists despite efforts saying it's not worth it (until she finally sits down and is told it's not worth it). And that's only for the 'main' characters. Many side characters don't really change all that much, and any specific ones the series deems prominent enough to get a backstory gets one if only to serve the plot in that specific moment. It's a strange waste of time because the building of such characters only fills in the allotted episode length, and needlessly complicates the story more because the enriched flavor text of these side characters vanishes the moment they're either unceremoniously killed off of the show, or just disappear because the role they serve is not needed. The antagonists are the most egregious of the bunch, taking the ideas of both the main characters' singular trait and the side characters' needlessly expanded backstories to create bad guys that literally don't even matter. (And I think a couple of them just don't exist some time during S1 and S2) I've never been one to agree with the motivation of "Apocalypse for the Sake of Destruction", and the series doing just that really does not do the show any favors. I get they did it for the reason of improving stakes, but the motivations of antagonists like these and others who only do something to 'prove a point' is so shallow that they don't even feel like characters. They feel like plot points instead of actual threats and it's frustrating to see some of them go "You wouldn't understand" when their motivation just doesn't make sense from the start. Seriously, how does 'resetting the world' save anything? How does 'destroying peace to show how fragile it is' accomplish ANYTHING worthwhile? Aesthetics: The art carries a similar quality to that of S1, and doesn't really differ from that. I personally don't like P.A. Works working off this muted color scheme, but I suppose the doom and gloom works for a series built around constantly threatening the government and usurping the fragile peace after a long war of unification. Still not a fan however, and the art ends up looking quite average to me. Despite that, I still do praise the designs of the fairies despite most to all of them sporting 3-D animation. Good, unique designs that really show how committed they were to making these fae creatures. Animation is another boon since it seemed like the team was really dedicated to making a lot of hand to hand combat scenes that had punch and movement to them instead of mostly gun fights and one or two sword scenes. Still would've liked some variety to the fights instead of the humans fighting other humans and the fairies fighting other fairies, but I guess the budget wasn't big enough to let them try and mix the two together and create some dynamism with their action. As for the OST, personally I still prefer "Knock on the Core". (K)NoW_NAME's "Still Standing" is an alright OP, but compared to Knock on the Core, I don't think it's as good even though they both sound remarkably similar. I think it's the heavier electric guitar that doesn't do it for me. "Stay Gold" is a bit of a different story. Its slower and more methodical beat works towards the show's favor due to every episode seemingly ending on a story beat that works towards the song's introduction. It's also fully in Japanese instead of being sung in English like the OPs are, which I think(?) lends the song to being a smoother listen, and is significantly better than its OP sister. Personal Enjoyment: Fairy Gone is a show that felt doomed from the start. The amount of moving parts this series has is staggering, and almost none of it felt significant enough for the plot to be as complex as it was. Hell they even brought back a previous antagonist that showed up last season and threw him to the wolves at the very end of this season because they realized that his 'story arc' was incomplete, only to be unceremoniously offed without any real impact to the plot because he had nothing of value to offer. Taking in the consideration of 3 mafias and its numerous members, 4 regional lords, a prime minister, the king, a fairy cult, a rogue soldier with a band of bandits, a fairy researcher, multiple miscellaneous characters who fill up the spaces, and Dorothea who holds the majority of the main characters, with each one of these serving as a moving part to the series as a whole, I'm not quite sure what P.A. Works was thinking when they made Fairy Gone. I'm frustrated because the same motto of "Great idea, Terrible Execution" is so prominent here that I'm retching at the fact that I have to repeat it. Again. The plot moves with such staggeringly little substance that I'm genuinely surprised I managed to make it to the end without getting a headache, and what little worth the series has is clouded and hidden behind so much poorly thought out antagonistic motivation and forced character un-interaction that I actually think the creators thought that having no one talk about anything made the show more serious or complex. Do you honestly want me to believe that the phrase "You wouldn't understand" is a meaningful response to another character asking why you're choosing to help end the world? Fairy Gone's recommendation is still a no from me. Feigned complexity is no substitute for actual substance, and the headache of trying to piece together all of these different cases and minor antagonists together, only for it to not matter in the end is such a slap in the face to the audience since there was no leadup prior to the series's 'final boss conclusion'. Seriously. The fairy cult shows up in like the last half to third of the series's entire runtime. What's the point of the other bad guys if THOSE bad guys were the real bad guys we should've watched out for all along?

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