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After watching Sugar Apple Fairy Tale from beginning to end, I can give my honest review.
The story is about a young woman name Anne Halford who not only dreams of becoming a Silver Sugar Master, but also to become friends with the fairies. Despite the beautiful artwork in the anime, however, it's not all sugar confections and fairies. If anything Sugar Apple Fairy Tale opened our eyes to two realities.
1. The slavery and is he mistreatment of the fairies. In this world, if a fairy only has one wing, then that means that a human has a hold of it and they are the humans' servant. We can see many humans looking down on fairies and they even crush their wing when they disobey because, fun fact, their wings are also their hearts. Anne feel bad for the fairies and is shown to hate treating them like slaves. Moreover, she hates seeing the fairies get hurt.
2. The trials and challenges of becoming an artist. Through out the story Anne encounters many hardships on her journey. From rivals who would do anything, to win to harsh words of people who don't believe in her. A lot of this comes from the fact that she is a girl, and female sugar artist are not as common as male sugar artist.
Despite these two factors, Anne doesn't give up. She pushes forward and she keeps trying until she reaches her goal. All the while she remains kind to both the fairies and the humans who believe in her, including her friends and travel companions Mithril and Challe. I love how this anime doesn't brush over and/or sugarcoat (no pun intended) these two problems, but instead works them into the story to help Anne grow as a character and also balances the good and the bad.
There's also Challe Fen Challe, a fairy who not only serves as the deuteragonist, but also the main love interest for Anne. When we first meet him, he has a very sharp tongue and is pretty mean towards people especially ones he just met. But considering that the person he cared for, a human girl named Liz, was killed by her own kind, and then was forced to work for the humans as a warrior fairy, you can't really blame him. So when Anne comes by looking for a warrior fairy to protect her on her journey to Lewiston, he took this as an opportunity for her to buy him so that he can take his wing back and be free.
Now as mentioned before, Anne doesn't like how the fairies are treated and hates the fact that she has to buy a warrior fairy just to make sure she gets to Lewiston safely, so she tries to be kind to him, become friends with him, and even promised him to give his wing back.
Challe, of course, was pretty closed off at first, constantly reminding her that she is his master and that she must order to do something not ask. But as goes by he starts to open up to Anne and even tells her about Liz. And in Episode 4, when she gave him back his wing he chooses to stay with her, not as a servant but as a friend. And from there, their relationship starts to grow.
The other characters impact the story as well. We have other fairy characters like Mithril Lid Pod who travels with Anne to return a favor after she saved his life, Benjamin a sleepy little labor fairy who works for Cat, and Cathy a Labor fairy who works for Jonas.
We also have some human characters who show the good side and the bad side of humans The good side being shown by: Hugh Mercury who admires Anne skills and pushes her to be better, Alph Hingley (Cat) a Silver Sugar Master who respects Anne's hard work, and Kieth Powell a sincere artist who sees Anne as a worthy Rival.
And the bad side being shown by: Jonas Anders who brags about his skills, Sammy Jones who is just an all around jerk, and Bridget Page who is at Anne for being an artist as while as being a spoiled brat who that she can just take what ever she wants. (More on that later)
Music, art, and animation wise, it's pretty good too.
I really like the art style of this anime, from the character designs to the backgrounds it was done beautifully.
The animation is nice too, every movement and expressions were done carefully and with consideration.
The music, well the background music did a good job to emotion in certain scenes, and while some might not like the opening and the ending of the anime, I personally really like them.
From beginning to end these anime was a delight to watch and I love seeing Anne grow, because as an artist who is just started out I relate to Anne on a personal level. That being said, the first season of these anime does unfortunately end on a sad note, because Bridget who also fell in love with Challe, saw Sammy sabotage on the day of the contest and wouldn't speak up unless Challe agrees to become her servant. Challe agrees, because he knows that becoming a Silver Sugar Master was Anne's Dream, so he basically sold his freedom so that her dream can come true. However, this doesn't sour my feelings fo this anime. Because as I said before, this is just season one, season 2 has been confirmed and know deep down that Anne will get Challe. And with that knowledge and hope, as well as the fact that I want to see Bridget pay for her actions, you can bet that I will watch season 2 when it comes out.
Overall, I love Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. It has become one of my top five favorite anime, and if you're a fan of romance or fantasy that I highly recommend it.
After watching Sugar Apple Fairy Tale from beginning to end, I can give my honest review.
The story is about a young woman name Anne Halford who not only dreams of becoming a Silver Sugar Master, but also to become friends with the fairies. Despite the beautiful artwork in the anime, however, it's not all sugar confections and fairies. If anything Sugar Apple Fairy Tale opened our eyes to two realities.
1. The slavery and is he mistreatment of the fairies. In this world, if a fairy only has one wing, then that means that a human has a hold of it and they are the humans' servant. We can see many humans looking down on fairies and they even crush their wing when they disobey because, fun fact, their wings are also their hearts. Anne feel bad for the fairies and is shown to hate treating them like slaves. Moreover, she hates seeing the fairies get hurt.
2. The trials and challenges of becoming an artist. Through out the story Anne encounters many hardships on her journey. From rivals who would do anything, to win to harsh words of people who don't believe in her. A lot of this comes from the fact that she is a girl, and female sugar artist are not as common as male sugar artist.
Despite these two factors, Anne doesn't give up. She pushes forward and she keeps trying until she reaches her goal. All the while she remains kind to both the fairies and the humans who believe in her, including her friends and travel companions Mithril and Challe. I love how this anime doesn't brush over and/or sugarcoat (no pun intended) these two problems, but instead works them into the story to help Anne grow as a character and also balances the good and the bad.
There's also Challe Fen Challe, a fairy who not only serves as the deuteragonist, but also the main love interest for Anne. When we first meet him, he has a very sharp tongue and is pretty mean towards people especially ones he just met. But considering that the person he cared for, a human girl named Liz, was killed by her own kind, and then was forced to work for the humans as a warrior fairy, you can't really blame him. So when Anne comes by looking for a warrior fairy to protect her on her journey to Lewiston, he took this as an opportunity for her to buy him so that he can take his wing back and be free.
Now as mentioned before, Anne doesn't like how the fairies are treated and hates the fact that she has to buy a warrior fairy just to make sure she gets to Lewiston safely, so she tries to be kind to him, become friends with him, and even promised him to give his wing back.
Challe, of course, was pretty closed off at first, constantly reminding her that she is his master and that she must order to do something not ask. But as goes by he starts to open up to Anne and even tells her about Liz. And in Episode 4, when she gave him back his wing he chooses to stay with her, not as a servant but as a friend. And from there, their relationship starts to grow.
The other characters impact the story as well. We have other fairy characters like Mithril Lid Pod who travels with Anne to return a favor after she saved his life, Benjamin a sleepy little labor fairy who works for Cat, and Cathy a Labor fairy who works for Jonas.
We also have some human characters who show the good side and the bad side of humans The good side being shown by: Hugh Mercury who admires Anne skills and pushes her to be better, Alph Hingley (Cat) a Silver Sugar Master who respects Anne's hard work, and Kieth Powell a sincere artist who sees Anne as a worthy Rival.
And the bad side being shown by: Jonas Anders who brags about his skills, Sammy Jones who is just an all around jerk, and Bridget Page who is at Anne for being an artist as while as being a spoiled brat who that she can just take what ever she wants. (More on that later)
Music, art, and animation wise, it's pretty good too.
I really like the art style of this anime, from the character designs to the backgrounds it was done beautifully.
The animation is nice too, every movement and expressions were done carefully and with consideration.
The music, well the background music did a good job to emotion in certain scenes, and while some might not like the opening and the ending of the anime, I personally really like them.
From beginning to end these anime was a delight to watch and I love seeing Anne grow, because as an artist who is just started out I relate to Anne on a personal level. That being said, the first season of these anime does unfortunately end on a sad note, because Bridget who also fell in love with Challe, saw Sammy sabotage on the day of the contest and wouldn't speak up unless Challe agrees to become her servant. Challe agrees, because he knows that becoming a Silver Sugar Master was Anne's Dream, so he basically sold his freedom so that her dream can come true. However, this doesn't sour my feelings fo this anime. Because as I said before, this is just season one, season 2 has been confirmed and know deep down that Anne will get Challe. And with that knowledge and hope, as well as the fact that I want to see Bridget pay for her actions, you can bet that I will watch season 2 when it comes out.
Overall, I love Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. It has become one of my top five favorite anime, and if you're a fan of romance or fantasy that I highly recommend it.