Audience reviews
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CompleteBS
This anime is so bad that the main thing I took away from it is “This is a great example of why 3D in anime is an awful thing.” The story is just bad. The characters suck, so much so that I find myself wishing half of them would get killed off so that I don’t have to deal with them being in the story anymore. The powers are just awful copies of Stands or Personas in a political apocalypse. The only thing saving this from being a 1 or 2 star review is the fact that it was just bearable enough to be able to watch it through to the end.
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Like an undetected tumor, Fairy Gone wormed its way into the popular seasonal anime before it began airing. Soon enough it became clear this show would be nothing but a cancer. I just wanted a dark fantasy anime filled with fun action scenes! Was that so much to ask for? Instead, what I got was a borderline unwatchable train wreck.
“Once upon a time, fairies were used as tools for war.”
This tagline and promising poster art were the bait at the end of P.A.Work’s fishing rod, and they successfully baited me into watching it.
Unfortunately, this is not about an army of Disney Tinker Bell fairies wielding rifles. What we got was closer to a cheap Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure knock-off; suspiciously the fifth part of Jojo was airing at the same time as this. Each main character is a soldier po…
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P.A. works is a studio I have a pretty positive history with. Charlotte, Another, Angel Beats, Canaan. Seems every time I review something of theirs, I like it quite a bit. This time, we're looking at Fairy Gone. An original anime by them from early 2019. Let's take a look and hope for the best.
Story:
We open to a flashback talking about the end of a war over unification where we see two young girls fleeing their village as it's destroyed. We also hear about fairy soldiers and see a group of them throw down their arms. Cut to the story proper, our heroine, Marlya, considers herself cursed since people always seem to die around her. Obviously, she's one of the girls from the village flashback and she's searching for the other, Veronica. She's acting as a guard at a mafia auction when sh…
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SPOILER FREE
This anime is an example of promotion . though it was enjoyable it was obviously holding back a details from the original sauce ( i am not sure if it was adapted form light novel or manga but i am guessing it is from the former ) .
Story
pretty good not much development though .
Art very good , they had CGI but its use was satisfactory , i guess the budget went to making the art rather than the story.
Character
i did not see any development with any of the characters.
English DUB
not good i thought they would put some effort but they did the average amount
i know i am being to harsh with this anime but i am upset that they are trying to hold back so much just for the sake of better manga or light novel sales
Read at the sourceN1ckWolf
On a boring day, have you ever watched a show in NatGeo or Animal Planet like how a lion spends around its day catching prey and what-nots? Interesting - yes. Educational - yes. Entertaining - a bit. Fun - well, not really. But at the end, you get to take away something good - some world fact trivia.
Fairy Gone is like one of those animes which you watch on a boring day. You know it's not going to be that great but you are hoping you can get a little entertainment.
However, unlike those wildlife shows - you are left with nothing. Except I got that little impression that it's just like watching Pokemon for grown-ups. The story is bland and confusing. The characters are forgettable. And the marriage of CGI and hand-drawn images are just mediocre.
While watching it my mind just wandered o…
Read at the sourceMGDawson
The best part about this anime is the sound and music - and sadly, everything after that is not good.
The background is a rich tapestry, yet the anime presents it almost like a kid's drawing in comparison - and it's also delivered in a rather lacklustre way. There's far too much told through flashbacks with no real reason. Is it to empaphise with the MC?
Which is another point - she's shown to be a competent fighter, well stamina'd and reasonably sturdy... until the end of episode 1. After that her aiming is horrible* she seems continually out of breath doing anything but walking, and after the initial story telling seems to be dumber than a stick of butter.
The other characters - the many, many other characters - appear for maybe 1 to 2 episodes and are never seen again. None of them…
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The Story and Art were there for a good to great anime. But unfortunately they never had any background noise or Character development to draw you in and ultimately it took away from my enjoyment of this anime. I hate that people's work turns out this way when they try so hard.
Story:
- Very Interesting with great twists along the way.
- May have been a little drug out.
ART:
- Fairies coming out was awesome and interesting.
- Character and background design was well done.
- Tried for the 3-D Fairy and it didn't work. it really took away from them. Also why do the fairies look the way they do? it was never explained in the anime.
Sound:
- Dub had clear voice acting. the main sounds (gun firing, swords clashing, heartbeats) was good but they didnt really have to much in the way of extra…
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The animation is amazing, the soundtrack is awesome, but if the story is not interesting enough, it sadly won't matter.
After the first couple of episodes, honest to god, there were some where I legit just fell asleep in the middle of it, or I kept skipping through scenes and watched entire episodes that way. I was bored out of my skull.
Fairies are basically this anime's version of weaponized Jojo stands. It's kind of unique. The story follows the members of what is something like the secret police of sorts, created specifically to oversee and control fairies in the country. But good lord, the story is a mess. You jump from one place to another, each time for something seemingly less important than the task at hand. No mission is ever really completed and you lose track of what's import…
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What do you expect from this? Don´t expect anything, just enjoy it. The Bad, the Nice and Bonus commentary.
1ST. Let´s start with the bad points. Spoiler-free.
-There´s no clear goal. That could be good or bad. For some people is bad because they need the bad guy, something to defeat like a shounen anime. However, this isn´t a shounen anime, isn´t that right? It could be good because there could be a serious plotwist in the second half (see 2nd season that started on 9th September 2019).
-This is a little biased opinion on my part, but I like FAIRIES. They don´t show how their world works in this anime. Not gonna tell you much about this ;-) I promised a spoiler-free review.
2ND. Now with the nice points.
- It´s a FAIRY anime. That means there are different types of fairies in differe…
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I have not written any reviews, and there is a reason this is my first one.
I was SO excited for this when I saw the main theme and the art styles and the first episode, was pretty solid and really got me excited for this series. So perhaps it got me too excited.
Story: let's jump around time for the first 6 episodes for flashbacks of characters that are mentioned only once. And then try to have all these majorly important characters explained only by text at the top of the screen saying who they are. And the last episode? Worst in any anime I have ever watched. I understand that there will be a part 2, but that last episode wasn't a cliffhanger. It was showing people an empty bottle of story, and then walking away from it the already bad nothingness that is the story.
And the Fairies th…
Read at the sourceEndrance88
I am so very disappointed by this show.
The first episode was decent, the animation is great, and the main character was very cute.
But that's where all the pros end. everything else is very very bad.
AND BORING
I was expecting some big epic plot to happen but all they did was look for some book while not accomplishing much of anything. They don't take their subplots anywhere
They didn't make the main character and her "stand" interesting enough.
The colors make you want to fall asleep.
The universe isn't properly explored.
IT DOESN'T GO ANYWHERE.
Avoid this anime at all costs. I thought it was going to be a great show like ergo proxy; boy was I wrong. Watch Mayonaka no Occult Koumuin instead, you'll get a lot more from it.
This youtube video pretty much sums up how I felt: https://w…
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"Once upon a time, one of the worst Anime adaptations existed", fixed that for you, MyAnimeList.
But seriously though, it's laughable how I remember my anticipation of the show from ready its synopsis before it was released, it's like that one movie you keep anticipating for a month until you're satisfied after having watched it. But Fairy Gone overwrote that kind of feeling for me by giving me a life-long implication for what to come. It was partly my fault, but Anime itself was no innocent angel either.
Originally planned to span 24 episodes, it was later announced that it was going to be a split cour of 2 parts, I don't know if that was the right thing to do to save a doomed adaptation like this, but it could go either way. Giving you a breather between the two parts to only torture you…
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I´m actually a bit surprised about the amount of hate, negative critique, bashing and low scoring Fairy Gone Part 1 has received both during and after its airtime. I really can´t understand most of the foundations of said hate and bashing either, I thought the show had several good qualities and enjoyed most parts of it. So, I will give my slightly more positive point of view in this review.
Shortly described, Fairy Gone centres around a continental scale political intrigue in a post war society. Before the war several nations existed, which most fought for its independence, but the outcome of the war was the unification of the continent under one leader and the war came to be called the unification war. In this world creatures called Fairy´s exists, which has different special abilities…
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This series is 'fairly gone' just like its name suggests.When I saw that this anime was an original show about how these soldiers will adapt to society after a war,I was expecting great things.However,little did I know that this anime has little to no idea of what its trying to achieve that Fairy Gone is one of the worst anime of this season.
Let's begin with one of the tools this show loved to use,flashbacks.Flashbacks are a good way to introduce to the viewers character backstory and is an easy tool to utilize.It seems almost impossible to misuse these assets but Fairy Gone managed to achieve this incredible feat.How does Fairy Gone achieve this?Simple,just slap flashbacks whenever you want,even if the timing is absolutely terrible.One example of this would be when a flashback of Maryla…
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"Once upon a time, fairies were discount Jojo's Stands..."
Fairy Gone was one of LA's most anticipated for the Spring 2019 and well...LA won't drag this along but Fairy Gone was underwhelming and for this being a first season, it didn't give LA the best impression for this anime. Like Fairy Gone from it's outset was a PA Works original anime and with the setting of it being in an aftermath of a fairy war, so LA would have thought this would be a much dramatic, serious and character driven anime, it got one out of the three.
Fairy Gone follows Marlya Noel voiced by Kana Ichinose, a fairy soldier who's extremely unlucky in her life with her trying to find her long lost friend Veronica Thorne voiced by Ayaka Fukuhara, she latter joins the Dorothean Army to uncover Fairy Weapons, a push to a…
Read at the sourceExaltedSenpai
It has been so long since I wrote a review but this anime is truly GONE. Fairy GONE is a terrible anime with a terrible story to boot. ~SPOILER FREE review~ TL;DR: Garbage anime do not bother watching, might cause brain damage.
Story:2/10
The entire premise of the anime is shallow and does not have much of anything. It just overloads you with mundane information and finishes the story way too quickly. It is just like a nightmare, but you could not escape from it.
Art:6/10
It has a decent art backing its disgraceful story. I cannot imagine how much money is spent on designing this piece of garbage, that is getting a second season. Truly disappointing with what is has done other than depicting the terrible storyline, it could have done some truly amazing things with their art.
Sound: 7/…
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
You know, I'll give P.A. Works this, the plot at least seems interesting this time. Compared to Sirius's seemingly generic story idea or how Irozuku is situated in high school, this one at least has a new setting. Unfortunately that's about the only pass for it I've got...
Story:
The fractured continent was brought together under the name of 'Unified Zesskia' nine years ago after a long period of war to unify the smaller nations thanks to the the liberal use of fairies and 'Fairy Soldiers', warriors created by implanting the creatures' organs into suitable hosts. As a victim of the war, Marlya Noel joins the neutral faction of Dorothea as the tensions of this newly unified nation arise all the while a figure from her past appears amidst the chaos.
Fairy Gone is a lot of things. It's…
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Fairy Gone? More like @kataneer's succinct words: Fairy is TRULY Gone.
This series brings back a ton of similarities to when P.A.Works and its staff were wanting to focus on more original stuff with interesting but overwhelming storylines, decent action-animation, and a lombastic OST to boot. That my friends, is the debut of last year's Sirius the Jaeger, the vampire show that is at least good, if not decent.
Fast forward another year or so, and with the director of the beloved Hataraku Saibou, and the abominable scriptwriting and composition of Ao Jumonji, comes Fairy Gone: a clusterfuck of political warfare, the power of friendship, and mindless power struggles. So much so that my ridicules of people telling me that "I don't understand", is truly an understatement.
So first, the story…
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OK, so the first part is over. While 24 episode anime could get better by doing something with the plot, those 12 episodes that we have on hand are just bad.
First problem: The plot. While it started like your typical adventure with goals for MC to achieve, it ended more like some "slice of life cop story" - simply put, nothing contributes to the main plot and nothing moves it. MC did not even get a bit closer to her goal, most of the cast simply does not have a goal to begin with. Yes, authors try to convince us there is some scheming and politics involved, but they look like child's first fan fiction.
Second problem: The world: mismatch of styles, you have legged and wheeled vehicles, you have robots with medieval cannons and infantry with 20th century guns and heroes with swords. If I a…
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I want to say congratulations to P.A. Works. Congratulations on making an original anime that I found almost as lifeless as Glasslip. Mind you, that’s an impressive feat. I’m a big fan of P.A. Works when it comes to their work so saying this wasn’t easy. But man, Fairy Gone is a show that I wish I watched on an airplane so I can forget about it after I land.
P.A. Works seems to have two modes for their projects: it’s either really creative that makes a supreme impression or something that looked like it could’ve be written by a college dropout. As a fan of P.A. Works, I’ve seen anime that were great, average, and terrible. Fairy Gone gets the honor of being uncharismatic trash. Because to be honest, even when there are garbage like Glasslip out there, that show managed to deliver some uni…
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