Review of Fairy Gone

"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 another Fairy War and again...to find Veronica again. Marlya does have the narrative focus in the anime, but Free Underbar voiced by Tomoaki Maeno also gets narrative focus with similar instances to Marlya in finding someone. The premise itself is fine, it's just the execution in it all and how slow-paced, bogged down in world building of the political structures, massive expositions and huge character backstory dumps that ultimately makes Fairy Gone an absolute slog. yes Fairy Gone DOES have it's moments, especially when it actually goes into it's climax and things starts going into motion, but it's the build up and how slow paced everything is just made the experience watching Fairy Gone.....meh.

Fairy Gone's world building and character development was at LEAST decent in this respect and one of the core strengths to the anime, world building is very fleshed out especially with backstory of the previous war, current tech of the world of Fairy Gone and how intrinsic the fairy powers are (as much as it's apes from Jojo's Stands that LA joked at the start of the review) but Fairy Gone's world building was nonetheless very fleshed out. Character development does make the characters....decent, some not even needing backstory or development and we get their personality very easily. Of course Maryla and Free does get the majority of the character development and backstory but some of the Dorothean cast gets some backstory, sometimes outta nowhere...like Klara Kysenaria voiced by Ayaka Suwa. But again with how focused Fairy Gone is with it's world building and sporadic character backstory...it of course will slow down and bog down what is already very precarious, heavy plotlines and setting.

PA Works nonetheless did a great job in the animation, cept in the Fairy Jojo Stands and the humanoid mecha, where the CGI was janky which is given some grace with the humanoid mecha, but man the Fairy Jojo Stands were blatant and out-rightly...ugly at times. JOJO's STANDS were animated better than this. PA Works nonetheless great in it's character designs and it's backgrounding, everything else....just meh...yes even the FIGHTS....and uhhh that's saying something.

The voice cast at least make sup for it as the entire cast sounded like they did their all in this anime, from Kana Ichinose as Marlya, Tomoaki Maeno as Free and Ayaka Suwa as Klara. LA will gives special props to Kana Ichinose as Marlya and really the voice cast at least held up and they sounded like they did their all.

Fairy Gone will have a second season but as much as this first season did go out with a bang at the ending, Fairy Gone's first season DID NOT give LA a best impression and with it also being one of LA's anticipated animes of Spring 2019 and failing in multiple elements....yeah...LA was HIGHLY disappointed by this without a doubt as it's weakness of being such a slow-paced, scattershoted expositional, character fillery plot just outweighed it's strengths of fleshed out world building and some decent character backstory. In the worse light reminded LA of another PA Works work, Glasslip where it fleshed out it's supernatural element but did NOTHING with it's characters or plot (at least Fairy Gone HAS some motivation with it's characters and it's story elements are utilized to a fair degree). And no just "waiting for it to get better" doesn't work for as LA is looking at the first season and first season only and LA was not impressed to say the least and with it announcing a second season...LA isn't jumping at the notion of watching the second season but LA WILL get to watching it, one time or another. Fairy Gone's first season can for LA be summed up in three words...

Slow and DISAPPOINTED