Review of Fairy Gone

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 mindlesspower struggles. So much so that my ridicules of people telling me that "I don't understand", is truly an understatement.

So first, the story:
No.1, A story of the post-political war, where everyone can reside in peace...if not for the mechanical figures called "fairy soldiers". With a blow-whistle, their commands to the masters at ever beck and call.
No.2 A story about power struggles amongst mafia groups on the verge of assassinating one another when there's enough power to knock off opponents and their "summoning fairy" powers.
No. 3 A story about 2 girls, one lucky and the other, not so lucky. Marlya, a cursed child that bemoans and begets experiences while the other (Veronica) is smart and evasive (and it shows), but somehow that "friendship" tag seems to have been dropped off at some point.

And to think that this is ONLY the 1st cour? Well, well, wait for the Fall season to rethink all these thoughts again. And yes, P.A.Works, we're waiting.

The characters themselves are like too, a clusterfuck of characters that I can relate to some, but most of them (plus the royal ministers) are just too much deadweight to carry through.
Starting with Dorothea, the fairy organization posed to help bring peace unto the nation (that is United Zesskia), Marlya, Free Underbar, and their band of mercenaries come off as a group that is somewhat similar to daily-patrolling officers doing their duty to keep that peace running.
Add into the mix, the Seven Knights (Ray Dawn, Beevee Liscar and more to come), with their positions literally sounding like champions for causes, it's no wonder that as much as their background duties offer their façade and double-personality side of being traitors of a once political country.
Adding EVEN more fuel to the fire is the various mafia groups (Gui Carlin, Arcame) doing their own illegal shiz behind the scenes, and good luck trying to piece their connections (if you're paying extreme attention).

And as usual, I really wanted to advocate for P.A.Works' track record at shows they have done before (yes, we're looking at you Glasslip). The BAD side of P.A.Works. I don't know about you, but it seems that in recent times, the studio's magic in quality art and animation has begun its downfall with either experimentation of the tried-and-true formula of Sirius the Jaeger. Don't get me wrong, while the latter has some good spots here and there which makes it decently enjoyable, Fairy Gone is a convoluted mess of 2D artwork meshed with 3D "fairy" figures, while animation-wise it took a nosedive, while offering good scenic visuals. And that's all I have to say about it.

On the music side, [K]NoW_NAME is the anchor musician for the entire series, and I'd have to say that I was not prepared for the great-sounding BGM songs during the series' action plots, along with the literally "Knock on the Core" OP. It sounded great, but that's as much excitement as I will be getting for this series alone. Others were meh to OK.

Fairy Gone's 1st Cour is an absolute failure, how can Kenichi Suzuki and his production staff reel from this? It's time to either get cracking or change the formula altogether. Either way, 2 seasons to go. Let the 2nd Cour justify the underwhelms we have here.