English Dub Review: Sugar Apple Fairy Tale “Fairies and Humans and…

Overview

With both Anne and his wing taken from him, Challe follows Lafalle, doing as he’s ordered. They arrive at Lafalle’s stronghold, an abandoned fortress. Lafalle speaks of their origins and invites Challe to join him in inheriting the will of the Fairy King…

Our Take

Lafalle takes Anne and Challe to his stronghold in an abandoned fortress where he provides asylum for fairies. As Anne warms up beside a fireplace, Lafalle explains to Challe their origins, revealing that the sword that housed the stones they were born from belonged to the late fairy king: Riselva Cyril Sash, who envisioned that one of the fairies from the three stones will succeed him as fairy king, only they except a Diamond Fairy is yet to be born. Lafalle persuades Challe to join his cause to get revenge on the humans, liberate the fairies, and reclaim the fairy’s kingdom, but Challe refuses. Meanwhile, as word gets out about the crisis the Paige Workshop is going through, Keith rushes over to the castle to confront Elliot and criticize the workshop for working without Anne, unaware that Anne left so that work can continue.

Having understood Anne’s intent, he offers to help make confections for the festival. Back at the fortress, Lafalle kills a human to steal his barrel of silver sugar Anne makes a confection for him after threatening to kill her and take another member of the Paige Workshop hostage in her place. As Anne becomes increasingly worried about Challe, she runs away and meets several fairies including Lusul. She and the other fairies gave their wing to Lafelle believing that he would be the next fairy king and liberate them if they do whatever he says. Anne is distraught that these fairies would let Lafalle so easily take their freedom, and they don’t understand the difference between the promise of freedom or the fact they were all possibly duped into giving it away. But the episode ends on a cryptic note when Challe drops in and gives the fairies some much-needed wisdom to think about…

Overall, this episode dealt with a mix of drama and storytelling. And the whole situation is super fucked up on a different level. While I loved the subtle call-back to the previous season of a Fairy Anne accidentally created, I legitimately didn’t expect something like this from an anime. Knowing more about Lafalle felt important for the narrative as a whole. Based on observation, ever since Lafalle showed up, there’s been much more bloodshed in this series, and his approach to how he makes anyone serve him comes across as a manipulative cult leader who cares more about ruling over the fairies with a promise of something that’s most likely untrue which makes him come across as both dangerous and disingenuous and this is further highlighted by Lafalle believing that Anne and Challe would never work as a couple for a plethora of logical reasons. And after everything both Anne and Challe have witnessed, I’m hoping Challe’s final words in the episode knock some sense into Lafelle’s followers at some point, or if it’ll have some sort of payoff in the last two episodes.