English Dub Review: Sugar Apple Fairy Tale “The Fate of the Royal Medal; Anne and the Cat’s Sugar Confectionery “

Overview

“The Fate of the Royal Medal”

A shocking betrayal has left Anne’s dreams of becoming a silver sugar master shattered. The piece she had made for the exhibition has been stolen. With Anne feeling deeply shaken, all of her losses compound and send her falling into despair.

“Anne and the Cat’s Sugar Confectionery”

Anne leads the others on a tour of Lewiston’s sugar confectionaries to further study her art. Just when she spots a particularly beautiful confection in a shop, a man breaks it and runs away! The shop owner arrives and thinks that Anne is responsible!


Our Take

In what feels like an unexpected move from Crunchyroll, we now have two dubbed episodes this week with the continuing storyline of Anne attempting to enter the contest regardless of her screwed-up circumstances from her ex-friend Jonas causing such a massive betrayal. The sugar confection exhibition with Anne gatecrashing the ceremony, and the Silver Sugar Viscount Hugh Mercury allows her participation, pitting the distraught girl against the traitor to become a Silver Sugar Master. The choice by the king: the stolen work being declared as the winner, but the silver sugar being a required piece with Mithril appearing suddenly in the empty barrel, there’s only one way to prove it: by remaking the sugar confections themselves, with the butterfly motif as the king decrees. But it becomes clear that while Jonas’s work didn’t make the cut, Anne’s original work isn’t a clear-cut winner too, so there is no Silver Sugar Master this time round, but at least she still has an invitation for next year to hopefully show off her skills.

Overall, while the proceedings felt very contrived for sure, at least the way it sets Shalle up with an excuse to remain her companion is nice. The bit that I don’t understand is letting Anne deal with Jonas with just a bitch-slap. although it felt slightly satisfying on a personal level, it just feels casual and glossed over quickly with no real karma. I mean what was Jonas trying to accomplish? Did he just plan to steal other people’s work every time he needs one? And if he tried making it himself, everyone wouldn’t people suspect that something was up. It just seems like one of those cases where it was an inevitability that he would have been found out. While the other episode was a nice growth opportunity for Anne not only to improve as an artisan but to stop comparing herself to other people. Obviously for story reasons this kinda had to happen because if she instantly became a master it would narratively feel unearned to fit the “Hero’s Journey” story structure and would potentially remove big parts of the story and (and sometimes contrived) drama But hopefully this will lead to something big in later episodes.