English Dub Review: Sugar Apple Fairy Tale “The Lake and the Green Workshop”

Overview

Anne has achieved her long-cherished dream but at great cost. She sets off to a new town determined to earn the title she’s been given and to gain back what she’s lost. And so, the next chapter of Anne’s adventure begins!

Our Take

The story continues this time around when Elliott tells Anne that Challe and Bridget are returning to the Paige workshop in Millsfield. Taking Elliott’s advice despite Keith’s warning, Anne decides to go to Millsfield. At night, Hugh approaches Anne offering to use his authority as the viscount to pressure Bridget into returning Challe, but Anne declines determined to resolve this by herself. The next day, Anne and Elliott travel to Millsfield together. Upon arrival, Anne meets Orland Langston, the workshop’s head of artisans, and then sees the workshop’s master Glen Paige to ask him to work for the Paige Workshop.

Bridget expresses her frustration she cannot become a silver sugar master due to her being the daughter of a school’s master as Glen hires Anne to be the workshop’s head of artisans due to the workshop’s decline in orders with the promise to return Challe’s wing if she successfully rebuilds the workshop. Refusing to accept this, an unhinged Bridget orders Challe to never see Anne again now in control of his wing. At night, Anne sneaks into the workshop and Challe comes in to meet Anne in secret against Bridget’s orders. Anne tells Challe she wants to stay together with Mithril and she is determined to do everything herself to prove her worth as a silver sugar master, which he accepts by asking her to wait for him.

 The biggest complaints from friends within my circles online regarding this show, are mostly about the blatant sexism in the series and I’m not bothered by it because, aside from enslaved fairies, isn’t that kind of the point? It’s a fictionalized 18th-century European setting, Sexism was a big thing back then so yes, Whether dumbass “Woke” people want to admit it or not. This is going to be a big part of Anne’s struggles because realistically that’s what a woman would’ve faced compared to how much society has progressed to give us the personal freedoms most parts of the world have now. It would’ve been weirder if she was this invincible “Mary-Sue” who fights “the patriarchy” with the emotional depth of a coffee table. And Challe coming to see Anne of his own accord is a big deal because it shows how much he’s grown much more openly towards her since the beginning of season 1. The real question is, how will she get him out of Bridget’s grasp? I guess we’ll find out…