English Dub Review: Sugar Apple Fairy Tale “A New Form”

Overview

Challe takes up his blade to stop Lafalle. Anne worries for Lusul and the warrior fairies who helped her. In this world where sugar confections bring good fortune, a silver sugar master and an obsidian fairy fight to hold on to their hopes for the future.

Our Take

Anne returns with Lusul and two other fairies, asking them to help Challe, and Lusul swipes Challe’s wing away from Lafalle, allowing Challe to fight back. With Hugh and his soldiers closing in, Lafalle falls to his presumed death and Challe gains possession of the wings, returning them to the fairies and setting them free. Anne and Challe return to Holly Leaf Castle, where the artisans, with help from Kat, Jonas, and Keith, have finished all the planned confections with ten days left before the festival. With time left, Anne decides to make more confections. Later on, Bridget tells Anne that her marriage with Elliot has been dissolved as Glen agrees to name Elliot his successor without getting married. During the night, Challe tells Anne that he and Lafalle were born from the stones gathered by Riselva to produce the next fairy king.

Challe is unsure if he is the fairy king, there will come a time when he is going to be but that time isn’t now. The Holy Beginnings Festival begins on the eve of the new year and Hugh tells Anne to think about her future reminding her that she has yet to accomplish anything as a silver sugar master. Elliot tells Anne that the Paige Workshop is in good hands and suggests that she leave. Anne decides to leave the workshop but is unsure about what she will do next. Anne, Challe, and Mithril happily look at the confections glowing.

Overall, this was one hell of a way to end things while leaving things open-ended in small ways. I hope Lafalle is gone for good this time. However, I also think that he will be back in the future as he’s dead-set on his goal to be a Fairy King. On the subject of that, Challe isn’t ready for that yet, but at the very least, he’ll be attached to Anne for the rest of his life. Anne wishes Challe the same as the former and puts all of the pieces together for the final presentation, as her role will play the bridge between humans and fairies. It remains to be seen if more Seasons will happen, but this was one hell of a tonal shift for the proceedings, and I hope to see where it goes at some point…