English Dub Review: Million Arthur “The Legend Fairy”

Fusion is just a cheap tactic to make weak dubs look stronger.

Overview

Last time on Million Arthur, Dancho and her team had a run-in with Pharsalia — a fairy distorting time — during an epic battle against 900,000 Arthurs. This caused the gang to lose the fight, and because of this, Dancho had lost faith in herself as a leader. Over a month goes by and in the present day, the whole team has left Dancho to pursue their own passions — mostly without being unable to remark how terrible a leader she is.

Much to her surprise, Pharsalia shows up at her door for tea (and to make fun of her.) She explains to Dancho that she’s pretty set on destroying their history unless Dancho can prove it’s something worth preserving. Dancho gets her sh*t together and realizes she needs to get back on her task of destroying all the Excaliburs. In order to do that, she sets off to reunite her team.

Dancho manages to convince Tekken to rejoin the party with her fists, but Renkin appears to have better things to do — literally. Despite leaving the team, she’s been spending her time researching ways to defeat the Arthurs. She discovers that there’s a way to fuse with one’s fairy to awaken “hidden and infinite powers.” When an “Artillery Arthur” ambushes the gang, Renkin appears in the nick of time to help. As most of the gang is now back in the picture, they proceed in their plan to destroy all Excaliburs and possibly utilize Fairy Combine.

Our Take

Conceptually, there are a lot of cool things about this show. Classic heroic symbolism, timeline shenanigans, and a cast of colorful characters all make this series pretty enticing to watch. As far as dubs go, it has its problems (mainly the whole, “anime-girls-sound-like-babies-for-some-reason” thing) but hey, a dub is better than no dub, right? Even if it’s only the first two episodes of the second season, without any real context (or dub) for the first season. (Oh Funimation. Never change.) (By which we mean: please change.)

The good is sort of shrouded by bad, though. On the one hand, there’s an openly queer main character! On the other hand, her knockers are so anatomically incorrect that they look like they could fall off of her chest at any moment. It’s time to play a crowd favorite game: is this male-gazey or is it actual representation? Viewers, decide now!

So far, it’s hard to tell if this is a show that’s totally meant to be taken seriously. It’s got a good concept, but in the same breath, there’s some nonsensical logic that makes it difficult to dissect whether something’s meant to be a joke or not. For example, Dancho literally punched Tekken off of a cliff. Any character that wasn’t a “friend” to the group probably would have died from that, but instead, Tekken rips off his full-body bandages 5 seconds later, with no physical repercussions whatsoever.

The art style is pretty (save for certain anatomical features) and the music is fitting, but there’s so much hit or miss that it’s impossible to make a verdict until things heat up a little more. It would also help if Funimation could not only dub the entire show but actually release all the episodes, too.

Yeah, that’d help.