What is presented to us is a world construction worthy of laughter, only in this way the story manages to extract some sign of emotion that is not mental fatigue and boredom. Contextualization, space, time? Forget it, none of this is important here. In fact, it is preferable to introduce several characters without any charisma and spit several monotonous dialogues in the viewer's face. Dialogues that when they have a small importance you want to remember them, because they leave you overloaded, and it's not as if the construction of the universe creates a minimum bond of familiarity to the point that you care about what is happening.
The narrative structure is so messed up that it leaves you lost most of the time, hoping that something might come along that will change the course of things and make the story finally take shape, I'll tell you a secret: it won't. Most of the scenes that add something to the story can be summed up in old people discussing politics in the most superficial and generic way possible and after that a sudden change of scenarios that makes you dizzy.
The characters suffer from a chronic personality problem, with no defining details. At no time did I feel connected to them, they don't have ambitions and aspirations relevant to the narrative, perhaps with the exception of the protagonist, who still manages to be as shallow as the others. Interpersonal communication between them is quite shallow and the dialogues do not work to create intimacy with the viewer, as they are very mechanized. The main characters don't have enough charisma to leverage the script and seem more extras with more screen time.
Although the fights are not excellent, they manage to be well choreographed, but still very average, they could be better. If it had a greater focus on fairies and action it might be useful, but fairies are so irrelevant that they only appear in the heat of the moment and pure juice of convenience during battles and to make matters worse they are done in CGI. A CGI so lame you want the fairy to disappear as quickly as possible, just so you don't have to keep looking at such a visual atrocity.
In the other aspects, the art is ok, neither good nor bad, tolerable I would say. At times the 2D animation looks well done, at other times it looks like it's run out of budget. The settings and environments are more detailed in the first few episodes, as are most things. The character design, however, is bad most of the time, in addition to being disproportionate, it seems to differ in every episode. The photography is quite simple and the composition, on the other hand, is exaggerated at times, especially in flashbacks, with retro filters that make it seem like you're looking at a low quality image. Well, if that was the intention then it worked.
All these aspects and their respective flaws lead us to an interesting conclusion: the direction is definitely not good (as if it wasn't already obvious), but it's not a complete disaster. Lots of economy scenes with static frames and close-ups while dialogue takes place well define the lack of ambition that Fairy Gone has.
The sound part is by far the best thing here, but not as memorable as it initially appears. The opening song is good but generic and it would be better if it were simpler. The closing song is excellent, with beautiful vocals and a melodic piano instrumental, really well done. The OST, however, is repeated about fifty thousand times so it loses a lot of the emotion, it's good at first, but nothing remarkable.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Fairy Gone was written by someone at the height of their laziness or during a get-together with its extremely drunk authors, to be honest, I think in either of those options everything would make more sense. There is potential in its premise, but it doesn't really do anything remarkable. It fails in the main aspects of building a good narrative and this extinguishes any small flame that the work could have had to be an elevating, extremely dull anime, a disaster.
