Spoiler Free/TLDR: Fairy Ranmaru is about five fairies from different clans that go to earth to gain attachment which powers the fairy world. Visually it looks good enough and the side plot of each episode is captivating but most of the main cast ranges from boring to actually infuriating. The battle scenes are too slow to actually keep your interest and try to use flashy visuals to keep your attention. The actual plot about the fairy world is uninteresting because they dont do anything with it until the second half and even then its hard to call it a plot meaning once they stop giving us side stories about attachment it gets suuuuuper boring. Plot Fairy Ranmaru is a show about five fairies who all represent different elements Fire Water Wood Metal and Light and are sent down to earth to collect attachment from people by saving their heart they make out and then fight a demon in their brain. Each episode is split into two parts. In the good part first part one of the main characters meets a girl and finds out she has a problem which usually involves another person ruining their life in some way and then they go into their heart or brain or something its not clear to fight a demon that represents the person thats ruining their life. The episode concludes with something bad happening to the person which ranges from being cyberbullied to being arrested. How they do this? Unknown. Why they do this? Also unknown the person rarely actually deserves what happens to them. Characters Fairy Ranmaru is a show where I think the primary goal was just to have you fall in love with the pretty boy main characters but the writers forgot that they actually had to write characters people will like. 420https://i.pin.com/736x/43/b1/e0/43b1e0105bc6e2eca53b3ea78d3283ee.jpg From left to right we have Uruu Jyuka Ai Homura and Takara. The way I had to open the anilist page to remember most of their names should be really telling because the side characters are way more interesting than any of them. Uruu is a pompous asshole whos actively racist towards Homura and Homura is somehow more of a plot device than the girls who were explicitly written for the main characters to use to gain energy from for the fairy world. They have a storyline together where they hate each other that basically doesnt resolve and it just leaves you wondering why they were in the show in the first place. But they have one scene that makes you THINK its going to resolve and then it doesnt. In episode seven Homura gets injured and goes into like a pseudocoma while Jyuka my goat well get to him later hes actually awesome is healing him. In the following episode Uruu TRIES TO KILL HIM. 420https://files.catbox.moe/zx2lzw.png Uruu literally starts strangling him actively trying to kill him because... racism I guess? Its never really explained why hes doing it but it doesnt matter because Ai walks in. And after that its never brought up again Uruu has no consequences for trying to kill Homura and the anime just continues like nothing happened. Onto the characters I actually liked Jyuka is a silly little guy who just wants to be seen as cool and hes a surprisingly wellwritten character in comparison to the rest of the shows cast. Hes the only character in the entire show that actually feels like a real person with goals and motivation which might sound a little silly for a show about fairies but Jyuka is the only person with a motivation for doing anything outside of the poorly setup fairy world. Takara technically has one being horny for every woman but its shallow and isnt really super evident in his actions since its counterintuitive to the goal of the group And I want to talk about the titular character Ai Ranmaru since I talked about everything else but theres nothing to talk about. He doesnt have a personality his whole thing is that hes a really strong fighter but its hard to care about that when the battle scenes are boring. Characters but Awesome Every episode also includes a side character which is always a woman because this show is a straight woman fantasy and every episode Im thinking Wow I wish this show followed her instead. So lets look at some of the best 420https://files.catbox.moe/7j3uer.png Aru left is a daycare worker who Jyuka helps while her coworker is on maternity leave because her boss sucks and wont hire anyone else. I think that Aru and Jyuka had a really cute dynamic and this could have been its own sliceoflife show and done way better than this flop of a Romance. Its not tagged as Romance but its not really Ecchi. Shiina middle is a manga artist who is constantly being taken advantage of until Homura steps in to make her stand up to her boss. ...Except in a later episode she comes back and has a friend who gets her to do something similar anyway so why did we need Homura in the first place? This is another character that could have totally had her own show about the manga industry and trying to break into a creative industry in general and been more interesting than being in this show. and Tina a pole dancer and single mother after the father took all her money lost it all in gambling and left. Watching her struggle to survive could be really interesting aaaand then Takara steps in and fixes her problems by making out with her and suddenly Im bored out of my mind again. Visuals/Fight Scenes These are usually two wildly different categories but they go hand in hand because the only visuals that really stand out ARE the visuals in the fight scenes. The fight scenes are incredibly slow paced way too many dialogue pauses and the visuals are so flashy in what I can only assume is an attempt to distract you from how bad the fight scene is. 420https://files.catbox.moe/l55igc.png The symbolism of the eyes in the background of this episode is really interesting as this was an episode that was essentially about a girl on social media and how everyones always watching her. A lot of fight scenes have details like this that I think are really cool and they make me pay attention to not the fight scene. Not that I was paying attention anyway I already didnt care. The visuals of the other half of the show are nothing to write home about though its worth noting that the fairy versions of the main five are pretty ugly and also they make Takaras skin super dark for no reason which is really weird especially because in human form he has the same skin tone as Ai and Jyuka. 220https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/xBGo9BeTXibxcf3Pk8fkteyjzDI.jpg Conclusion This show had its moments I did enjoy some of it but it was very outweighed by the bad and the overwhelming boring. It was more boring than To Me The One Who Loved Youhttps://anilist.co/anime/139311/ToMeTheOneWhoLovedYou/ but it wasnt as bad as what I saw from MaliceDollhttps://anilist.co/anime/2261/Malicedoll/ so its gonna land right in the middle of them with a 3.5/10.