Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Part 2: A Content Overview of the Anime

In Part 2 of our Sugar Apple Fairy Tale anime review, we explore the content from a Christian perspective. For our review of the series, visit Part 1 of our review on Sugar Apple Fairy Tale linked here.

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Content Guide: Introduction

This is Part 2 of our Sugar Apple Fairy Tale anime review series. In Part 1, we explored the storyline, characters, and themes from the anime (click here if you haven’t read it yet!).

Today, we are going to explore the content concerns in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale.

When I first considered watching Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, I remember struggling to find a content guide for the anime. Some discussion boards talked about the anime, but at the time I don’t think there was much out there. This is part of the reason I started Renewed Mind Reviews–to bridge the gap with anime content guides.

Now, there’s an IMDB parent guide, so I’m not sure if it’s new or if I just somehow missed it when I first considered watching the series. Of course, IMDB guides are great for quick reference, but they don’t necessarily contain everything (they’re user submitted) and aren’t from a faith-based perspective.

So, I hope my Sugar Apple Fairy Tale content guide is still helpful (if nothing else; it’s long and detailed).

I know my content guides can be overwhelming; I aim to be overly detailed as opposed to under-detailed because I don’t want anyone to get caught off guard by the anime. Of course, what I notice may not be what others notice, and it’s impossible to write a content guide to cover every single thing that someone might have issues with, but I try.

If you want a quick content guide, I recommend reading the “Quick Content Guide” I created above which is to the right of the embedded trailer.

But, if you want a super detailed exploration of the content in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, read on!

Language in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Overall, language is pretty mild in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. There are approximately 2 uses of d*mn and related and one use of b*st*rd. That’s basically it. Anime dubs aren’t always clean, and considering what else is out there, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale really doesn’t contain much cursing.

However, there are quite a few insults in the anime. Unkind phrases and insults include filthy curs, fool, stupid, and other insults listed below in the detailed content guide.

Additionally, exclamations include “Blast it!” and “Goodness.”

I really appreciate Sugar Apple Fairy Tale‘s avoidance of excessive cursing.

Please see detailed content guide below for more information.

Romance, Sex and Nudity in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale is a fantasy romance anime, so there’s certainly romance. Challe and Anne are the main characters and love interests. However, there is an age gap between them, and some viewers have expressed discomfort about this gap (for our take, read Part 1 of our review). Anne is about 15 years old at the start and Challe is much older (he’s a fairy). I think this comment on IMDB explains the age difference very well from the context of the story:

Show features a mild romance between a fifteen year old girl and a fairy who is over a century old (fairies age differently than humans. He appears roughly the same age as her, but he acts more mature). (source, Accessed 24 Nov 2025)

Challe and Anne are different races, and in the context of Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, Anne is, for all intents and purposes, an adult. She supports herself and travels with Challe and Mithril, her two friends. She may seem young at times, and it’s totally understandable if the age gap makes you uncomfortable, but she functions like an adult in the anime.

Challe and Anne’s relationship is chaste. They aren’t an official couple in the anime, and although Challe kisses her sometimes (cheek, forehead, etc) and holds her close/hugs her, but they don’t go further than that. Challe is extremely protective of Anne.

Brigit, an engaged woman, owns companion fairies, including Challe at one point. Brigit isn’t being respectful to her betrothed. Her actions are also a problem because she forces Challe into situations that are uncomfortable and intimate (though never “sordid” as Mithril would put it). They never have intercourse, although at one point she does make him carry her to bed, stroke her hair, and then she falls asleep on his thigh.

Finally, there are some examples of nudity in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale. They are never in a sexual context (one reoccurring example is a small female fairy who, when first introduced, is naked and has the figure of an adult woman despite being a newborn). She shows up in Episode 4 (4:56-5:55 is the approximate time stamp to avoid the first scene; she is made into a sugar statue later and time stamps are not included for this occurrence) and Episode 22.

Another female is shown naked in Episode 8. At first, it’s just top up with no cleavage, but later more becomes visible. However, she is not anatomically detailed (time stamp for skipping the 2nd occurrence in episode 8 is around 16:57-17:03).

Challe’s character could be…alluring for some women. He’s handsome, loyal, protective, sensual, and has a bit of a “bad boy” personality. I urge caution for female viewers because his character, in my opinion, encourages an unrealistic idea of men and could lead some women to an unhealthy comparison between Challe and their spouse/boyfriend.

Although Sugar Apple Fairy Tale is rated +12 and up, from a Christian discernment perspective, I think it could go closer to +14 and up due to this category.

Please see detailed parent guide below for more information.

Violence and Gore in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Despite Sugar Apple Fairy Tale’s cute aesthetic, there is a surprising amount of fighting and gore in the show.

Challe is a warrior fairy tasked with protecting Anne, which often involves fighting, blood, and gore. A character tries to murder another character in a rather intense scene of betrayal, and many characters are wounded.

It’s certainly not a happy go lucky show, but the darker tone does help establish the severed relationship between fairies and humans.

From a Christian review perspective, the anime requires discernment.

Please see detailed content guide below for more information.

Frightening and Intense Scenes in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale does have some frightening and intense scenes, especially related to the violence and gore. Anne is frequently targeted by ill-intentioned characters, causing her danger and distress.

See the detailed parent guide below for more information.

Substance Abuse in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Substances are very minimal in the anime, so there is very little of note.

See the detailed content guide below for more information.

Spiritual References in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

Sugar Apple Fairy Tale has a religion and worldview that varies from Biblical truth. Most of the humans treat fairies cruelly and unjustly.

See the detailed parent guide below for more information.

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Sugar Apple Fairy Tale: Detailed Content Guide

Language in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

• D*mn
• D*mned
• b*stard
• Piece of trash 
• You brute
• Frail little self
• Scarecrow (Challe’s nickname for Anne, repeated)
• Scrawny, awkward scarecrow
• Stupid one/Stupid
• Foolish human
• Little brat/brat
• Low life
• Are you a fool?/Fool/You’re a fool/Silly fool
• Idiots/Idiot
• Dim-witted/Dimwitted reprobate/Dimwit
• Coward
• Such a pain
• Warped and wretched monster
• Bird brained fool
• Petty tightwads
• Insulting Anne for being a female
• Louse
• Curse you
• You worm
• You weasel
• Pipsqueak
• Filthy curs 
• Wretch
• That monster
• Darling little sugar master
• Thoughtless fools
• Human scum
• Stubborn idiot
• Spineless idiots
• Little pest
• Nothing but a filthy human
• “Goodness” as exclamation. 
• Blast it.

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Sex and Nudity in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

General Concerns

• A male character frequently proposes to a female character at the start of the show.
• Sugar Apple Fairy Tale does not contain explicit sexual acts.
• Challe, the main character, is a stereotypical protector–when he cares for someone, he will risk everything for them. He also tends to do suggestive (whether intentional or not) touches, whispering, and comments that may seem sensual in nature to some viewers.
• Challe is often mistaken for a companion fairy, and characters frequently find him attractive/comment on his looks (and sometimes try to buy him for themselves).
• Kathy, Jonas’ fairy, wears a crop top type shirt and a short skirt.
• Anne often shares a room with her male fairy friends, Mithril and Challe. Sometimes, Mithril shares a bed with her (not sexual, he’s a tiny fairy).
• Characters comment on Anne’s looks, believing she will become prettier over time.
• Some flirtation.
• Sometimes, the camera places its focus on Anne’s bust. She dresses modestly, however.
• Anne wears a guy’s clothes and allegedly looks good in them.
• Challe sometimes pulls Anne close, touches her face, catches her, hugging her, or other gentle affectionate gestures like this. She sometimes blushes.
• Male characters pick up female characters.
• The lady at the inn is well endowed with her chest; not immodest, just a larger bust.
• Mithril asks Challe questions about women–how he likes their hair, what Challe would do if a woman asked him for a kiss, etc.
• Sometimes, Challe tells someone they’d need to command him to do what they wants him to do.
• Elliot is flirtatious and believes he’s an “ally of all women.”
• Brigit has multiple companion fairies, wants their attention, kisses, etc. Although the anime does not show any explicit sexual acts, her desires are still suggestive.
• Challe and Anne nearly kiss before Mithril interrupts them.
• Challe kisses Anne’s forehead.
• Challe kisses down Anne’s cheek romantically.
• Anne wants Mithril to sleep in her room (she’s nervous to sleep alone), but Mithril suggests she ask Challe, saying “their romance could be over before it starts” and says she should ask him to sleep with her. Mithril eventually stays with her.
• A sweet fairy boy asks Anne to hold his hand until he falls asleep, and she ends up falling asleep too (not sexual).
• Gladus treats Anne very weirdly and acts rather sensual with her, pushing boundaries with her although it’s never explicit. He smells Anne’s hair, kisses her cheek and strokes her, commenting that she smells like silver sugar, that it’s “uniquely spectacular” and even comments later to Challe about her smell. He touches her face too like Challe does, but she pushes him away. He calls her an adorable girl. Gladus asks Challe if she thinks Anne is cute.

Nudity

• Episode 4: There’s a newborn fairy with no clothes on (she looks like a mature woman, not a baby). A blueberry initially covers her privates but then she takes it away and you can see her naked. Approximately 4:56-5:55 will skip over it.
• Episode 4: A sugar confection recreates this baby fairy who is clearly naked.
• Episode 8: A woman is topless but we don’t see her boobs (just like shoulders and up).
• Episode 8: Approximately 16:57-17:03 shows a naked woman, but not anatomically detailed.
• The end credits shows a male and a fairy together. The fairy seems naked but they’re blue so it’s not realistic.
• A silver sugar sculpture shows a guy without a shirt.
• Brigit unbuttons her shirt to pull out her fairy’s wing. You can see her chest but no cleavage.
• Some (probably) male characters are shirtless, nothing explicit.
• Episode 22: The baby fairy from episode 4 appears again. We see her briefly naked again.

Romance

• Mention of kissing/kisses.
• Male characters comment on Anne’s scent, claiming she smells like silver sugar.
• A character continually confesses his love for a female character.
• A male character picks up a female character, asking if that’s what she wants from him. She blushes.
• A male character touches a female character’s hair.
• A male character tries to kiss a female character. She smacks him.
• A character’s chest feels tight.
• A male character picks up a female character.
• Challe lets Anne touch his wing and it feels warm.
• Challe grabs Anne’s fingers to warm her. Feeling some warmth, feels fluffy.
• Ann is sleepy and Challe picks her up and tucks her into bed on multiple occasions.
• Challe kisses Anne’s forehead.
• Holding hands and running, blushing.
• A male character grabs a female character kinda romantically.
• A male character is in a female character’s room; it’s possible he saw her get dressed but unconfirmed.
• A female character asks a male character about her hair and he grabs it and says it’s fine.
• An engaged man wants to have tea with a woman he isn’t engaged to.
• A male character is uncomfortable around women.
• A character suggests a female character should wear male clothing.
• Mithril suggests that people are up to “sordid” activities.
• Brigit is very interested in Challe.
• Mention of a lover’s suicide.
• A male fairy offers to be an engaged woman’s property in exchange for information. She makes him kiss her so he does. 
• A character finds Anne cute cute and claims his “heart is a flutter.”
• A character asks if Challe and Anne are lovers.
• Challe tells Anne not to “strut” in her nightgown. He grabs her and turns her to face him and ties her nightgown bow.
• Mention of Keith being Anne’s lover, which Keith doesn’t seem to mind.
• “Pretty girl” mentioned.
• Mention of a love letter.
• Kathy hugs Jonas’ leg. 

Suggestive Comments and Innuendo

• A character leans close to a female character and speaks in a way that seems somewhat sensual.
• Challe grabs Anne’s hand, pulling her close. He wants her to order/threaten him.
• Challe whispers to Anne and seems rather sensual at times.
• Challe is the model for a sugar artisan’s sculpture. He asks the artisan (Keith) if he wants him to take off his clothes for the modeling (answer is no).
• There’s a rumor that Anne seduced someone.
• Mention about Anne having men fawning over her.
• Lafalle acts suggestively towards Anne.
• An engaged woman thinks she loves Challe and goes into his chest. If it was another man, she’d have issues, but she thinks seducing a fairy isn’t the same as seducing another man.
• Brigit doesn’t like Anne and doesn’t want Challe spending time with Anne.
• Episode 14: Brigit is in a nightgown. She leans up to Challe and makes him carry her to bed and then stroke her hair.  Brigit wants him to stay with her until she falls asleep. She lays her head on his thigh (Challe is very uninterested obviously). 
• Anne thinks Brigit (because of Mithril Lid Pod’s “wild imagination”) makes Challe do “sordid” things. Challe confirms Brigit “isn’t forcing him to do….things.”
• Mithril continues to be dramatic, talking about how Challe “had to have her [Brigit] way all day and night.” Challe tells him to “spare his moronic thoughts” or something of the sort.
• Anne freaks out and Challe asks if he should kiss her.
• Challe grabs her face again, kisses it again and also whispers good girl (she had just agreed to listen to him and not let her guard down, but the terminology and actions still make it a sensual moment).
• Challe has Anne sleep in her room while he watches over a sickly fairy (she didn’t sleep well the night before). She blushes.
• LaFalle talks about Challe’s eyes…the way he speaks about Challe could be taken in a romantic way, or just that Lafalle is really obsessed with Challe.
• A character says that Anne is going to be his.
• Challe grabs Anne (his arm around her and kinda touching her breasts (not sexual though) and holds her close.
• Gladus hugs Brigit.
• Challe grabs Anne’s hands, asking if she needs another good night kiss.
• Challe remembers when Anne protested on Lafalle’s horse when he was leaning into her (pushing boundaries)
• Challe kisses Anne while she is sleeping. 

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Violence and Gore in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

•  Someone abuses/threatens a fairy a fairy and squashes his wing.
• A fairy hunter is considered a “violent man.”
• Anne kicks a bad person.
• A man starts to crush a fairy’s wing.
• A fairy threatens to kill others.
• A character threatens to “knock” another character’s “lights out.”
• A character nearly hits her slave when he insults her mother. She doesn’t, however.
• A fairy snaps at someone when they try to touch his wing.
• A character fights bandits; there is blood.
• Blood and gore occur on multiple occasions.
• Wild crows follow the smell of blood.
• A fairy wants his master to order him around and threaten to crush his wing.
• A character is scared and hits another character with a bat (they’re ok).
• A character orders and threatens her slave.
• Someone dear to a character was murdered.
• Blood appears.
• A character tries to attack Challe.
• A character uses blood to bring wolves, who start attacking another character (who is covered in blood).
• A highway is called “Bloody Highway.”
• A character grabs another character.
• A character slaps another character so hard that his nose bleeds and his cheek is red.
• A character pulls out/uses a sword on multiple occasions.
• A character is bruised and does not look like they are doing well.
• A character threatens another and breaks something.
• A character slaps their face to stop themselves from crying.
• A character uses a fairy’s wing to hurt the fairy and uses it as blackmail.
• A character throws another character.
• Characters fight.
• A character draws a sword and places it under Anne’s chin, threatening to take her life if certain conditions are not met.
• Troops plan to attack a castle.
• A character draws a sword, and another character threatens to attack.
• A character draws his weapon discretely.
• A character tries to stop the troops.
• A character drags someone away and throws them on the ground.
• A character pulls out his weapon, curses, and swears to kill certain people.
• A character nearly hurts another, but a third character steps in before it can happen.
• A character bleeds quite a bit and is wounded due to an attack by an unknown assailant.
• A character has a cut on their arm.
• A red haired fairy appears, and Challe fights him.
• A character draws his sword when startled, then puts it away.
• A character swears to make others pay.
• A character grabs Brigit, shoves her, and tells her to be quiet.
• A character is severely wounded and bleeds. The blood gets on another character as well.
• A character has a rope around his neck due to capture by a villain.
• A character bleeds a lot.
• A character threatens to cut someone’s body part(s) off.
• A character crushes a fairy’s wing.
• A character threatens to cut another character down.
• Blood leaks.
• A barrel with blood on the outside appears.
• A character lays on the ground.
• A character refuses to kill, so another character kills instead.
• Wounded characters shown.
• Characters plan to attack a town to get more humans.
• A character captures another with rope and crushes a fairy’s wing.
• A character grabs another.
• A character is hurt.

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Frightening and Intense Scenes in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

• Jonas is a bit rough towards Kathy, his fairy slave.
• If someone has a fairy’s wing, they basically control the fairy. Crushing the wing hurts the fairy and is often a tool of manipulation and coercion. Many fairies get their wings crushed throughout the series, and this might be intense for some viewers.
• Anne is scared and hits Mithril with a bat. He is ok. 
• Anne sees Brigit in her nightdress and freaks out, thinking she’s a ghost.
• A fairy boy hasn’t been eating and is weak, the concern is that he may even starve to death.
• A character may lose vision in his eye due to an attack.
• Characters are wounded/seen wounded.
• A character drags Anne away, planning to get rid of her.
• A building seems haunted.
• A character commits suicide.
• A character acts a bit scary due to emotions.
• A character breaks things during a tantrum.
• Some characters try to push Anne towards a boiling pot. They are trying to put her hand into it.
• Characters work so hard they get blisters.

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Substance Abuse in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

•  On multiple occasions, mead/wine and alcohol appear.
• Due to heartbreak, a girl drinks.
• A character drinks excessively and is in rough shape.

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Spiritual References in Sugar Apple Fairy Tale

• Anne desires to live her own life and chase her own dreams. 
• Mention of finding your life’s path and walking with confidence
• Anne prays to her mom. 
• In this world, a formal send off occurs for people who died that year, and special sugar confections are involved.
• Characters make a bet.
• A character wishes that there was magic to melt someone’s heart.
• A character mentions following another into the underworld.
• Mention of intertwined fates.
• A character hopes to cause a deceased character to be reborn.
• Good fortune
• Anne visits a church and prays.
• Some characters believe that “women are transgressors against God.”
• Characters have stories about their god, creation, and other folklore stories involving humans and fairies.
• The kingdom has a head temple.
• There’s a church rest day school.
• Mention of sin.
• Mention of destiny on multiple occasions.
• Characters make a wager.
• Mention of fate on multiple occasions.
• Holy Beginnings Festival is one of the holidays.
• The kingdom has a religion.
• A character keeps his hair long because he wants his employer to get healthy.
• 12 patron saints mentioned.
• The church has a father.
• Ghost stories/hauntings mentioned.
• Anne believes she’s been cursed.
• A dark chapel mentioned.
• The festival serves as a time of prayer/happiness. Good confections bring good luck/better sugar apple harvest.
• A crest is considered someone’s spirit in physical form.
• Talking about a deceased house’s crest “if it dwells in his heart, the crest will never fade.”
• A ghost/vision of a deceased character appears and is now able to leave his castle because his former servant is okay now.
• Mention of luck.
• Bound together by fate.
• The church has clergy.
• Fairies are born, and this process involves being gazed on by different beings.
• “May fortune smile on you.”
• Mention of blessings.
• Mention of sugar confections bringing good fortune.

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