Fairy Tail: Final Season - Reviews

Amazing!

I know many people don't like Fairy Tail because of the amount of people that died but then didn't die and how the power of friendship made Natsu always stronger and somehow beat the strongest villain ever but this was my first anime so I didn't know that "the power of friendship" was a cliche and so I enjoyed it without having any knowledge of Anime and therefore it  has a special place in my heart.

I loved the character design more in the last couple of arcs that in the beginning as I thought even the men were too cute (I think it was to do it their eyes) I love how mature they looked after the design changed I also love the music it makes cry every time and also scenes that I have watched over 10 times. 

The only thing that I wish was shown more was LOVEEEE! we know that Jellal and Erza had a thing for each other, we definitely knew Juvia liked Gray and that Levy liked Gajeel. Natsu and Lucy would have cute moments but sometimes Natsu would ruin it being the idiot he is but in the final season we saw a lot more of Juvia and Gray and Gajeel and Levy which made my heart burst, and we now have the 100 year quest and well... we know what's happening there ahah.

Overall: Amazing Journey

Fairy Tail's final season left me disappointed. I especially enjoyed Fairy Tail Zero, and the Tataros arc while full of plot armor was still decently enjoyable. This season had its moments, but ultimately I didn't enjoy it as those 2. It also left me confused, as there are many plot points that don't add up, or are just thrown out there to either make the season more interesting, or keep the viewers interested without basis.

Story: The beginning of the final season is essentially the Avatar Arc, and at first they look like the main villains of the season, but they turn out to be incredibly weak and just fodder. You could skip those episodes and miss absolutely nothing. Ultimately, the main villains are the Spriggan 12, who act as Zeref's personal army. They all have insanely powerful abilities, and apparently are apart of the Alvarez Empire, which is extremely wealthy and powerful (but for some reason we don't hear anything about them previously. You'd think such a powerful empire would at least have been known well earlier in the series). They basically battle against Ishgar in addition to millions of other soliders from the Alvarez Empire (this all happens because Zeref is bored, I guess and wants Mavis. Great reasoning there by the smartest main character in the series). Many other guilds join in helping Fairy Tail, notable ones include Sabertooth and Mermaid Heal. 

Animation: The animation is solid. Character designs are pretty good. I like Ajeel's design, and God Serena's is interesting. Not much to complain about here. 

Sound: I've never been crazy about the Fairy Tail soundtrack throughout the series, but it does fit the story and the theme of the guild. So while I may not be a huge fan of it, it does fit the series pretty well.

Characters: If you're interested in the final series, chances are you probably already know who the main characters are, what their personalities are, and what there relations are with other characrers. So I'll use this section to talk about the Spriggan 12. I'm not a fan of them. Many of them have either have bland and forgettable personalities (outside of the eccentric God Serena, though we barely see any of his fights and Wall Eehto), or are extremely overpowered and use their abilities poorly (Jacob and Brandish are notable in this). Irene and August have the most overpowered abilities, and have their fights end due to plot armor. This whole series was poorly written.

Overall: This season disappointed me a ton. Too many things don't make sense (how does Erza struggle to defeat Ajeel who's one of the weaker Spriggan 12 members then suddenly punch a meteor controlled by Irene) and the new villains are not interesting and lack character development. It feels like this season was rushed. I understand the anime tried to stay consistent with the manga (which I read and also didn't like in terms of the final season), but for such a popular anime to close out this way, especially when some seasons were great, it's disappointing.

The show was good untile after the Tower of Heaven arc. You can notice that the author did't had any plans after that. After that the show got downhill. Hiro is an author who likes to put his characther before the story line and despite it being about mages and wizards everything is almost done with magical punching the opponent. The main characthers are Lucy who is like okay but, nothing really special about it. Then Natsu who is your basicly Goku/Naruto etc etc who wins every fight with the power of MYLP I mean friendship despite barely working together with any of his friends and just want to fight them the whole time. Gray fanservice guy and Erza fanservice delux. The storyline overal is very predictable and none of the side characthers get any good developmment because well Natsu is the main charactherr and has to be shown as the main hero. Yaw... But, if you like fanservice with allot of uneceary stuff then this is the right anime for you. Grab on to FT where every girl get harashed and grabbed by the boobs. Uneceary close up shots and way to revealing outfits. 

the fanservice is really annoying in his anime, it should have the ecchi tag, my god every time lucy or any "busty" character is on screen they're ALWAYS on revealing clothing and somehow the story has to have lucy somehow lose her clothes or somehow get ripped or stolen by someone or the enemy. its really annoying how fanservice especially lucy is constantly shoved in your face with as much revealing as possible without being rated R+18

it might as well be soft core, they show as much skin as possible without revealing any "major parts" and only a string of line censoring, and every girl has the jiggle physics with the camera zoomed in like a pervert focusing the parts. and beach episodes and mostly girls in their underwear or in bikinis fighting, if they are not wearing it, its guaranted that you will see them atleast once in a bikini, even if they don't come across as the type.

i bet half the cast doesnt even wear underwear they just go full commando for the viewers.

i dont mind fanservice bit and there if its on the background but ive never seen a shonen or show be this much fanservice without being a fanservice anime focused. its so soft core that it feels its in the wrong genre.

i didnt start to watch this show with the intention of being fanservice focus. but years went by and story became 2nd. 

its a cheap tactic to draw viewers and illusion of having a plot.

oh and the story sucks go figure.

and the characters, potential but wasted for plot armor and asspulls and stayed 1 dimensional. 

man this series fell far down, is dissaponting how cheap it got. and the end was horribly cheap.

and the artstyle of any anime looking related to this somehow always has to have a busty blonde shoved in your face without being fully naked and just having a string of censure line cause you dont want it to be R18+

no offense to any blondes but i dont like blondes looks wise, it just specifially irked me how much it was being forced down my throat, while being cliche with the "sexy" blonde type.

animation is good no shade thrown at the animators (mostly), is the manga at fault. god this annoyed me 

I found the final season to be the worst out of the entire series, mostly because Acknologia was a completely over-hyped and over-exaggerated boss, and the extreme repetition persisted throughout.

The final fight scene was basically this - 

1. Dragon slayers throw a few punches and get sent flying a few times.

2. Wendy boosts their physical stats, nothing changes.

3. Then all the dragon slayers send their magic for Natsu to use, and then he kills Acknologia with just one single punch.

This was so crazy, I forgot to feel amazed (Sarcasmmmmmm)

This is the most underwhelming final boss scene in anime history. The stuff that was going on outside of this dimension is not even worth mentioning because obviously they couldn't do anything against Acknologia's physical body... besides this lame ass tactic of trapping the dragon in a magical orb that wouldn't even last that long anyway. It's actually so utterly terrible how their plan was to make the dragon motion-sick by throwing it onto a boat. It's a joke what this anime became towards the end of this season. Like, I get that it's a shounen anime, but they spare no thought to perhaps for once make the story MAKE SENSE. Everybody is powerless against Acknologia, so why don't they just... run? That magical sphere crap was going to end very quickly since I'm sure even the entire kingdom doesn't have enough magic to forever keep Acknologia trapped in the sphere.

Oh right, it's because they "believed in the power of friendship" and they trusted that Natsu would defeat Acknologia. I'm literally yawning just thinking back on what I just watched... 

The anime BEFORE Acknologia's arc was so much BETTER in comparison, which is the entire reason I even got through so many episodes in the first place. The anime started to become repetitive very early on in the series, but towards this last season the anime was not only repetitive but also became SHIT. That's why I basically dropped the anime on around episode 45, which is only a few episodes until the last episode of the season - but I literally just couldn't handle how BORING and terrible the story became in these last 6 episodes. I can handle repetition, but not if the execution is dreadful on top of that.

A few years later, and I managed to recover and and finally gathered the energy to push through the final few episodes. I was so relieved when Acknologia was finally killed because now the story might become GOOD again.

Since the author was obviously too lazy to make this arc GOOD in any way, I think the best low-effort alternative would have been to just kill everyone and leave Natsu the last person standing, and then go from there (introducing whatever cliche necessary to bring everyone back to life, time travel, magic, whatever...). This story tone should have taken a complete 180 turn and became grim, gory, and dark. I think that this might be the only low-effort way in which the writer could have make this arc good, interesting, or unique in any way. Because obviously, it's clear the writer didn't care to put any effort or thought into writing this arc, so the idea I just mentioned might have been the only realistic possibility.

While my love for all the characters still exists, I cannot include this factor in my rating for this season specifically, because it's just much too dreadful. 

Fast food is better than this crap. And that's quite literally the reason I dropped this anime right before the final battle all these years ago. I couldn't keep watching, and so I ordered a pizza LOL 

Still objectively better than One Piece though, which is incredibly impressive but also kinda unexpected.