Fairy Tail - Reviews

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sushipencil's avatar
Dec 16, 2020

I have fond memories of Fairy Tail. It was one of the first anime I ever watched, and it helped me through some difficult times in my childhood. The world was interesting and the characters were amusing. I can still remember my favorite characters and ships. That being said, I doubt that I could tolerate rewatching the series now that I've gotten older. My biggest problem is that the characters face no consequences whatsoever. You would think that Fairy Tail's robust cast of main and secondary characters would occasionally face serious injury as well as a few deaths, considering the dangers lurking in Fiore. However, the only characters to ever face serious danger were minor characters and antagonists. The main cast was constantly protected by the power of friendship and deus ex machina. Any main character that ever died or disappeared was never really gone. I can think of several scenarios where a main character should have died. Eventually, every sense of consequence faded from Fairy Tail. Shows become mediocre when they lack consequence.

6/10 story
8/10 animation
8/10 sound
6/10 characters
6/10 overall
doesntmind's avatar
Mar 15, 2014

At first I thought "it'll get better" and then i though "well maybe a few more episodes that one bad guy looked cool" and then I realized I was wasting my time and I got gayed. It's ok for children and I guess thats ok for them to watch it and like it... all I know is that I was a lot cooler kid than them growing up.

2/10 story
7/10 animation
5/10 sound
1/10 characters
2/10 overall
xxN0cturnalnightxx's avatar
Apr 13, 2020

My favorite so good, emotional, captivating, I cryed at least a dozen times. If you watch it FINISH less is filler than you accaully think!! It seems pointless at times but trust me it's anything but XD.

10/10 story
9/10 animation
9/10 sound
9/10 characters
10/10 overall
reginatakami's avatar
Jun 14, 2020

Fairy Tail is an anime I really have a weird "relationship" with. 

It's that kind of anime you know has many flaws but you still kinda like it.

My main complains with Fairy Tail are the following:

The character development...which there is a lack of. 

The wasted potential of interesting characters. In my case it was Juvia, I really liked her concept, but I have to admit that she was overshadowed/ruined  by being turned into (almost 100% of the times) a "comical element".

The fights are kind of repetitive in my opinion...They were not that amusing as they were always expected and kind of monotonous. Especially when it came to Natsu and Ezra. 

The overused fanservice. I think it's ok, but I just wished they focused more in the character being useful, interesting and important to the story instead of putting so much attention to the fanservice. An example of this (in my case) was Lucy. I really wanted to like her, but I couldn't just ignore the constant thought in my head that she was literally just there for a fanservice element. (yeah, I know she's powerful and bla bla bla her celestial powers and saving whoever. But I just couldn't take her seriously. It also has to do with her kind of power, I mean, they made her look as if she wasn't doing anything) 

But again... I actually kind of enjoyed this series.

I think the concept of the guild and friendship, the characters by themselves and all of the different types of powers, (and of course the ships haha) are elements that make for most of us impossible to dislike/stop watching this series. 

6/10 story
9/10 animation
10/10 sound
6/10 characters
7/10 overall
crazyworld's avatar
Jul 8, 2015

Way to take a brilliant concept and flush it down the toilet. At first I thought I'd give it a try because it seemed interesting enough, but boy was it bad. The story is too muddled out and gives little to no payoff. It has that same problem that Soul Eater has in which it is too manic. From a critical standpoint this is just a watered down version of One Piece. Natsu is a lamer version of Luffy, Lucy is a ditzier version of Nami, Happy is an annoying version of Chopper (etc.) The jokes include characters screaming at each other, Natsu being motion sick. Their comic relief takes way too long to end before something important happens that it becomes irrelevant.

Basically I'm saying flush this series down the toilet, there are so many better anime out there. Just stay away from this trash.

3/10 story
1.5/10 animation
1.5/10 sound
0.5/10 characters
1.6/10 overall