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Jul 25, 2017

Fairy Tail (Manga) add

Mixed Feelings

*Review contains minor spoilers*

Fairy Tail is the titanic of manga, it starts out on a great voyage and ends up sinking. That’s how I would describe it.

Honestly the amount of potential this manga had when it started was enormous, but at somewhere along the lines it just became a drag to continue reading it. As you were waiting for each release the thing that went through your mind was “can’t this manga end soon?”.

The story of this manga is honestly good, it’s an interesting concept about mages travelling the world to complete quests for a reward and the more quests the guild members complete ... the more prestigious the guilds becomes, etc. but everything starts going south with the characters.

The source of the characters power are basically their nakama (companions), if they’re at the brink of defeat but suddenly one of their nakama shouts their name it gives them the ultimate boost to take down the enemy. Although this could be said about most shounen manga.

After a few hundred chapters in you also starts to notice that there’s suddenly a large amount of fanservice. Some hot springs scenes where they accidentally grab some boobs and spank some buttocks along with some naked (but not actually naked, their nipples and genitalia is hidden with hair, objects, and whatnot) scenes during a battle to the death. It almost felt like the author was pushed to implement this because they were losing readers.

I said “battle to the death” previously but there’s no actual deaths… Not during any battles anyway. One of the things that pissed me of was that this one (important) good guy used a spell that would kill himself but save his nakama so he wholeheartedly does it, and honestly if that would have been it that would have been good, but no, a few chapters later he miraculously comes back to life. The author basically wants a happy ever after ending.

All of this is basically the core ingredients for a shounen manga though, so no huge surprise. But while it does have its bad points I would say that it also has some good points, more specifically its humor. While the fighting scenes may be cringe from time-to-time, Fairy Tail has a great sense of humor which makes it stand out from other shounen manga.

Although the biggest reason you may want or may not want to read this manga is the ending. It leaves some plot holes but honestly it’s just purely unsatisfying to read 545 chapters of a manga and then you get such a plain happy ever after ending. But I will not lie, I do not regret reading this manga, it has some great moments and its brought me many laughs; not worth a re-read though.

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Aug 26, 2015

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Preliminary (132/? chp)

FBS is a Manhua that I stumbled on while searching for a manga with a strong protagonist. It's true that the protagonist, Yan Xiao was strong at the start. He was even strong enough to be called a genius but unfortunately he losses all of his powers so that even dogs can look down on him.

Story: 7/10
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The story is quite enjoyable but the reason I gave it a 7 is because some parts is kind of predictable. While things ain't 100% predictable a lot of things are. But let's skip that and go into the story now.
FBS is an action, fantasy manhua and quite a ... good one at that. It's about Yan Xiao and his struggle to become stronger. And things isn't easier when you are the son of a clan leader and so weak that even the servants look down on you. But while this is an action manhua it also has romance in it but the romance is also the thing that is the most predictable in this whole story. But that doesn't mean that it's bad, truthfully I actually enjoy the few romance moments it has. (Things I say from now on happens in the first chapter so it's a mild spoiler.) I guess you could say that it's also a harem but I won't really count it as a harem cause Yan has absolutely zero interest in other girls except Dai Er. And Dai Er also has feelings for Yan so you already knows who he will end up with in the end.
FBS also uses a special ranking system for how powerful you are. It's mostly something like Dou Hurr Durr but it's gives you a general though for how powerful one's enemy are so it's a plus.

I recommend this manhua to everyone that wants a manga with an interesting and unique story.

Art: 8/10
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The art is good but not great. This manhua has a very simplistic style but yet very detailed. And the fact that every page is colored is a big plus for me.
I think that because it's colored it's giving of a vibe that's it's a bit childish but it's really not, it's actually kind of bloody and people would be classed as psychopaths if they were in our world so it's not childish it's just giving of that vibe.
But other than that it's well drawn and the art is a lot like other manhua so if you like almost any other manhua you'll properly like this one as well.

Character: 6/10
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While the other points may be good, I think that their personality's suck from time to time. I sometimes think that it's child that's fighting to the death instead of an adult. One second they are all serious like "You destroyed my whole clan! I shall now kill you for revenge!" then in the middle of the fight it's proved that s/he didn't destroy the clan, but the guy just ignores it and continues to fight because of his ego. I don't have much more to say other than that their personality's needs more improvement.

Enjoyment: 9/10
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I gave enjoyment a 9 because it's so freaking thrilling to read even though their personality suck. I don't know if it has anything to do with that I love OP protagonist's and love to see them train to become the strongest but anyway I must say that it's a really good manhua for me to enjoy it this much.
And sometimes I even go back to read the epic moments and then it's really good. Since I'm a guy that usually don't bother with stuff like that. But the reason I didn't give it a 10 is because of everyone's personality's. I mean some of them must have an IQ of zero. But this manhua is still one of my favorites so I really think you should give it a try at least.

Overall: 7/10
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As a wrap up, the story is unique and it's really enjoyable but the character's has flaws so that is a minus but the art is really beautiful and detailed so that's a plus and at least we have the enjoyment and that's a big plus in overall.
So I think you should at least read the first 5 chapters before you judge it.

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