Jun 27, 2019
I first watched Fairy tail up to the beggining of the Mavis arc when I was 13. Around that time one of my teachers had explained to us the importance of consuming media with 'a critical eye', so when I went back home to watch some Fairy Tail, I realized exactly what she was talking about.
Fairy tail is a show that is mediocre at best,but manages to pull people in by a vague mention of themes and friendship that either get contradicted, nothing done with them or never mattered in the first place. I firmly believe that were Fairy tail fans to watch more shows,
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they'd have a better perspective and develop a stronger sense of taste that would in turn make them able to see how much of a waste of time Fairy tail really is.
As someone who only liked this show when I was like 12 and has grown to hate it more and more with the years, the only appeal to it I can possibly see is a bunch of hot girls and what you're made to think are the core ideas present in any shonnen anime.
If only all the girls didn't look exactly the same. But what's worse is that they aren't even proper characters. Fairy tail girls are more like those mediocre dating sim girls who only have as much personality as they need to fulfill a broad stereotype you as a player might be attracted to. How do any of these girls develop as characters? Easy, they don't. The show tries to convince you they do, but if you actually look and try to pinpoint for yourself how they've actually developed you'll be disappointed to find they didn't at all. In fact you can try that method on all of the characters in fairy tail that are relevant enough for you to remember right now and see the exact same results!
But what about the friendships between these pieces of cardboard? About the drama? The themes of family and friendship? They're lies. They don't fucking matter. I'm sure all of you remember Lissanna as one of a million examples in this show of you being emotionally manipulated only to have no consequences at all. And the other thing you probably already heard is how Fairy tail can't even nail the feeling of the guild being a family because only like 10 of them matter.
I'm not here to insult fans of fairy tail or anyone that was tricked into trying it out. I'm trying to save you. Don't make my mistake. Your time is too valuable to be wasted here.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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