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After rewatching fairy tail and watching other animes of the same genre I can finally do a review and defend fairy tail.
Fairy tail is an anime that in my opinion is the anime with the most wasted potential I've watched, but that still doesn't mean it's bad. This makes Fairy Tail one of the most OVERHATED(yes overhated) anime of all time. The only reason ft is one of the most hated anime is because of the anime community in general sucks. Everyone copies the same opinion, creating a meaningless hate trend for some anime.
The biggest reason for the hate for fairy tail is its well-known theme "power of friendship" which leads to the strong plot armor of the main cast. And yes, fairy tail has a little too much plot armor I admit, but it compares exactly to the most popular animes like one piece, naruto, and bleach. For example, in one piece they use the "power of the Nakama" as a form of plot armor (WHICH IS NOT A BAD THING I WILL REPEAT AGAIN) but however, it doesn't take the hate that fairy tail takes for the same reasons. Also, saying that fairy tail is just ''power of friendship'' is one of the main pieces of evidence that the person hasn't seen even half of the anime, because this well-known plot armor ''power of friendship'' doesn't appear more than 3 times in all the anime.
Now I'm going to talk and compare some negative and positive points of fairy tail and one piece because they are the 2 works that most resemble each other. Both are 2 shounen with some comedy that revolves around themes about friends and family. It is also worth emphasizing the fact that the two authors are great friends and both helped each other's work. (Hiroshima ft author) even created some characters similar to one piece to show respect to Oda (author of one piece).
- STORY
The strongest point of one piece is its phenomenal long story that connects from the end to the beginning with many adventures and unexpected moments( fr fr the foreshadow and evrtng are 10/10), while the story of fairy tail is simpler and lazy due to a lot of waste that the author made (I'll talk about later), but that doesn't mean the story is bad! Apart from its beginning, which in my opinion is not very appealing, the development and outcome of the anime is undoubtedly incredible!
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Even one piece surpassing the fairy tail story, Fairy tail has strong points that surpass many of the most recognized shounen.
OST AND OPENINGS
- soundtrack and openings are simply the best I've heard in all the anime I've watched. All the openings are captivating and iconic (of course there are some not so well known and some with weaker quality, in general, the openings are 10/10) the soundtrack is perfect and simply epic. The soundtrack was one of the reasons that made the battles and moments more exciting.
- CHARACTERS (main cast and side cast)
All fairy tail characters are amazing because they all have proper screen time and development and also a unique and captivating personality that sets them all apart. It's good to reinforce that the female cast is as good or better than the male cast (and this is something very rare) they all have the same screen time, relevance, and power scaling which makes the female cast of ft very popular not only for the appealing design. I'll leave some of the names of the characters that I consider best written in ft: ultear (simply amazing antagonist full of mysteries, an amazing backstory, a splendid development, and many badass moments), Mavis, zeref (main villain super underrated and I won't say anything more about him because...), wendy, juvia, lucy (at the end of the anime we see the huge path and development she had), gray, Natsu (one of the most underrated main character), jellal, levy, irene ... And many more.
- FAST PACING
super enjoyable to watch and without any rush or deleted scenes. Can approach all topics in a non-boring way without any kind of plot holes.
- FILLERS: ft fillers are very good, they bring from super funny episodes to super exciting arcs that don't even look like fillers.
- COUPLES/SHIPS: ft couples/ships are something worth mentioning. All couples have an incredible development throughout the entire anime, both evolve not only as individual characters but their relationship. I know several people who only saw ft because of the ships and loved it because of its differences and complexity.
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NEGATIVE POINTS
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WASTED
-as I mentioned before, the story is very wasted and this is due to the fact that there is a repetitive fight concept in some arcs.. (erza , gray or Natsu lose but due to the power of feelings they win) if it wasn't for this,
and if the fights were more realistic in terms of defeats and injuries, the anime would improve in an absurd way.
This is the only point that I can understand and also criticize with the ''haters'', the repetitive plot armor makes everything worse, and this actually makes me mad because the story could be so much better.
ANIMATION
- Old animation was relatively good for the time of release and was quite fluid, but with the 2014 and 2018 seasons the art style of the anime has improved a lot but the animation had a huge drop, especially the last season. Also, the fact that the anime is heavily censored in fights makes the final consequences of the battle a little less realistic. This is disappointing because Hiroshima is an amazing artist and the manga has just amazing fights and super well-drawn moments full of details. The characters' injuries are very well detailed and demonstrate the intensity of the battles and the consequences, things that in the anime you can't understand so well due to censorship.
SO OVERALL FT MANGA > FT ANIME (except for losing the incredible ost and talent of the voice actors because they are all very good and also the fillers).
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In conclusion, ft is not the best anime ever but it is undoubtedly comparable to the quality of other popular shounen (excluding hunter x hunter which in addition to being the best shounen ever (imo) due to the themes it addresses and its unique quality, is of the best piece of media made overall).
With a non-catchy beginning, fairy tail is quite surprising as the story progresses with numerous plot twists and unexpected parallels and a notable development throughout the story. And if you think a little deeper you can find incredibly well-written characters.
PS:
If you're not a shounen person, I don't recommend Fairy Tail. Only if you like romance and want to see some cute scenes and good development between ships.
:) give it a try and don't let the other people's opinion affect yours.
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Socorro xD Opah não queria ir tão longe porque é Fairy Tail, mas realmente tenho de concordar...
E eu também gostaria que eles perdessem, acho ridículo o quanto o mangaka protege e força a Erza, ela nunca perdeu num combate 1 vs 1... E depois em contrapartida tens a Mira que sempre disseram que era do nível dela, cheia de derrotas...
O problema é que antigamente o público não se importava com coisas arrastadas, tipo o combate do Goku vs Freeza em dragon ball que durou imensos episódios (POR EXEMPLO) atualmente quando demoram um bocadinho mais o pessoal já reclama, e as editoras fazem pressão para o mangaka acabar e encurtar um pouco, por isso não o culpo totalmente. Eu li que ele queria dar um combate para o Rouge e para a Minerva na ultima arc, e para o Laxus na penúltima (sim descobri que aquele combate do Laxus contra o imortal é filler :( ) e os editores não permitiram... Eu sinceramente não me importaria, ainda mais com os episódios fails que fizeram em volta do Natsu vs Zeref que foi uma desilusão.
Sim eu vou ler a manga (não toda, só os combates) por curiosidade mesmo.
Pensei que andavas a ler a guerra dos 100 anos não sei porquê ahahahhahaha mas sim, eu também estou curioso sobre ela, mas já ouvi que a Juvia foi deixada de lado e estão muito focados nos 5 protagonistas, e isso não é algo que me agrada admito ahaha
Vou ler sim, é o que tens aqui publicado no perfil?
Olha para ser sincero as últimas arcs desiludiram-me um bocadinho, odiei o fim forçado que o Zeref e o Acnologia tiveram, foi tão do nada e tão rápido, fora que aqueles 12 eu esperava tanto e umas lutas porreiras, e desiludiram-me também, acho que não amei nenhum combate (teve alguns que gostei, mas maior parte desiludi-me). E também fiquei triste porque tirando o Sting e a Sherrie os personagens das outras guilds fizeram quase nada e era os que eu estava mais ansioso para voltar a ver lutar :(
Mas concluído, amei o resto que me faltava para ver, os grandes jogos são o meu arc favorito, e Fairy Tail está no meu top 5 de Shounnes favoritos, e espero ansiosamente pela continuação dos 100 anos :)
És um falso que nunca mais me disseste nada U_U e entretanto estou acabar FT e lembrei- me que eras fã e me tinhas dito quando voltasse a ver para te dizer hahaha
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E eu também gostaria que eles perdessem, acho ridículo o quanto o mangaka protege e força a Erza, ela nunca perdeu num combate 1 vs 1... E depois em contrapartida tens a Mira que sempre disseram que era do nível dela, cheia de derrotas...
O problema é que antigamente o público não se importava com coisas arrastadas, tipo o combate do Goku vs Freeza em dragon ball que durou imensos episódios (POR EXEMPLO) atualmente quando demoram um bocadinho mais o pessoal já reclama, e as editoras fazem pressão para o mangaka acabar e encurtar um pouco, por isso não o culpo totalmente. Eu li que ele queria dar um combate para o Rouge e para a Minerva na ultima arc, e para o Laxus na penúltima (sim descobri que aquele combate do Laxus contra o imortal é filler :( ) e os editores não permitiram... Eu sinceramente não me importaria, ainda mais com os episódios fails que fizeram em volta do Natsu vs Zeref que foi uma desilusão.
Sim eu vou ler a manga (não toda, só os combates) por curiosidade mesmo.
Pensei que andavas a ler a guerra dos 100 anos não sei porquê ahahahhahaha mas sim, eu também estou curioso sobre ela, mas já ouvi que a Juvia foi deixada de lado e estão muito focados nos 5 protagonistas, e isso não é algo que me agrada admito ahaha
Vou ler sim, é o que tens aqui publicado no perfil?
Mas concluído, amei o resto que me faltava para ver, os grandes jogos são o meu arc favorito, e Fairy Tail está no meu top 5 de Shounnes favoritos, e espero ansiosamente pela continuação dos 100 anos :)
Happy Birthday watermagejuvia1 !!!