Ranked #343

Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail is about Lucy, a stellar spirit mage who wants to join the well-known mages guild named Fairy Tail.

The story in the manga is good, this first episode followed the manga carefully. The manga contains some good arcs but also some bad arcs (in my opinion). It will probably a 100+ ep. series.


The art is similar to one piece. I didnt think it was bad, but the spell casting could have been better. I expected a bit more from that, but I will get used to it.

The sound was good. I liked the background music, it fits this anime, the opening was weird, but perfect.
Voice acting could have been better, I expected Natsu to have a less mature voice and Happy to have a less girly voice but again, I will get used to it. The voice acting of Lucy is ok.

The manga contains some cool characters, Natsu is a typical Naruto/ Black star, but he is still funny. It contains some other cool characters but I wont tell u about it.

Im sure you will enjoy this series, but probably not as much as the manga. If u like shonen with a sense of humor, Fairy Tail is the anime u should watch. read more

*THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE FIRST EPISODE*

Lucy is a young wizard who wants to join the magic guild Fairy Tail. During her travels she meets Natsu, a fellow wizard, and his mascot pet Happy. Together they travel the world and get into lots of fights, presumably, in her quest to join Fairy Tail. This is, after all, a shonen series, so that's to be expected.

The characters are standard fair for the genre: plucky, but slightly air-headed, girl, awesome fighter guy who's also an idiot, and a cute mascot pet that explains everything to the air-headed girl. Really nothing here to make them stand out from any of the other series from this genre.

Outside of the CG from Bantorra, this is probably the cheapest and blandest animation I've seen in the Fall '09. It's flat, has a low framerate, and minimal movements. Background characters are embarrassingly undetailed. Spell effects are mainly just some CG plastered on the screen.

It doesn't really help that everything Fairy Tail does has been done before and better by a lot of other shows like One Piece or Rave Master.

The only real saving grace of the first episode is that it has a smattering of genuinely funny moments and some nice looking backgrounds in a few place.

'Bland' is the word for this series. Art is bland, animation is bland, story is bland, characters are bland. Inoffensive, but tasteless.

I guess if you really, really like these sorts of shows [shounen] then you might enjoy Fairy Tail, otherwise you can probably avoid it and not feel as though you're missing out on anything. read more