Reviews

I think that the first round of fairy tail was alright--- the characters were fine, the plot was ok, but there was still excessive amounts of plot armor and fan service which clouded the significance of this anime. When I found out that they made more episodes, I was like "ok, maybe they will make it better than the first season" but boy was I wrong. I had to drop this anime after its embarrassing "Tartaros Arc" which is just an explosion of cliched anime and insignificant fillers. It physically hurt me to watch this part because they would literally take one fight scene and manage to stretch it to five episodes, and they try to reel you in with extremely cliched plot progressions? I'm sorry but this anime is probably one of my biggest regrets and I invested too much time into this series when I could have been watching something better.
The only thing that was genuinely enjoyable about the series was the art. However, the fight scenes were quite bland and repetitive and it got really boring really fast. The whole "power of friendship" concept just put on an extra layer of disappointment in many situations. I was really expecting more from this but then again I was also prepared for unsatisfactory results. I used to be an avid fairy tail fan, hell, i used to recommend it to my friends. I started getting increasingly upset though as they threw out weekly episodes of complete trash and I could have skipped the episode and still had the same amount of intel about the plot. It's very messy and downright cringe-worthy in many aspects. I think that fairy tail /could/ have been a great series and there was a lot of opportunity and possibilities to make it nice, but it was just butchered. I'm sorry to all of the fans of fairy tail (i used to be one), but there are so many more shows worth watching than this. If you are thinking about watching this, just be prepared for a lackluster experience if you are knowledgable in what makes an anime good.