In case you are deciding whether to start watching this, let me give you a very quick and brief summary of the world of fairy tail. It is an anime set in a world where the people are wielding magic and are called (you guessed it) wizards. They form guilds which operate by taking on a wide range of requests from various clients and receiving the reward for each request. Now I'm going to give you my opinion focusing on negatives of this show, as I am pretty sure there are many reviews here that explain the positives better than I can. Generally speaking, it has some good elements, like character development and after the end of every arc, there are a few episodes where the protagonists are just being themselves, having fun which will give you a needed break from the intense action of the previous episodes. It also has some bad-ass moments, our main characters have mostlty distinct personalities from the others, but the show also has almost every shounen cliche in the books and unfortunately some serious flaws. One of those is the lack of long term consequence (e.g. death or an impairment of some sort) on the main roster. Seriously, I watched over 200 episodes of a show filled with fights and yet there are no actual consequences whatsoever! Also, almost always the wizards from the main guild never lose. God forbid something bad might happen and we actually worry. With 1 or 2 exceptions at most all the major villains are defeated by the main character, even though they are way more powerful and often there is someone stronger who is a match for them on the side of the good guys. Furthermore, most arcs (as far as I have watched) are essentially the same. There is some vague source of power that a villain (usually a guild of villains) tries to get to and it's up to our heroes to stop them, which by itself is not bad but it gets really boring when you see the same thing over and over again. Another thing that also sucks (at times) is the fights. When there is an attack about to land on an opponent, instead of actually showing the attack land, there is a cut to what happened just after the attack has landed with the attacked preferably in the air vocally expressing his/her pain. Now, granted does this happen every time? No, but it happens often enough that it becomes a problem. Not to mention most fights are very short, like 2-3 mins short but they cut to another scene mid-fight in to order to fool you and think that the fight was longer than it actually was. But unfortunately the flaws don't end here. It feels like every other episode there is an emotional scene which is forced as hell and there is way too much fan service, ranging from having some way to show a girls boobs (which gets annoying fast and happens all the god damn time) to characters being able to use powers that they shouldn't be able to, BREAKING THE VERY RULES THAT THE ANIME HAS ESTABLISHED FOR ITS WORLD. In the end, this a standard anime which, admittedly manages at time times be pretty awesome and even have glimpses of very good writing, but as I said before, has some serious flaws which really take away from the whole experience.
Review of Fairy Tail
Fairy Tail
(2009–2019)
Just your average by the numbers shounen anime with serious flaws
1 September 2018