Story Summary: A girl named Lucy is looking around for a magician guild only to meet up with the main Protagonist Natsu, from here he introduces her to the one and only Fairy Tail.

Story (6): I feel like the beginning of the series was great but as it went on you'll see the constant trend of friendship winning over evil and trust me... it gets annoying. Doesn't help that whenever Fairy Tail has a good and simple story going on and then out of no where an unneeded situation is added on just to make the arc it's on extremely convoluted. The best times when I was reading this manga was when the characters had no villains to fight and they just simply converse with each other, had fun, or both really, honestly if the author slowed down on the constantly adding a situation just for the reason of adding a situation and just focus on the slice of life aspect, then this manga would've turn this 6 upside down to a 9. In short, too much multi-tasking, too quick of a pacing, too many asspulls (I'll get to that in a bit), gets a bit too predictable, and way too many revivals (I get to this also).

Art (9): The art looks really good, if you're accustomed to One Piece character models, then it's basically the same for Fairy Tail.

Characters (5): The main cast of characters are well developed and loveable, e.g Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza, Grajeel, Happy, Wendy and a few others of the Fairy Tail members but the supporting characters are just... not too developed and there's way too many to count. The antagonists in this story are also not too developed and feels like as soon as they reach a cult status, they get beaten and forgotten about later on. Plus it doesn't help whenever these characters reach a deathly state, they magically get healed or revived later on, and it happens constantly, and that really robs the story of any suspension it had going on. One more thing, there's going to be a lot of characters that are mention but you're going to forget who they are later on.

Enjoyment (7): There were times when I read like 40 chapters in a row whenever it was exciting and there was times when I put the manga down because it got boring. It's a roller coaster of a ride and up til the ending, and it still felt unfinished. This is just an opinion of mine also, but if you're going to put romantic hints all over the manga, then act up on it, and don't just leave the last chapter with no progression whatsoever making those said hints to mean nothing!

Overall (7): I feel as if Fairy Tail had a following manga coming after this to continue the story, I'll read it with no hesitation, but at the moment... it feels unfinished, most of the arcs needed to be tone down because every arc felt as if Fairy Tail lost, it would've mean the end of the world, and so many unanswered questions that are needed to be discuss. At the moment I won't be rereading this, as much as I love Fairy Tail.

Just something I wanted to say, I felt the one special chapter it had in the beginning where it had if Fairy Tail was a school slice of life manga was way more enjoyable to read and felt that special itself should've been the main premise of what Fairy Tail should've been. Trust me it would've been way better than it was as a predictable Shonen.

I suggest to anyone that is thinking about reading this is to go for it, I loved it even though I bashed it for what it is, which is tough love. <3 I would love to read that school slice of life manga one day though if my dreams ever do come true! ~ Shaney A.K.A 69th Street