Fairy Tail

(Contains very super small spoiler)
Im not gonna lie i like this anime its probably one of my favorites but its also one of my least.

Story:(4/10)
The story of fairy tail is kinda bad it could have been so much more better it had a lot of potential to be one of the best manga/anime of all time yet it was ruined For example lets say one of the main characters die "Oh i like that character" Then i cry but then i realized this is fairy tail so i read the next chapter and "oh so he isn't dead" some how gets healed by the power of FRIENDSHIP with FRIENDSHIP you can save everyone and overcome every obstacle even if The're 200x Stronger then you.

Art:(8/10)
The art was pretty good i liked it, Its got that very happy art style nope really much i can explain but the art style is good in my opinion.

Character:(5/10)
some of the characters are good but most are quite bland for example the main character he is a complete brute he doesn't think of the out come of the battle he just run straight into battle and somehow still wins.

Enjoyment(8/10)
Even thought Im talking all this shit about this anime i still quite enjoyed i don't know why

Overall(7/10)
Overall i quite enjoyed it even though the story was horrible and characters were bland, so my overall score is 7

The reason i like Fairy Tail is probably the same reason im a big One piece fan, The strong sense of friendship that you feel between the characters and how they will do anything to save them. The story is amazing in my opinion with intense battles. I also think the characters are hilarious, take gray for example, he's an exhibitionist who takes his clothes off at inopportune times. The only thing i don't like about Fairy tail is how the story doesn't seem to be going any where, at the start it says Natsu is looking for the dragon who raised him, but it hasn't really gotten any further than that.

After reading the last chapter released I finally came to the conclusion: This manga is total garbage in so many ways that I can't define only in words. It's amazing how this piece of shit makes me angrier than I've been in years. The characters, the story, the enjoyment, EVERYTHING!!
I GOT TIME OF MY LIFE AND I DO NOT SERIOUSLY CAN'T TAKE MORE! THIS MANGA IS TOO MUCH TO ME AND I ONLY WANT IT TO FINISH SOON AND THAT THE CREATOR OF THIS PUT THEIR MONEY IN THE ASS AND NEVER MAKE A WORK BECAUSE IF HE DOES AND IS LIKE THIS FUCKING GARBAGE I SWEAR I KILL MYSELF, BECAUSE CANCER THIS SHIT ALREADY GAVE ME!

So I just binged this entire manga and I gotta say, I rather enjoyed it.

The main arcs were pretty formulaic. But honestly, repetition is something that most fairy tales often contain. Even though you know "the power of friendship" would win out in the end and that "everything will be OK", I still couldn't chalk it up as some thing that was cliche enough to stop reading. The entire manga had this certain charm to it that kept me going.

I feel that Mashima planned this story out pretty well. There weren't elements that felt phoned in. He was dropping hints many chapters before anything went down. Even the things that were too convenient (abilities, modes of transportation, etc) were welcome because it made the story go faster. There weren't any useless chapters of the group just going from one place to another, there was always something happening. It never felt like it was dragging.

I liked all of the characters, I can't say there were any that I hated. And I think all of the main crew experienced some good development. I guess a lot of people weren't happy with the ending but I didn't see it as a problem. Not everyone has to have a resolved ship and Mashima left it open ended enough to revisit later.

You can definitely tell that Mashima was looking to the greats. Plenty of shenanigans and ridiculousness to go around. This is a shonen manga if there ever was one. Boobs, butts, bath scenes, crude humor, and all XD

Spoilers in the review

This manga jumped the shark hard after the time skip arc. This manga started off decently. While it had One Piece vibes all over it, it was still a fun and entertaining adventure manga, filled with our band of heroes going on an adventure every arc. Each arc gave each character their backstory and interesting villains featuring opposing guilds with unique abilities, while also contributing to the overall plot.

However, things changed once the heroes defeated one of the strongest dark guilds and the author felt that the fairy tale power level was too damn high. So he wrote in a time skip and started doing a ton of fan service. The fan service was there from the beginning but it felt as if Lucy's, the main character, bare ass was in almost every chapter.

Also more prominent in the later chapters is the amount of ass pulls the author does which become increasingly unforgivable after the first few times. One of the worst offensives is when a main character dies to save someone, and another character reverses time just enough to where that character doesn't die. The amount of "Because their my Nakama!!!" = +100 to power level is so overdone that even One Piece had the decency to scrap that after their time skip.

Overall, a fun, lighthearted adventure/fantasy manga ruined because the author got popular. I don't regret dropping this manga because all I hear are bad things about it now (Erza vs her mom).

At first glance, Fairy Tail (FT) seems like your average shounen manga with the classic hot-headed protagonist. I'm not against Shounen manga/anime and I've even enjoyed some like Bleach, Naruto, Hunter x Hunter etc. But thinking that Fairy Tail would be as good as any of those was a major mistake on my part.

To start off with it, I'd say there's nothing wrong with the idea of having a guild of mages but it's the way that the idea is carried forward that ruins everything. Initially, I found FT intriguing but shortly after I lost the interest. Guess why? It's because of the repeated storyline and arcs. It's always about how some random villain shows up and messes with Fairy Tail in one way or another and how the characters fight against the said villain and win not because of their own strength, but because of the power of friendship. When the same thing happens over and over the show is no longer interesting since it becomes somewhat predictable.

Hiro Mashima also fails to give the characters a proper character development. It feels as though deep down inside, everyone in the guild is the same person since they all act the same way. Different people think differently but he's generalised the characters' thought processes way too much. Of course, there are some characters with a unique personality like Gajeel and Laxus but he never used this to his advantage and let them blend in with the crowd. I think Gray was the only one who had a serious character development but the ending pretty much ruined that since he went back to being the same guy as before.

Another problem with FT is the fanservice. Where do I start with this one? Lucy, in particular, exists for the fanservice. You don't have many chapters that DON'T include Gray unintentionally losing his clothes, Lucy wearing something skimpy or random guildmates walking around barely dressed.

Then, there's the Bad-guy-turns-good trope that you have to look out for. Jellal, Gajeel, Laxus, Ultear, Lyon, Juvia, Meredy etc were all once villains but turned out as heroes instead. Look, there's nothing wrong with this trope but that is only when it's used sparingly. Mashima used it so much that I started expecting every villain, including Zeref, to rectify themselves and become best buddies with the heroes. Zeref is one of the most interesting characters in the story mostly because this trope doesn't apply to him. Personally speaking, he was one of the few characters I was actually rooting for.

The characters were not that great, as I already mentioned and the ships were worse. I was particularly against Gruvia and you can guess why. The romance between Gray and Juvia was poorly done since it remained one-sided for a really long time and even after that, it felt a little forced. It might have been acceptable if Juvia did something other than obsessing over Gray from time to time. Yes, she's a decent fighter and she had the potential for an interesting personality but her infatuation with Gray made her talk about nothing else and that was starting to get irritating. As for Gajeel and Levy, I wasn't a fan of it either. Levy's attitude changed too drastically after she met Gajeel and she ignored her two best friends Jet and Droy and went after Gajeel instead. This is definitely not Juvia level obsession so I wasn't too against it.

In other words, FT was predictable because the story arcs were all too similar and the characters were boring. It had the potential to actually turn out as a manga worth reading, but that didn't happen because of the way Mashima went on with the story.

It's not all bad, though. The art was decent and it got better as the series progressed. Despite all the faults in FT, the fight scenes were good even though the outcomes were usually predictable.

You should definitely consider reading FT if you like fanservice, the bad-guy-turns-good trope, one-dimensional characters, fights in which the heroes win because of the power of friendship and a story in which not a single protagonist dies regardless of the situation. If you don't like any of these, don't bother reading FT.

I think, you must be heard the thing about "similarity between One Piece and Fairy Tail" I only say this:
- Yes both story is similar because they have unbreakable bounds between friends, and they would do anything for them.
There's nothing beside.

Let's try to compare Luffy and Natsu. People says that "they seem alike" well only similarity is both mangaka draw "mostly" the same eyes for these two characters. When you look in the personality of Natsu, he is a carefree person, which looks for enjoyment all the time. Until he get punches and took down, he doesn't care for any other fight. It always develops this way.

Anyway, the story is not that outstanding, because whenever they does a job, they return to one place, and that's the main thing of our story: Fairy Tail. They do everything in the same circle. It makes you guess what would they do next. Most of their jobs ends in the same way.
Characters doesn't develops themselves. I didn't see that much development on their powers. Always the same thing, same, same, same..
This would be a bother. But other than developments, I think this story has unique characters. It would seem to you like any other shounen style, but when you begin to read and see how the characters, you will surely change your thoughts!

But other than the story, I admire how Hiro Mashima's artstyle is good. Every page I look at the panels with excitement. It's really outstanding. The perspective of the fighting scenes are also why I can't drop this manga.

A few years ago, when I first read Fairy Tail, I was really into it. However, by the end of it, I was just pushing myself in the last few weeks of its serialization to finish it and be done with it forever.

[Story] => 4

The story was pretty intriguing in the first few arcs. Some of the ways that the arcs ended were kind of amazing. At some point though, Hiro Mashima seemed to running out of solutions that made sense and instead kept pulling a lot of deus ex machina-styled solutions out of thin air.

There were also quite a fair share of emotional scenes where certain characters died and then magically came back to life through things like the power of friendship, or some unknown power that the character suddenly received/learned.

Once a lot of it stopped making sense, I just stopped caring.

[Art] => 7

I think the art is one of the best aspects of this series. While there were many characters involved in the story, many of them had quite unique and memorable designs. Although the story was lacking in quality, every week, you could see all the effort put into the drawings and the action scenes.

There was quite a bit of fan service featured throughout the series, and while unnecessary at times, it wasn't overbearing.

[Character] => 4

Given the sheer length of this series, it makes sense that there would be a lot of characters besides our main cast. Some are memorable, but others are just used as mere plot devices.

I did enjoy looking at the many different relationships amongst the members of Fairy Tail and the members from the other guilds. But this brings me to another problem that I had with this series: the random appearance of family members.

I was alright with the emergence of a few characters and their apparent relationships with some of our main characters, but there was a point where I was wondering, "Which family member is gonna appear next?"

The way that many of the so-called villains were redeemed also didn't really make sense. The change in characters for some individuals was a complete 180 degrees with barely any explanation whatsoever. Without going into too much detail, there is this one character in particular who is so close to defeating one of our characters, but when it looks like she's ready to finishing the deed, the most random thing makes her change her mind. It was supposed to be a sad moment, but I felt no sympathy or heartache at all.

[Enjoyment] => 4

I honestly really enjoyed reading this when I first started out, but once things got more ridiculous (in the bad way), I just couldn't get myself to look past all of these flaws.

It's alright though. I may not have enjoyed the series as much as I wanted to, but I don't regret reading it.

Overall: 5

It pisses me off how how the minimum rating I can give is a 1. This series doesn't even deserve a 1 because it isn't good at anything. This is the only series I've seen that truly fails at every single thing it tries to do. The story started off with Natsu trying to achieve his goal of finding Igneel, not too bad right? But throughout the series, he literally does nothing to achieve his goal. I mean even the first 100 chapters of this manga, Natsu didn't do a damn thing to try and achieve his goal. That's just fucking ridiculous. That's bad writing... It's as if the mangaka just completely forgot about the point of the story. That's not even the worst part about it though. The entire plot is just complete and utter shit. Some of the arcs are just random dark guilds attacking the Fairy Tail guild, that's how simple it is. The phantom lord arc and the tenrou island arc is literally just a random group of dark guilds attacking fairy tail for whatever reason, and then the fairy tail guild uses their nakama powerups to beat them. That's just a horrible way to get the main characters into conflict, and also a horrible way to introduce a villain. And almost every arc I've seen in this manga is just bad... The only decent one is the tower of heaven arc. The worst arc in this series is definetely the grand magic games arc. I've never seen more asspulls and deus ex machina, and retcons. Erza getting friendship powerup to defeat minerva, laxus beating Jura so easily and quickkly, even though it was stated that he's one of the strongest mages. Plus it doesn't make sense for Laxus to be beating Jura when he hasn't even trained 1 bit, and he got beaten by Natsu. This also proves this shitty series also has terrible powerscaling. Someone that gets beaten by Natsu early in the series can become a lot stronger without even fucking training. One of the worst asspulls in this series is when Erza was fighting Akuma. That was one of the worst fights in the series. It literally made no sense whatsoever. The characters are really fucking bad. By the time I finished this series I realized for a second that there isn't even ONE interesting character. Some of the characters used to be good, but they completely got fucking ruined. -Natsu: Extremely generic protagonist. A complete fucking luffy copy. If you haven't seen Fairy Tail yet, just think of all the cliches a shounen protagonist can have, and there you go, that's what Natsu is. He gets absolutely no character development throughout this series. He was close to getting character development when he fought Gildarts, but his development literally just reset since he hasn't learned his lesson. Even after he fought Gildarts, he still wasn't capable of reflecting on his actions. He has no introspection. If an author of a manga isn't capable of making a character display ethical or psychological development, that is an absolute problem for your story. He has no internal characterization, none whatsoever. He has no fucking internal dialogue (which is actually pretty fucking ridiculous), none. He fits none of the criteria that make him a good character. His whole character is based on Nakama bullshit, which is extremely cliche... Natsu is an extremely flawed character, and I'll give more reasons to that. Another problem with Natsus character is that he only gets involved in conflicts because the "bad guys" hurt his Nakama. I know One Piece also has this problem, and it really pisses me off. Natsu only gets involved in conflicts concerning his nakama. This isn't a good way to get the protagonist involved in conflict. The reason it isn't good is because it's the cause of all the friendship bullshit. I don't think it happened in evey arc, but I know for sure it was most of them. Gray: Used to be a cool character until his character also was based around nakama bullshit. Now he's no different from the rest of the horrible characters that constantly talk about nakama. Lucy: This character is pointless, only in there for the fanservice. Most of her fights end up in asspulls just to progress the plot. I actually think she's the best (least worst) of the main cast. Doesn't make her a good character though. Erza: By far the worst character in the entire manga. All of her fights end up in asspulls, every single one of them. She used to be a badass early on, but become a damsel in distress. It's just fucking disappointing. Even the character designs are fucking lame. All the girls look the exact same, just massive boobs, and the same damn face. Most of the characters that do get developed, it really doesn't matter since they became the same sissys in the end. Their development didn't even matter at that point. Another thing that Fairy Tail does bad is the characterization. Most of the characters have poor characterization, and have little to none development. I'm going to give one example here. Elfman and Mirajane act the way they do because their younger sister Lisanna died (before the series started). But their characterization was completely fucking pointless after they find out that Lisanna is still alive in another dimension. There was literally no point to their characterization if Hiro Fagshima just brought them back. And the funny thing is, Lisanna literally had no purpose after she came back. She literally didn't do shit, she was useless, she had no purpose in the story. Basically, Hiro Mashima ruined two characters for no reason at all. And another thing that pisses me off is how characters just get brought back to life constantly, and once they do get brought back they don't get any character development whatsoever. The author of this manga fails to realize that killing characters might actually make series a bit better. Killing off characters can lead to character development, but the author fails to realize this. So pretty much none of the characters in Fairy Tail are well written, or at least decent, including the villains. There isn't a single villain in this series that's considered well written. Most of them are villains for the sake of being evil. Most of them are extremely generic. The thing that angers me about this manga is how fucking generic it is. The main character has fire powers, that's the most generic it can fucking get! It's an extremely basic battle shounen, and it has every cliche you can even think of. The lack of creativity in this manga just proves the author didn't put much work into it. I've seen other battle shounen that are quite generic, such as Yu Yu Hakusho or Boku No Hero Academia. The difference between them and Fairy Tail, is that they actually are good at what they do. Fairy Tail isn't good at anything it does. The worst part about Fairy Tail is the asspulls that happen every damn fight. Here is how it goes. Main character gets beaten up badly by the bad guy, Main character makes a speech about friendship, Main character beats villain with a random power never before seen (which is considered an asspull) That's the recipe used in every fairy tail fight. Not even a single fight is won because they train, it's all friendship powerup bullshit. Even worse, the main characters never fucking lose! fights against villains! There is no sense of danger in this manga, since none of the main characters will EVER die. At no point while reading this do I feel like the main characters will die. That's just BAD writing.. The main characters can defeat every single person they fucking want to, even if it's a god. All they have to do is yell out a friendship speech and yup, they fucking won. There isn't any suspense in this manga, when the fights are the exact same every fucking time. That's how fucking bad the power scaling is. We know damn well that some of the people Natsu has beaten are far stronger than him, but since his Nakama are involved he can completely destroy them. Another thing that this manga does bad is it's combat system. Every person has a random power (magic). The reason why this sucks is because it's so generic. Who would want to read a series where the characters have the most generic powers? It just shows how little effort the author has put into making this horrendous manga. I'm almost done with this review, but I just have to add this in. Fairy Tail doesn't have an interesting/unique world. We barely know about the setting at all. The world building is complete and utter shit. Now I'm just going to summarize some of my points. Fairy Tail has no well written characters, none whatsoever. Fairy Tail is extremely unoriginal, literally nothing about it is creative. Fairy Tail has horrible fights that aren't suspenseful whatsoever. This manga has more asspulls than anything you'll ever read/watch

Overall rating: 0/10
Absolute filth that should've never been created.

So this is going to be generally biased. I don't like its art, and that's a huge part of enjoying manga, so yeah.

Fairy Tail is about a guild of mages named Fairy Tail. (In this fiction, a guild is pretty much a help center. Think of side quests in video games. The guild is a side quest post center with members that take on the quests that are posted.)
The manga follows the guild's members on their quests. That's it.
It has a lot of arcs, each following a quest, and most, if not all, involve a fire mage (Who's half dragon,) named Natsu, Natsu's cat friend with wings named Happy, a summon mage named Lucy, an ice mage named Gray, and a armor mage named Erza.
It's super long and I think it's still going, so that's a large part of why I stopped reading. (Along with the art.)
It's got a real Dragon Quest vibe to it, maybe a tiny bit of Monster Hunter as well, but it's your typical shonen. Nothing special in my opinion, but if you like One Piece and similar shonen, it's alright.

I stopped reading right before they introduced Gajeel, so I don't know if I'm missing out, but frankly, I don't care.

After reviewing the Fairy Tail anime, I realized how bad my review sounded. So here I am on the manga page to fix that.

STORY- 6/10
So the story overall is repetitive and kinda bad. Guild finds enemies, enemies wipe the floor with guild, guild gives motivational speech about their trust and friends and stuff, guild goes in more powerful and wipe the floor with enemies (given time). That's the modern pattern of this series, after the Laxus Arc. Before it, we did have some variety and some interesting plot, which made me love the series and keep enduring the BS until the current chapter. That and the Tartarus Arc did have some interesting enough stuff, but everything else is kinda letdown. Asspulls and plot armor were also a key thing to note, and the huge stress on good vs. evil was kind of annoying, which was made worse when some villains returned to the series as supporting characters that assisted the protagonists.

ART- 8/10
Mashima is a great artist, and I had no real problems with it except the fan service, but I can overlook that.

CHARACTER- 5/10
So the characters get BS power-ups and have no development or real interesting traits that contribute to the plot, apart from the villains and some of the side characters. Loke and Jellal are two of my favorites from the series, both because they are mysterious and badass, and a few twists that really add depth to their respective arcs. But some of the other characters are just really annoying, with villains evil for the sake of being evil, and others that are there just for laughs.

ENJOYMENT- 7/10
Like I said, the first few arcs were really interesting for me to read, and captivated me for the rest of the series. Note that this was the first manga series that I read and at the time I thought this was amazing writing. So it was decent I guess.

OVERALL- 7/10
So Fairy Tail is your typical shounen manga, with quite a bit of repetition. Recommended for casual readers.

At this point, i should've never read the final arc of Fairy Tail. It was quite enjoyable with its own ups and downs right before the second time skip, after that everything went to shit real fast.

It's not really a spoiler, because i'm not getting into the actual events, but let me just say this: the way this story ended is god-fucking-awful and it would've been better for the entire series' reputation to just stay in limbo forever, together with something like Highschool of the Dead. The actual thought that all of the bullshit final arc is canon is still amazing to me, you have to actually try to fuck up a popular series that badly.

Fairy Tail is a cliche shounen series with friendship speeches, characters lacking development and a predictable story line, yet is one hell of an entertaining ride. Keep in mind, this series isn't for everyone. If you enjoy watching series with wasted potential, then Fairy Tail isn't for you. I could never find myself hating this series no matter how badly written the final arc was because the past arcs always remind me of how good this series can truly be. Most of the characters are really likeable (although some are ruined later in the Alvarez arc) and most of the fights are engaging. This series has the greatest art I've ever seen and I feel like this is something Hiro Mashima should be given more credit for. The point I'm trying to get across is that everyone should give Fairy Tail a chance because it's truly a solid(yet cliche) series (up until the Alvarez arc) and all the hate this series receives is kind of overwhelming.

Fairy Tail is a flawed manga is many ways, and it's a bitter disappointment as it could have been so much better. It's a really generic series, with the typical FRIENDSHIP speeches and character resolve stuff, but that's really only looking at the surface as to why this manga is flawed


-------THIS REVIEW HAS SPOILERS--------------------------------------------
Story: The story for Fairy Tail is an odd one, the concept seems fairly original compared to most other shonen titles and I can actually respect that. The problem with Fairy Tail's story is the way it advances. Most of the arcs have little to nothing to do with the main plot for the most part(stuff about dragons and Zeref, and now even something about the "one magic", though all 3 are related) but give out little hints and clues in the middle or end of the actual arcs as to these things. It's like One Piece in a way, where the different islands that Luffy and co. visit have little to do with the actual storyline, but Oda will drop a few hints as to why the arc relates to the actual story. Its a bad way of telling a story and sometimes a lot of arcs just feel like filler at times(even though they're not).
Art: The art in Fairy Tail starts off kind of bad, but the art starting from around chapter 70-90 gets decent and gets progressively better. Currently, the art for Fairy Tail is nothing short of great(for a weekly series), and the character designs are probably the best that I've ever seen in a manga and the fanservice is nice as well.
The background art is also pretty good as well.
Character: The characters are really inconsistent in Fairy Tail. Some of them like Erza and Juvia are really great characters, but most of the cast just feels generic and characters like them can be found in just about any shonen manga. Not to mention the fact that many characters are one dimensional and receive very little development.

Pacing: While the overall stories pacing is slow, the fact is, Fairy Tail goes through its arcs incredibly fast compared to other mangas. Most major arcs take about a year to actually get through. But in all honesty, I would say this is more of a bad thing at times rather than a good thing, seeing as how villains lack characterization, arcs feel rushed, etc. It just feels as though villains in this manga end up not being a big deal in this manga.

Suspense: Now this is Fairy Tail's weakest point. There is absolutely no suspense in this manga because we all know at the end of the day, Fairy Tail is going to win because anyone who isn't in the actual guild is a scrub and for the rare few who can fight against them get a surprise friendship punch to the face.

Arcs almost ALWAYS follow this routine once you get to a certain point.

1. Fairy Tail members are stupid and/or get caught off-guard and get stomped by the enemy
2. Fairy Tail members start to compose themselves
3. Fairy Tail members build up a win or 2 while losing another battle or two in order to make it seem as there is suspense.
4. Fairy Tail members start to go on a roll and start winning pretty much every fight.
5. An unexpected incident occurs and it makes it seem as though Fairy Tail is in danger again(it's just superficial though, as the problem is quickly resolved in 1 or 2 chapters).
6. Lead up to boss fight, which almost always ends up with Natsu punching the main villain in the face with the power of friendship.
Of course, this isn't the only reason why there is no suspense. Another reason is because almost nobody dies(I think 2 people did but they weren't really important). No seriously, how many times has Makarov nearly died only for him to completely fine a few chapters later?
He had a heart attack in that Laxus arc and he came out just fine. The Tenrou Island arc had Charle predict his death and yet Makarov was in no danger despite having a hole blown in his chest. Hell, there was even a chapter where the guy decided to "sacrifice" himself in order to save his guild, but he ended up living anyways. Not many things of real consequence seem to happen in this manga.

Now I'm saying saying that the manga isn't enjoyable to read, but there are a lot of evident flaws in this manga. It could stand to change it's formula up every once in a while and actually make Fairy Tail really fail against an opponent.

Fairy Tail started out as a very promising comic! It threw me through some very exciting arcs, tied me in a knot with it's plot twists, and even brought on small bouts of sadness. I have seen comparisons made to One Piece, and I would agree somewhat to those points. However, after a certain arc, the story starts to drip out of it's bucket.

Given the never ending, hopped up, exciting pace of the story, one would expect the plot to develop at a rapid pace. Hopefully keeping you on your toes every week, squirming uncontrollably for the 7 days in between each instalment. If you've read the FT Wikia, you would realize that this story has some very incredible plot development and some things are just dying to be revealed. The author has let us down.

I would not be surprised if the author has actually died, and they've covertly replaced him with some fraud. I'm dead serious, the story progression for this manga has burnt out like a log. Plot progresses at an un-moderated pace, whipping you around like a wet rag trying to find some bear skin. When it finally makes contact, it hurts... There are times for devastating plot change. One Piece did it well, hell even Naruto did it well, but Fairy Tail did it for the sole purpose of doing it. Seriously, there was absolutely no point in it. It happened, it sucked. Life is going to suck now, oh wait they fixed everything in the space of a single chapter. (Note: The story has been terrible for approx. 100 chapters.)

I can't go into much else without spoiling it, so I'll put it simply:
Avoid this manga. Yes, it is a good story. Yes, it starts out well. But if you wish to save yourself the pain of watching a manga die, please do not read it. All we can hope for is that the story will recover in the future, and move on from it's current pig pen.

Cheers~

I love this Manga and everything about fairy tail, it is well worth a read! If you don't want to read the manga I defiantly recommend watching it; it really I amazing, in everyway.

Its plot is great, the characters are fantastic, the drawings are immense and I could hardly even imagine how hard it is to draw Manga style characters. It will particularly interest those with strong bonds with their friends, where they are more like family, and those who love magic and such.

There are Characters for everyone to relate to and all of them have immense and deep back stories in their lives, you can bet that there is at least one character you can relate too whether they be sweet or bad.

Fairy tail really is fantastic work and completely amazing.

I must admid, I was REALLY sceptical about Fairy Tail at first (Fans may forgive me!). I was like "Oh Great...Another boring-ugly-drawn-"action"-Anime/Manga -.-" But Hell boy... i was completely wrong!
Fairy Tail ended up being one of my favourite Anime/Manga of all time! Between laughters about crazy situations, idiotic- but nethertheless adorable- characters and enjoyable fights in the best Guild on earth, take heartwrenching tradegys place, that made me end up crying one then more time. Its true, everyone has a sad secret in his or her life and never I had a better chance to experience that than in Fairy Tail. Even the bad-guys cant be labled as bad (most of them... Exceptions prove the rule!), since their background makes you wipe. That doesnt mean, that Fairy Tail is depressing- Hell NO!- but its a good mixture between action-drama-comedy and maybe romance.

Yeah. That MAYBE before romance makes me sick -.- Maybe Im to romantical, but I just cant stand it, that there are nearly no "clear" couples. Nearly every couple-construction is possible and well... I just need some canon couples, I can cheer for ^____^

So!
great Storyline, that surprises you everytime you think you finally figured everything out, adorable (and also handsome :DDD) characters, the importance of "nakama" and a great Artwork make Fairy Tail one of the best Manga, Ive read up to now. So get reading the goddamn thing already! :D

Oh! A Minor Warning! If you read it, you might get problems to spell "fairytale" right xD But hey! For the best Guild in the country, you can cope with that, right?

I started Fairy Tail before the Big 3, and it was one of the first long ongoing shonen manga that I've read (and watched). While it started mediocre, Fairy Tail reached high potential once it reached the Phantom Arc and onwards. And I must say that I was captivated from that point onwards.

But then the more I read, the more I began to enjoy it less. There is this lack of uniqueness in the plot of each arc, where it begins to form a pattern of Fairy Tail fighting this dangerous enemy, and gets thoroughly defeated. Yet after no training, no whatever, they seem to do much better in a one on one battle, finishing the arc off with Natsu beating the big-bad with some kind of "power of friendship".

If this happens once, or even twice, in a story, I would just overlook it as a writers' block for the mangaka, but unfortunately, for Fairy Tail, it seems to be the basis for almost all the story arcs. I'd like to point out that Natsu has NEVER lost a deciding battle, no matter how strong they are supposed to be. What's worse his that he doesn't even train for it, and the only permanent-powerup he gets is from someone else magicing him stronger.

And then lately, it was the last straw. When the long awaited battle in the Grand Magic Games ended up in an anti-climatic surrender. Shortly afterwards, the mangaka has spent at least 10 pages on wasting space and room by drawing our main character naked for no reason other than fanservice. I can't say I can expect anything from Fairy Tail anymore.

(my wrting skills are mediocre)

Fairy Tail is something I enjoyed very much when I stated it, a nice fantasy world with groups of people, called guilds, where magic rules the world. It was similar to stories I liked at that time, for example One Piece and Bleach, so very popular shonen manga overall. It was like 3 years ago, I was 15 years old and didn't read or knew many other stories about adventures. So I was hooked and read through all available chapters at that point. Then I dropped it for about 2 1/2 years. There was no relation to the content whatsoever, I was simply too impatient at that time and could not wait for one chapter per week. So I thought I would pick it up again in a few months. But I forgot about it over time. Now that I have started reading again, I have a different opinion about Fairy Tail.

Story:
Like I mentioned in the text ealier, I was a bit younger when I read the first half of the manga and was unexperienced about stories in general, so I think I didn't care much about the story. Now that I care about it I have another view about it. To be fair, it is a long running series which commonly looses a bit in this segment simply because it is so long and everytime there are new characters which don't all have the same quality. but this is about the story.
A story that is fun in the first few arcs however gets more and more boring in the following ones. They are not totally bad but if you read so many other fighting manga you sometimes do read the same story only with other characters and a few differences.

Art:
This is in my opinion one of the best parts of Fairy Tail. I really like the art style, which gets better and better over the chapters. It's usally presented in a clear manner, therefore you are able to see the characters even with detailed backgrounds.
Nothing more to say, it is good.

Characters:
A quite weak point of Fairy Tail. The characters get stronger and some are funny etc. but they usally stay the same as they were presented in the beginning. Only a few exceptions, like villiians who realize they did what they did because they lost someone or were treated unfair and then accept they were not. Also some main characters have a bit of progress.
Nevertheless, the reason why these kinds of character development are not that good is that they sometimes are too fast or unplausible. Moreover characters nearly always do what they are created to do, the villian is bad and the hero i kind. The villians sometimes don't seem to have another reason than: I want to destroy everyone, I want to rule the world or I am the strongest. This is too black and white.
And then there is the fan sevice. I have to admit I don't like fan sevice too much. It transforms characters into sex items and makes them less enjoyable because you lose the respect for them. Key story parts with these characters seem so useless and implausible that sometimes a whole chapter is from start to the end boring. For example a female character explains a certain aspect about something and you get so many different angles of her presenting her tits. Then it's like I am speaking directly to the chapter:

Me: "So, ah ok he has this ability and ... oh a porn scene begins!"
Chapter: "No, this is a normal explenation about his ability."
Me: "Ahh you mean with...porn and where is the real story?"
Chapter: "This is the real one my friend, now get the tissues."
Me: "But I don't need to sneeze.."
Chapter: "Do it, JUST DO IT!"
Me: "Hem ...ok next Chapter, oh again..."

It's not like I skip the whole chapter but you know what I mean. It's like a speedrun for me but there are too many obstacles and I get bored.
So ok this section was a little bit too exaggerated and you could all see my flaws in this language but you get my point. Also it's not even exaggerated that it sometimes happens back to back with chapters because Fairy Tail is like the King of fan service.

Enjoyment:
Like I explained in the last paragraph the load of fan service is a huge problem for me and it obviously has affect on the enjoyment too, however I think I wrote enough about it.
What I didn't mention until now is that I also have a problem with all of these cheesy ability names. My theory is I am too old or it is probably about context too. There is, to my knowledge no point where abilities of nearly mages are categorized something like a ranking for abilities. Those "epic" special attacks don't mean anything if there is a good context behind it. Sometimes someone talks about it like "Woooah that and that thing an ancient ability from bla bla bla" but these are mostly explenations we can't value in a sense of strengh. The context is missing and it seems boring.
On the contrary Fairy Tail has sometimes very memorable moments which keep you reading.
I admit I almost only did point out negative things because they stand out this much for me.

Overall:
To my mind Fairy Tail is a very enjoyable manga for young people if you abandon the fact that there is too much fan service. On the other hand I think this is even a positive point for young people for their enjoyment but I don't think it's very appropriate for them.
The older half of the viewers could be unsatisfied but that is not 100% likely only a possibility. Like I pointed out, many of my reasons for disliking the show are to my knowledge quite unique.
If I had to make speculations about these two groups I would give Fairy Tail an 8 if I had to guess the rating of the younger group and a 7 if it was the older group.

I hope nobody is raging about this and thinks about this like it was supposed to be: an opinion.

What can i say about this manga... IT'S FRICKING AWESOME...
Now that i got that out of my system, ill review it.
From what I have seen/read from manga's this story has originality in it and the skills you see the character have has some imagination to it, which for me is an added bonus. Basically this story revolves around a guild called "Fairy tail" At the begging you can see the main character are Natus,Luis and some other who im to lazy to name.

This manga has both comedy in it and action not lacking a few tearjerkers now and then and lets not forget hot girls. in my opinion this manga is a great read for you manga fans... I have to say that i cannot wait for the anime version of this manga.

~Soul Weaver~

Hope you enjoyed my review (^-^)V