Review of Fairy Tail

I feel really sad that I actually watched this anime, I guess I was a sucker for the bright colors and the fact that my friends were watching it. The animation style is poor, there are so many missed opportunities for character development. it follows the stereotypical anime pattern of "oh hey the baddest of bad guys has appeared, lets defeat him!" then the next arc is like "no this is the real baddest of the bad guys" and then repeats. Somehow within the first 10 episodes I didn't notice the repeated animation frames. They can't animate two characters at the same time. Many of thefight moves are recycled animation clips. And sometimes to portray movement they simply add a moving background

I really wanted to root for Lucy but she never grows stronger, she gets new and amazing powers but is still the weakest link somehow.