Review of Fairy Tail

The only thing happy about this show is the cat named Happy. Aside from that are my eternally glazed over eyes from the "power of friendship." Fairy Tail has a boring and cliched mess of a story. The only acceptable part of this show is how diverse the cast is and their effort in making everyone relevant. Fairy Tail starts you off with a blonde bitch who stumbles upon spiky haired anime protagonist. From there blonde bitch is welcomed to the guild named after the show. As far as the plot goes, this is where the story starts, and where it ends. The issue with the storyis that it is too aimless. It's less about moving toward one sole objective, and more about exploring what already exists. So the guild members just do their aimless shenanigans and you learn more about them through it. The story is driven this way, but it isn't too compelling. It just exists.

The music is fair, gets you kinda hyped. Not when it plays for 200 times. It's unfortunately overused and the hype dies out real quick. The art is ok, I'd say above average. What sucks is the animation.

Everyone takes this stiff stance before they do anything. You know, got to shout the name of their power move. Then it follows with a jarringly different style special effects, e.g. the fire breath, water spells. In general, the animation is far more stiff than you'd expect it to be in a battle. The only real, redeeming part of this show is the fact that they put effort in exploring all the characters.

There is an enormous cast of seemingly random characters, but somehow they all find a way to be relevant in the end. That's because about 100% of the time, this anime is exploring yet another character. As such, the characters are a lot more rounded than you'd find in other anime. You get to know a lot about the secondary characters simply because they devote an exorbitant amount of time on them.

I would go as far as to say that if there is anything to like about Fairy Tail, it is the investment in characters. Not character development, but characters. There is still a wide divide between the main characters and the secondary in regards to how much they change, but you at least know every character, their personality, and their life story.

Unfortunately, since they spend so much time on these guys, the pace ends up being ridiculously dragged out. That's perhaps the most exhausting part about this show. Then again, if you really are interested in these characters, then this show might just be Fairy Tail for you.