Review of Fairy Tail
Fairy tail When I turned my back on TV and started watching anime on the internet, Fairy Tail was a big topic and one of the big popular shounen of its time. I still remember when he was watching the latest episodes and was still waiting for the old episodes of Tenrou Jima. In fact, as an inexperienced fan who knew almost no works, Fairy Tail seemed enormously entertaining and fascinating to me. People change and their taste continues to evolve, depending on how big their experience base becomes. And so it was with me too. However, not only did my perception and taste change, but also the actualquality of the Fairy Tail anime/manga. I can honestly say, Fairy Tail is still average and worth watching between episode 1 and around 80. Everything that comes after that, especially the second season after the tournament, is a disastrous experience. And just saying, the only reason I rated this Show with 4/10 and not lower, is thanks to the first half of the season, which wasn't awful but mediocre.
The work started with a simple concept that was kept until the end. The incoherent Arc-> Arc concept. A new villain, new enemies, and a new cliché and completely monotonous process. To a certain extent, this can be ignored, but Fairy Tail had no brakes here. The real story about Natsu's past and the adversary of the series was just hot air without content until the bitter end.
The characters had actually been likable at first and had various character traits. Well, you didn't get any character depth or character development until the end, I can still handle that somehow. However, the characters have become more and more annoying and unappealing over time and the fan service has enormously gained the upper hand. The female characters, especially Erza and Lucy, have only become fan service decorations. Especially with Erza, who initially represented a strong female personality, this was an extremely bad move.
The actual implementation of the magic and the world-building has also been enormously weak. When I compare this long-running SHounen with the others, the lack of creativity hits me right in the eye. Magic has no system, ingenuity, or structure. Even the 4 elements in Avatar were dimensionally better developed despite the simple setting. Though Fairy Tail could have created so much with all that space.
A favorite among all the critics is also the famous "Power of Friendship" approach - and yes, this is represented in an enormous number of works. But here, too, it depends on use, diversity, and implementation. Here again, we see a prime example of the worst fighting shounen ever. In which the creator did not even have ideas how to end fights without making them appear ridiculous. I think the fight between the protagonists and Hades was by far the most understandable. Everything else was far beyond the absurd.
The only thing worth mentioning here would be the music. I love the Osts and mostly Fairy Tail Openings. Though I can never listen to it, thanks to the fact that the show turned out to be such a disappointment.
In conclusion, Fairy Tail mutated from a work that had immense potential to one that didn't even try to use it. The writer practically says "No creativity" written on his forehead.
I keep saying it. Works with the "Fantasy" setting are the works that in principle have the greatest potential and the largest playing surface. With fantasy/magic work, you can do practically EVERYTHING, there are hardly any limits. And yet "Hiro Mashima" didn't even begin to create anything worth mentioning.