Review of Fairy Tail
This review may contain Spoilers! Shall we start with the easy stuff; Art & Sound. Without saying the best what the Anime has gotten. The themes are quite good and remain in your mind even long after you finished wathing FT. The art is nice - a huge variety of colours are given. Characters... Well, it's neither very good nor very bad at all. There's a plenty of characters I like, such as Jellal, Lyon, Erza or Gray. But on the other hand there's a remarkably amount of People I don't like at all! I'm going to run through both sides and let you know why I like themor not.
First of all, the main character, namely: Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Erza and Gray. I'm very particular with this order and soon you will know, why?!
Natsu is one of the worst main protagonists I've ever seen. He's dumb as hell, gets ZERO character development and wins all battles, all the time! Having said that, it seems that he's absolutely the only one, who could fight against the main "bad" guy. That's why the entire stories of each arc are so predictable... it's not even funny anymore!
Happy - funny and annoying at the same time - is Natsus little fellow. He keeps pushing Natsu into troubles, helps him out,... yaya, we know what he's actually doing.
Lucy, smart and sexy... she has some ups and downs during the anime and I've got the feeling she slightly enjoys getting herself into troubles - Natsu will save her either way. Because of that and the fact she seems not being able to keep herselt out of it, I did ask myself repetitively: Why? Why always Lucy? The "bad" guys are, most of the time, looking for her...
Anyway, we've got Erza. In my point of view, her past (the time in the Tower & Jellal) is probably one of the better ones in the series even tough we didn't get see how she became so stro ng as she actually is. But she shows personality - the first of the main characters who seriously does. But - let's go down to Business - and she turns into a sword-fighting monster. Still, I like her.
Gray was in the first episodes definitely one of the main characters, but as the stories goes on, he seems more and more like a supporting character than anything else. I do enjoy Gray because of how he uses and forms the ice which is he's given element. But it seems the producer "gave" him a certain limit and he is not allowed to go further than this limit - that's why he's sort of useless. And as the Serie goes an he turns more and more into a copy of Natsu... sad, but true.
Fairy Tail's "bad" guys are another disappointing fact - they're bad, because they're bad. Most of the time no reason is given. And most of them haven't gotten any background story anyway.
Well then... the last thing to talk about is the story. It actually had potential - countless times something started very interestingly and turned out to be just "another arc with another bad guy who wants to rule the world or destroy fairy tail".
To close this paragraph I must say I like the fact that after the timeskip they haven't changed at all. Some of them even not their appearance. Yet seven years have passed... *forever young*
The most ridiculous thing I found was the fact no one, except one supporting character, died - Simon. But they had to deal with enormously dangerous guys (at least they seemed so) and none of them died.
The anime would have some gread, and even memorable, moments; however, since every arc is so predicable and ends in almost the same way as the previous one did, you can already imagine the upcoming arc although you haven't gotten the slightest idea about what it might be.
Another interesting thing is that Jellal made it to become one of my favourite characters of all Animes I've watched so far. As I mentioned earlier, I like Erza, Lyon and Gray as well and I do hope they'll get more screen-time and background story.