Review of Fairy Tail

This is by far my favorite anime (mind you I've only recently started getting into anime within the past few years so I probably haven't watched as much as other reviewers here). I haven't really read many reviews about this anime either so I don't feel like someone else's opinion has effected me in any way as I'm writing this review. So why is this my favorite anime thus far? I enjoy shonen, light-hearted atmospheres, and comical situations and hilarious characters. To me, anime is something that I can watch and enjoy without feeling too much frustration or drama - and that's exactly what Fairy Tail gives me.The soundtrack was definitely repetitive and most of the time they used the same music throughout the 175 episodes, but it never failed to hype up every fight scene or make my heart throb for every possible love scene. The art is pretty good and very funny - some parts they would change their style to emphasize different moods and feelings. The scenes are great! The fighting sometimes happens way too quickly and sometimes they talk too much - typically in a joking manner - so I would have to pause and rewind to be able to read and enjoy the scene as much as I can, but that didn't really bother me much because watching the fights were really an experience of color, drawings, animation, and sound!
The characters are hilarious! Each one has their own character and lives up to their expectations of it - they all have a specific "thing" they all do and yeah, you "expect" something to happen from someone, but it never gets old. Even their relationship with each other is really something.This anime really taught me that friendships matter; the connections you make with other people are essential to life and without those connections, you would have nothing (yeah who knew such an anime would give a deep lesson like that, huh?).

There were definitely some parts that I wished showed more or explained more into detail such as "They just get stronger by every fight, but why? how? what made this make them so much stronger?" "So are they every getting together?" "This arc is taking too long - what is that person even doing?" "How did she/he get so strong and get their power all of a sudden?" You'll see in the anime that those questions appear quite often. Some arcs were so short that you don't even realize how or why things happened - and unfortunately sometimes, you won't get the answer to it.

Despite the negative things, I felt like I had more positive feelings about this anime as I was watching it - and still do. It just gave me light whenever I watched it - nothing to dark or too serious. Of course, not everyone has the same taste and people might really want a more in-depth anime with a thorough plot. So if you want something like that, then maybe this isn't for you? If you like comedy, light-hearted things, not-too-serious story line with really good action scenes, friendship bonds and all that good stuff, then you definitely need to take time and watch this!