Review of Fairy Tail

I do NOT recommend watching Fairy Tail to anyone looking to begin it or want to start anime for the first time. Fairy Tail's only magical ability is to bore you snotless before conveying your broken body back to watching Netflix Originals. This was my first ever long anime series, and how ashamed of that I am. I'd much rather it had been One Piece, Bleach or Naruto; at least those have plot consistency and do not rely on fan service anywhere near as much as Fairy Tail does. Let me start off by saying... Fairy Tail is the most cliché and formulaic anime to ever exist.The most. You looking for repetition to the nth degree, so much so that an entire arc feels like an 1000 episode brainbuster from the top rope?
Pssh. At least writing a Fairy Tail review will satisfy my pessimism. And before Fairy Tail's dull memories finally fade from my mind.

Story (1/10):

Terrible. From start to finish, this is the worst story I have ever bothered caring about. You thought Sword Art Online had some inconsistencies, but at least it does not recycle the same arc formula over and over and over and over again.

In case you don't quite get it:
> Hang around in the guild for a bit, feels like a filler but it's not
> Someone goes missing / accept a bounty
> Spend way too long getting there
> Maybe some fodder, if not it's probably a flashback scene
> Bad guys destroy good guys for a bit
> Good guys use 'friendship' to get advantage
> Main bad guy comes out
> Natsu's friendship ftw
> Bad guy turns good
Rinse, repeat

Every arc is like this, just at different lengths. As much as I wish I was exaggerating, this is probably an understatement. If there was at the least some diversity, or if some of the wizards did independent missions without there being groups of generic evil wizards, the story would be much more flavoursome.
I'm supposed to respect the Fairy Tail mangaka as an all-time great, despite producing this horse manure?

Any of the sad or fatal moments in Fairy Tail make no sense with the plot; there is always a better way to deal with everything that they somehow cannot come up with. The only thing consistent about Fairy Tail's story is how terrible it is.

You want an anime with a good story? Go look at the top rated anime instead of the most popular.

Art (4/10):

Has boobs, which gives it 3 points instead of 1. Just kidding; really liked some of the effects produced by magic and some of the character's outfits. Mirajane by far as one of the coolest outfits (you know which ones I mean).

Sound (3/10):

Just your average shonen soundboard stuff. Does anybody really care about this? I mean, come it's Fairy Tail.
There's maybe about... 3 good OPs, all the rest just sound the same. God help you if you bothered sitting through the endings.

Character (5/10):

They couldn't have pushed the idea that Natsu is the protagonist further down our throats, despite also wanting us to respect the rest of the Fairy Tail guild as equal protagonists, when it is always Natsu who defeats the main antagonist.

What is the point in building up such a strong, diverse and promising range of characters for them to just be hindered by a generic protagonist who has a generic power? Such a shame. I love Fairy Tail's roster of characters a lot, some have interesting backgrounds, magic and stuff.
Fanservice also ruined a lot of the characters as well. Erza's a prime example of this; poorly done tsunderes does not make your anime better.

Also, Kagura from Fairy Tail is just a blatant rip-off from Gintama's Nobume. Running out of ideas are we, Hiro-san?
Maybe you should have picked up comprehensive writing skills from Gintama too.

Enjoyment (2/10):

I don't detest, hate or wish death upon Fairy Tail. But I certainly don't forgive it for giving me my lowest standard for anime. Thank god it's ending.

Overall (3/10):

Fairy Tail didn't have my bawling in tears or anything, although it did make me crack a smile at times. Smiling to mask the pain of knowing I wasted time on this anime.
Thank you for showing me what's on the opposite end of the spectrum from Gintama, Steins Gate and the like.
Maybe I'll finish the final series just to see if it finally breaks its shackles. Can only imagine it's gotten worse.