When I first started watching this show, I enjoyed it. The characters were fun and diverse and there was good action in almost every episode. I watched for about a little more than a year before I started to get bored with it. Now it's been around 2 years and I've stopped watching it altogether. Here's why.
1. There's no romance, not even a little bit- For me, this is important for a ...
When I first started watching this show, I enjoyed it. The characters were fun and diverse and there was good action in almost every episode. I watched for about a little more than a year before I started to get bored with it. Now it's been around 2 years and I've stopped watching it altogether. Here's why.
1. There's no romance, not even a little bit- For me, this is important for a long-running anime. I'm one of those guys that likes to see a little love from time to time; it spices things up. But in this anime, there is none. Sure it might hint at a few crushes sometimes, but they never turn into anything. Having no romance turns it into more of a child's anime to me, and the wacky behavior of the characters that used to entertain me now seem predictable.
2. The story is cliche- It seems to me that the same thing is happening over and over again: A new guild or group shows up with evil intentions, Fairy Tail is targeted or brought into the situation by coincidence, the guilds fight and Fairy Tail almost loses, then through a surge of strength and friendship Fairy Tail overcomes the evil and saves the world (or a huge aspect of it). The fighting gets old too because the characters usually gain no new significant abilities, so they use the same methods every time. For example, in the S-class wizard trials, Natsu gains the ability to wield black flames while fighting another flame user (I forgot his name), but after this fight he doesn't use that ability anymore. It's basically the same for all the other characters, so there are no new surprises to excite you about big guild battles.
3. No character development- this alone ruins the anime for me. The other day I watched the first episode and then watched the most recent one and saw that neither Natsu nor Lucy have changed. They still have the same child-like attitudes and are almost never serious. Happy is still an idiot, and almost every other character has remained unchanged since they were introduced. Typical 12-episode shows do a better job than this show does with developing their characters, it's a joke really. The personalities are fun at first, but for God's sake after a few years it gets old!
In total this anime seems like a kids' show with a few PG-13 moments to me, and the show has turned from an anticipated broadcast into a show that is only still running because of the big hype for it due to the manga. It's kind of like when a popular movie has 3 sequels which all were made for the sole purpose of making money (like Ice Age). So if you're like me and enjoy animes with constant changes in the plot, this isn't for you.
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