"Fairy Tail" Discussion: Harvest Festival (Chapter 106+, *Spoilers Abound!*)

Well, Gerard the Animated Series has been announced.

I would have been excited about this a year ago, but now, eh. The series just hasn't been that good for a while. Ever since the Gerard Extravaganza started, in fact.
 
Where to begin? I guess the more obvious thing about the series is the whole One Piece lookalike. Outside of the thicker bodies in this, the character designs are pretty close to each other. What's with that?

Characters. As of right now I'm finding it a bit hard to enjoy Natsu's character even though his personality is identical to Luffy. It took a long time for me to like Luffy, and honestly, Goku is the only "airhead" that I really like. All these other series where you have an airhead as the main character is becoming really hard to get into for me since I don't care to see the "reckless nature" of these characters. They're just as annoying as damsels and characters with no backbones.

I don't really care for Lucy either.

Erza (favorite character so far) and Gray are my type of characters. The armor and weapon is something I find really interesting. And Gray is... Well.. Gray lol.

I will admit that it has its funny moments too. Other than that, there hasn't really been any "wow" moments for me.

Take it back, I'm on ch 48, and things just got a bit more interesting. So I take it this is where things really picks up at...
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Edit:

Uh yeah, I just finished reading ch 135, and my opinion on the series as a whole has changed quite a bit, for the worst, unfortunately. It's not a bad series, it just has a lot of elements that turns me away. Fanservice being the #1 target. If I had to compare it to something, I'd say it's a light version of Tenjho Tenge. And like TT, it has that one character that stanRAB out the most, but the fanservice ruins it for me. Erza still remains my favorite character, and the earlier chapters are my favorite moments of her. Each armor revealed more skin, and it's at the point to where I'm getting fed up.

Characters aren't really all that either. As I stated, Erza is my favorite, and Gray is up there as well, but there really hasn't been anyone else to really catch my interest outside of Mistgun, and, well, he pops up whenever. Gazille is pretty decent too, although, I feel like he's going to have that Vegeta moment... (Broly) And I'd lose all respect for him if he does. Don't get me wrong though, none of these characters are bad at all. It's just these characters don't do anything to keep me interested. I expected a lot more from Gerard as well as Luxus. A lot of these characters are drawn to look bad###, but they just don't really live up to it for me. (No one really had that Itachi, Byakuya, or Hiei effect on me yet. And I'm 130+ ch's in, so yeah.) Erza and Gray can only do so much to keep me interested.

I wouldn't compare this to One Piece so much if it didn't look like it. And there are just too many elements here that are exactly like One Piece, and where One Piece truly excels at, Fairy Tail fails. And that is it's characters, for me at least.

One thing I will give Fairy Tail is that it moves at a nice pace. Flasrabroadacks aren't long at all. Fights don't last forever. Everything just keeps going at a steady pace.

While I will continue to read this, I won't follow this as heavily as One Piece or Bleach. (Bah, now I need something new to read.)
 
^^Pretty good opinions (though Tenjo Tenge? Really?) and maybe it'll be better in the upcoming anime (or worse, who knows? )


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Agreed, Natsu and Lucy are recolors of Luffy and Nami. In personality and in catchphrases. I'm sick of the childish immature hero myself.

But Erza is made of awesome.
 
The fight choreography is cool, but that's about all FT has going for it. Both Mystogan and Gerard are recycled character designs from Rave Master. Heck, the entire Oracion Seis idea is the same thing. More often than not, the series enRAB up disappointing me. Heck, Laxus' whole send off was a huge ripoff of the end of One Piece's Alabasta arc. They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but that whole part just came across as lazy and forced. It doesn't help that Mashima isn't great at writing flasrabroadacks either--it prevented me from really caring about Erza's story when there was so little exposition.

The Phantom Lord arc was great, and is probably the manga's high point. Though the Guild's acceptance of Gajeel came way too fast afterward.
 
Uh, are you intentionally not using the commonly used versions of Mistgun, Luxus, and Gazelle's names?

Also, everyone's over-exaggerating the One Piece influence, failing to realize that everything being cited as such is just a common action shonen element.

EDIT: Also, if we're going to recommend manga, then for an ongoing action series, there's Psyren, though it hasn't been officially translated yet. It starts out weakly, but it gets better.
 
Those are the official names for those guys, actually. Mashima gives Del Rey the official romanizations, and even wrote them out in English during one of his bonus chapters. The only reason they aren't used is because the scanlators admittedly choose not to. Considering that the same isn't done for One Piece, I make sure to use the correct names instead of what's most common.

For the dragon slayers, I think they're going to have a double "e" thing going on with their names and their dragons. Natsu Dragneel, Gajeel, Wendee.


The conclusion to Laxus' arc was completely out of nowhere. The indication that Fairy Tail pointing their hanRAB up into the air like that would let Laxus know the guild still cares about him was introduced in the same chapter where it was used. There was no set up--it should have been done earlier into the arc or earlier in the series.

And don't get me wrong, I still think it's an okay series. But it draws on a lot of elements from One Piece and doesn't follow through well enough.
 
While that may be true, One Piece is one of the few series that actually does it well. It's almost as if Fairy Tail is trying to do the exact same thing as One Piece, and while I don't mind one series doing the same thing as another, but like Mr. Toto said, Fairy Tail just don't follow through.
 
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