Fairy Tail Review:
Title:
Fairy Tail
Author:
Hiro Mashima
Literary
level: Beginner
Rating: 2.5/5
Written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima and published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in August of 2006. Fairy Tail is a full-on fantasy adventure following Lucy Heartfelia as a new member of the Fairy Tail guild where the job is to take any type of bounties. Natsu Dragneel, a fire mage, with several other members of the guild, accompany her into wacky adventures that are either fun and light-hearted or emotional and life-threatening. Adventures such as fighting against other guilds in magic-fueled duels, defeating evil enemies that threaten the existence of magic itself, and saving friends from the possibility of joining the dark side.
The characters and interactions in
Fairy Tail are great, fun adventures and friendship-based messages. They make a
good series, but it is not to my liking. Often fights would always favor the
main character or someone adjacent due to the “power of friendship”, a common
troupe exploited once villains become too over-powered for the main cast to
deal with. In instances in which they wouldn’t normally be able to defeat the enemy,
the protagonist goes above their limit once they think of their friends and
what they mean to them, giving them an impossible edge over the enemy,
finalizing the battle with an unsatisfying fight. I wouldn't say it was lackluster because there is a coherent story, just that the fights were not up to par.