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REVIEW: Fairy Tail Blu-Ray + DVD 3

I hate episode 26--the insulting ease with which Gajeel is forgiven is topped only by a technically proficient confrontation involving Lucy that's so immaturely handled, it hurts.

Looneygamemaster wrote:

I hate episode 26--the insulting ease with which Gajeel is forgiven is topped only by a technically proficient confrontation involving Lucy that's so immaturely handled, it hurts.

spoiler[It's explained in episode 100 and something "Iron Soul" that he was not forgiven.]

The episode with the stage play is not filler. It was an actual chapter in the manga.

Well even if it was in the manga, what did it have to do with the main story being told?

KabaKabaFruit wrote:

The episode with the stage play is not filler. It was an actual chapter in the manga.

Well even if it was in the manga, what did it have to do with the main story being told?

Anyway, I feel as if people are going to argue against the criticism with the music in Fairy Tail. And honestly when i think about it, Carlo has a point. The tracks individually are great to listen to. Or at least most of them. I think the problem lies with the way the songs are arranged and the more I think about it, the more I feel the problem with the music relates to the problem with the way cutscenes are executed, the limited ways characters express themselves in some scenes (I'm not even talking about just action ones either, I feel people assume I mean the action-oriented parts, which isn't necessarily true) and just how the flow of the animated scenes are too spontaneous. It's like even with not only A-1 pictures and Studio Satelight cooperating and the same composer who did the music for Naruto Shippuden, My Bride's a Mermaid, and all the Precure series since Fresh Precure on board, the staff in general seemed too new or just didn't have much time before Fairy Tail would have to go on air. They had to be quick and simple with the animation, scenes and music and thus there wasn't time to think about it how they all flow together.

In scenes where characters are exchanging dialogue that involves solving a problem, rather than thinking about making individual cutscenes for a close-up of a character in a diagonal view, they just insert a balloon with a super-deformed version of that character during a panning background scene, supposedly talking back. With the music, it's like just use this song for sad scenes, that song for action scenes, and that song for comedic scenes. Nothing else. I'm not sure at what point does it start changing, but I've noticed that both with the animation and the music during the current Tenrou Island arc do they become significantly better. Especially with the music. More variety and applying different pacing of music. Instead of just humor, action, victory and sadness, there's also more of puzzling, tension, and struggle.

but who cares the music is awesome no matter what a few people might say.

Who cares?

I love this series, but as usual I find big shortcomings with the writing at the oddest spots. Of course this is probably just copied forward from the manga but still the anime could fix it.

For example, Lucy's impassioned plea to the Celestial Spirit King spoiler[of course works out in her favor, but she never really makes the case for it. The Spirit King just gives in.] What she should have done is spoiler[say fine, if that's the law then I am going to use my last bit of life and magic to open the gate, and if I die from it then it will be the Spirit King that caused my death. So you will be exiled next! Doing that would have given the Spirit King a real reason for giving in ] and a better reason to respect Lucy. (who is something of a butt monkey but has her moments.)

I can think of a lot of obvious fixes to the script like that for Fairy Tale, more so than with most anime series. Yet it all still works amazingly well and I give this anime high marks.