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NEWS: Fairy Tail Anime's TV Run to End on March 30

今週のマガジンにアニメ(終)と書いてあるんだけど、実はまだ終わりじゃないんですよ。これ以上の事は言えないんだけど、4月からの再放送を見ながらよい発表ができる日をまっていてほしいです。

Another tweet from Mashima about the anime ending

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今週のマガジンにアニメ(終)と書いてあるんだけど、実はまだ終わりじゃないんですよ。これ以上の事は言えないんだけど、4月からの再放送を見ながらよい発表ができる日をまっていてほしいです。

My Japanese isn't that good but it says roughly something like this:
"The anime ending is announced on this week magazine, but [I am? We are? It is?] not over yet.[something about starting April] While watching the rebroadcast wait for the day when we can give good news"

Anime is not the end. Don't stop believing

「FAIRY TAIL」の再放送が決定！
タイトル：フェアリーテイル ベスト！
放送日時：4月4日（木）より毎週木曜夕方5時30分～放送

どのタイトルが放送されるかはひ・み・つ！
ぜひ！お楽しみに～！！

I'm OK with this.

Fairy Tail had some things going for it at the start, and was getting interesting, especially with the Edolas & Zeref arcs, but it just seemed to peter out in the end. I really liked Happy and the other Exceeds, but the main characters were difficult to like. Eventually I warmed up to Natsu, Gray, Ezra, MiraJ, and Romeo, but I really can't stand the rest. Lucy and Juvia are especially loathsome. Too many of the females suffer from having big tits and sob story, which is pretty boring. The male characters are more varied but are boring because they get little-to-no character development. I feel that Wendy is a cynical play to the lolicon crowd.

Also, the ill-timed humor/fanservice just gets too absurd and over the top even for shounen. That would be alright if this was supposed to be a pure comedy or parody, but that isn't what it is always presenting itself as, which leads to confusion. You can mix comedy and drama, but it can't be done in a haphazard fashion. The end result is that it feels like it is yanking my chain once too often.

Lastly, there are just way, way too many "nakama" power-ups in this series. Power-ups are staple shounen, but even so it puts shows like Dragon Ball to shame in how often they trot this trope out. The end result is the battles feel weak and nothing is really at stake. This also causes a problem because it doesn't feel like they are accomplishing anything, either.

In the end, it probably just got too tedious for a lot of viewers to watch, so they just gave up. I could see the writing on the wall when the fanservice really started ramping up in some last ditch effort to save it. It is pretty lame when the tournament commentator has to direct the audience to "how great" all the fanservice is.

Sariachan wrote:

I'll probably drop the anime soon, though; I already watched around 60 episodes and it feels too generic and random to me.

There aren't that many, honestly. The feeling is correct, as far as I am concerned. Not that One Piece is much better, mind you, but at least it has some semblance of an overarching story.

http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/fairytail/news/#144359

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「FAIRY TAIL」の再放送が決定！ タイトル：フェアリーテイル ベスト！ 放送日時：4月4日（木）より毎週木曜夕方5時30分～放送 どのタイトルが放送されるかはひ・み・つ！ ぜひ！お楽しみに～！！

Reruns of "FAIRY TAIL" decision!
Title: Best Fairy Tales!
Broadcast every Thursday evening at 5:30 from Thursday, April 04 Date: broadcasting
Tue, which only one, the title is either broadcast!
The world! ~ Do not miss it! !

Can somebody explain? Or correct the translation

Title: Fair Retail Best!

There aren't that many, honestly. The feeling is correct, as far as I am concerned. Not that One Piece is much better, mind you, but at least it has some semblance of an overarching story.