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REVIEW: Fairy Tail BD+DVD Parts 7-8

And as for the dubbing, the best dub by far is the Animax dub, each character VA is fantastic and evokes the characters in wonderful ways. Sadly the Class A VA team of Animax only dubbed Fairy Tail up thru ep 104, but this cycle is fully done by them and really great in every way. Especially well done are Natsu, Grey, Lucy, and Erza, and Happy....but all of the rest are very good too. It is worthwhile watching this set for it is by far and above much much better than the Funi version. The Japanese original is better but not accessible to all due to the language barrier.

Sorry but One Piece is a shallow and trivial series without quality and overly kinetic.

Fairy Tail is for many reasons which appear to be beyond many people's usual experience or understanding of fantasy literature..very good indeed. It is much better than just about any other similar genre series. And it continues to get better.

And yes the Animax Dub is superb one of the best dubs into English I have seen. Just sorry that the A team of their VA did not carry on with episodes after 104. We can hope they may do the latest season.

Reviewers of any form of art, or literature are NOT guaranteed to understand or know what they are talking about just because they are chosen to publish their works. In this case and in the case of many of the posts i have seen on Fairy Tail, its special mix of Japanese culture, Japanese view of fantasy and anime in particular seems opaque to many western viewers and esp to many fans of anime. I am far more than a fan, i have been studying anime in a dedicated fashion in depth for many years now and am a professional artist in both western art and now work in anime and manga myself. But I shared my concerns and views because I am tired of seeing FT panned with such superficial and glib dismissal.

In time I believe true values will emerge, Fist of the North and One Piece will thankfully be forgotten on the trash heap of transition anime I am glad to say.

thekingsdinner wrote:

"final boss looks disconcertingly like a Pokémon." I honestly laughed loudly at that part. I don't even know what they're talking about.

They're talking about "Dorma Anim" the strongest enemy in the Edolas arc.

Instead of treating Fairy Tail with the respect it deserves—with its fine-tuned balance of madcap silliness and brutal brawling, the swift drive of its shifting plot, and its free-ranging fights with their razor-executed excesses and soft emotional underbelly—Ishihara and his co-conspirators treat it as if it's just another lazy, by-the-numbers shonen rip-off.

Botches the execution of the arc at every turn; final boss looks disconcertingly like a Pokémon.

Sorry but One Piece is a shallow and trivial series without quality and overly kinetic.

Fairy Tail is for many reasons which appear to be beyond many people's usual experience or understanding of fantasy literature..very good indeed. It is much better than just about any other similar genre series. And it continues to get better.

And yes the Animax Dub is superb one of the best dubs into English I have seen. Just sorry that the A team of their VA did not carry on with episodes after 104. We can hope they may do the latest season.

Reviewers of any form of art, or literature are NOT guaranteed to understand or know what they are talking about just because they are chosen to publish their works. In this case and in the case of many of the posts i have seen on Fairy Tail, its special mix of Japanese culture, Japanese view of fantasy and anime in particular seems opaque to many western viewers and esp to many fans of anime. I am far more than a fan, i have been studying anime in a dedicated fashion in depth for many years now and am a professional artist in both western art and now work in anime and manga myself. But I shared my concerns and views because I am tired of seeing FT panned with such superficial and glib dismissal.

In time I believe true values will emerge, Fist of the North and One Piece will thankfully be forgotten on the trash heap of transition anime I am glad to say.

CrisGer A.A. wrote:

And as for the dubbing, the best dub by far is the Animax dub, each character VA is fantastic and evokes the characters in wonderful ways. Sadly the Class A VA team of Animax only dubbed Fairy Tail up thru ep 104, but this cycle is fully done by them and really great in every way. Especially well done are Natsu, Grey, Lucy, and Erza, and Happy....but all of the rest are very good too. It is worthwhile watching this set for it is by far and above much much better than the Funi version. The Japanese original is better but not accessible to all due to the language barrier.

I don't see your point.

If the plot is botched at every turn, why give the story a B? That doesn't match. Is there some context here that I am missing? Did the animation studio do something unpopular? Why so bipolar?

Botches the execution of the arc at every turn; final boss looks disconcertingly like a Pokémon.

Sorry but One Piece is a shallow and trivial series without quality and overly kinetic.

Fairy Tail is for many reasons which appear to be beyond many people's usual experience or understanding of fantasy literature..very good indeed. It is much better than just about any other similar genre series. And it continues to get better.

And yes the Animax Dub is superb one of the best dubs into English I have seen. Just sorry that the A team of their VA did not carry on with episodes after 104. We can hope they may do the latest season.

Reviewers of any form of art, or literature are NOT guaranteed to understand or know what they are talking about just because they are chosen to publish their works. In this case and in the case of many of the posts i have seen on Fairy Tail, its special mix of Japanese culture, Japanese view of fantasy and anime in particular seems opaque to many western viewers and esp to many fans of anime. I am far more than a fan, i have been studying anime in a dedicated fashion in depth for many years now and am a professional artist in both western art and now work in anime and manga myself. But I shared my concerns and views because I am tired of seeing FT panned with such superficial and glib dismissal.

In time I believe true values will emerge, Fist of the North and One Piece will thankfully be forgotten on the trash heap of transition anime I am glad to say.

I am once again appalled at the trivial shallow and callous way some people review Fairy Tail, it appears to be a difficult series for some so called anime 'reviewers" to grasp and to appreciate.

Firstly this cycle of Edolas was superb, as were ALL of the episodes leading up to it and none of them can be remotely called "filler" as some people love to try to pan the essential relaxed and fun episodes that release pressure from many of the anime series. Each one is a jewel of its own quality and all of them in this cycle are superb.

The Edolas story is a difficult one for it takes the cast to an entirely new and alien world. As a portrayal OF an alien world this is superb work, it truly conveys the feeling of somewhere very different yet very believable and the other aspects of the mirroring of the main characters is lovely and very well done.

The art animation and character design of Fairy Tail continues to be first rate and among the best of any fantasy anime yet made. Each character has its own charm and is totally solid and well made. The character of each is revealed in the dialog, both the Japanese and the English dialog is very well matched and reflects the spirit of the series.

And as for the dubbing, the best dub by far is the Animax dub, each character VA is fantastic and evokes the characters in wonderful ways. Sadly the Class A VA team of Animax only dubbed Fairy Tail up thru ep 104, but this cycle is fully done by them and really great in every way. Especially well done are Natsu, Grey, Lucy, and Erza, and Happy....but all of the rest are very good too. It is worthwhile watching this set for it is by far and above much much better than the Funi version. The Japanese original is better but not accessible to all due to the language barrier.

In the end, this cycle is superb and the entire series is getting better and better, and it now holds in my view the premier place of honour of fantasy anime far above One Piece or any other claimant. I am sure that Fairy Tail will hold its place among the all time classics like Inuyasha and Kenshin, and I am so glad we are now enjoying more new episodes of Fairy Tail tho the character design has morphed a bit, esp for Lucy they seem to be coming back on track with more balance with that aspect.

I am sorry that Fairy Tail continues to be a challenge for many to appreciate who write coverage and I will continue to pray that we can find reviewers who can understand the depth and the quality that this superb series offers us.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Naruto, One Piece and Bleach have been way more guilty of bloating their show than Dragon Ball Z ever was. Naruto is quite possibly the worst example of a bloated shonen anime or manga I've ever come across, it flat out abuses the concept of filler. The amount of filer acrs there have been in that show is countless and at one stage didn't Naruto have like 80 episodes of filler back to back?

I agreed with everything you were saying....and then you lost me at Animax's dub. I don't know if you're just trolling, joking, or just delusional. I'm sorry, but Animax's Fairy Tail English dub is just god-awful.