Fairy Tail Part 1

Review Date: 2012 February 08 13:54

Reviewed by: Eeeper

Released by: Manga Entertainment UK

Age Rating: 15

Region: 2 - UK

Volume 1 of 4

Length: 300 minutes

Subtitles: English

Audio: English 5.1 Surround
Japanese 2.0 Stereo

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Summary

Lucy is a 17-year-old girl, who wants to be a full-fledged mage. One day when visiting Harujion Town, she meets Natsu, a young man who gets sick easily by any type of transportation. But Natsu isn't just any ordinary kid, he's a member of one of the world's most infamous mage guilds: Fairy Tail.

Review

Consider the idea of the quest. The quest in most cultures requires a protagonist, an antagonist and a goal. What separates bad quests from the good ones are that the bad ones make you not care about the characters. Eragon is the main culprit when I think of a bad quest story. I've tried to be a good sport and read the books but I didn't make it past the first one after I'd read the first 200 pages and realised I'd met these people before and still didn't care if they lived or died. Now, I've read stories that were generic as hell but still liked the spirit of the story and the people in it, just so we know that I've not got impossible standards to meet. Fairy Tail is a story that I've read and watched before but I still found myself bouncing in my chair as the heroes started in to a beat down of the bad guys. That's a good feeling, being happy to be doing something. And that's a recurring theme in the show, exuberant happiness. Natsu Dragneel, the fire wizard, is a devil may care young man who only wants good food, good fights and good friends around him at all times. Spending five minutes with him will get you fed, punched out or laughing in convulsions. So when he comes across Lucy Heartfilia, a celestial wizard, in the town of Harujion, he helps her out with a sticky situation and invites her to join the magic guild, Fairy Tail. Lucy, who is the only, THE ONLY, sane person in the series, is a great character. She is our narrator but she's also the second lead. We hang out with Lucy but she has her own arc to follow. She only wants to join Fairy Tail because it's the one all the magazines and people talk about. What she doesn't realise or seem to notice is that Fairy Tail is famous because it has a reputation for a wake of destruction wherever it's members go. But she soon finds out.