Hello there anime fans it's the day that Fairy Tail fans have dreaded and depending on who you ask a few anime fans have dreaded as well as Fairy Tail 545 aka The Final issue is out and so with that another long running series comes to an end but this post isn't about that it's about celebrating Fairy Tail.
Just to give you a sense of how long this series has been going it started out August 2nd 2006 that's eleven years worth of adventures , laughs and character development and for a long time this was one of the few big anime names and like the series that came before it it to has ended but it's also left us with a lot of happy memory's and for me at least Fairy Tail was always about making people happy.
I know this series has a lot of haters for the fact that the power of friendship always seems to win the day but to me that's not a bad thing as having friends can give you the confidence you need to do anything and yes that includes taking down a whole army plus if you had the choice to either face your enemy on your own but he/she has all of there friends or to face them with your friends which option would you choose.
To give you just a small idea of how successful the manga alone was as of February this year the manga had sold over 60 million copies i won't pretend to know if that's more then Naruto , One Piece or Dragon Ball Super but shifting 60 million copies of anything and yet this piece of work that could have easily have been written of has done it if you like the manga or not you have to respect that.
Now i have a special connection to the Fairy Tail anime since that was what got me into the manga but with that said i can see why people don't like it and the same goes for the manga but with that said i still find the anime and manga enjoyable yes they don't have deep plots and in the case of the anime there's a lot of filler episodes but here's the thing it's a perfect adaptation of the manga and there's a only a few times you can truly say that the anime adapted the manga perfectly the anime was such a success that it's spawned two feature films.
Sticking with the anime for a bit i don't know how many DVD's it's sold but if the manga has sold 60 million copies then i can assume that the anime has shifted around the same amount and that's included the first film not just the series itself and yes i'm including both subbed and dubbed versions of both in there as well.
I give the anime some credit because it helped start the idea of having a long running anime on the air and yes i know about Pokemon but since they change the theme of that show every few years i'm not counting it as a long running series. As a i said before the anime is a perfect adaptation of the manga but since the series was a long running anime that meant we got a lot of filler episodes which weren't needed in my opinion but i'd rather have the filler episodes then have them end the show every few months plus the animation in the show was amazing but there was some dodgy looking animation in the 2014 series.
I think that the thing that Fairy Tail was tug at our heart strings the drama game with this series in both the manga and the anime was strong and i'm thankful for it because when i watch a show or read a book i want to be taken on a roller coaster and that includes going through all the good times and the bad times with the characters to me that makes them more human however what i and i think many disliked was the fact that anyone who died during an arc came back to life and to me that robbed there death scene of all the emotion that it had.
What i discovered while watching this series is that most of the females are actually strong characters they take no BS from the male characters and in terms of Erza are often the ones leading the charge instead of letting the men do all the fighting which could have happened i'm not gonna lie and say the characters in FT are perfect because there not in fact some of the long running jokes where thin quick for me at least but at least they weren't stereotypes.
Overall yes i will be sad that the manga has ended but at the same time there's still the second movie and another series to watch both of which will be bitter sweet but it's better then nothing at all.