Well then Fairy Tail fans here we are once again the second Fairy Tail movie has finally came online with subs which means after months of waiting i get to watch it and tell you all what i thought of the movie so here we go.
Now as far as i could gather the plot revolves around a magic wand that can bring back dragons and that's really it. The story isn't this films strong suit in fact it feels more like an after thought which is bad because the story for the first film was really solid but here it makes the film feel like an extended episode rather then a feature film.
Reprising their roles are Tetsuya Kakihara as Natsu , Aya Hirano as Lucy , Rie Kugimiya as Happy , Yuichi Nakamura as Grey , Sayaka Ohara as Erza , Satomi Satō as Wendy and rounding out the returning cast is Yui Horie as Carla the returning cast are pretty decent in this film i mean they did the best with what they were given and they know there characters inside and out. They are joined by Aoi Yūki as Sonya and Jiro Saito as the films villain Zash the new cast are actually better then the returning cast in this film in my opinion.
Once again the animation was done by A-1 Pictures and to be honest outside of a few scenes early one with Erza and Lucy and the action scenes the animation is the best thing in this movie i could tell that animation got an upgrade from what it is in the show especially in the 2014 series there's more fluid motion and everything looks better.
Now i've already briefly mentioned the action scenes and as per usual they were stunning to look at which is nothing new since doing great looking action scenes is pretty much A-1's bread and butter but they honestly had me pumped up the action scenes were so well done i couldn't wait for the next one to come on but on the downside since the story was lacking i really didn't feel that much during the third act.
Without getting into spoilers for some reason this film has not one but two magical type transformation scenes now one of them made sense but the one featuring Lucy really didn't in my eyes it came from out of know where.
I will however give this film credit for it's use of humor there were alot of scenes in this movie that i felt were really funny and that came at the perfect point and all of the jokes are things that the main characters would actually say or do so for me that really helped because they weren't stopping the film to make the joke.
Another problem i had with the film stems from what i had wrong not only with this film but also another film i saw this week were it felt two short and rushed honestly i think this film would have been better if it was a two hour movie since scenes would have been able to breathe and the story able to progress at more natural pace.
Since the film liked rushing things it meant that for me the emotional moments didn't work as well and i swear to god they made a reference to Pokemon The First Movie during one of those moments and honestly it made me laugh just due to how idiotic it was.
The score for this film was done by series composer Yasuharu Takanashi and i have to say that the music was really done the music is a part of the Fairy Tail franchise so they had to bring that to the movie and they did in full force.
Overall if there wasn't a new series coming in 2018 i would have been very disappointed with this film even more then i already am but it is still worth a watch for long time fans of the franchise so i give this movie a 7 out of 10.