Fairy Tail Anime Episode Discussion Thread [Episode 165 and Onward]

[OkamiNoKaze]

Episode 41 was pretty cool. I had hoped those 3 would join fairy tail, oh well, maybe sometime in the future. Juvia's new look isn't too bad. I had to laugh at Gajeel's song, he looked mighty sharp in that suit though. This was a rather cool transitional episode setting up the next story arc.

[Slayerx]

that last episode was oddly rushed... they cut out quite a bit of manga material, and when it comes to these kinds of series, cutting out material is generally the LAST thing you want since you typically need to stretch a lot to avoid catching up to the manga...

Some of the unimportant non-spoilerish stuff they cut out (some of which will be greatly missed...

Spoiler:

-Luxus taking out a member of one of the dark guilds for insulting fairytail
-A reporter who gets over excited about fairy tail, but the material he writes about them only lowers their reputation and pisses off Luxus.
-A bit where Gazzille ties up and gags Mirajane, making it look like he's evil, but it turns out he just wanted her out of the way so that he could sing his song
-this

-and even more missed, this

As for the more important actually spoilerish bits... i don't really consider them to have been "cut out" just yet... there is the possibility that they may have just rearranged the timing of those events. Sometimes things might flow a bit better...

for instance, in one of those scenes, they make reference to a character who will come up later... however that character won't come in until AFTER the next arc; and that's kinda of a long way to wait. As such, the anime team might have thought it better to save that scene till after this coming arc.

[Dextro]

Originally Posted by Slayerx

Spoiler:

-this

-and even more missed, this

ok now I'm pissed of! It should be a crime NOT to animate those two pictures, a crime I tells ya!

[Guardian Enzo]

Especially that first one. Wowza!

[Shiroth]

Aye!

Spoiler for Episode 42:

This weeks episode wasn't as rushed as last weeks, which is good because i was scared they were going to edit out the Ms. Fairy Tail contest, though thankfully it was kept in, and boy did it deliver. Plenty of lovely fanservice. Shame the bunny suit Lucy and Erza that should have appeared in last weeks episode are no where to be seen. That's a crime i tell you.

Best scene of the episode for me was the flashback with child Laxus and Makarov. Fantastic music placement, yet again.

I rather like this arc for the amount of battles we see, and the drama behind them, and this episode is off to a great start with just that.

Strange how the series kept the outfit changes for Gray and Lucy, though isn't changing Natsu's to the one he's wearing in the manga at this point . Ah well.

[amjzz]

The change of the names in episode 42 is quite annoying, but its because of the translation.


Bickslow = Bixlow.
Freed = Fried.
Mistogan = Mistgun.
Tribe = bodyguards.

Spoiler for episode 42:

This episode is like the manga, which is great. They left a big plothole in the last episode that was ignored and probably will be ignored in this arc.

The rules of the battle weren't explained correctly.

The battle of fairy tail is supposed to be a battle where is decided who is the stronges mage in fairy tail, the barriers are traps that make fairy tail members fight with each other.

In this episode they didn't explained that and made it a "4 vs 100" where random barriers appear. Fairy tail members didn't expected to fight with each other.


In the anime the first battle just ended with a magic shot, while in the manga it was more violent.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by amjzz

The change of the names in episode 42 is quite annoying, but its because of the translation.


Bickslow = Bixlow.
Freed = Fried.
Mistogan = Mistgun.
Tribe = bodyguards.

Change from what? The scanlations?
The spellings are, as always, the same as those in the official Del Rey Manga.

[amjzz]

Originally Posted by Quarkboy

Change from what? The scanlations?
The spellings are, as always, the same as those in the official Del Rey Manga.

Im guessing anime translations are based on how the words sound and manga translations are based on the letters.

If that is the case, then the names used in manga are closer to the real names than the names of the anime.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by amjzz

Im guessing anime translations are based on how the words sound and manga translations are based on the letters.

If that is the case, then the names used in manga are closer to the real names than the names of the anime.

Actually the translations we get in the Del Ray release are from Hiro Mashima himself, so they are official.

[amjzz]

Originally Posted by Shiroth

Actually the translations we get in the Del Ray release are from Hiro Mashima himself, so they are official.

So...which are the real names?.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by amjzz

So...which are the real names?.

The spellings we get in the Crunchyroll subs that Quarkboy does are from the Del Ray release of the manga, which we both just explained to you.

[Krono]

Originally Posted by Quarkboy

Change from what? The scanlations?
The spellings are, as always, the same as those in the official Del Rey Manga.

So, Freed and Bickslow are going to be the Del Rey translations? Because last I checked, the released volumes had not gotten up to this arc.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Krono

So, Freed and Bickslow are going to be the Del Rey translations? Because last I checked, the released volumes had not gotten up to this arc.

True, but the translations have been completed at least and I have the official glossary from Del Rey through volume... 13.

Once the show gets past volume 13-14, then I'll probably choose name spellings myself, and submit them to kadokawa for approval.
Then Del Rey will use those in future volumes.

[MechR]

Originally Posted by amjzz

Spoiler for episode 42:

The rules of the battle weren't explained correctly.

The battle of fairy tail is supposed to be a battle where is decided who is the stronges mage in fairy tail, the barriers are traps that make fairy tail members fight with each other.

In this episode they didn't explained that and made it a "4 vs 100" where random barriers appear. Fairy tail members didn't expected to fight with each other.

No, that's how it was in the manga, too (ch 107). Bixlow laughed at the 4 vs 100 odds, and Luxus didn't mention the barrier traps.

Spoiler:

In the anime the first battle just ended with a magic shot, while in the manga it was more violent.

In the manga it happened offscreen (ch 108). Arzack was limping more afterward though.

[Master_Yoma]

Wow Erza as a Gothic Lolita

[Kafriel]

Gray+clothes= DOES NOT COMPUTE! He's probably the easiest character to draw, because he's usually wearing nothing

Spoiler for 42:

The miss FT contest was a lovable and funny, especially Mira's transformations Luxus flashback was good, but it left me wondering...what did Luxus see? Freed's runes also left me with another question, why can't Natsu cross the barrier? :O Oh, also lol'd at how fast Natsu got owned

[Bern-san]

42 was well done, now the action and lots of combats are going to start mirajane was hillariuos in Miss Fairy


this arc in manga has lots of guild cards, i'll post some of them:

Spoiler for Gajeel:

Spoiler for Freed:

Spoiler for Evergreen:

Spoiler for Bickslow:

Spoiler for Tono Rabbits:

Spoiler for Miki:

[blewin]

finally, my favourite arc! *still need to finish watching episode 41 first though*
arrrr... can't believe FT is ending. 41 weeks since it aired yet it feels like only a day has gone by.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by blewin

41 weeks since it aired yet it feels like only a day has gone by.

Really?

[Dextro]

Originally Posted by Master_Yoma

Wow Erza as a Gothic Lolita

Yhep, that was epic... And Juvia's swimsuit was lovely as always...