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

[FreezeTheSun]

Originally Posted by MechR

It's not a good cliffhanger when the hero's about to win. Where's the suspense in that?

This. I mean that's just bad direction. They had extra time to fill in, so you know what, they use a still, while natsu talks for about a minute. Then it shows Lucy watching on from what seems like nothing is going on, then happy is like, tune in next week. The majority of the kids that watch this freaking show have already read the manga, so not much of a cliffhanger in the first place, but still, no excuse.

Anyways, the episode was pretty good, pretty good for the series in general. Once again, bad directing. Shinji has better animation directors than the new one he just used for episode 27. Storyboard was pretty good, except for the dumbass cliffhanger. It had some pretty epic scenes, such as the two DS stood on top of the building, which reminded me of Noein a little. My own storyboard of this fight has some of those type of scenes. With that being said, I'm through with this series. They screwed my third fav. fight in one of the most action - packed series out there. I understand it might be hard to live up to the manga's epicness, but damn, you could at least make one great episode every 30 episodes or something. Sorry for complaing so much, I know you guys like to talk about the good things, but this show has way too many negatives for me, and I think it's one of the worst adaptions of all time! The only thing I'm waiting on is the release of the new opening by FUNKIST. I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me where to find a download of it.

[FreezeTheSun]

Originally Posted by grey_moon

Great point about that! But I do think that Natsu's state of mind allowed him to go toe to toe with Gazille even with his dragon form, once he ate the fire.

I think we have only had one real power up during the whole series which was Natsu learning how to control his flames against Erigor. Other then that its been how motivated he has been. Right now he has seen his clannies hurt, had a pep talk from Erza, and finally seeing his guild destroyed. Me thinks he is mighty pissed off atm

There has been no power ups for Natsu, and they're won't be, until we get very very far into the manga (which I don't see happening), unless someone stupid at the studio changes the anime. Natsu fights off of pure emotion, and that's it. In fact his power up in the manga isn't even his own doing.

[grey_moon]

Originally Posted by FreezeTheSun

There has been no power ups for Natsu, and they're won't be, until we get very very far into the manga (which I don't see happening), unless someone stupid at the studio changes the anime. Natsu fights off of pure emotion, and that's it. In fact his power up in the manga isn't even his own doing.

Even if you want to bring the manga into it which you shouldn't in this thread, I have to disagree

His power up in terms of pure power, in manga and anime has been shown to be associated to his emotional state. blewin made the very good point that, that was just opening up the pipes and still needs to be fueled

[FreezeTheSun]

Originally Posted by grey_moon

Even if you want to bring the manga into it which you shouldn't in this thread, I have to disagree

His power up in terms of pure power, in manga and anime has been shown to be associated to his emotional state. blewin made the very good point that, that was just opening up the pipes and still needs to be fueled

Even though this is the anime thread, I can bring up stuff in the manga, as long as I don't spoil. I was using that refrence to show that was the only time he truly gets a power up. Arguing about this is pointless. There is no power up. The more pissed off he gets, the stronger he gets. When he runs low on energy, he eats fire to refuel his energy. Plain and simple.

[Nite-Wing]

I liked Ep 27 a better adaption than I expected

[DmonHiro]

Originally Posted by MechR

It's not a good cliffhanger when the hero's about to win. Where's the suspense in that?

Aren't you forgetting something? Only those who read the manga KNOW that he's about to win. All the rest don't know squat, so your complaint is pretty baseless. I didn't read the manga, and had no idea that the battle was almost over.

[OkamiNoKaze]

Episode 27 gave us a great fight, I do find it interesting, that he can still call Fairy tail "Trash" considering all they've done up until now. Natsu made him crack, that was cool, but I wonder if he can't make his flames hot enough to just melt to slag anything that's thrown at him maybe even the metal scales. The flashbacks were a nice touch. Especially the bits with Natsu joining Fairy Tail, and meeting Erza and Grey for the first time.

[MechR]

Originally Posted by DmonHiro

Aren't you forgetting something? Only those who read the manga KNOW that he's about to win. All the rest don't know squat, so your complaint is pretty baseless. I didn't read the manga, and had no idea that the battle was almost over.

Even without manga knowledge, it looks like Natsu is about to win. He just deflected Gazille's breath weapon with his bare hands, and the guy's going "Impossible! How could I loooose?!" For the director, who does know the fight's ending in 30 seconds, the better choice would've been to go with the flow and finish big. Crowding that out with an overly-long flashback sequence is a double sin.

For the record, I did like all the flashbacks in and of themselves, but jamming all of them into this one moment was too disruptive. (I say again, it's time to stop when your sad music runs out.) The learning-to-read flashback was the best and the worst in that respect.

[Krono]

Originally Posted by Ash Falls Town

Spoiler:

There were an awful lot of flashbacks. Anyway it seems like Natsu was the last kid to join Fairy Tail.

Spoiler for Q&A:

Actually according to the question & answer section at the back of volume 8 or 9, Mirajane and her siblings were the last ones to join. Mirajane joined 6 years ago bringing her siblings with her, Natsu joined 7 years ago, Erza joined 8 years ago, and Gray had joined before that. The flashback with Lisanna, and Mirajane, and Erza teaching Natsu vocab was something that was anime original.

[Shiroth]

Aye!

Spoiler for Episode 28:

The ultimate question this week is, how does Mystogan eat an apple?

Great episode. The clash between Jose and Makarov was very nicely animated, showing just how much of a powerhouse the two are, though in the end it's the power of Fairy Law that separates the two apart.

My favorite scene of the episode had to be Erza's speech about Lucy, which brought me to tears. I'm so glad that these scenes are being handled so nicely, which brings great respect to the source material. Musical placement works perfectly as well.

Seriously looking forward to next weeks episode. It's time for some pretty important Lucy development.

[Ash Falls Town]

Originally Posted by Shiroth

Spoiler for Episode 28:

My favorite scene of the episode had to be Erza's speech about Lucy, which brought me to tears. I'm so glad that these scenes are being handled so nicely, which brings great respect to the source material. Musical placement works perfectly as well.

Seriously looking forward to next weeks episode. It's time for some pretty important Lucy development.

Spoiler for Episode 28:

Eh the problem with that scene was that one of the flashbacks was of Gray in Lucy's body complaining about her breasts. You think they could have chosen a better scene then that one.

Anyway Gajeel said "Who do you think I am?" or some such which is kind of. Although after seeing the end part of the battle I think the last episode stopped at the right time. Natsu looked cooler winning than after he had actually won.

The Porlyusica and Mystogan scenes were great though. The juxtaposition of her wisdom and anger is comedy gold and eating apples without permission is the obvious sign of a badass.

It's great how Markarov beat smug bastard Jose. By talking down to him like a kid who needed to be punished. It really enforces all of his Fairy Tail members are my children talk he makes. All throughout the episode I was thinking "give Jose what's coming to him".

Next episode seems to be Lucy background. I'd have thought they would have put it in the middle of the arc since I think that's what usually happens although I think I commented on something similar to this during one of the previous arcs. But man that's harsh Natsu, Happy. I guess I would expect this sort of thing from Happy but Natsu? Well to that I say liking Natsu is much weirder.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by Ash Falls Town

Spoiler for Episode 28:

Eh the problem with that scene was that one of the flashbacks was of Gray in Lucy's body complaining about her breasts. You think they could have chosen a better scene then that one.

Spoiler for Episode 28:

I didn't find that a problem, i mean it was meant to show the happy times Lucy has spent while at Fairy Tail. Sure it was a pretty serious event, though looking back on it one would class that as a happy event.

[DmonHiro]

1: Mystogan was keeping busy. He's so badass.

2: Jose's beatdown was awesome. I was going "Makarov's going to break you in half" for the whole episode.

AWESOME episode.

[KiNA]

I dont think its happy event for Lucy tho

It sure is for us viewer

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by KiNA

I dont think its happy event for Lucy tho

It sure is for us viewer

At least you know what i mean though.

[FreezeTheSun]

I am through with this anime, but I guess I could still update you guys on stuff.

Here are the upcoming titles for FT:

29. "My Decision"
30. "Next Generation"
31. "The Star That Will Never Return to the Sky"
32. "Celestial Spirit King"

[Quarkboy]

A thought I had about the next episode.

The Title is:

"Atashi no Ketsui" (which I used "My Resolve"

which is dangerously close to
"Atashi no Ketsu" (which means "My Ass")

and is one of Lucy's standard tsukkomi
Probably coincidence... Probably.

[Shiroth]

I hope it is just a coincidence, though at the same time i like to think how smart the episode title come across as being.

[KiNA]

Before they delved into Lucy's resolve..

They need to rebuild the guildhouse first right? <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Obento Obento Obento Obento~~

[Bern-san]

Originally Posted by FreezeTheSun

I am through with this anime, but I guess I could still update you guys on stuff.

Here are the upcoming titles for FT:

29. "My Decision"
30. "Next Generation"
31. "The Star That Will Never Return to the Sky"
32. "Celestial Spirit King"

finally my favourite episodes, specially 31 and 32
but..

Spoiler for future episodes:

they aren't going to animate frederick and yanderika? maybe it'll appear afterwards because it was one of the funniest episodes of FT