hey, if you want i can break your original post down for ya.
1. STORY:
Its story got interesting from the first chapter till now....and it has a single story line with a few possible main villains (zeref, ignel, maybe grey also).....i mean it’s not like the main villains are showing in the end (like in some manga).....they are shown from the start till now.....the main characters (natsu, grey, lucy, erza) has a different and interesting background story from each other. And the keep on getting more and more interesting in every arc....there is a whole new and unexpected drama in almost every chapter.
if we are being honest, the interest is basically up and down...and when its down, i mean DOWN.
like with the past arc, the tartaros arc.
the story is basically the best in terms of all the arcs, but then there's this thing about erza and she beats someone "because she is erza"....then sidelining laxus and gildarts on basically the most dire situation of the series...then igneel being inside natsu....his goal is almost pointless (not that he made any effort to look for it, but then he found it, which made it more pointless)
the story is not good, lets be honest...every antagonist is all about reviving zeref...dude...come on...
and their backstories are generic backstories really...the one i really liked was gray though. grey was prolly the only developed character there, others stopped at 1 or 2 development and most are not developed at all.
2. POWERS/ABILITIES:
Almost every kind of powers/abilities is shown in this manga like; elemental powers (fire, water, ice, lightening....), swords (e.g. erza), guns, hunters, even lucy's spiritual powers, robots. And friendship powerups is just a message to people that “Friends are important”….
that is nice and all, but at the same time, it seems the author is trying to please everyone. an example is tokyo ghoul who sticks to one universe and is ridiculously good and unique (or at least different)...fairy tail is all over the place and there's not even an explanation on the powers like naruto (naruto is awesome how they explain the powers) and one piece (very creative with use of abilities)
the series is almost done and natsu is still doing the roar and his same old stuff (just stronger)
3. NO KILLING:
Thats the best aspect of the manga that there is no killing people. Most of the time even villains don't die, which is a good thing (which a few people think it’s bad)....i mean, ask those people how does it feel when someone is watching a series for many year and in the end their favorite dies......ask neji fans, obito, itachi fans....in bleach my only favorite was ichimaru gin and he died....and after that the series is not that much interesting to me then its once was.
"Thats called torturing people's mind which Hiro is not going to do to his fans." I mean we read this stuff for fun and relaxation and try to forget our daily problems not to get involved in more problems...
there needs to be some deaths really...it opens up for character progression and struggles (which by the way igneel died but natsu is still the same...)
4. ECCHI STUFF:
People say the manga has too much ecchi stuff in it and its for fan service, bla bla bla....they should read kissxsis or any other ecchi genre manga, this manga doesn't have even 1% ecchi in it.....and why don't they see the genre of manga before starting its reading....and if they still think its too much ecchi then maybe they are kids and trying to read 18+ stuff, they should wait until they are matured enough to handle this kind of stuff...
not that im bothered with skin or nudity, the way fairy tail uses it though is so inappropriate most of the time.
5. Natsu vs grey:
Now-a-days people are saying natsu vs grey is like naruto vs sasuke....but its not, they should find other aspects that makes it different. And comparing them is kind of insult to both characters.... sasuke is one minded person while grey he is too funny, sasuke would have tried to kill naruto if he gets in his way but grey told him to stay away from him, he didn't even wana fight him and grey didn't react after lucy slapped him (he didn't hit a woman).....besides THIS GREY VS NATSU IS JUST A MISUNDERSTANDING....there are many more things which are differnt between grey and sasuke if we just try to find them..........
its sasuke and naruto no matter how much we deny it, it could work if its approached differently, and it can be done several ways, but if we are being truthful, its really almost a rip-off of naruto-sasuke relationship and plot (in a way)
