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[Doctor of Autism]

Saw the new Panty and Stocking, and god I loved what they did with the new episode, so far it really feels like they still kept their touch

 

[Backpack Knight]

Could someone tell me what's up with fairy tail? It has a ton of episodes and is pushed aggressively by Netflix but no one talks about it.

Imagine a shounen battle manga with no good fight scenes.

That is why the characters are pushed more than the fights. Even then most of the fight scenes are interrupted with horny ecchi scenes ruining the tension. There is no difference between the first chapter and the last chapter, it felt like a colossal waste of time to me.

It is not a good manga and has an average anime because it has a great sub, dub and score. The animation gets worse the longer the show goes on and the manga has worse fights scenes as the story goes on.

Every fight is:
Fairy Tail meets bad guy. Loses.
Fairy Tail meets bad guy again. Says they love their friends and family.
Villain suddenly forgot their powers or is distracted by boobs.
Author rewrites the rules of magic (again) so Natsu and Erza (main characters) wins.
Repeat for every arc.

If you are around the shounen age bracket Fairy Tail would be odd because there is no great fight scene that you can look at and go: "This is amazing!" Just immense disappointment as all the fight scenes end with Fairy Tail guild winning handily (or Jellal the author's pet).

If you are older, Fairy Tail probably will not appeal because it cannot do drama, mystery or action very well. There are no stakes, no teeth to the action.

The manga flips flops between humor or drama and not very well at all. The humor works some of the time but drama needs room to grow and consistancy that Fairy Tail avoids.

Lost dragons? Not lost at all just endangered! Black Wizard Zeref? Actually a hebephille groomer, still immortal though! Impregnated a corpse...somehow. Also the cause of everything wrong in the series without doing anything. Acnologia? Hates dragons and dragon slayers. Do Fairies have Tails? No (last chapter, last page).

They are better choices like Hunter X Hunter or Black Clover (especially this one).

That is why the fandom is obsessed with shipping, because there is literally nothing else in the manga to go for except attractive people handing around each other. Very gooner friendly unfortunately.

Most of the canon ships are fucked beyond words but that is another story.

The author is hilariously surprised by how crazy shippers are while live drawing canon couples together on twitter/youtube live streams. Like, what did you think was going to happen?

So how in the world did the creator go from Rave Master to Fairy Tail, then?

Depression. Over-work. He just wanted to have fun and did not expect Fairy Tail to be so popular. He reuses a lot of his designs from Rave Master to Fairy Tail to Eden Zero and Dead Rock.

Only Eden Zero is cohesive and coherent story wise. Rave Master to a lesser extent also. Eden Zero tries to be a complete story with battle shounen fights. The others are just turn of your brain nonsense.

TL;DR: I used to be a fan of Fairy Tail but go tired of the story and the fights bored me. I do not recommend Fairy Tail. Read or watch Black Clover or Hunter X Hunter instead. Black Clover is similar but implements it's cast and action better than Fairy Tail ever could. Despite the Black Bulls squad and the Fairy Tail guild being literally the same.

 

[Mysterious Girlfriend X]

The ending to the third season of Dog Days has always had a special place in my heart.

By the way, if you haven't watched City The Animation yet, you really should. It hits the spot just like Nichijou did.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

Your average Fairy Tail """"""man"""""""

Your average One Peak man:

 

[WelperHelper99]

Saw the new Panty and Stocking, and god I loved what they did with the new episode, so far it really feels like they still kept their touch

I'm crying bro. They didn't tone it down at all. In 2025 we have received 2010 kino. Peak.

 

[Trollblade69]

TL;DR: I used to be a fan of Fairy Tail but go tired of the story and the fights bored me. I do not recommend Fairy Tail. Read or watch Black Clover or Hunter X Hunter instead. Black Clover is similar but implements it's cast and action better than Fairy Tail ever could. Despite the Black Bulls squad and the Fairy Tail guild being literally the same.

The thing I keep hearing in Fairy Tail's defense is that it's one of the only shonens that lets women be both sexy and independently competent. One of the only things I know about it is that there's a fight where the female lead gets stripped of all her senses, and yet she still beats the bad guy "because she's Erza".

 

[AnsemSoD1]

The thing I keep hearing in Fairy Tail's defense is that it's one of the only shonens that lets women be both sexy and independently competent. One of the only things I know about it is that there's a fight where the female lead gets stripped of all her senses, and yet she still beats the bad guy "because she's Erza".

I can remember more of what Yamato did in one arc, than any of the female side-cast in Fairy Tail. I do find a lot of women in Fairy Tail to be quite attractive though and I love Erza, Lucy, and Juvia, with Flare and Milliana being dark horse waifus in my book.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Saw the new Panty and Stocking, and god I loved what they did with the new episode, so far it really feels like they still kept their touch

I'm crying bro. They didn't tone it down at all. In 2025 we have received 2010 kino. Peak.

Im glad they started off where the first season ended. It was one hell of a first episode.

Lets hope it wont end in another 15 year old cliffhanger.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Im glad they started off where the first season ended. It was one hell of a first episode.

Lets hope it wont end in another 15 year old cliffhanger.

My honest to god biggest concern is that they'd make the cliffhanger a long arc, but I am just happy it just got done with in the first episode in the funniest way possible.

I'm crying bro. They didn't tone it down at all. In 2025 we have received 2010 kino. Peak.

I think it helps that really the only thing Panty and Stocking toned down is just Garterbelt's character design since he no longer has the lips (and its probably just shrugged off as them getting burned off), since Panty and Stocking's humor aged well aside from maybe dated pop culture references since the jokes made are still pretty acceptable, but even without knowing the pop culture references, it is still funny for the absurdism

 

[WelperHelper99]

Im glad they started off where the first season ended. It was one hell of a first episode.

Lets hope it wont end in another 15 year old cliffhanger.

They actually picked up where they said they would in 2010:

This was on the Gainax website banner back then. Holy shit.

I hope that, yeah, it isn't another cliff hanger. Part of me hopes it isn't regular either. I want it to appear out of nowhere, take the season by storm, and peace out again for a while.

Also Garterbelt saying "Hail Vagina!" Made me fucking die.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

They actually picked up where they said they would in 2010:
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This was on the Gainax website banner back then. Holy shit.

I hope that, yeah, it isn't another cliff hanger. Part of me hopes it isn't regular either. I want it to appear out of nowhere, take the season by storm, and peace out again for a while.

Also Garterbelt saying "Hail Vagina!" Made me fucking die.

Peak Japanese South Park

 

[WelperHelper99]

I think it helps that really the only thing Panty and Stocking toned down is just Garterbelt's character design since he no longer has the lips (and its probably just shrugged off as them getting burned off), since Panty and Stocking's humor aged well aside from maybe dated pop culture references since the jokes made are still pretty acceptable, but even without knowing the pop culture references, it is still funny for the absurdism

The humor still hits. And the new art style isn't bad. Like look, i get it, its 2025, you can't do those lips for Garterbelt anymore lol. But everything else was fluid as fuck. And my gosh the dub was still hilarious. I like the new actors funny enough. They are fucking trying their best to squeeze into the roles. Give them a few episodes, and it'll be like nothing ever changed

 

[Doctor of Autism]

The humor still hits. And the new art style isn't bad. Like look, i get it, its 2025, you can't do those lips for Garterbelt anymore lol. But everything else was fluid as fuck. And my gosh the dub was still hilarious. I like the new actors funny enough. They are fucking trying their best to squeeze into the roles. Give them a few episodes, and it'll be like nothing ever changed

Yeah I am going to watch the sub since I am going through season 1 in sub now, but I am going to watch the dub sometime.

Will say the Japanese VAs didn't miss a beat with their voice-over.

Anyway this is one of the funnier small gags from the new episode

 

[WelperHelper99]

Yeah I am going to watch the sub since I am going through season 1 in sub now, but I am going to watch the dub sometime.

Will say the Japanese VAs didn't miss a beat with their voice-over.

Anyway this is one of the funnier small gags from the new episode

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LOL i know. You wanna talk gags, what about the eva references?

My gosh, there was so much of that shit.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

A clip of Fairy Tail's Animax Asia English dub

 

[Mister Baranavichy]

Could anyone recommend a comfy cooking anime?

I've gotten recommened a couple, but most are like Food wars where I immediately got angry when a highschool girl started moaning 2 min in, is there anything that is just good looking food + an honest/modest reaction, repeat for 12 episodes and goodbye thank you for watching?

 

[Doctor of Autism]

LOL i know. You wanna talk gags, what about the eva references?
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My gosh, there was so much of that shit.

Honestly after deliberating, this is easily one of the best episodes cause a lot of the jokes just kept landing and everyone was pretty funny.

It's probably one of the best revival episodes I've seen for a tv show that's been off air for many years.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Honestly after deliberating, this is easily one of the best episodes cause a lot of the jokes just kept landing and everyone was pretty funny.

It's probably one of the best revival episodes I've seen for a tv show that's been off air for many years.

I mean they didn't reboot it. It's the same show. It's literally season 2, 15 years later lmao. Gainax is fucking dead, but P&S survived somehow. It's peak.

 

[GaryStu56]

Most of the canon ships are fucked beyond words but that is another story.

"What do you mean it's weird to go out with the guy who crucified me?"

 

[Lone MacReady II]

look, i get it, its 2025, you can't do those lips for Garterbelt anymore lol.

I don't like that reasoning. It's the same excuse which has brought things to where they are now, not even half as good as they used to be. You're just saying, "Look, it's current year..." I've been sick of that shit since the very first current year. I can't even get a good show with big titties in it because, "Hey, it's current year, we're above all that". As for me, toilet humor lost its shine when I stopped being a teenager.