Everyone wants to join Fairy Tail!
Don’t you wish you could too?
Fairy Tail is a new shounen manga series being written by Hiro Mashima after he finally ended his popular Jump manga “RAVE” in 2005. It is set in a steampunkish world of adventure, magic, mages and guilds, where mages are the main adventurers in this series.
These mages are often members of Mage Guilds which provides access to information and quests but there is one particularly infamous Mage Guild that is a thorn in the side of the Mage Council because of the trouble that its members create – the Mage Guild called “Fairy Tail”
The story starts off with a young girl called Lucy who arrives in the town of Harujon who wants to be a proper mage and join Fairy Tail. While in Harujon, Lucy meets a boy called Natsu who has a serious case of motion sickness and a cat named Happy. Together, they unravel the mystery of the charismatic travelling mage who claims that he is the famous Salamander from Fairy Tail.
So far this story has been a pretty engrossing read and Hiro Mashima brings a new twist to the weak mages of the typical fantasy stories. Here in the world of Fairy Tail, the mages are the ones who fight villains and go on crazy adventures.
I would say that the characterisation and emotional style resembles that of One Piece while the world and fighting system resembles that of HunterxHunter, although I’d say that it is not as complicated and indepth as HxH. So if you like the usual shounen adventure and fighting fare, you can give Fairy Tail a try because it is pretty decent stuff.
Some pics of the manga:
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thats the one you sent me!
i gotta start reading.
hiaks. ;D
i would like fairy tail a lot more if the character designs were better…
Hi~ Black-Chan from CY desu~ Wow. Fairy tale really looks like One Piece.
oops. I mean Fairytail.
Jooo: Get cracking!
Black-Chan: Yeah Fairy Tail does look a lot like the early One Piece. And RAVE also looks a lot like One Piece, so I wonder if Hiro Mashima worked for Oda before or they had the same sensei.
Yes, Hiro Mashima and Oda studied under the same mangaka.
YEAH… no.. Mashima Sensei was Oda Sensei’s apprentice
I dunno it looks exactly like a mix of Rave and one of his earlier manga short stories in Mashimaen (I coulda sworn he had one called Fairy TAIL in that one too. Or maybe it was fairy TALE.)
I dont like how Mashima Hiro’s art style molded into the One Piece one. His art style like between Rave volumes 5-12 was really good then as the manga went on it went back into that annoying One Piece style.
I also love how he named his main character “Summer” (Natsu) while in Rave we had “spring” (Haru). I dunno it just doesn’t strike me as anything different from Rave, girl guy + goofy looking sidekick and I don’t need to spend another X amount of dollars on another 36 volume series. I got my hands full with Naruto.
Yeah his art is really similar to Oda but it still retains a tiny bit of distinctiveness I guess, in the bad way because I think the current art of One Piece is more refined and detailed.
I’ve read 16 chapters of Fairy Tail and I can’t really say that it is any way similar to RAVE. The story is different, the world is different, the fighting is different, the way the characters act are different.
The only thing in common at the moment is Plue who is the exact same Plue from RAVE surprisingly. Well and I guess the artwork is the same of RAVE but that’s to be expected when a mangaka does a sequel.
Interesting fact: Both Shaman King’s author (whose name I forgot) and Oda worked for Kenshin’s author (whose name I also forgot).
I initially thought that RAVE’s artwork looked a lot like One Piece, but the current OP style is very distinctive and nothing like Mashima’s. I like both, but it’s easy to say that OP’s is far superior.
I’ve been following Fairytail, and so far it’s prettty interesting. I’d like to see how Mashima handle the major nemeses of this series, since RAVE kinda fudged those.
Shaman King’s author: Takei Hiroyuki
Kenshin’s author: Watsuki Nobuhiro
Yeah the art of the current OP is definitely better than RAVE and Fairy Tail. I would say that Mashima’s art for those 2 mangas seems to be like the early OP art, between the starting to Arlong Park.
It’s also interesting how fast you meet all the important members of the Fairy Tail guild in the first few chapters instead of usual shounen practice of gathering team-mates as the series goes on.
the caracter and story are so awesome
can someone tell me,what the website fairy tals manga if u want 2 know lot that thing.
scar: you can try this site http://www.fairytailworld.com/ or this site http://community.livejournal.com/fearii_teiru/
Yeh it looks alot like one piece and also some of the fairy tail members look alot like characters from other mangas. Natsu looks like luffy, Gray looks like Sasuke, Loki looks like Ichigo and the other guy looks like Franky.
You guys do know that Hiro Mashima was a Student of Oda, right?
He definitly wasn’t! Hiro said that in a interview.
@Neo-jplaya: Yes
@Neo-jplaya: No, that’s a false rumor. At the beginning of Rave, the art style didn’t look like One Piece at all. He changes his style alot during Rave and it wasn’t until tha last part that it started to look like One Piece.
Personally I think Fairy Tail is doing great. I think Mashima is generally better at drawing stuff, while Oda is superior with design and original ideas.
They(Oda(One Piece) & Mashima(Rave)) both studied under Watsuki Nobuhiro(Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X).
I think fairy tail is a good thing even though it copies one piece anyone who hates fairy tail for copying one piece and is a one piece fan is raging for nothing. (didnt read all of the stuff here so im just mentioning in-general)
If there are 2 similar mangas they will try to compete just like if u have 2 kinds of telephone companies ofc they would lower the cost of their telephones or make the telephones better to beat the other telephone company. So I believe that One piece will get better
I also think that (unlike in most mangas) One piece was worse in the beginning, and better in later volumes. I also like it that you can enjoy the spoilers in anime too since u dont have to think of ‘omg luffy must get powerful soon’ which spoils the actual fun. Just like if you play some leveling games. One piece would be enjoying the game and getting levels at the same time while doing adventures and Bleach, naruto etc would be enjoying leveling up by killing boars for 6 hours a day.
I never gave Rave more than a glimpse at the bookstore, so I am commenting as a person who is completely unbiased in terms of comparing the mangaka’s Fairy Tail work to his earlier one.
Some random observations/opinions:
*The art work is so obviously similar to One Piece, if I were Oda, I’d be peeved – not flattered.
*The story and characters come across like a mesh of popular characters from other, more popular manga like bleach, naruto, one piece.
*anyone else notice an element of harry potter as well?
*Oda at least admitted to being heavily influenced by A.T and even paid hommage to the famous mangaka by creating a joint project together. I guess my point here is: if you’re going to rip off other mangaka, give some credit.
*The characters just come across like a collage of nami, naruto, and luffy being taken from their respective mangas and being forced to act under different names in this manga called Fairy Tail.
Overall conclusion (IMHO):
An enjoyable series NOT to be taken seriously…something I’d read (and probably forget) to kill 14-16 hours if I were to fly over to Asia from North America.
Hahahah my friend and I were arguing at school which was better: Fairy Tail or One Piece. I started Fairy Tail like around 1 and a half month ago and I really like it..~ So i introduced it to my friend but unfortunately she’s a big fan of One Piece and she keeps on pointing out stuff like:
Natsu is like Luffy especially the way he eats meat
Lucy is like Nami esepecially the way she has “pride?” in her body.
etc.
I started to read one piece but gave up as soon as it got too long like Naruto and Bleach. But I think both of the 2 mangas are unique and you can’t really blame 2 mangaka of having the same style..>………> its their way of making money i guess..xD
Aww man. It’s sad that people are going to keep comparing Fairy Tail to One Piece. But inevitable I suppose.
Personally, I’ve loved One Piece since I was little and think it’s just… amazing. But I just finished reading chapter 7 of the Fairy Tail manga and it’s awesome!
Even though people say the art is similar, I think there are a lot of differences to. One example is their eyes. Maybe it’s just me, but aren’t Fairy Tail’s characters eyes a little different to One Piece ones? Ahhh. I don’t know, whatever the case, they are both battle mangas, but have different stories and should be treated as different stories.
Are seriously, how many main male characters love food? Naruto (From Naruto), Train (Black Cat) and Luffy are only three I can think of but I’m sure there are loads.
And, let’s face it, Natsu is stupid but no where near as stupid as Luffy is. Ah. Poor Luffy.
And the only thing about Nami and Lucy that’s supremely similar is they both love books. (Though it seems Lucy loves them more)
Lucy’s a lot more naive/innocent than devil-woman Nami is. Having confidence is something shared by like every single character in the universe.
^_^
It makes me sad that some people just look at the cover of a manga and say that this manga has no origin ality because it copied the art of this other manga… The characters were obviously copied from that and this manga.. etc.
) which was created in 1997 has a character who acts like the character from manga x. Then, manga x gains popularity and some people who have read manga x read manga y and just suddenly say that the character from manga y is unoriginal etc. Bit how can they be sure that the author from manga y had NO intention of copying the character. Also, how can they be sere that author y had even known the character from manga x???
It can’t be helped that some artists have similar drawings. And just because a character in a manga looks like a character from another manga it doesn’t necessarily mean that the author of the first manga copied the character from another series. Why? When a character from a series , let’s say manga x which was created in 1996, has a character who is carefree and has an afro hairstyle while manga y(is this math?
Anyway, while I was typing this, my mind was somewhere else so forgive me if there are grammatical errors or the thought may seem uh… scattered(you know what I mean).
i lovw fairy tail it makes me happy watching it it makes me feel that i’m in another world but the only thing is that animax has stoped giving them i don’t know why and it just hurts
fairy tail rules !
i hate the animation of one piece and because fairy tail ‘s animation is more like one piece i dislike it but i bet the story’s great
.. sorry just my opinion
come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! everywhere i go people say the same thing: ( why does it matter if they look the same. fairy tails a really good show even if it looks like another anime. also you guys should watch the ova(s) there really funny.
maybe if you watch those then you’ll be more interested in watching it (other than watching the appearance.