Fairy Tail Sequel Coming in April, Official Site Launched

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Fairy Tail Sequel Coming in April, Official Site Launched

A new official site and Twitter feed launched to hype the return of Fairy Tail in April.

The long-running fantasy action series Fairy Tail returns in April with a sequel after it ended its run in March 2013. Launched Jan. 7 is a official website (Japanese) [https://twitter.com/fairytail_PR].

The website is fairly bare at the moment, but upon loading several panels illustrate all of the varied Fairy Tail characters. The sequel will begin where Fairy Tail left off last year and will continue to follow the original manga's plot.

Some of the staff members have changed; Shinji Takeuchi (Gintama) has replaced Aoi Yamamoto as character designer, and one of the animation production studios Bridges (Mitsudomoe) has replaced Satelight. A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online) remains as it has been in animation production. Director Shinji Ishihara reassured Fairy Tail fans that the anime's quality had increased with the change in staff. The original series' voice actors will all return for the sequel TV series.

Fairy Tail is a wizards' guild known for its members' destructive behavior. Lucy Heartfilia runs from home to Fairy Tail and meets Natsu Dragneel, and after some antics, Lucy joins the guild. The first TV series ended at 175 episodes and had several OVAs (original video animation) and an animated film. FUNimation owns the rights to the first TV series, which debuted in North America on the FUNimation channel in 2011.

Source: CrunchyRoll [http://www.fairytail-tv.com/]


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[ShirowShirow]

The best part about the fairy tail anime was the music. Never has the violin and electric guitar worked so well together.

I lost interest in the manga when Erza went from complete badass to getting saved every arc and the ecchi became unbearable.

 

[CriticalMiss]

I lost interest in the manga when Erza went from complete badass to getting saved every arc and the ecchi became unbearable.

I too am kind of getting a bit tired of the T&A, it's spiralled out of control from panty-shots to borderline porn. And you'll hate the last few chapters of the manga (spoilers below)

Spoiler

Featuring Erza chained up completely naked and only covered by a small bit of hair and the corner of a speech bubble. Repeated about half a dozen times from different angles. :/

I've never actually watched the anime though, besides having a quick peek at the movie.

 

[Scarim Coral]

The better question is, is a year hiatus is enough for the anime to be aired every week while the manga release a new chapter each week too? Ok sure when compared where the anime had stopped, there is a gap compared to the current manga arc but at the oment there has been 2 arc since they stopped the anime with one of them is ongoing (it may finish in April but still, 2 arc between the anime and the manga is not a big distance).

I forseen some fillers and pan out shots when they returned.

 

[Elfgore]

I'm pretty excited for this. I've enjoyed the anime so far and plan on reading into the manga when I get a chance. Nice to see it continuing.

 

[lord canti]

I lost interest in the manga when Erza went from complete badass to getting saved every arc and the ecchi became unbearable.

I too am kind of getting a bit tired of the T&A, it's spiralled out of control from panty-shots to borderline porn. And you'll hate the last few chapters of the manga (spoilers below)

Spoiler

Featuring Erza chained up completely naked and only covered by a small bit of hair and the corner of a speech bubble. Repeated about half a dozen times from different angles. :/

I've never actually watched the anime though, besides having a quick peek at the movie.

The series had a lot of potential,but unfortunately damn near every character is a giant mary sue or has one defining characteristic. Also Erza has always been there for fan service though there is no questioning the increase of it recently.

 

[Aethren]

I'm fine with Erza, but Lucy is a completely useless character who's always getting into trouble or saved by someone. I wish the writers would either make her actually be useful somehow or drop her from the show, because at this point it's getting ridiculous. Even her spirits are only there for comedy relief, and they don't even bring Loki around anymore.

 

[Osaka117]

You can say what you want about Fairy Tail's source material, I too have problems with the writing and character development (or lack thereof) but I gotta give credit where credit's due. They truly care about the anime adaptation, actually giving the manga a chance to get farther instead of crapping out an infinite amount of dumb and boring fillers like other long running shounen anime. Of course FT has had some fillers, but not nearly as many, and in my opinion they're of higher quality as well.

Also, do you mean to tell me that the fan service gets even more out of control? I haven't read the manga, but I've watched all of the anime up to where it ended last year, and to me it's been consistently at soft core porn levels since the beginning.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

I'm fine with Erza, but Lucy is a completely useless character who's always getting into trouble or saved by someone. I wish the writers would either make her actually be useful somehow or drop her from the show, because at this point it's getting ridiculous. Even her spirits are only there for comedy relief, and they don't even bring Loki around anymore.

Its strange, she is supposedly the main character, yet she constantly loses fights and its always Natsu who beats the arc villains, never Lucy, she just gets beaten up all the damn time...which sucks because her magic can be used for cool things.

Honestly, the series rushed fights (The Grand Magic Game fights at the end were rushed and hyped up fights fell more than flat) and Natsu not having any development at all despite being the main character, I find the trio of exceed cats more compelling than most of the cast (although Gray is still cool)

I think Lucy is considered the main character as more of a POV thing. As I assume the manga is supposed to be the story of what happened told through the letters she writes to her Mom of her adventures. That is how I reasoned her out to be the main character.

Also I'm going to have disagree with Fairy Tail being suddenly being ecchi as the show and anime have always had that vibe going in parts. It may be more apparent in some of the later stuff but as far as I'm concerned in this and his previous work(Ravemaster) there have always been the odd scene like that.

 

[DeltaEdge]

Not 100% sure if I should pick up watching it again. The promise of improved quality is quite tempting though, so I may end up checking it out anyways. I don't hate Fairy Tail or anything, I still read the manga, and I like the characters and stuff, but my main problem with it now is that the series seems to be going down the DBZ route of introducing stronger enemy after enemy, and it's just become rather inconsequential to me as I know that it's only cosmetic, and Natsu and co. will always just be scaled up whenever an important fight rolls up so that they can win, without any real tangible improvements being made via training or the like.

I'd like it if they stopped increasing the power threshold and focused more on situational challenges so that the series would be better fit to it's essentially indefinite serialization status without having to constantly introduce more powerful enemies as the sole way to advance the story and make any sort of growth seem unimportant. Unfortunately, this will probably never happen, but a man can dream.
[sub](Also I wish they'd stop making Lucy completely useless in almost every arc since she is technically the goddamn main character!)[/sub]

 

[lord canti]

Not 100% sure if I should pick up watching it again. The promise of improved quality is quite tempting though, so I may end up checking it out anyways. I don't hate Fairy Tail or anything, I still read the manga, and I like the characters and stuff, but my main problem with it now is that the series seems to be going down the DBZ route of introducing stronger enemy after enemy, and it's just become rather inconsequential to me as I know that it's only cosmetic, and Natsu and co. will always just be scaled up whenever an important fight rolls up so that they can win, without any real tangible improvements being made via training or the like.

I'd like it if they stopped increasing the power threshold and focused more on situational challenges so that the series would be better fit to it's essentially indefinite serialization status without having to constantly introduce more powerful enemies as the sole way to advance the story and make any sort of growth seem unimportant. Unfortunately, this will probably never happen, but a man can dream.
[sub](Also I wish they'd stop making Lucy completely useless in almost every arc since she is technically the goddamn main character!)[/sub]

and the fights is the biggest problem I have with the series. The worst example is during the phantom arc when Erza takes the full power of that magic cannon, is out for a couple episodes then shows up and one shots an S-class mage and holds her own against a saint mage.I mean I love the series but it's gotten to a point where none of the villains seem threatening and that is a big nono in my book.

 

[hickwarrior]

Not 100% sure if I should pick up watching it again. The promise of improved quality is quite tempting though, so I may end up checking it out anyways. I don't hate Fairy Tail or anything, I still read the manga, and I like the characters and stuff, but my main problem with it now is that the series seems to be going down the DBZ route of introducing stronger enemy after enemy, and it's just become rather inconsequential to me as I know that it's only cosmetic, and Natsu and co. will always just be scaled up whenever an important fight rolls up so that they can win, without any real tangible improvements being made via training or the like.

I'd like it if they stopped increasing the power threshold and focused more on situational challenges so that the series would be better fit to it's essentially indefinite serialization status without having to constantly introduce more powerful enemies as the sole way to advance the story and make any sort of growth seem unimportant. Unfortunately, this will probably never happen, but a man can dream.
[sub](Also I wish they'd stop making Lucy completely useless in almost every arc since she is technically the goddamn main character!)[/sub]

and the fights is the biggest problem I have with the series. The worst example is during the phantom arc when Erza takes the full power of that magic cannon, is out for a couple episodes then shows up and one shots an S-class mage and holds her own against a saint mage.I mean I love the series but it's gotten to a point where none of the villains seem threatening and that is a big nono in my book.

I guess this is why I got bored of bleach and naruto as well as DBZ. I remember still watching it, but just to switch off my brain for that day... Either they just keep increasing the power level to ludicrous degrees, or they just keep meandering around an arc without ever resolving. That last one being a case of keep jingling the keys and hope we come back...

But those are the gripes why I don't want to watch anime, or at the very least popular anime. It's ridiculous how stretched they can get... Kind of like DC and marvel comics really.

 

[lord canti]

Not 100% sure if I should pick up watching it again. The promise of improved quality is quite tempting though, so I may end up checking it out anyways. I don't hate Fairy Tail or anything, I still read the manga, and I like the characters and stuff, but my main problem with it now is that the series seems to be going down the DBZ route of introducing stronger enemy after enemy, and it's just become rather inconsequential to me as I know that it's only cosmetic, and Natsu and co. will always just be scaled up whenever an important fight rolls up so that they can win, without any real tangible improvements being made via training or the like.

I'd like it if they stopped increasing the power threshold and focused more on situational challenges so that the series would be better fit to it's essentially indefinite serialization status without having to constantly introduce more powerful enemies as the sole way to advance the story and make any sort of growth seem unimportant. Unfortunately, this will probably never happen, but a man can dream.
[sub](Also I wish they'd stop making Lucy completely useless in almost every arc since she is technically the goddamn main character!)[/sub]

and the fights is the biggest problem I have with the series. The worst example is during the phantom arc when Erza takes the full power of that magic cannon, is out for a couple episodes then shows up and one shots an S-class mage and holds her own against a saint mage.I mean I love the series but it's gotten to a point where none of the villains seem threatening and that is a big nono in my book.

I guess this is why I got bored of bleach and naruto as well as DBZ. I remember still watching it, but just to switch off my brain for that day... Either they just keep increasing the power level to ludicrous degrees, or they just keep meandering around an arc without ever resolving. That last one being a case of keep jingling the keys and hope we come back...

But those are the gripes why I don't want to watch anime, or at the very least popular anime. It's ridiculous how stretched they can get... Kind of like DC and marvel comics really.

Yes that is a constant problem with anime, but there are some out there that do a good job of making these villains legitimate threats. Shows like Hunter X Hunter and one piece do a good job of showing that the villains are a force to be reckon with. The characters have to actually make plans in order to defeat them. Not like Fairy tail or DBZ where their completely destroyed but then the magical power of friendship gives them enough strength to destroy their enemies.