Anime Discussion Thread - Page 2063

Maybe because he used to have that giant ass leather jacket earlier which he doesn't have anymore, also I wouldn't call it laziness, maybe they just decided it would be better this way. I like giving them benefit of the doubt.

Anyway I heard this arc was filler, maybe it's going to finally have at least C (that's a grade) fights?
I'm very disappointed with the fights in fairy tail, it's always the same thing, usually about friendship, faith, etc., they try too hard to give everyone different powers (chicken man? summons a wall of omellette? Really? God..) but it doesn't really do them any good.
I furthermore do not like how every attack has a name, not only does it sound awkward (to us, at least) but it makes the fights so cheap. If they had freedom to do whatever the fuck they wanted, I feel the show would mature like that. I'm going to make a comparison to bleach, which has their fights done really, really well on a pure fight level. I like ft more than bleach, don't get me wrong, but the fights in ft are just horrible in comparison. In bleach there were always 'holy shit' moments that just blew my mind out of the fucking skull, I think there have been maybe 2 holy shit moments in fairy tail so far and I don't think they were in battles.
If i had to make a comparison with naruto, naruto battles carry much, much more psychological power to them. Like you know that it's a battle of ideals, it's presented that way, people actually get cut and die, there is always the possibility of someone making a random hit that kills someone. Literally everything in ft comes down to a power level versus a power level, which personally I never liked in the first place, after 130 episodes it's just getting bad.
They also never create any interesting villains, it's always the same thing. Some foreshadowing, party gets beat down by 'black' (not gray) party of villains, bla bla, they fight again and this time with help of some white power (friendship, love, faith, you know what I mean) their power level clashes with the villains again and this time the party wins. Flashbacks of villains backstory, now they are made from black to white and everything is (usually) forgiven. The same formula is used every time and it's starting to bore me. Jellal is the only interesting person in the series, to be completely honest.
Now other than that I really like the show, it has good humor, other than what I've said it's trying to keep up with a maturer audience (+- 16-18), you care for the characters, etc. etc.
The fact that the fights are so horrible and that the villains aren't interesting are starting to kill the show for me, though

Basically, these were the top 4 girls in an Aquarion Character Poll, by Newtype I think but don't quote me on that. We already know what happened to #1. And #2 and #3 are also on Altair now, and complaining about their bodies.... IMO Kawamori is deliberately trying to troll everyone by doing that to the most popular girl, followed by doing the same thing to the #2 and #3 girl.