#anti fairy tail

[fairytail-whathesays]

"After temporarily losing his Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, Natsu was able to utilize the lightning from his Lightning Fire Dragon Mode, incorporating lightning onto his body and performing lightning variations of his original Dragon Slayer spells. While in this mode, he also gains a lightning bolt-shaped scar on his right eye similar to Laxus’."

Y'know. Mashima is making it real easy for me to say fuck it and not feel bad about writing characters with multiple powers when he does this for a fire dragon slayer.

Yeah sorry I don't get this at all.

Like, I've long since recognized Natsu as an obvious mary sue and creator's pet, so that makes it easy to recognize Mashima's tactics. It even affects characters Mashima seems to like enough to not ever dumb down to Natsu's level; Laxus is still always held up as definitively stronger than him and capable of things he isn't. So in lieu of shoving him aside for Natsu like he does to everyone else, he does things like have Laxus give Natsu his power to defeat Hades with, or have Laxus adopt Natsu's sayings and techniques.

But this, I truly don't understand. What you are telling me is that Natsu dropped his most defining traits and essentially turned into Laxus, down to the physical level. I don't get that at all; it doesn't fit Mashima's usual style of all lanes eventually converging on Natsu. I don't think it stands as some sort of testament to him changing his ways, not in a million years, but I do think it tacitly fits into his tactics of giving Natsu every good, important, or cool thing he can think of.

[yukii0nna]

Remember all the crud Fairy Tail has thanks to the poll:

[jacksonseymour13]

This is a post for my anti fellow buddy @anti-gruvia-blog and not Gruvia friendly

I was originally going to privately send them this rant but I wanted them to have a easier chance to access it without scrolling up and down aimlessly. Hope you enjoy You asked for a rant. Heh you ain't even gotta ask twice my friend. My personal reasons and overall view why Gray should absolutely hate Gray from my 3 rewatches of the anime, 2 rereads of manga and audio script commentaries online.

Gray should see her as his biggest enemy for the simple fact that she doesn't respect him. There is not a single moment in the show she offers respect to Gray. Why does she need to give Gray respect? Because that's what equals do, she doesn't see Gray as a equal. Frankly she sees herself above him and he sees this. She demonstrates this "I'm better than everybody and I get what I want" attitude that frankly should repulse Gray because in his inner circle of close friends. He's only had Lyon with that mindset but he quickly checked that. Why does he falter with her? Plot and writing manipulation.

They try so hard to make you think Gray loves Juvia but it just falls flat everytime. If he hated her, it would make sense and justify all these useless gags with no payoff. I've seen 52 romance-comedy animes that delve into the will they or won't they territory but this shit was just pissing me off for the 100th time they teased it.

The "relationship" is only really seen through Juvia's lens and not Gray's. We don't get a deep look at his feelings for Juvia because if we did we'd only see irritation,hatred,agony and pain. She drives him mad but he scaredly tolerates because she'll fucking cry like a bitch and run off in total despair over it. This run and go tactic controls Gray in Juvia's eyes. She has him wrapped around her finger and it's just pleasing to the viewer or audience(that is if they have a brain) watching and seeing a young man voluntarily walk into his own demise or trap. He knows it never ends well with Juvia's schennigans. It's not some high school innocent crush that is confident with her feelings It's someone with a horrible ego that takes nobody's feelings except their own into consideration. It's fact Juvia thinks she loves Gray. It's a fact Juvia thinks she and Gray are destined soulmates. It's a fact she would die for Gray. It's a fact she hates anyone that steals time away from Gray. These are all signs of a severely controlling,manipulative,absuive and yandere-type of person that would do anything to convince the person they love..to love them back. In theory that is. The ever so presentable delusion of mind in humans is we convince ourselves that we actually believe something is real when all evidence points to it not. Juvia is that prime example of someone lost in their own head and doesn't take into account that Gray could actually not love her. It's almost offending and unbelievable to her that Gray could not hold her heart or her hold his.

She just doesn't stop and he needed a moment in the show to recognize. "This isn't right. We are not healthy for each other. I don't love you and...you don't love me" she loves this illusion of Gray that her mind manifested in their first meet. They didn't meet each other in a bar, they didn't meet each other by chance. They met each other in a war of guilds and she didn't care how misleading the circumstances are. NEVER taking Gray's feelings into account. That's my biggest takeaway from Gruvia, it's just so severely painfully annoyingly re** one-sided as fuck and for no good reason. This ship is taken seriously so the comedy excuse doesn't work because the writer drops these teases,hints and clues for you to ship them when you shouldn't.

Gray has absolutely zero reason to love Juvia because she hinders his relationships with others,takes his time away,doesn't respect his space,touches him without his permission and just geuninely doesn't appreciate his identity. She just wants him to exist for her to exploit. If he has free will and can actually think for himself than that's a problem for her

because her fake pathetic fairy tale(don't say it!) all falls apart in 1 breath. She has to keep persuing because the moment she slips and allows him to think than it's over and she can't have that. I frankly can't stand the sight of them together. The Invel fight was forced garbage to make you see their relationship outside of what it actually is not this "Male Tsundere waiting to come around to persuasive crush". IT'S DISGUSTING SOCIALLY EMOTIONAL RAPE! Juvia should have died and I will never forgive the fans crying about her fakeout and forcing Mashit to revive her back. Fuck Juvia,fuck this fake Gray,fuck the writer,not fuck to the people who ship it because they can ship whatever they want but fuck the toxic stans that gave me death threats and FUCK THIS SHOW FOR WASTING MY TIME!

You know why Gray,me,you,the writer,Juvia herself,the actors and fans should absolutely hate this horrendous sad disgusting ship? It's a lie. It's just a long con of lies with nothing convincing. How anybody can actually believe these 2 in any anime or show let alone a manga would ever function as a healthy couple need help. Their relationship is the definition of male victim,female aggressor,blind fans. Problem is everybody's tune would change FAST. Really fast if the roles were reversed, Gray was constantly groping and massaging Juvia's boobs,rubbing his back on hers while she's never consenting to the physical touches. The sight of him humping and grinding on a body pillow of her in a nightgown would be so traumatizing and downright disturbing. Like would anybody on this god green earth really keep quiet about a grown man intimidating this young female's friends that so much as breath around her? Nah. Would they be silent or content with Gray using his magic to entrap her? Nah. They would fucking lose their minds and that's what loses me the most with this ship. It's not real(Duh Jackson!). Well yes it's fictional but it just seems like a nonrealistic,fake,arbiturary big hallucination in Fairy Tail that doesn't fit in or make sense if you look at everything. The closest offender to it is Gajeel stringing up Levy and than getting with her or Natsu ALWAYS ALWAYS in Lucy's room without her permission. Like bro ask and please leave her tiddies alone. Thank you bye! Rant over. My brain is fried and hope you enjoy my friend

[gralunaisland]

as a fan of fairy tail am i the only one that can't continue to watch it because of all the gruvia/juvia scenes?

I really relate to you, my friend. During my last rewatch of Fairy Tail, I actually had to skip through most of her scenes; they were that painful. I skipped her entire introduction fight against Gray in the Phantom Lord arc. I watched enough of her to remind myself of my eternally burning hatred for her and her ship though.

I totally feel you though: I don't think I'll watch FT 100YQ when it comes to anime form because the rampant, blatant, canon gr///via would completely ruin it for me. There would be no escaping it unlike with the first iteration of Fairy Tail.

And I don't think you and I are being overdramatic, as some Pros might say. Do they really want to shame us for being completely disturbed and unamused by a toxic, unhealthy yet heavily lauded and promoted ship? If they want to, that's their prerogative. But it's honestly draining of your mental health to have your eyeballs bombarded by a ship where an abusive woman finally chained up her browbeaten, manipulated, gaslit, Stockholm Syndrome-d victim.

[yamishika]

At this point I’m just hate reading 100 YQ to see in how many more ways it will disappoint me

[marynomi]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!

Not to be that person but ft fans need a reality check. I don't remember much of both anime (bc I have short term memory) but let me tell you sth. One piece handles friendship and family tropes wayyyyy better than fairy tail could ever be. I'm a fairy tail fan for 7 years and I have a love-hate relationship with the show. While one piece, I've been a fan for 3 years.

(warning: long rant and weird delivery writing)

I can agree that team natsu is stronger than the straw hat but does that make them well written? Absolutely not. I love natsu but I noticed that his goal wasn't clear. His goal is to find igneel, his dragon father, but the thing is that Igneel is rarely mentioned throughout the story.

"But natsu's goal is to protect his friends" but so does luffy. Luffy loves his friends and wants to be strong to protect them but what makes him interesting is his goal to become a pirate king. In order to become a pirate king, he needs to sail across the world to find the one piece.

Like every arc of one piece, luffy encounters problems such as wanting to help whatever people deserve to be saved because he is a good person and that is his goal. In the end, they achieve it and each of the straw hat has its own character development. Fairy tail on the other hand, doesn't have any goal for the each arc (they have some but not too beneficial)

In terms of friendship, I don't feel like fairy tail focuses on the relationship between characters. I don't know how to say this but one example I noticed is that the interaction between lucy and gray reduces throughout the plot because lucy now is always focused on natsu. I'm not saying it's a bad thing (although it is) but come on now. I know mashima would make nalu the end game but just because lucy romantically loves natsu, that doesn't mean she needs to revolve around him. And I have never seen carla interact with other characters besides wendy and happy. wait, I can't recall any memories of erza and gray interacting just the two of them without natsu but even if they had one, the interaction would revolve around love and juvia. But I do admit natsu & gray relationship and natsu & wendy sibling-like relationship are cute.

A good friendship is what brings the good in each other. The straw hat is so loyal to their crewmates and trusts them with their life after the adventure and hardship they went through. Plus the staw hat have a lot of moments between them compared to fairy tail.

I'm talking about team natsu in general but if I write about the guild oh boy it's gonna be long. I want to elaborate more but I think I need to reread the manga back to recover my memories. Kinda hope you understand what I'm saying.

[merxcurias]

honestly i find it hilarious (thats code for sad. pathetic. awful. literally anything but hilarious) that gr/uvia at its best is a really bad portrayal of an extremely unhealthy dynamic as a joke, and at its worst glorification and normalization or sexual and emotional harassment/abuse

literally who reads or watches ft and thinks "yeah thats cute. lets ignore the abuse and stalking and the use of gray's character as a sacrificial lamb to appease the gr/uvia fans and juvia's character revolving entirely around her unhealthy obsession with gray and just call it tsundere romance. soooo sugoi cute kawaii cuz its normal in japan (not true + racist)!!!!!"

[gajeelenjoyer]

Everyone look at the exquisite art that came from this week's chapter of one hundred years quest

[fairytailoverhaul]

while i work on my page for, for starters, here's one of my most self indulgent point for the rewrite: writing 18 year old natsu as the troublemaker he is to the fullest capacity, gets genuinely arrested several times and almost kicked out of the guild, suffers the consequences of his actions

[fairytail-whathesays]

Why do you hate Erza? Is it because she's oversexualized, or is there more to it?

I don't really interact with Fairy Tail anymore so this response is going to be a lot less impassioned than it would have been back in my heyday. In the end, I hate Erza because she's boring.

Fairy Tail being what it is, there isn't that much difference between a fireball and a sword, and Erza really just stands as Mashima's cornerstone writing habits all rolled into one: power of friendship over everything else, Fairy Tail always has it and other people don't, and no real effort put into justifying wins--and therefore the fights as a whole.

The romance with Jellal doesn't help. You go through my blog for two or three minutes and you'll understand that I've always been aggravated by Jellal's ceaseless (and detrimental) presence in the manga and how he's permitted to behave while whining about his sins, which never received the weight they deserved beyond absolving him of them. There's not really much to showcase an attraction or even a star-crossed lovers angle between him and Erza after a while, because all of the tragedy of their romance happened early in the manga and from around the GMG arc onward, there wasn't a real reason why they shouldn't be together if they wanted to so badly, especially since everyone who didn't like Jellal (Kagura and Milliana) were cast as in the wrong.

Like Fairy Tail as a whole, Erza's never permitted to make mistakes, lose, or really look bad at all, and since she (along with Natsu) gets by far the most attention and presence in Fairy Tail's struggles, she gets a large chunk of the aggravation with those issues.

Sexualization is just a cherry on top. Mashima is pretty much the Google Definition of "horny mangaka who can't write with two hands" and the very overwhelming level of sexuality (and how every situation seems to twist to include tiddies somehow) is present everywhere in the manga and with every female character--but it's Erza who is cast as a warrioress and a knight, so when it hits her it crosses with the western world's long-established exhaustion with men only seeming to enjoy 'strong' women if they also look highly fuckable--you know, the 'armor with tiddies' and 'butch action girl wearing heels' problems.

Fairy Tail is a very simple manga, basically.

[cubbihue]

so pixies regularly try to take over fairyworld is timmy on the pixie side?

At first, Timmy was adamantly against the Pixies. He'd tell Jorgen every time he got a notice of their plans to take over Fairyworld, and work to stop it! But it gets a bit harder to resist against your own court the longer you hang out with them.

In the present time, Timmy schedules to be out of FairyWorld during their takeovers. He doesn't try to stop them, but also refuses to be anywhere near when it happens.

He... doesn't like how he's slowly starting to cheer for them. Or how their arguments are becoming more convincing. Or how he's struggling to recall why he was so against them to begin with.

There will come a point where he becomes an active participant. Timmy worries that it's coming sooner than he'd like.

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[jacksonseymour13]

Fairy Tail fucking sucks and is my least favorite anime of all time.

[gralunaisland]

I stoped watching FT after the GMG ark, I know what happens next and have absolutely no desire to see it animated. Not only bc of gruvia but I felt more and more that Mashima was just tired of the series and was just continuing for the fans. The GMG for me was just the right place to stop, everyone got FT respect and guild back, all the zodiac keys were shown, some baddies got closure and Gray put a stop to gruvia. Everything else could be resolved with extras and movies.

That's a very interesting point, Anon! I hadn't thought about that before, about ending the anime after the GMG.

Really, the arcs after the GMG weren't very good, and they did feel like the story was just being dragged on. (I didn't mind the Eclipse Celestial Spirit arc though because the queen Lucy was at the forefront of it, and it was pretty interesting imo.) But yeah, the GMG arc was really sort of the last arc that felt like true Fairy Tail.

I do think the Zeref story needed an arc for completion, but the way Mashima handled it was pretty poor. I lost interest in it pretty quickly. I didn't only stop FT because of gr///via, but because I was just plain bored at the end of the Avatar arc. Researching the end of the main story was enough for me. I feel like the Zeref and END stuff needed to be resolved within the main anime because of how important it is to the story, but I can see your argument for the movies.

But yes, the best part about the anime ending at GMG would be Gray’s rejection of juvia actually meaning something! Oh to imagine a world where Gray’s consent matters…

Anyway, thank you very much for your patience and for sharing such a intriguing thought with me!

[marinsdoodles]

rewatching the old fop, and these screenshots were super cute, i wanted to quickly draw them out.

[artificial-angels]

doodles from today!!

[beebeeswee]

i will be a juvia defender until the day i die.

i really do welcome anyone to dm me or send me an ask and i'll talk about this more - because i really think anti-juvias completely misunderstand both her and gray's characters, and the context of the show they're in.

juvia is a character who has been excluded her entire life, her magic made her abandoned by and outcasted from her peers and former romantic partners. then she meets gray, the only person in her whole life who has stopped the rain (and when he leaves her the rain comes back), and she falls in love with him and the rest of fairy tail, where she finds people who accept her wholeheartedly. i think it's beautiful that she's able to stay resilient and wear her heart on her sleeve after everything she'd been through.

gray is a character who doesn't believe he deserves love, he has such a deep self-loathing he can't imagine a world where he's worthy of happiness after 'everything he's done', and juvia is someone who loves him unconditionally, who never turns away from him, despite everything he's done to her. part of his development over the main series and 100yr quest is him realising that about himself. they heal each other.

the biggest complain that anti-gruvias have is that she's a 'sexual predator' and a 'stalker'. @ermbehindyou made the excellent point that if she's a sexual predator by that logic so is gray - his constant stripping (even infront of minors!) would be enough to get him on a list in pretty much every country in the world. but that is naturally ridiculous.

(mentioned multiple times in this scene that he is fully nude - not just in his underwear and wendy is on the boat the entire time).

fairy tail is a show that plays on sexual gags constantly, which i do take a real issue with. but that's the show, that's the humour and standards set from the beginning of the main series, and like most of the characterisation of the show, it has become insanely exaggerated as the series progressed. having said that, i think it's misogynistic to single out juvia's actions and ignore the actions of every other character. and i mean that.

call me a crazy feminist all you want but i think many of you are seeing a confident, unashamed female character with overt sexual desires and it repulses you, because it doesn't conform to society's standards of femininity. this was definitely not mashima's intentions when writing her - but his interpretations of her aren't relevant to this debate anyway are they?

i'll end this by saying juvia and gray truly match each other's freak when the humour allows it; but who show true and serious displays of selfless love for one another when it matters, and it's beautiful.