#phoenix priestess

[penguilie]

“I tried to express natsu’s feelings towards Lucy which go a little beyond friendship through his gaze” - Director of the Movie Phoenix Priestess

[shiiro-arts]

Am I the only one who loves the Phoenix Priestess? The animation style, the plot, how nalu was represented, the angst, that shit was the best. I don't even know how many times I watched it I swear.

How Natsu reacts to the situation, how for the first time he went against Lucy's wishes for her own good and killed the phoenix (thus killing Eclair), THE HUG, the emotional support. SO GOOD

[raijin-tribe]

Pheonix Priestess Postcard Illustration Source: HARVEST: Fairy Tail 2nd Illustrations Book [p.66]

[fairydares]

Rewatching the Fairy Tail Movie: Phoenix Priestess because I saw it was on the old 'tube!

[bringerofdeathandtheapocolypse]

Rewatched Phoenix priestess today (Had a friend who knows only what I've told him and like 70% of it is the au) and I relished in the Gajeel and Thunder legion content.

Like Gajeel was great but can I just focus on Laxus for a moment.

First of all, he was manic when he showed up, don't think I've ever seen him that animated (I know movie equals bigger budget but he doesn't show up in dragon cry from what I remember and I forgot he was in this movie) and also I think my new favourite scene is when he lands a hit and uses his lightning to zip over and float next to Freed and excitedly yell "Yes" like I loved how happy Laxus was post GMG and pre Tartarous and I wish he'd gotten longer for that happiness before literally almost dying and then slowly dying and then going to war and almost dying. Plus I totally relished in the Thunder legion screentime cause they deserve so much more than they got post Tenrou (Like they are least got decent treatment during Tenrou with them all getting at least one good fight (although Evergreen pulled the short straw there) but KOTSH doesn't show us Freed and Gray's fight, just a little of Evergreen, Erza and Max's and Bickslow and Wendy get a good go, gmg they do get to help in the dragon fight but they sorta get less focus cause of the dragon slayer, and they're taken out literally first fight in Tartarous and Alvarez. They deserve better) also Bickslow has amazing balance to be able to stand on only one baby and the movie actually remembered that Freed has wings cause he hardly ever uses them in the series (the Wendy's job episode is an example where Happy is like "I can't carry you both" and I'm just sitting with my eyebrows up my forehead because Freed has wings. He can fly on his own Happy) and I love how pretty Freed's wings are and how unique they look.

Also the fact that during a wide shot scene Gajeel was just blinking the phoenix on the head repeatedly was funny. In fact Gajeel in general was great fun. Getting to see him and Lily being sneaky spies was great plus it does add the fact that Makarov just has Gajeel as his go too spy and that is amazing and I bet Gajeel totally loves it because of his love of mysteries (he absolutely watches and reads detective novels and movies) Plus the end pictures where he's eating a full pipe part then later him and Natsu try to make each other eat their element was funny.

I was also repeatedly pointing out Alzack to my friend whenever he showed up cause I sorta made him stand in a like 40 min line to meet his English voice actor. He didn't speak (despite being credited which I dunno) but I pointed him out anyway.

I'm a little disappointed that they didn't bring in other guilds but I understand that it being an 82 min movie, not even feature length would make it a lot harder to provide adequate screen time to additional characters (also probably why a lot of the side cast didn't get many or any lines like how Jet is there during the Erza and Makarov scenes but is just silent) like it would make a bit of sense to at least get like Rogue since shadows and one of the enemies uses shadow and metal so it would have been cool to see a fight where Gajeel and Rogue team up (Before Acno fight)

I might make a little side story of the two movies for the au cause I do like them (and I'm pretty sure I remember seeing somewhere at least PP is canon to the manga like KOTSH) and there is at least small amounts of world building. (Also noticed that aside from 7, 400 is the other common number featured in the series. Literally so many things are either from or linked to 400 years in the past. Irene, Acno, the dragon slayers and dragons, Future Rogue's plan for the dragons, dragon slayer magic, the dragon cry, Zonia(I think is her name), Anna and so on.)

[mashimaarts]

2013.03.18: @/MIkAKANAI3018 みか姉さん、誕生日おめでとうございます。いつまでも若々しくいてくださいヽ(≧▽≦)ﾉ

[CV: Mika Kanai] Happy birthday Mika-neesan. Please stay young forever and I wish you all the bestヽ(≧▽≦)ﾉ (DeepL Translate)

[jbberry9]

Imagine if all of Fairy Tail was animated like The Phoenix Priestess…..oh my god

such a beautiful style that movie has

[azriaann]

nalu doodle while i study for finals☝️ yes the bottom was necessary

[probablygayattorneys]

[artblooger19moon]

Fairy Tail Movies

Fairy Tail Phoenix Priestress

Fairy Tail Dragon Cry

[penguilie]

This scene at the end of phoenix priestess is criminally underrated when it's so adorable </3

[shiiro-arts]

Misogyny in FT universe

So, yesterday I watched (again, because god bless that movie) phoenix priestess and there is something that always bugs me

And it's how incredibly chill was everyone in Veronica by the fact that a woman was about to be burned alive

Like, what the actual fuck. So, I've been thinking

Fairy tail takes place in a somewhat medieval era, they have carriages, royalty and castles and in general you can see the "medieval vibe".

Mermaid Heel existing entails that women in Fiore still face misoginy and discrimination, we just can't see it so clearly since we are focused on magnolia and fairy tail, a somewhat more inclusive and mentally advaced place.

But what if that's not the actual reality, Lucy being almost sold by her father, eclair being burned alive, mermaid heel existing, a dude from 100yq openly admiting women are weaker than men (in terms of magic at least) and probably more moments that I have overlooked.

It looks like Fairy tail takes place in a highly misogynistic universe, it's just that since we are focused in a more "modern" place we just don't see it

The fact that maybe Fairy tail takes place in a continent that burning woman alive is still a thing shocked me.

[celestialulu]

Natsu being extremely soft with Lucy in serious moments/when Lucy is having a hard time is so important to me

[13skeletons]

Scorched Earth, aka The Map That Turned Me Feral

[thebeautyofanoracle]

[shima-draws]

Saw your tags and omg HARD AGREE. Dragon Cry is SO bad nfkanmdsa

ME AND YOU SHAKING HANDS

Actually yes thanks for giving me the excuse to rant. Hold on. I'm typing furiously rn.

-Okay first of all they gave us the most ridiculously confusing plot I've ever seen. The twist with Sonya being Animus was kinda cool but they never really. Explained why she had a bond with him? She mentioned he used to be kindhearted at some point but we never see that literally ever at any point in the movie?

-The storyline is so all over the place it's a HOT mess. Especially the scene right after Natsu escapes the weird bird cage thing he runs off to find the others and suddenly they're all there? For some reason? Where did they come from. Why didn't they have a little reuniting scene. I literally rewound the movie to make sure I didn't accidentally skip a scene but nope they just made the most awkward cut/story progression in history I guess!!!

-The fanservice was so. SO bad. Like yeah the majority of the time I can at least tolerate it but this time it just made me extremely uncomfortable. Why are Erza and Lucy's boobs SO fucking large. Why did they have to make Lucy dance in like two strips of cloth. I thought I woke up in an alternate universe where Fairy Tail was a hentai. I genuinely wanted to vomit lmao

-The animation style really threw me off like I can tell it was either animated by a different studio or they wanted to try a different art style for the movie? But it just felt wrong and the proportions and faces were weird and. Yeah idk.

-What was up with the Three Stars?? Iirc we never got to learn their names or what their motivations were they were literally just. There. And they were built up to be these super powerful wizards only to get their asses kicked by FT like two scenes later. I get that being a movie obviously the fights had to be shortened but they literally did the same thing in Phoenix Priestess but WAY better. They really were like yeah uh we need some enemies for Team Natsu to fight let's just go with these guys and not give them any personality or backstory or motivations. (Except for the doll dad he was okay I guess)

-WHY WAS LEVY THERE. LITERALLY. ACTUALLY. She literally did nothing she served NO purpose in the movie she was just there?? Did they just want to shove in as many cameos as possible??? I know generally Levy isn't much of a fighter which is fine, I was kinda expecting them to do a Gajevy scene where Gajeel rescues her from some soldiers or smth which would have been fine but they didn't even do that. She literally just stood there and had like 2 voice lines. GO GIRL GIVE US NOTHING

-SPEAKING OF CAMEOS this is more personal beef than anything but man WHYYY wasn't Loke in the movie,, my boy my beloved my stupid idiot lion I'm so mad he wasn't even onscreen for like, 5 seconds

-I'm sorry but Juvia was so unhinged this movie her possessive/stalker behavior over Gray was actually super fucking creepy lmao

-What did they do to Happy. What the FUCK did they do to Happy

THEY MASSACRED MY BOY. LOOK AT HIM. HE'S GOT ANXIETY

-ALSO the scene where Happy and Lucy were crying over Natsu and we got tons of flashbacks from his POV of people who are important to him? WHY THE FUCK WASN'T HAPPY THERE?? They literally showed everyone from Fairy Tail precious to Natsu except Happy and I'm just sitting here like. HELLO?? You are SO wrong for that

-I will say I DID enjoy the little Nalu teasers we got especially the scene where Natsu showed Lucy the stars 🤧

But yeah I was here for this and this only:

The Nalu + Happy family bonding moments made it OKAY

Anyway sorry rant over. Dragon Cry bad. Natsu's brief moment of looking half dragon was a super sexy character design choice but the buildup is not worth it imo