We Need to Talk About Fairy Tail's New Anime...

[@ironnancy]

Let me know if you guys have been enjoying 100 Years Quest this season 👍

[@46yearsd49]

eh

[@aleksbg1917]

the anime is ok but it was the opportunity for fairy tail to come back very much as a franchise now it will just remain a niche

[@needdjback5434]

i think giving both Edens Zero AND Fairy Tail to one studio was just flat out a bad idea

[@ashrafhakim379]

I think the studio is 1 problem but the second one is the director if the director is more creative the storyboard and all would be better

[@terrelltownsend8016]

Agreed. And they're the same studio who did Season 2 of One Punch Man. I wish Madhouse was still doing that show.

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

Nobody "gives" their works to studio, the studio choses the work/manga.

[@JohnZ_GG]

Natsu looked so ugly when drawn by J.C.Staff 😭😭

[@aidanxgaming9279]

Praying we get a new good studio for cour 3 and 4

[@ironnancy]

Don’t expect a studio change lol. At best J.C. will just give it more priority.

[@aidanxgaming9279]

@ironnancy i would hope so but i wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt

[@GameMaster-ig8oo]

remember when they only adapted 2 or 3 chapters per chapters episode. Remember how the Edoulus arc from the og series had about as many chapter as the moon dragon arc? We could have easily had a whole season focused on Eletear. I wanna learn more about the world!

[@connorwood9211]

I've been in and out of the anime and what I saw was disappointing. Mainly the Aldoron arc. Erza vs Laxus is the best fight in the manga but my God in the anime it was garbage. Nothing felt right. The censors really botched it. Also might be weird but I think it's too faithful to the manga. Lots of stuff could/needed expansion but they did nothing. Like Wraith. He feels just about as filler here as he did in the manga. Or Mira vs Skullion. Could had actually had it on screen unlike the manga

[@thatanimegirlwiththecape4807]

I really do not understand whats with the blood censor and the worst part is that i expected it. Even YEARS before the anime came out. I just dont understand what is the point of censoring the animes blood when its catered to adults in the first place, when it has THIS much fanservice. Anime are known to get horrifically violent, bloody and dark, and although fairy tail has a more lighthearted tone, i just do not see the point of censoring the blood since the original manga was so bloody to begin with. And i also agree that they didnt make many improvements from manga to anime to the story either even though they could. Why cant fairy tail just fall under the hands of a studio that has the love, the time, and the budget to make a good animation?

[@mjm3091]

​@@thatanimegirlwiththecape4807 TV time-slot - unless they would push Fairy Tail later in the day, they can't do a lot about it. It doesn't excuse them from not cranking it up for the Blu-Rays. Especially as they have had made fixes to the original series before.

[@mjm3091]

I do think that if any fight gonna get fixed post-production - it likely will be Erza vs Laxus. And before anyone even starts with me that they won't be doing that - majority of Sun Village and Eclipse Spirits arcs have been actual slide-shows on original TV release. Something that is lost media now, considering the fixed releases on streaming platforms and Blu-Rays.

[@mjm3091]

Also personally - I am the most bumped out about Wendy & Irene vs the Diabolos dude. That was one of the best moments across the whole series and she still got barely anything.

[@Icantthinkofaname_1]

I don't understand JC staff. Theres blood in the other episodes they didn't had to censored it in the laxus vs erza fight

[@dragonforce2582]

JC has big potential...if they took their time on one project instade of 10 to 14...Fairy Tail 100 years quest could have looked this good all the time💯

[@fawazsh4831]

I wish they would continue with the same production of drawing and animation as episodes 3 and 6 of the first season.

[@Aesc_the_voyager]

For me I miss the magic circles in the fights I know it’s a anime only thing but it still looked cool and felt weird while watching it

[@ironnancy]

They were cool for their time. But I think it’s better without them. Although I couldn’t imagine old FT without them.

[@Kyle-Randz]

Thank you very much for this review, I really really respect it. I have been one trying to defend the animation on Twitter saying it’s really not as bad as most of the fans think it is but it’s not great either, it falls in the mid/decent/good category imo. I think people’s expectations were way too high and people were expecting Bleach TYBW animation that’s why their expectations were so high and now they are all disappointed. Obviously I’ve heard there has been major production issues and The director Shinji Ishihira tweeted out last month that the production of Fairy Tail 100 years quest season 1 hasn’t even finished. Aoki who is JC Staff’s ace animator is a huge Mashima fan and has been for ages, but due to production he hasn’t been able to work on it as much as he would’ve liked to. Another problem is that the animation directors of the JC Staff episodes and the ACGT ones are always the exact same bar two sometimes, there is not much rotation which results to inconsistency’s so on and so on. What I am hoping tho for 100 years quest season 2 is that either Jc Staff won’t have production issues and can take their time to work on it as well as slowing down pacing as 90 chapters in 25 episodes is just beyond ridiculous. If they are still likely to have production issues, I am hoping that a studio like David Production Bones, Pierrot, Mappa, C2C or even A1- Pictures, again can pick up the anime. Ideally tho I think David Production or Bones would be best suited for Fairy Tail. I hope all of this helps🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@mr.m1785]

So it really was almost 100 chapters in already? I vaguely remembered as much, but couldn't be sure, as it seemed faithful to the manga. As someone else has said, perhaps to a fault.

[@GajeelGreenfox]

I still love Fairy Tail for what it is. That will never change. It holds a special place in my heart since I first started watching it years ago. But yes, the animation for this season has been a bit of an isseu. I'd say I was quite happy with the first 6/7 episodes of the first arc. That gave me hope of some consistancy throughout the rest of the anime. Unfortunatly, that's not the case. Would have loved to have even seen the side characters of the guild have their own big animation moment but I felt dissapointed afterwards. On the other hand, this all doesn't stop me from getting excited each Sunday to warch a new episode. JC Staff are a good studio. I just wish they can focus on a smaller numder of anime to help with production. Also, side note, I noticed the ost is all new if it's compaired to the origenal ost. Not sure what the reason for that is but I still enjoy it.

[@KingRage1]

I feel like 100 yq anime was fairytail last chance to get back some of its former popularity and really be up there with some of the other popular shonen but JC staff blew it unfortunately I don’t think it will ever have those peaks again

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

Same here. And the "just be glad it got animated" type of mindset only ruin this series further. I don't want to be glad for tr ash that JC Staff gives us with each ep.

[@KingRage1]

@ I agree I hate when people say that

[@mjm3091]

It's still popular, and I am actually thankful it didn't blow up. When series ended and sequel returned - most of toxicity moved on to next big popular shounen to shit on. Should it be better - yes.

[@KingRage1]

@@mjm3091 I didn’t deny it’s popular but it’s certainly past its peak in terms of being popular

[@JDPxkumagawa]

I just want the old anime studio that made fairy tail anime like say the anime studio that mad the natsu vs gajeel fight or laxus vs gajeel and natsu but no we get J.c. staff whelp I going to see if will continue this anime version of 100 years quest or if I will just go back to reading the manga thanks for the review as always.

[@banarkoy4264]

I think It was A1-pictures and Satelight studio who did the 2009-2013 anime.

[@JDPxkumagawa]

@banarkoy4264 A1-pictures did the final season if I remember correctly but the I assume that Satelight studio the old animation for fairy tail right?

[@banarkoy4264]

@JDPxkumagawa The old animation was done by A1-Pictures co-produced with Satelight studio.

[@JDPxkumagawa]

@@banarkoy4264 ok then they did a great job back then then we got the final season and J.c. staff doing the 100 years quest what worse the final season or J.C. staff doing the 100 years quest anime.

[@banarkoy4264]

@JDPxkumagawa The Final season is ok but It could been better. Tbh J.C staff did a better job than A1 doing the final season. The anime fights scenes and moments in 100 Years Quest feels more real than the fight scenes in Alvarez Empire war arc. Also the reason why old Fairy Tail has better animation is because A1 is just a new animation studio back then and Fairy Tail is the only anime that makes them money until 2012 came and they started focusing the budget mostly on Sword Art Online.

[@banarkoy4264]

Overall, I enjoyed the 100 Years Quest so far. There are good unexpected animations sometimes like when Gray fought one of Aldoron's seed.

[@FairyTail100yearsQuest-l3q]

IMG Not hearing Natsu original VA actor for the entire OG Fairy Tail 😂😂😂 Poor guy

[@ironnancy]

I heard Natsu’s OG voice actor. But I also watched a lot of Fairy Tail in the dub. I did both bru.

[@fairiesflame1345]

I think episode 6 of 100 Years Quest was the best episode we had of all Fairy Tail series. Despite that, I like the Natsu VS Aldoron more, but whoever was behind the animation for that battle really dropped the ball on that fight that I was hoping to see. Speaking of half assed animation qualities lately, that has given me the push to do my own battle animations between 2 characters from different franchises.

[@couldnotic]

The Erza vs Laxus fight was one of the most anticipated fights in FT100YQ anime. And it just got completely wasted. Ite not just animation, but also the characters' designs and the lack of expressions on the characters faces. Like the whole confrontation between Jellal and Laxus was so raw in manga, but in the anime, it's just so dumbed down. And the other thing, too, is Jellal hair has been bugging the heck me, the anime made his hair shorter, making him look like pre 7 year timeskip Jellal. What even bothers me about Jellal, is when we see Mystogan again. Mystogan hair length is what Jellal hair is supposed to be, especially coming off from the final season of Fairy Tail. They also completely butchered Lucy Leo and Virgo Stardress form. It was less detailed than it was in the Manga. Same with Selene outfit too. There's also problems with the anime too, which is the pacing, and the adaption has been drastically going too fast. Like each episode has been burning through 3 to 5 and 1/2 chapters per episode, which is way too dang much for a single episode. And that's another problem with the adaption is that the anime made so many cuts and alteration from the manga. Even FT100YQ anime doesn't even acknowledge the OG series, cause points in the manga has flashbacks to OG series. Like they cutout a part when Ultear was talking to Jellal about Erza, and showed his memories with Erza from the OG Series. They did it again when they went back to Edolas. I think Fairy Tail 100YQ anime should've went the Demon Slayer episode count route in one season. Attack on titan sort of had this too. Great example is the Swordsmith Village Arc from Demon Slayer where it was only 11 episodes, and Hashira training Arc with 8 episodes. This is what FT100YQ anime should've gone with. Should've just been 18 episodes with the Mercphobia and Aldoron Arcs. Had they not had to adapted the Selene Arc, they probably would've put better work with Aldoron Arc. But everything is too dang rushed now.

[@SudhishSP-h7k]

Fairy tail grand magic games and 2014 were peak of the series. The ànimation quality of 2014 was so good for the time.

[@mjm3091]

It was very much not - it was clunky and embarrassingly mediocre. The best animation Fairy Tail got was in its early days, when it did in fact have similar quality to other shows, with premade spell animations helping production to save budget for better fights. 2014 as a whole season only improved by updating the artstyle to newest Mashima artstyle, but animation was very much not it.

[@spectreghost5458]

What i think is needed. Higher budget 1 arc at time + anime only content into fight since what was missed in the adaptation Better caméra handling more 1 on a to the manga angles just looking at natsu transformation after eating ignia was looking bad Staff change Chief director Toshinori Watabe Director Akihiko Sano Character design Takeuchi shinji. And yurika sako as support Chief animator Yurika sako Old character design need be back Shinji Takeuchi and Akihiko Sano are missed but Akihiko Sano doesn't do character design anymore but does animator and Director

[@Ennryuo]

Angles issue also happens when Natsu grabs and throws water dragon god. It is so clueless of what he is doing in the anime

[@dragonforce2582]

I am waiting for the blu ray correction 🙏

[@sladeft8489]

Honestly I dont think its that bad although that could just be bias as fairy tail is my favorite anime but the animation has never really been an issue for me even in the original series. I started watching it when i was young so maybe i just didnt notice but when i got older i saw and heard more and more people talking about the animation being bad because of the lack of movement during the fightscenes. I think the only issue i have with the animaton for 100 year quest was the decision for grays ice demon slater to have a red aura around him each time he uses it other than that I have no legitimate issues with the current anime and i fel like its adapting the manga pretty well i belive next is great labrytn arc and im very curious to see how they do that given everything and all the fights that happen in it.

[@TheDemonKingZiggy]

I genuinely believe C2C is the perfect studio to adapt Hiro Mashima's work. JC Staff is working on too many titles and One Punch Man season 3.

[@desmondmalone438]

7:46 a certain magical index season 4 did the same thing actually but it was four arcs

[@jaye4773]

Index will always be inferior to Railgun no matter how much pace fixing you do 😂

[@Gilat33n]

Ironic how even Final season’s animation is better than J.C. Staff animation.

[@Kyle-Randz]

I disagree but your entitled to your opinion

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

​​@@Kyle-Randz I disagree, but you ofcourse have the right on your opinion.

[@Icantthinkofaname_1]

Definitely not. The only time A1 pictures cooked was in the openings. New animation isnt the best but they have their moments in certain episodes

[@Kyle-Randz]

@mikeoochie7699 facts💯

[@banarkoy4264]

Final season is good but I think Natsu and Merchopobia fight alone was better than all fights in the Final season.

[@-Sparagmos-]

The OST is great, not quite as good as the earlier volumes, but still great. Btw can we expect a Dead Rock update anytime soon?

[@desmondmalone438]

3:49 yeah that feeling suck to feel to your favorite anime even if they have there reason

[@A113-e9l]

Natsu vs Merc is obviously where the low budget went to, I feel really bad to us FT fans out there defending this sh8. I just hope that the spin off series that Mashima is making will be something worth more than this sequel because in his own words... 100 YQ is forced by the company and not Hiro's idea mainly.

[@justsomeguywithsunglasses5171]

But we knew this in the afterword from Volume 1 of 100 Years Quest the editor asked Hiro if he could at least handle the storyboard , Hiro agreed he was not forced to do anything Ueda said in a separate afterword he was new to the fantasy setting , Hiro probably felt bad for him , Hiro could have refused the editor if he wanted to

[@imbusymakinggs4430]

At least the baddies are still bad

[@bodysnappin2741]

indeed

[@klbeast1996]

The music is good but, compared to the final season. There are less actual new ost's than I thought there would've been.

[@ghostspider2056]

With the next arcs being longer, logically 2 arcs would be necessary than 3. The 3rd and final arc would be all about Ignia and Faris. Still hoping they take their time animating, because they are capable of decent animation.

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

Next arcs are abt the same as Elentir 😂

[@ghostspider2056]

@ The whole Elentear arc covers chapters 64-90, that’s like 27 chapters. The next one about the labyrinth is from 91-122, that’s 32 chapters. The one after covers 123-153, that’s 31, 1 less than the previous one but still longer than the Elentear stuff. So no they’re not shorter. The current arc still has around 20 chapters but with a lot to cover.

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

@@ghostspider2056 3 extra chapters are NOTHING burgers in FT lol

[@ghostspider2056]

@ What extra chapters? If you mean the side stories like Natsu and Lucy going against giant anteaters, or Erza practicing kissing, I didn’t count those.

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

@@ghostspider2056 3 extra chapters are nothing burgers lol

[@milestrombley1466]

After reading the entire manga series for years, Fairy Tail burned me out.

[@ironnancy]

Burned you out on what? Manga or just Fairy Tail?

[@milestrombley1466]

@ironnancy manga

[@ironnancy]

Damn

[@Dots_discord]

I have been watching fairy tale from 5 + years but for me animation can definitely be way better but I am bored of repetitive boss and his underlings. Also the characters haven't changed a bit in style or seem like grown up. It's feels like I am watching ep 1 of fairy tale.

[@pedrovilhena5879]

Well, jc staff always was and always will be a studio that bites more than it can chew, by doing lots of seasonal anime at the same time, and althought fairy tail is popular its not popular enough in the eyes of the big japanese producers to be given a proper budget or time because of its... divicive image among the viewers to say the least. So it doesnt matter how much fans are gonna ask for david productions or bones to work on the adaptation if they dont have any interest in it or the time. But even with all that said its still quite impressive to get *some* spurts and ounces of great animation in this season considering its unstable production. That proves that the guys working on ot really want to give their best despite their limitations. The reason people get so upset over this adaptation is because they got a taste of what jc staff could do with edens zero so, like said in the video, they might go better and better as long as people keep watching and making good views and giving them the animators more oportunity to go all out in something they love.

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

David productions?? The ones who do png lock ey?? 😂 Im pretty sure nobody asked for that.

[@Kyle-Randz]

@@Somnus_et_Somnia this is why all your takes are shit, you don’t even know what your talking about half of the time. David production do Fire Force and 8 bit do Blue lock, please don’t comment unless you can actually back up your point with factual information instead of spouting shit.

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

@@Kyle-Randz Oh look our resident butthurt got even more butthurt cause someone easily mixed up two studios 🤣.Pls leve the soc media if it's so easy to get you on fire.

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

@@Kyle-Randz Ob look our resident butthurt got even more butthurt just cause someone easily mixed up two studios 🤣. Pls do yourself a favour and stay away from the internet if it's so easy to get you all worked up.

[@Somnus_et_Somnia]

@@Kyle-Randz @Kyle-Randz Ob look our resident butthurt git even more butthirt just cause someone easily mixed up two studios 🤣. Pls do yourself a favour and stay away from the internet if it's so easy to get you all worked up.

[@MekarWB]

So far 100 Year's Quest has given me all the feelings that Fairy Tail gives me. I still get extremely excited basically any time these characters do anything cool. The new battle theme is stuck in my head a lot lately. The animation for fights has been noticeably lacking but I really don't think it's that different than Fairy Tail has ever been. I think it's just that the standard for fight animation has passed what Fairy Tail usually does at this point. Outside of the Grand Magic Games there was rarely fight choreography in Fairy Tail before 100 Year's Quest either. They could make really sick fights out of this if they wanted to but that has never been a priority for whatever reason. They still get all the important Fairy Tail parts of it pretty much down in my opinion.

[@jaye4773]

THAT is your only disappointment? I feel like the plot twists are convoluted and weak. The villains aren't scary. The main characters are flanderized even more than ever. The fanservice is ratchetted up. The new characters are unlikable. The old characters are flatter than ever. This feels like what could have qualified as filler. My eyes rolled so hard when Edolas came up again. Considering how much I loved Fairy Tail, this adaptation has made me kinda dejected about something I was excited to see initially.

[@taiwan5279]

Sorry but there´s no flanderization to Natsu he received plenty of character development from chapters 18,37,53,109,118,127,164 and the only reason he thinks Lucy laid an *egg* was because was raised by a dragon and he never had the talk with Gildarts , You can´t really blame Natsu for saying lines like that

[@ironnancy]

I’ve been following the manga since basically the beginning. So I’ve talked about my problems with the story at length. This video was more about the actual anime itself and the parts that make it up.

[@desmondmalone438]

2:31 and dub too(except some exceptions)

[@DaniyalHasan-dv7pf]

Bro react to fairy tail dragon cry movie its fire 🔥 specially post credit scean

[@littlesparrow303]

I do enjoy this season but Jellal showing his love for Erza was cringe to me. I am glad I did stick w/ the sub from the start when I heard in the dub they changed a lot of VA’s within the years. Besides that I do think they did step up with the 100 year quest. Sadly I did see that Lucy in the manga had longer hair & in the anime they kept it the same 😒

[@MekarWB]

Jellal was cringe but I was willing to accept it because he was being mind controlled. I hadn't looked it up but I felt like some characters had really different voices. Watching Fairy Tail in Japanese just doesn't feel like Fairy Tail. That's not the characters I know, the English ones are. Sucks when they change up VAs.

[@star_loves9649]

fumble of the d@mn decade

[@StrawHatCloud4116]

Fairy tail sucks

[@ironnancy]

No.