Fairy Tail Omnibus 1 (Volumes 1-3) Review • Anime UK News

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Fairy Tail It is one the best shonen anime series to come out in the 21st century, and certainly the best from outside of the dominant industry. Weekly Shonen JumpEmpire, instead, comes from Weekly Shonen Magazine. However, while the series is good, I’m somewhat unsure about the need for this new omnibus collection.

For those who haven’t read Fairy TailIf you have seen the anime, or the series before, it is set in Fiore’s fantasy kingdom. It begins with Lucy Heartfilia, who works as a “celestial” wizard – one who uses magic keys to summon up powerful beings based on the constellations. She desires to join a guild of wizards known as “Fairy Tail”, which she ends up doing after a fateful encounter with one of its members, Natsu Dragneel. Natsu uses “dragon slayer” magic, taught to him by Igneel, a dragon who raised him as a child, and helps Lucy out when some villains try to trick Lucy into thinking they are Fairy Tail members when they aren’t.

Together, along with Natsu’s trusty winged cat friend Happy, Lucy is taken to the Fairy Tail guild, which turns out not to be as wholesome as she first thought. Natsu and other guild members are either too destructive or have other issues. Natsu, for instance, suffers from chronic movement sickness, causing him to feel ill every time he gets on any form of transport. He also has a hatred of fellow guild member Gray Fullbuster, a user of ice magic who is constantly stripping his clothes off; while both of them are terrified of no-nonsense Erza Scarlet, one of the strongest of all the wizards of the guild whose “requip” magic allows her to swap into different suits of armour, each with its own different powers.

Lucy, Natsu and Gray are soon working together to accomplish various missions. They also have their own personal goals. While Lucy is keen to find more keys to use in her magic, Natsu is trying to find Igneel, who suddenly went missing one day when he was younger and hasn’t been seen since. As for working together as a group, the main story in this collection sees them going into battle with an evil “dark guild” called Eisenwald, who are after a flute called “Lullaby” which causes people to die whenever they hear the music coming from it.

You can see how many reviews there are of Fairy Tail on AUKN, I’m not going to go into great detail regarding the plot of the story in this review, as there are plenty of articles you can search through at your own leisure if you want to drill down into this aspect, including reviews I myself have done of the anime. This review is mostly about the production of Kodansha. This omnibus appears to have the same translation from the first releases in the series, done William Flanagan. There seems to be nothing wrong with it, and Flanagan does provide some useful translations in the text during the story (e.g., giving a brief translation that “Eisenwald” means “Iron Forest” in German). The lettering, while not spectacular, is still fine. Each volume also includes some nice translation notes.

As I mentioned earlier, however, I don’t see why you need this omnibus, other than to introduce you to Fairy TailI prefer the earlier releases of this series. Kodansha released this book in an A5 size, rather than the standard B6 tankobon page size. This wouldn’t be a problem if it was just individual volumes or it was a sturdy hardback, but this is a as-near-as-damn-it 600-page paperback. It feels heavy to hold. It doesn’t make for the best reading experience. Kodansha did previously release some of the story as a “Master’s Edition”, which was an even larger version. Maybe they were thinking about scaling back from this?

What’s more, there are many ways you can read Fairy Tail. The omnibus book is only available as a print edition, but you can download individual volumes either in print or digitally. If you have a website subscription, you can even read these volumes for FREE. So why pay for this large book to sample the entire series when you could do it for free and save space on the bookshelf? If you prefer physical copies, you can also buy larger boxed sets in the standard size tankobon. These are more comfortable to read.

You can also contact us by clicking here. Fairy Tail There are better ways to enjoy this series. This omnibus doesn’t feel like the best introduction of the series to new readers, and personally I would go down alternative routes to try and make this story appeal to those who have yet to come to it.

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