Comments on: Mashima, Hiro: Fairy Tail, vol. 1-3

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:20:56 +0000

I have to disagree while Fairy Tail has a lot of fanservice it is usually these mangas that are the least sexist and portray women as strong capable characters who are right up there with the male leads.

By: brett halliwell

brett halliwell — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:19:30 +0000

Yeah the sexism gets a special mention in my dissertation, right at the point where I’m arguing shonen hasn’t evolved past the days of Dragonball, (I say this as a completely hardcore Dragonball fan) where the main female character primarily wanted a boyfriend. Still it could be worse, don’t get me started on harem shonen.

For academic balance I have to mention not all FT characters are weak fangirls, most are though. Fairytail gets better if you exclude the obvious sexism. it shows great potential as shonen nowadays with the parallel world, dragon and stellar spirit stuff but it depends where Mashima wants to take that.

By: minikui

minikui — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:59:17 +0000

“I’ll be filing this series under “Not my cuppa” and continuing my search for a new shōnen adventure to follow.”

Have you tried Shin Angyo Onshi? ^^

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