Fairy Tail: 100-nen Quest

For over one hundred years, a special quest has been waiting for a wizard skilled enough to complete it. On the northern continent of Guiltina, there are five immensely powerful Dragon Gods who possess great destructive force that can only be quelled by sealing them away. Natsu Dragneel and his friends from the Fairy Tail guild—Lucy Heartfilia, Gray Fullbuster, Erza Scarlet, Wendy Marvell, and the exceeds Happy and Charlés—consider this the perfect challenge to take on.

The Fairy Tail mages are not the only ones searching for the Dragon Gods. Diabolos, a guild exclusive for "Dragon Eaters," seeks to enhance their Dragon Slayer magic by devouring the dragons. Meanwhile, Fairy Tail's newest addition, Touka, appears to be hiding something sinister from her new companions—and her secrets may bring disaster to the guild while its strongest wizards are away.

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Dragneel, Natsu Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Scarlet, Erza Main

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Heartfilia, Lucy Main

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Fullbuster, Gray Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Happy Main

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Marvell, Wendy Main

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Charlés Main

Horie, Yui Japanese

Lockser, Juvia Supporting

Nakahara, Mai Japanese

Fernandes, Jellal Supporting

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Redfox, Gajeel Supporting

Hatano, Wataru Japanese

Oono, Ryousuke Producer

Saitou, Yuzuru Producer

Terao, Yuri Producer

Endou, Tetsuya Producer

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Jan 7, 2025

Ishigami45

Recommended

The announcement of Fairy Tail's continuation was a big surprise!

The essence of Fairy Tail remains the same here. It's fun and full of ecchi. I didn't expect anything less. However, this season feels more "serious" in terms of the storyline, in my opinion.

The 100 Years Quest is really interesting and consistently surprising! If you want to see something similar to the previous seasons, definitely watch this!

The animation is nothing remarkable, but it's not bad either. The soundtrack is the same as in previous seasons (and it's very good). The ecchi remains unchanged, with no censorship or anything like that.

Overall, it was a fun season. I ... enjoyed almost every moment watching it. The only negative point is the convenient plot, as seen in other seasons, but this is the essence of Fairy Tail, after all (although I would like to see this element change a bit at times).

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 8, 2025

Stark700

Mixed Feelings

Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest always felt like it was just waiting for to happen. With over 160+ chapters ongoing at the time of this review, it sets off on new adventure with Fairy Tail. The series serves a direct sequel with its returning cast while introducing new formidable enemies.

As the title sounds, this season is about a 100 years quest, a quest that seems so out of reach that it hasn't been completed in over a century. The main objective of the season, or rather quest itself to deal with five dragons who wields unfandomable power comparable to those of Acnologia. As this ... is the central plot, it's safe to say the season is contained within one story arc.

Canonically, this is the most faithful adaptation in terms of source material. Previous Fairy Tail anime adaptations tends to add original material, segments, and extend battles. This season tells it as it is without distractions. We enter the season as Fairy Tail accepts the 100 Years Quest while also recruiting the mysterious mage Touka to their ranks. Similar to all the previous Fairy Tail seasons, we are introduced the main core of the cast - Natsu, Grey, Lucy, Erza, Wendy, alongside their friends.

Retaining the familiar formula of Fairy Tail, friendship is still a key component that unites the main cast to accomplish great things. Let's face it, it's been a foundation of the franchise for Fairy Tail since the beginning. It was highlighted in many previous arcs including Fairy Tail's encounter against Acnologia on Tenrou Island, their triumph at the Magic Games Tournament, and defeating the Spriggan 12. This season sets the cast into an adventure where their bond and skills are put to the test again.

I'll be honest here. If you're looking for deep character study or development, this season isn't it. The previous seasons have told enough about the backgrounds of the cast that it would've been redundant at this point. Instead, this season is very plot focused. With 25 episodes, the season had to adapt this at an acceptable pace to get to the most important elements. The main segments involves the core characters take on the 5 dragons while also learning about the motivations of the White Mage Touka. Watching this season is all too familiar with the usual Fairy Tail-style humor. It has its emotional moments at times but overall adapts a lighthearted style of storytelling. At times, it felt like the show couldn't be taken seriously when the comedy is poorly timed. I believe this is one of drawbacks of this season when it still relies on its old book of tricks. We've seen it before: the random comedic moments thrown in and it doesn't do much justice. How many times do we really need to see Grey randomly take shirt shirt off, or Natsu going on fire? Juvia's unmatched infutation towards Grey is still all too evident.

The mysterious Touka initially introduced herself as a cherry and approachable person until we find out what she's really up to. It adds more fear and anxiety for Fairy Tail and to be honest, her presence alone makes this season much more complicated. But similar to previous seasons, Fairy Tail takes a practical approach at action. They face threats head on with skill and talent with some levels of strategy and planning. There's no deep thinking about the battles as Fairy Tail still follows the same fundamentals as the previous seasons. With that being said, this season is definitely more fit for fans of the franchise. It's not recommendable to new viewers as the flashbacks and short recaps are not enough to capture the magic. Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest still has its magic enough to entice returning viewers but far from a masterpiece of a return.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 1, 2025

joemaamah

Not Recommended

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Preliminary (6/25 eps)

It's Fairy Tail. It's never had the highest production values. But it's been my favorite shonen. I've seen all the previous seasons. I thought I could take any crap the producers could throw at me. Sadly, that is not the case. I just can't stand this any more, and I'm dropping the series mid-season.

The art work? Nothing exceptional here. About what you can expect from the franchise. What is really like a knife to the heart though, is the poor animation. While the franchise overall has hardly been stellar, this season has been one horrid episode after another. The drivel continued to pile ... up and pile up. Ep 6 was the final straw to break the camel's back. This is the big fight episode? It's no better than Saturday Morning Kid Vid. Yugio looks better.

The characters have only changed by becoming more cringe worthy. What they've done to Erza should be considered criminal. She's become a hanger for the writers' darker fetishes. Natsu's become a comic caractiture, and not in a good way. Lucy's even more 2 dimensional than ever, and is little more than background work. All the other myriad of characters that made Fairy Tale so watchable in the past don't even deserve mentioning.

At first it seemed the plot might go somewhere interesting. There was a seed that could have been expanded upon. But the lazy writers quickly fell back into worn out tropes, formulas and cliches, that were ancient when the franchise first ended many years ago. There's nothing new to even be a little engaging. The same old-same old, puked out to sucker the otakus out of another yen. It's beyond pathetic.

The VAs are about what you might expect from the cast. But the director isn't using them to very great effect, and with the animation issues, I'll be kind and say the direction has been pitiful all season.

It so pains me to see a once proud franchise beaten to it's knees like this, I hope the producers are proud of themselves. If I was grading, this is a total failure 40/100, an E- on the edge of an F. I hope it is 100 years before I ever see another series this bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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