⭐Fairy Tail Episodes 192 & 193: Watch Along & Analysis

No, it's the intro you can watch at 194. The outro I would wait until episode 198. It's not necessarily spoilery, but you just won't know what it is until then. Yeah, I've heard the "Fairy Tail is repetitive" statement before and I don't get it, either. None of the plotlines are the same whatsoever. And I've never heard anyone explain what they mean when they say that. I vaguely remember saying something about this in the final fight of the Edolas arc, but that fight was basically foreshadowing that dragons are resistant to magic, but dragon slayers have a way to bypass that resistance. That's why no one else could do anything against these dragons, you HAVE to be a dragon slayer to do damage. And we’ve gotten to the reveal of Sting and Rogue not actually killing their dragons. You didn’t get to see the rest of my comments on that before the move. I was basically trying to say that if you stop and think about it, Sting and Rogue were saying that they killed their dragons when they were 5 years old. They were obviously full of crap,. Natsu and Lucy are both the main characters. Mashima gives his stories a hero and heroine that are both almost equally important with the hero tying a bit more heavily into things. In Edens Zero, he has Shiki and Rebecca who seem to be equally important right now. In Rave Master, he has Haru and Elie and you can make an argument that Elie ties more into everything than Haru does, but it’s probably easier to differentiate because we meet Haru first and his goal is set before he meets Elie. Why it seems more dubious in Fairy Tail is because Lucy is kind of like a Watson whereas Natsu is like a Sherlock. When there's a narrator, it's usually from Lucy's perspective and we don’t get to hear Natsu’s inner thoughts much. I actually think Natsu has such an interesting character arc for a main character, but I’ll save my analysis for another time. Part of that analysis is how Natsu has to learn to humble himself and how he becomes gentler as the story goes (especially with Lucy, hehe). And yes, that was Cobra from the Oracion Seis that showed up there at the end, and yes, he did have a snake the first time he showed up. (Watch season 5 if you want more on that, the arc is semi-canon because it gets mentioned in the manga and there's a canon relationship that you only really see in that arc. There's some questionable stuff in it because Mashima probably just gave the anime writers the outline of the arc and then they added in some weird stuff to take up time. But the heart of the arc is really good).

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