swordz9 posted...
I feel like it has more positives than negatives. I mean Naruto is a pretty bad shounen without much to make up for it.
I can see your logic, but those positives for Fairy Tail you mention just seem superficial, whereas Naruto actually tried to go deeper, and I think, succeeded several times.
Do I like Naruto's cast? Not really, but the plot it tells is definitely more interesting. The world it builds is more interesting. The Akatsuki members felt overall like threatening villains with satisfying battles (mileage varys but still). Once the final war arc started is when I think Naruto really jumped the shark and never really recovered, but it was pretty decent and sometimes great until then.
Fairy Tail, is a very fluffy story through and through and doesn't really try. It's a well made but ultimately cheap snack, and I'd call other "bad" shonens like Naruto and Bleach something that a chef tried to make amazing, but he wasn't really good at it so parts of it are great and parts are bad but it's definitely more interesting. Kind of a ramble, eh.
