ANIME BINGE ... Fairy Tail!

So I was sick over the weekend and couldn't really go anywhere or do anything. I watched a lot of Hulu, but eventually settled on catching up on Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail is an anime based on the manga written by Hiro Mashima. If you haven't see it, you should. It's a little more shonen than I usually like, but its hilarious and has something for everyone. I had watched 88 episodes (to be precise) over a couple of years, and not seen any in awhile.

I ended up completely binge watching ... In three days I watched 51 episodes. Keep in mind I was sick, and I kept falling asleep, otherwise it probably would have been even more. So 51 eps at approximately 20 minutes each (I fast forwarded through the intro and outro) is about 17 hours. I even started looking at fanart and fanfic because it was so frustrating to not see Lucy and Natsu's relationship developing more. My otaku sixth sense tells me it ain't ever gonna happen; that we'll be kept in limbo indefinitely, and I guess that's okay. But it's not fair! Why do Erza and Jellal get to have their thing? I mean its not consummate, but its more than I can hope for with Nalu. I guess that's what fanfic is for. Just stay away from the lemons. I wasn't familiar with the term when I started reading. They are horrible and yet ... you can't stop reading. I've never thought about writing fanfic. I might like to try it sometime. But not that kind.

I haven't done this much anime binging since I watched the first three seasons of Bleach. That was worse, much worse actually, because it was at least 6 or 7 or 8 years ago and there was no Hulu or Netflix or Crunchy Roll. I was downloading episodes through bit-torrents on Bleach fan websites and watching them throughout the night, then going to work on little to no sleep. Come to think of it, that's another anime I need to catch up on. I don't remember where I stopped. Somewhere after Aizen was finally frozen or whatever they did to incapacitate him since apparently he couldn't be killed.

Its going to have to wait until my Fairy Tail binging stops. I can't watch 5.6 hours a day like I did last weekend, but its up there with food, water and shelter in terms of priorities. I'm down to 4 episodes a night, which allows me to appreciate the battles, the humor, and the ridiculousness much more.

J. L. Dodd

Very moving from the ep I watched last night:

“It's for my friends! For seven years...all that time...they waited for us! It was hard on them... They had sad times... They got humiliated, but they just endured it... And kept protecting the guild... It's for my friends! I want to show them...that Fairy Tail will live on!! That's why I gotta move forward!!” 
― Natsu Dragneel