Just a solid fun Manga…. Love these friends till the end stories ( )

Okay, now I know why people always told me that Fairy Tail is good ( )

Natsu is a conniving joy. I love reading all the little gags that are not included in the anime. Plus Natsu's early demon design with horns is so cute. ( )

This was my 1st try at manga / graphic novels. It was fun and cute. It took me a little while to get used to the reading style but all in all really great start to a series. ( )

This book was really fun to read. I didn't think so at the beginning, but I was very happy I read it by the end. I mostly felt that way because the book was not very fleshed out until near the end. I learned how Natsu, Lucy and Happy, all in FairyTail, the guild of wizards, became a team.

I also was intrigued by the artwork. Each panel was extremely detailed, and there was much to see by studying those details in depth. I also was surprised by how beautiful the author and manga artist could make Lucy in one panel and how grotesque in another panel. The book's pictures of her proceeded just like that, back and forth.

At the end of the book were some interesting and valuable notes by the author as to how his Japanese work translates into English in more ways than just words. Both puns and cultural items are used to bridge the language gap.

The very end of the book had the opening panels to volume 2, which I think would also be a fun read. ( )