Bago Book Reviews – Fairy Tail Manga

<p>Stories have driven&comma; taught&comma; and entertained us ever since we first learned to communicate&period; Video games are rooted in the story traditions with some of them even being based on books&period; Games offer us a chance to actually take part in a story and experience great adventures from a safe distance without sacrificing immersion&period; This new series&comma;<em> Bago Book Reviews<&sol;em>&comma; will look over various books ranging from Japanese manga&comma; American comics&comma; mystery&comma; fantasy and science-fiction novels&period; If you would like to read a review about a certain manga&comma; comic&comma; or novel feel free to leave your suggestion in the comment section below or let us know on Twitter &commat;BagoGames&period; For my first <em>Bago Book Review<&sol;em>&comma; I decided on the <em>Fairy Tail<&sol;em> manga by Hiro Mashima&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Fairy Tail<&sol;em> is a guild composed of talented wizards who are loyal&comma; kind and &&num;8220&semi;slightly&&num;8221&semi; crazy&period; The story starts from the perspective of Lucy&comma; a girl from another part of the beautiful country of Fiore&period; She travels to the guild&&num;8217&semi;s home&comma; which lies in the town of Magnolia&comma; in the hope of joining the country&&num;8217&semi;s most popular guild&period; Various guilds lie within the country ranging from merchant guilds to wizard ones&period; Wizard guilds accept requests from people in need of magical help and wizards are more than happy to make their living taking on quests and seeking fortune&period; Lucy&comma; a celestial wizard&comma; wants to join Fiore&&num;8217&semi;s most infamous guild which is <em>Fairy Tail<&sol;em>&period; Little does Lucy know just how dysfunctional the group is and what it means to be a member&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The art style of the series is extremely distinctive&period; The vast cast of characters are detailed with individual clothing ensembles befitting their personality&period;  Even the sub-cast are easy to distinguish from each other through their physical appearance&period; Unfortunately&comma; the fan-service tends to run away with it&&num;8217&semi;s self and can act as a cumbersome distraction from the story&period; Still&comma; the character traits are beautifully done and they were quickly etched within my memory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;120388" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-120388" style&equals;"width&colon; 960px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-120388" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;02&sol;27081656&sol;fairy-tail-manga&period;png" alt&equals;"Fairy Tail Manga &sol; Kodansha Comics " width&equals;"960" height&equals;"734" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-120388" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Fairy Tail Manga &sol; Kodansha Comics<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Natsu Dragoneel&comma; a fire-dragon slayer wizard and the main protagonist&comma; always wears his scarf made of dragon scales given to him by his foster father Igneel who is an actual fire dragon who has been missing for several years&period; Grey&comma; an ice-ability wizard&comma; tends to not wear much at all&period; Grey has obtained an audacious habit of wearing very little in all types of situations&period; These two are only the beginning of the large cast that expands with each volume&period; Backgrounds vary from highly detailed architecture and lush forests and dark caves that give adventurers the itch to rush off and start a quest&period; The creatures and monsters bear their own distinctive markings&period; The Exceed&comma; a race of magical talking cat-like creatures&comma; have facial features rivaling those of their human counterparts&period; Each chapter of the <em>Fairy Tail<&sol;em> manga series has something new to offer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mashima-san&&num;8217&semi;s skill with drawing manga is incredible&comma; as are his assistants&period; But what is so captivating in this manga series is the creator&&num;8217&semi;s ability to convey character development akin of great novels all within pictorial form and dialogue&period; The members of <em>Fairy Tail<&sol;em> and those in other guilds tend to grow and blossom into full rounded persons that seem so real&period; A quote from Mashima-san&&num;8217&semi;s first <em>Fairy Tail<&sol;em> volume &&num;8220&semi;All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades&period; So long as I can have the strength to do that&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t care if I&&num;8217&semi;m weaker than everyone in the world&&num;8221&semi; speaks volumes as to the feelings of the guild&period; After the hundreds of battles&comma; trials&comma; sorrow and laughter the guildmates experience over the course of the manga series&comma; they still want the same things&colon; to live on working together as a family towards the bight-lite future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I highly recommend the <em>Fairy Tail<&sol;em> manga series to anyone who loves magic&comma; friendship&comma; silly moments and hopeful speeches&period; Look forward to the next <em>Bago Book Review<&sol;em> as I will be covering <em>Howl&&num;8217&semi;s Moving Castle<&sol;em> by Diana Wynne Jones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;