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[ side story of Fairy Tail (TV) ]
Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy
Themes: ecchi, fanservice, magicians
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Objectionable content: Significant
User Ratings: 290 ratings have been given [details]
Masterpiece: 43 votes (sub:39, dub:2, others:2 1 Russian dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
Excellent: 45 votes (sub:43, dub:1, others:1)
Very good: 62 votes (sub:53, dub:4, others:5 4 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
Good: 72 votes (sub:61, dub:4, others:7 4 Spanish subtitled1 czech subtitled1 German subtitled 1 Vietnamese subtitled
Decent: 40 votes (sub:32, dub:6, others:2 1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
So-so: 9 votes (sub:8, dub:1)
Not really good: 7 votes (sub:7)
Weak: 9 votes (sub:7, others:2 1 Vietnamese subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.521 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.7698, rank: #1646 (of 9041)
Weighted mean: 7.175 (Good+), rank: #2610 (of 9041) (seen all: 7.21 / seen some: 7.65 / won't finish: 3.87)
Bayesian estimate: 7.188 (Good+), rank: #2340 (of 6796)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 5
Vintage: 2011-04-15
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RightStuf - Anime, Manga and More
Nov 30, 2020
WELL, it is again OVAs from one the best Shonen Anime series. Before we start, i want to mention, what is the best time to watch which episode, so that you may enjoy the whole Fairy Tail series to the fullest.
Short Story, After the Oracion Seis Arc which is episode 68 you must watch the first 3 Episodes of this OVA, then continue with the Daphne Arc until the start of Grand Magic Games Arc, watch episodes 151 and 152 after them it is perfect time for OVA 4 the Beach Training, after this episode continue with the Touranment Arc up to midpoint Episode 170 ...
To describe "Special" and OVA, we need to describe what's "normal" anime.
Usually anime (TV series anime) is broad-casted weekly.
It will continue 13 or more weeks.
It's usually free with Television advertisement (and has eye-catch at center of episode).
TV station have their code: no pantsu scene, no violence scene.
The DVD (or BD) will be release later.
Special (aka TV Special) is not weekly. Usually yearly or one shot. It's have only one episode but it's have longer length (ex 2 hours). It's still intended for broadcast. Need to meet broadcast code.
OVA is created for selling (by Video or DVD). It's intended to the small number of viewer without advertisement. It means more otaku friendly theme. No need to follow broadcast code. It's OK to have hard violence scene.
But, in recent time, some OVA was broadcasting with censorship. On the other hand, some TV series is on air with censorship, and selling DVD (or BD) without censorship version. The boundary became ambiguous.
Other category is anime movie which is intended to show in theater. Anime movie is between special and OVA.
The anime Lupin the Third has all TV series version, OVA, Anime movie and TV Special. In this case, special version is yearly release.
Does anyone know at what point in the series I should watch the movie and OVAs? Does it make a difference to the plot, even?