Since Naruto Shippudden is currentely in filler limbo, I've been watching other series... and as such I've been bingewatching Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail falls into the same category as Dragon Ball / Naruto / One Piece / Bleach, it's a shounen-type that along with Naruto has a surprisingly amount of dramatic moments. It's a story about Natsu, a boy raised by a Dragon who works for a guild named Fairy Tail. The Fairy Tail guild is full of silly characters with magical abilities who make a living taking several odd jobs. Like Gray, an ice sorcerer that keeps losing his own clothes, Erza, who is an uptight and insanely powerful sorcerer (though secretely she's into bondage), Makarov, the kooky old man who is the guild's grand master. Elfman who is a manly mam that can transform as well as his little sister Mirajane who is magazine model and bartender. Jet, Droy, Levy and several other characters that are interesting enough to not feel like they are just there to fill background. And Lucy, the big breasted sorceress (a rich girl who ran away from home to live on her own) who is actually the real protagonist, since a lot of the action and events are seen in her perspective. And unlike Naruto Shippudden which prominentely features the secondary characters in filler episodes, the entire cast of Fairy Tail plays an important role in nearly all the important story arcs.
Having said that... It's one of those weird cases in which the anime ends, but the manga, however is still onging. And having said that, the anime surprisingly ends in a pretty depressing way. The anime has it's fair share of tear jerking moments, but the ending of the TV series is a little too much, to be honest.
But depressing stuff aside, anime geeks who love fan service will get a kick out of Fairy Tail. There isn't one episode that does not feature silly antics with at least one of the major female protaganists in the roster in an embarrasing situation. Namely Lucy who gets the motherload of fan service-y moments.
