Fairy Tail 1-24
Yeah, I watched them all from between 2pm on 31st December until 3:51am on 1st January xD
At first I was hesitant about the English dub; but it's definitely grown on me. R Bruce Elliot's Makarov is fantastic - especially when he's angry; probably the best angry voice I've heard in English dubbed anime. Todd's Natsu is also a perfect fit for the character. My only gripes with the dub are how Lisanna is pronounced "Lizanna" and Laxus sounds more like "Luxus" (which especially pisses me off, as that's the name I came up with for a character in my novel that I really like). If I'm honest, my favourite casting is Sol (shame he's a minor character), followed by Erza, Happy, Elfman and Lisanna.
I watched it on the blu-ray, which the box admits is a SD remaster. I'm not a technical wizz so I can't say whether it was a good remaster or not, but it looks really nice to me. I can however, clearly tell the difference between the English 5.1 audio and the Japanese 2.0 - probably the only time I've been able to. One thing I found funny though is, while the DVD artwork uses the standard array of stock promotional material artwork, all four blu-rays (from volume 1 and 2) only have Happy on the disc artwork.
Also...volume 2's artwork focusing on Gajeel is annoying merely for the fact that he hardly appears in the volume. I understand that as FUNimation will roughly be releasing 1 major arc per volume, they want the cover artwork to reflect the major arcs, but I would have preferred if they used the cover of the third Japanese DVD:
As the majority of the episodes focus on the Galuna Island arc, which obviously involves Gray. Admittedly, it isn't a total loss as that piece of artwork was used for volume 2's first DVD disc and that cover IS the reverse cover of volume 2. As Gajeel doesn't really show up until the last disc though, it might have made more sense to have the cover they used to be the reversible one though.
Hell, I found my Mum and little brother watching when I was still at the Galuna Island arc xD[/img]