Fairy Tail OVA (2016)

Yousei-tachi no Batsu Game (Fairies' Penalty Game)
Following the Grand Magic Games' undecided outcome, Fairy Tail master Makarov Dreyar finds another way to settle the winner: Team A and Team B will play rock-paper-scissors. The victors can order whatever they want the losers to do. Under these conditions, Laxus Dreyar sends Natsu Dragneel and his team on an impossible mission to retrieve a lost stone.

Natsu vs. Mavis
As the Fairy Tail girls soak in the hot water together with their first master, Mavis Vermillion, they notice that despite the pleasant atmosphere in the bathhouse, Mavis is gloomy. When Warrod Sequen unexpectedly appears, he shares a century-old story about Mavis burying a secret treasure. While Natsu and his team set out to find the treasure to remind Mavis of the good old days, a dispute between Fairy Tail's original comes to light.

Yousei-tachi no Christmas (Fairies' Christmas)
Fairy Tail help their beloved city of Magnolia get into the holiday spirit. After a long day of hard work, Natsu and his friends gather to celebrate Christmas with alcohol and games, which soon escalates in real Fairy Tail fashion.

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Dragneel, Natsu Main

Kakihara, Tetsuya Japanese

Scarlet, Erza Main

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Heartfilia, Lucy Main

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Fullbuster, Gray Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Happy Main

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Marvell, Wendy Main

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Charlés Main

Horie, Yui Japanese

Lockser, Juvia ing

Nakahara, Mai Japanese

Fernandes, Jellal ing

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Redfox, Gajeel ing

Hatano, Wataru Japanese

Tateishi, Kensuke Producer

Kawando, Kenjirou Producer

Kitamura, Junichi Director

Hata, Shouji Sound Director

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Jan 13, 2022

lamaraptor

Recommended

Ah yes, OVA's. A perfect place to insert a ton a fanservice with very little plot. Basically "thank you for buying the home release." And that's really what it comes down to. Sex sells, and unless you're the average troglodyte twitter that thinks sexualizing underage fictional characters is "problematic," you'll probably think this is alright.

I'm mainly addressing a couple other reviews I saw on this sight for this anime. Are people really this freaking sensitive? Boo hoo, you looked on the Fairy Tail wiki and found out a character is canonically 15 or whatever. Tell me, do you know any real life 15 year ... old humans that look anything like Fairy Tail characters? Nevermind the fictional ages, you need to get your eyes checked if you can't tell humans apart from drawings. It's like the people who try to equate lolicon with real life pedophilia, like making a lewd drawing and saying it's and 11 year old is somehow equally as bad as abducting and abusing actual children. Calm down twitter.

Anime is one of the last few bastions of media where the "woke" western media has not completely destroyed creative expression. I can't watch TV or movies from the west now because it's all about pushing agendas and shoehorned messages about diversity or some other subversive crap. Here we have a perfect example where none of that gets in the way, and we can just go "ha ha, look boobies" without some 5th wave college feminist telling us why we're part of the patriarchy.

Plot wise, like I said, there isn't any. Well there was a little bit, and it was a neat tie-in to the Fairy Tail Zero arc, but it was ultimately still a vehicle for more fanservice. So I'm gonna have to give this a 7/10 anime tiddies

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 26, 2016

JoshuaJones16

Recommended

Preliminary (1/3 eps)

I'll openly it, Fairy Tail has been hit or miss for me the couple of years. Well more or less the anime. When I first saw it I loved the hell out of it and watched the episodes on repeat. When the 2014 season came out I can't fully explain why but I just couldn't get into and paid more attention to the manga for the most part really. Fairy Tail has got a little on my nerves a little though. It just certain stuff that kept me off it for a couple of months. But this... I think this has a good chance ... of being pretty good

Hello all you people. For those who don't know I'm Josh and today I am reviewing (will be revised when all episodes air) the first episode of the Fairy Tail 2016 OVA. Let's do this people.

Story- It was mostly fan service and was based off a bet from the grand magic games between team A and Team B of Fairy Tail. I won't say who won cause I don't want to spoil it fully, but the losing team had to basically do what the others said. That being said going back to what I first said, the first episode was mostly ecchi and fan service. Don't worry though it is not Eiken level though. God forbid any anime go that low. There was a nice thing with Cana and Wendy which I did smile at and I did laugh at a couple of things. Overall the story gets a 7/10 from me

Art- Arts never been a issue with me in Fairy Tail especially with A-1 at the helm of it. It is pretty good and I loved it. Overall the art gets a 8/10 from me.

Sound- Being a OVA I wasn't expecting some great song. The opening and ending were alright though. Pretty average to me compared to the other fairy tail openings and endings. That might just be me though. Voice acting was good as always so I can't really complain about that though. Overall sound gets a 7/10 the voice acting being the main thing keeping that from being lower from me

Characters- Other than the main ones, I have always struggled with ing the in fairy tail and the other guilds. Some are eh to me, others are alright and the rest I have to see their faces or atleast called by their name for me to . But the first episode had pretty much the character I know about the most and care about the most in the first episode. Plus I'm not a big Cana fan and never have beenbut I will openly it I liked her in this first episode and the moment she had with Wendy. I sincerely liked it. But overall I'm giving it a 6/10

Enjoyment- I enjoyed it. I have moved away a little from Fairy Tail but I sincerely enjoyed seeing this. Granted some weird ecchi and fan service scenes I did enjoy it. 7/10

Overall- It was a pretty good 1st episode in the OVA. I enjoyed it fully. I recommend you guys check this out. Overall the first episode gets a 8/10 from me. Granted some people might not want to see it because of the fan services, it is pretty good overall

And with that I am out. Peace People

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 18, 2025

Shirogari

Not Recommended

These three OVA's are clearly fanservice oriented and mostly lacked stories that I personally care about more so I ended up disliking them.

For the first episode I need the creator to understand that puking in someone's mouth isn't hot. Neither are leeches, especially when they're large enough to suck up all you blood. Overall it's just a lot of fanservice but Cana and Wendy had a cute story.
The first five minutes of the first episode lacks any sort of clothing whatsoever. It has the best story out of the three OVAs and it's the only one I could slightly recommend watching since it has ... a nice ending.
The third episode is about Christmas and had some quite uncomfortable fanservice including some kind of bdsm play with Erza dripping candle wax on Lucy. There is no real story in this episode.

According to the watch guide on reddit the best moments to watch each episode are as follows:
Episode 1 - After episode 203 of the main series
Episode 2 - After episode 233 of the main series
Episode 3 - After timestamp 6:43 of episode 328 of the main series

There are no new characters, it's just the normal fairy tail cast. The animation and sound are similar to the main anime.

Overall I don't recommend these OVA's because there's not much of a story and I didn't like most of the fanservice. If you like fanservice a lot and don't care about a story then these might be great episodes though.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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