Fairy Tail Season 6

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Fairy Tail Season 6 is available on and right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Tetsuya Kakihara — stay for everyone else around them. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Fairy Tail Season 6 earns its spot. Fairy Tail Season 6 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. This season has 39 episodes containing the "Tartaros" (冥府の門タルタロス編, Tarutarosu-hen) arc, which adapts material from the rest of the manga's 40th volume to the middle of the 49th volume, depicting Fairy Tail's battle with a dark guild of Zeref's demons who aim to resurrect E.N.D., their master and Zeref's ultimate creation. Tetsuya Kakihara and Aya Hirano lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2015. What keeps Fairy Tail Season 6 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Comedy fans looking for a reliably funny watch will find it in Fairy Tail Season 6. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Tetsuya Kakihara's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.