I started to read one piece but gave up as soon as it got too long like Naruto and Bleach. But I think both of the 2 mangas are unique and you can’t really blame 2 mangaka of having the same style..>………> its their way of making money i guess..xD

Some random observations/opinions:
*The art work is so obviously similar to One Piece, if I were Oda, I’d be peeved – not flattered.
*The story and characters come across like a mesh of popular characters from other, more popular manga like bleach, naruto, one piece.
*anyone else notice an element of harry potter as well?
*Oda at least admitted to being heavily influenced by A.T and even paid hommage to the famous mangaka by creating a joint project together. I guess my point here is: if you’re going to rip off other mangaka, give some credit.
*The characters just come across like a collage of nami, naruto, and luffy being taken from their respective mangas and being forced to act under different names in this manga called Fairy Tail.

Overall conclusion (IMHO):
An enjoyable series NOT to be taken seriously…something I’d read (and probably forget) to kill 14-16 hours if I were to fly over to Asia from North America.

If there are 2 similar mangas they will try to compete just like if u have 2 kinds of telephone companies ofc they would lower the cost of their telephones or make the telephones better to beat the other telephone company. So I believe that One piece will get better
I also think that (unlike in most mangas) One piece was worse in the beginning, and better in later volumes. I also like it that you can enjoy the spoilers in anime too since u dont have to think of ‘omg luffy must get powerful soon’ which spoils the actual fun. Just like if you play some leveling games. One piece would be enjoying the game and getting levels at the same time while doing adventures and Bleach, naruto etc would be enjoying leveling up by killing boars for 6 hours a day.

Personally I think Fairy Tail is doing great. I think Mashima is generally better at drawing stuff, while Oda is superior with design and original ideas.

Yeah the art of the current OP is definitely better than RAVE and Fairy Tail. I would say that Mashima’s art for those 2 mangas seems to be like the early OP art, between the starting to Arlong Park.

It’s also interesting how fast you meet all the important members of the Fairy Tail guild in the first few chapters instead of usual shounen practice of gathering team-mates as the series goes on.

I initially thought that RAVE’s artwork looked a lot like One Piece, but the current OP style is very distinctive and nothing like Mashima’s. I like both, but it’s easy to say that OP’s is far superior.

I’ve been following Fairytail, and so far it’s prettty interesting. I’d like to see how Mashima handle the major nemeses of this series, since RAVE kinda fudged those.

I’ve read 16 chapters of Fairy Tail and I can’t really say that it is any way similar to RAVE. The story is different, the world is different, the fighting is different, the way the characters act are different.

The only thing in common at the moment is Plue who is the exact same Plue from RAVE surprisingly. Well and I guess the artwork is the same of RAVE but that’s to be expected when a mangaka does a sequel.

I dont like how Mashima Hiro’s art style molded into the One Piece one. His art style like between Rave volumes 5-12 was really good then as the manga went on it went back into that annoying One Piece style.

I also love how he named his main character “Summer” (Natsu) while in Rave we had “spring” (Haru). I dunno it just doesn’t strike me as anything different from Rave, girl guy + goofy looking sidekick and I don’t need to spend another X amount of dollars on another 36 volume series. I got my hands full with Naruto.