User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/Fairy Tail Wiki Winter 2016 Animeh Review Blog/@comment-26389992-20160331112104/@comment-4829046-20160331124503

Lisha and Celes are great in my books. Out of the Tsundere leads in these kinds of shows, at least Lisha one wasn't hogging all the screen time(or in LN, most of the dialogue) and while the Princess attribute didn't really get across, the mechanic bit sure did, which is also a rarity. Celes 'would' have been my least liked outside of her epicness in the OP, because I was awaiting another 'Androphobic high and mighty girl that goes weak in the knees for cross-dressing MC' but lo and behold! She completely stomped on that trope!!!! So goddamn likable!

All of the females on the good side, are equally great imo. They don't necessarily need the MC to get shit done and the main heroines are aggressive with their approaches(there is one particular image in the LN that conveys this XD) so he pretty much has to deal with it without ignoring it. :P I didn't have any moments of "Ughhh... her again..." which makes it much better than say Date A Live, and a billion times better than Infinite Stratos among other things. I can bring up other examples, but since they had bad animation or whatnot in addition to their tropey-ness, they do not compare with the ones I mentioned. Zero no Tsukaima still reigns supreme in the overall category(medieval fantasy school-life) though. Other series can merely imitate it because it did many things first and arguably best.