User blog comment:Alpha Male Apollo/One of Many Questions/@comment-7418318-20150813104451

I can't remember where I read it, but at some point Hiro Mashima said that with Fairy Tail he wanted to try something different than RAVE.

While it still has quite a few parallels (for example character and spell design/naming), it is a different story, maybe even a different genre, depending on how fine your dividing lines are.