User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 325: Unity, Review and Commentary/@comment-5708675-20130329110810/@comment-7418318-20130329203834

Seems I don't live in the best country to get manga.... I have the choice between an english version that costs 3 times the normal price, getting the spanish version (not much of an option, since my spanish is even worse than my japanese) or importing them, of course with added transportation costs and resticted payment options.... *sigh*.

Anyway regarding Rave, I like it a lot and it's definately worth watching, though not as much as Fairy Tail (I guess it's "suki" for Rave and "dai suki" or even "Ai suru" for FT ;) ).

Well... at least that's the Manga. The Anime was only produced about one third through the story, up to the parts covered in the Manga chapters 1 through 91 out of a total of 296 and especially the beginning differs greatly from the Manga. In the Anime they throw you right in the middle of a bunch of characters and situations you don't know and only explain what the hell is going on bit by bit in flashbacks... In addition to that right the 2nd episode is already mostly a filler episode (plus some more flashbacks and a fight that should have happened right on the day Haru got his sword) on par with the Daphne arc *argh*

You'll see many faces that will remind you of Fairy Tail (though I guess saying it the other way round is closer to the truth, since Rave came first), though that is purely visual.