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Fairy Tail

FAIRY TAIL

2009, TV, 175 eps, 72%, Satelight

Recommended by 6 Star Ocean EX fans on AniList. The same kind of story: mainstream sword-and-sorcery anime.

Across the Fiore kingdom, wizards join guilds and make their pay by filling magical needs—but one guild has a reputation as the roughest, rowdiest, most dangerous of all: Fairy Tail! When four young Fairy Tail members unite, their bond is forged by a power found in neither…

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About Star Ocean EX

2001, TV, 26 eps, 63%, Studio DEEN

Claude C. Kenni, a crewmember on the spaceship Calnus and son of the commander of the ship, is transported to Expel, a backwards planet with swords and magic. He teams up with Rena Lanford, who thinks he is the legendary Warrior of Light, and other characters to investigate the Sorcery Globe, a meteorite that has been causing problems all over the world.

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