Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017) poster
2017 · action · adventure · comedy · fantasy

Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry

Directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa1h 25m2017
ElsewhereIMDb6.93k
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • inventive
  • redemptive
  • tender
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Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Dragon Cry is a magical artifact of deadly power, formed into a staff by the fury and despair of dragons long gone. Now, this power has been stolen from the hands of the Fiore kingdom by the nefarious traitor Zash Caine, who flees with it to the small island nation of Stella. Frightened that the power has fallen into the wrong hands, the King of Fiore hastily sends Fairy Tail to retrieve the staff. But this task proves frightening as a shadowy secret lies in the heart of the kingdom of Stella. Dragon Cry follows their story as they muster up all their strength to recover the stolen staff and save both kingdoms.

Our read · Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry (2017) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want energetic anime action with magic, dragons, and Fairy Tail guild hijinks.

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DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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