Avoid Fairy Tail

Christ, this season is shit. Hiro Mashima appears to owe his entire career to slavishly copying Oda Eiichiro's style...the problem being that he's a bit shit at it. Shit in a way carefully manufactured to sell to dribbling morons incapable of distinguishing cliche from archetype. I read the first volume of Rave, and it was pathetically bad, but people who genuinely ought to know better have sworn up and down that Fairy Tail was actually genuinely good, so I made the mistake of giving the anime a shot. Not a lot of competition right now.
Mashima has clearly never met a shit fantasy comedy cliche he didn't love, and the anime carefully crammed every single one of them into the half of the episode I managed to survive. Fuck dumb oblivious hero? Check. Obnoxious weird animal sidekick? Check. Obnoxious airhead materialistic girl introduced vamping herself to buy shit? Check. Exposition awkwardly passed off as conversation, half-assed world building, fuck awful comedy jokes, grating presentation...
There was literally not a single solitary second of this I did not absolutely hate. Even the fucking opening song is unbelievably terrible. I dare anyone to survive past the eyecatch, and if you actually fucking like it you need to do some serious soul searching and discover what makes you such a failure as a human being.