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The things about rip-offs is that it largely comes down to the details, which, unfortunately to an internet Q&A site like this, is largely unavailable. With that being said, I should stress that there is a difference between having parallels to and inspiration from something, and ripping it off.
I think that many authors have encountered that intrusive thought - will people think I have copied X and subsequently, will I be judged for it? Allow me to share this particular advice: most people will only call rip-off if your story completely lacks its own identity. As I wrote 3 sentences back, this identity usually will exist in certain details. Nevertheless, reimaginings and reinterpretations of something else probably won't get you called-out for being unoriginal. Contrarily, trying to reimagine something deep and complex, and doing it well, is probably as difficult as coming up with something original. People tend to judge an experience such as music, book, novel, film and video game on the emotional impact a lot more than on its plot-structure and similarity to other things. Hence, one can conclude this: if you try to recapture the emotional value of some experience (e.g. Fairy Tail) and you do it poorly, this is when you will likely be called out for being a cheap and unoriginal.
On top of the above, I should add one other thing. In a previous question, I stated something along the lines of "there are a few truly bad ideas, only poor executions of ones." One truly bad idea is to try and out-predict your readers. I like to call it the "internet celebrity fallacy." So many internet celebrities try to behave and do things in a certain way, because they believe it is what their fans want. As a consequence, they come across as artificial and cringeworthy, and instead get more bile and hatred (more so than the internet usually attracts, anyway). Something similar applies to novel writing: if you try to specifically do something in order to coerce your readers into thinking something - for example, trying to artificially distance yourself from Fairy Tail - and worse, try to hide it, that won't warrant any positive criticism. The remedy to this predicament is: don't worry about it. If you write a good novel, readers are going to respect that, even if some parallels to what inspired the novel in question are pretty obvious.
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