Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest ‒ Episode 21

So I came down moderately no longer easy on closing week’s episode since all the things we discovered about Selene ended up severely diminishing my expectations for where the leisure of this arc might maybe well well maybe be headed. Nonetheless, if there might maybe be one thing that is basically reliable about Fairy Tail it’s that it moves from one thing to the following in a instant time. I didn’t arrive into this one feeling esteem the chances of it turning things around had been severely excessive, on the different hand it didn’t feel esteem too unrealistic of an expectation both. I changed into hoping to tear away from the episode feeling more optimistic. Sadly, that turning point hasn’t hit but. If the leisure, I correct felt soured on this arc extra as I am an increasing number of undecided of what the dwell aim is.

After getting teleported to Elentear, and smash up up by a large hand (correct roll with it), it doesn’t take too prolonged for all and sundry to fetch caught up in fights with Selene’s minions: the Moonlight Divinities. Since Selene herself doesn’t have powerful happening previous the chaos angle, I changed into hoping her miniboss squad might maybe well well maybe be quite more entertaining, or at least amusing, however they don’t seem to be powerful of an enchancment up to now. Their core gimmick is being an all-female squad who’re all loads of levels of perverted, and while jokes esteem Natsu and Grey getting attacked by ice clones of all the ladies of their lives (which, in Natsu’s case, is every girl in Fairy Tail pretty than Lucy entirely. It appears to be like esteem them never being a thing is the joke now) or Lucy combating a buff girl who keeps getting distracted by her ta-tas aren’t exactly un-amusing, they would not have ample going for them to make up for the manner lame the fights are in any other case. Basically the most animated thing we fetch is Irene instructing Wendy the draw to spend Spirit Arts pretty than odd magic to adjust to Elentear’s ambiance. Which will sound cool on paper, however the are attempting to repeat aside the two feels esteem an recordsdata dump. It also doesn’t quantity to powerful, since Wendy and Erza lose their war regardless. It might maybe maybe well well maybe be significant later, however I will be succesful of not lisp it left me feeling all that uncommon about it.

As lame as that sounds, it’s nothing when put next with Lucy’s war, which by some means manages to self-discipline the already low bar for her fights even lower, with out wretchedness essentially the most frustrating bit of this episode. Whereas having her war largely centered around boob jokes is already a indolent punchline at this point, the particular kicker comes when her opponent feedback that the reason Lucy’s spirits were unreliable to downright ineffective in some unspecified time in the future of all her fights is because she’s it sounds as if too long-established so as to spend them to their fleshy capability. Now in isolation, one thing esteem this sounds moderately par the direction for most war shonen and might maybe well well maybe be a turning point for Lucy to open getting stronger, however the utter here is that we’re getting this second an even manner into Fairy Tail‘s sequel assortment, and the postulate of her mild being long-established ample to maintain this more or less utter correct more or less feels esteem a total slap to the face for her character.

Sure, it holds water if we’re correct squarely having a scrutinize at her war story, however out of doorways of that, now we have considered Lucy fetch better at the utilization of Celestial Spirit magic in some unspecified time in the future of the assortment, whether or no longer it changed into studying the draw to summon more than one spirits straight away or gaining a few contemporary transformations. With what number of contemporary strategies she’s been given already, I will be succesful of not factor in there might maybe be somebody left who surely thinks her lack of enchancment in the combat department is a lack of motivation to fetch stronger. The sector surely does appear to arrive down to Mashima refusing to let her win a smash in a war it doesn’t topic what the circumstances, and if this changed into his manner of attempting to showcase why she keeps growing instant, I will be succesful of not exactly lisp it’s ample. Now, I could maybe well well maybe be willing to give some assist of the doubt here if I felt esteem this would well well likely essentially result in Lucy being portrayed more competently, however between the aforementioned complications with her abysmal war story and proper how a long way into the assortment this is getting dropped, I’d no longer have any staunch reason to assume it’ll plug any place and it comes off as an especially merciless punchline after seeing Wendy fetch a random contemporary ability correct a cramped while prior, which I’d lisp implies some sure favoritism, however Mashima has long previous on story as announcing that Lucy is his current character, which correct makes all the things about this even more extraordinary.

Whereas that is where the episode roughly bottoms out, that doesn’t make the leisure of it any less frustrating. After getting thoroughly thrashed, Natsu and Grey fetch captured and strung as much as be playthings for Selene and her minions, and while it’s good no longer to have this invent of humiliation gag happening to the female characters for once, it doesn’t surely make it feel any less laborious. It also doesn’t surely assist that the scene mostly correct reinforces how lame of an antagonist Selene is, as she doubles down on the postulate of acting purely for her have amusement. Now she claims that she’s in seeing what will occur to Elentear if it overloads on magic, however since she proudly declared an episode ago that she wanted to take the planet for herself, it correct makes her motives feel an increasing number of contradictory. I’ve bought nothing against hedonistic villains, on the different hand it might maybe maybe well well maybe be good if her targets felt at least considerably consistent. Factual now, having her constantly flip-flop esteem this is correct killing any interest I will have in her character previous her eventual defeat.

If you occur to are questioning what came about to the leisure of the gang in some unspecified time in the future of all this, we in the end scrutinize that one among Selene’s minions determined to spend her magic to transform them into yokai, and pits Natsu and Grey against them. In Grey’s case, he ends in a war with Wendy who has been changed into an adorable cramped monster girl, while Gay and Carla were changed into enormous killer tigers (the latter of which is likely the sole real highlight of this total episode). As for Natsu, he ends in a war with Lucy, who has been turned accurate into a Lamia, and that finally ends up being about as fanservice-heavy as it’s doubtless you’ll well well request. With how powerful the episode has already long previous out of the manner to dunk on Lucy, this looked high to power the final nail in the coffin, however I essentially ended up being more on board with this war than I expected. In part because Natsu as regards to getting beaten to loss of life by Lucy’s snake tail and boobs is objectively the spiciest thing to ever occur between those two, and while it does suck to fetch a second Lucy war in this episode that centers around fanservice, that recordsdata makes it moderately no longer easy no longer to snicker alongside with this (especially since these two will likely never have a second esteem this again). What almost finally ends up making this total thing work even though is that the transformation also by some means strengthens Lucy to the point where she can essentially maintain with Natsu (which I hope is no longer surely going to be the “solution” to Lucy’s obvious lack of vitality, however now we have gotten ample equally unfamiliar vitality-usathat I will be succesful of not completely rule out the risk, so with any luck it doesn’t plug down that manner) and for the reason that two of them showcase that this is the first time they’ve essentially ever fought every a kind of, seeing them so enraged to interchange punches dwell up feeling surprisingly sweet in its have manner.

But as tends to be the case when the phrases “Lucy” and “war” are in the similar sentence, there might maybe be continually some unfamiliar caveat to reduction her from being all for a easy brawl, and the one we fetch here’s a staunch doozy. The war finally ends up getting interrupted by none a kind of than Aquarius, who steps in to assist Natsu, and as good as it needs to be to look at her again finally this time, I am mostly correct at a loss for phrases as to why she’s even here. Even if the war changed into attending to the point where Lucy changed into essentially beginning to overpower Natsu, it didn’t feel esteem he changed into in ample hazard to warrant any out of doorways interference, so the interruption correct felt mostly welcome. It also comes off as uncommon in the immense plan of things as Lucy’s most contemporary aim has been to trace down Aquarius’s key, and I will be succesful of not surely label the reason for getting Aquarius correct randomly record up esteem this. Sure it might maybe maybe well well maybe be good to fetch a second to reaffirm their bond or one thing, however we already bought one thing esteem that in some unspecified time in the future of the Alvarez arc, and doing it a second time correct feels esteem it might maybe maybe well well maybe cheapen the affect of their skilled reunion later down the line. With quite of luck whatever this ends in shall be one thing well-known, however with how continually Lucy correct can not win a smash, it’s no longer easy no longer to assume that the will in the rupture be at her expense.

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