Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest ‒ Episode 21

So I got here down glorious laborious on closing week’s episode since all the things we learned about Selene ended up severely diminishing my expectations for where the rest of this arc can also very smartly be headed. Soundless, if there might well be one factor that’s undoubtedly authentic about Fairy Tail or no longer it is that it moves from one factor to the following very rapidly. I didn’t near into this one feeling love the percentages of it turning things spherical had been particularly excessive, nonetheless it without a doubt didn’t feel love too unrealistic of an expectation both. I became once hoping to stride away from the episode feeling more optimistic. Unfortunately, that turning point hasn’t hit yet. If one thing, I proper felt soured on this arc additional as I’m increasingly more no longer certain of what the discontinue draw is.

After getting teleported to Elentear, and split up by a huge hand (proper roll with it), it would no longer rob too long for all people to receive caught up in fights with Selene’s minions: the Moonlight Divinities. Since Selene herself would no longer comprise much going on past the chaos attitude, I became once hoping her miniboss squad can be a miniature bit more inviting, or at the least comic, nonetheless they fabricate no longer appear to be much of an enhance in the past. Their core gimmick is being an all-female squad who are all lots of degrees of perverted, and while jokes love Natsu and Grey getting attacked by ice clones of your whole females of their lives (which, in Natsu’s case, is every woman in Fairy Tail in decision to Lucy most effective. It appears to be like love them without a doubt no longer being a part is the shaggy dog fable now) or Lucy combating a buff woman who retains getting distracted by her ta-tas must no longer exactly un-comic, they fabricate no longer comprise ample going for them to create up for a ability lame the fights are in every other case. The most thrilling factor we receive is Irene teaching Wendy mumble Spirit Arts in decision to traditional magic to adjust to Elentear’s ambiance. That can sound icy on paper, nonetheless the are attempting to distinguish the 2 feels love an data dump. It also would no longer amount to much, since Wendy and Erza lose their strive in opposition to regardless. It is going to be essential later, nonetheless I will’t inform it left me feeling all that desirous about it.

As lame as that discontinuance consequence sounds, or no longer it is nothing when in contrast to Lucy’s strive in opposition to, which by some means manages to place the already low bar for her fights even lower, without fret basically the most frustrating little bit of this episode. Whereas having her strive in opposition to largely centered spherical boob jokes is already a sluggish punchline at this point, the correct kicker comes when her opponent comments that the reason why Lucy’s spirits comprise been unreliable to downright ineffective all over all her fights is on account of she’s it sounds as if too ragged to be ready to make mumble of them to their tubby doable. Now in isolation, one thing love this sounds glorious par the direction for most strive in opposition to shonen and can be a turning point for Lucy to commence getting stronger, nonetheless the fret here is that we’re getting this 2d a comely ability into Fairy Tail‘s sequel sequence, and the concept that of her silent being ragged ample to suffer this roughly fret proper roughly feels love a whole slap to the face for her character.

Sure, it holds water if we’re proper squarely taking a look at her strive in opposition to file, nonetheless outside of that, we now comprise viewed Lucy recover at the mumble of Celestial Spirit magic all over the sequence, whether it became once learning summon a pair of spirits straight away or gaining about a fresh transformations. With how many fresh tricks she’s been given already, I will’t factor in there might well be anybody left who undoubtedly thinks her lack of enhance within the strive in opposition to department is an absence of motivation to receive stronger. The scenario undoubtedly does appear to near lend a hand down to Mashima refusing to let her receive a atomize in a strive in opposition to no topic what the instances, and if this became once his process of attempting to glossy why she retains coming up short, I will’t exactly inform or no longer it is ample. Now, I’ll well maybe perhaps be prepared to give some aid of the doubt here if I felt love this can also very smartly discontinuance in Lucy being portrayed more competently, nonetheless between the aforementioned issues with her abysmal strive in opposition to file and proper how some distance into the sequence here is getting dropped, I fabricate no longer comprise any proper motive to recount it must plod wherever and it comes off as an especially cruel punchline after seeing Wendy receive a random fresh capacity proper a pair of minutes prior, which I would inform implies some certain favoritism, nonetheless Mashima has long gone on file as announcing that Lucy is his well-liked character, which proper makes all the things about this even more glossy.

Whereas that’s where the episode roughly bottoms out, that does no longer create the rest of it any much less frustrating. After getting thoroughly thrashed, Natsu and Grey receive captured and strung up to be playthings for Selene and her minions, and while or no longer it is nice no longer to comprise this invent of humiliation gag taking place to the female characters for once, it would no longer undoubtedly create it feel any much less laborious. It also would no longer undoubtedly abet that the scene largely proper reinforces how lame of an antagonist Selene is, as she doubles down on the concept that of performing purely for her private amusement. Now she claims that she’s desirous about seeing what’s going to happen to Elentear if it overloads on magic, nonetheless since she proudly declared an episode within the past that she wanted to rob the planet for herself, it proper makes her motives feel increasingly more contradictory. I’ve obtained nothing in opposition to hedonistic villains, nonetheless it without a doubt can be nice if her goals felt at the least a miniature fixed. Prison now, having her continuously flip-flop love here is proper killing any hobby I’ll well maybe perhaps comprise in her character past her eventual defeat.

When you can also very smartly be wondering what came about to the rest of the personnel all over all this, we at closing uncover about that without a doubt one of Selene’s minions decided to make mumble of her magic to remodel them into yokai, and pits Natsu and Grey in opposition to them. In Grey’s case, he ends in a strive in opposition to with Wendy who has been became into an cute miniature monster woman, while Entirely overjoyed and Carla comprise been became into huge killer tigers (the latter of which is presumably the sole highlight of this whole episode). As for Natsu, he finally ends up in a strive in opposition to with Lucy, who has been became into a Lamia, and that finally ends up being about as fanservice-heavy as you’d establish aside a matter to. With how much the episode has already long gone out of the ability to dunk on Lucy, this looked prime to force the last nail within the coffin, nonetheless I undoubtedly ended up being more on board with this strive in opposition to than I anticipated. Partly on account of Natsu almost getting beaten to loss of life by Lucy’s snake tail and boobs is objectively the spiciest factor to ever happen between those two, and while it does suck to receive a 2d Lucy strive in opposition to in this episode that centers spherical fanservice, that files makes it a miniature laborious no longer to laugh alongside with this (especially since these two will potentially without a doubt no longer comprise a 2d love this all every other time). What nearly finally ends up making this whole factor work though is that the transformation also by some means strengthens Lucy to the point where she will be able to undoubtedly withhold up with Natsu (which I’m hoping is rarely any longer undoubtedly going to be the “answer” to Lucy’s obvious lack of energy, nonetheless we now comprise gotten ample within the same vogue uncommon energy-u.s.that I will’t fully rule out the possibility, so with any luck it would no longer plod down that ability) and since the 2 of them issue that here is the main time they’ve undoubtedly ever fought each other, seeing them so mad to interchange punches discontinue up feeling strangely candy in its private ability.

However as tends to be the case when the words “Lucy” and “strive in opposition to” are within the identical sentence, there might well be continuously some uncommon caveat to withhold her from being desirous about a straightforward brawl, and the one we receive here’s an true doozy. The strive in opposition to finally ends up getting interrupted by none rather than Aquarius, who steps in to abet Natsu, and as nice because it desires to be to detect her all every other time after all this time, I’m largely proper pressured as to why she’s even here. Even though the strive in opposition to became once getting to the point where Lucy became once undoubtedly initiating to overpower Natsu, it didn’t feel love he became once in ample anguish to warrant any outside interference, so the interruption proper felt largely welcome. It also comes off as uncommon within the mountainous contrivance of things as Lucy’s most contemporary draw has been to trace down Aquarius’s key, and I will’t undoubtedly keep the draw of having Aquarius proper randomly mumble their private praises up love this. Sure it must be nice to receive a 2d to reaffirm their bond or one thing, nonetheless we already obtained one thing love that all over the Alvarez arc, and doing it a 2d time proper feels love it must also cheapen the impact of their authentic reunion later down the road. Confidently whatever this ends in can be one thing counseled, nonetheless with how usually Lucy proper can’t receive a atomize, or no longer it is laborious no longer to recount that the discontinuance consequence will by some means be at her expense.

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