User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 404 Quick Review - 00:00



Welcome to the Chapter Review Corner

I'm not even gonna humor you guys here.

This.

Chapter.

Was.

Shit.

So I am limiting this to a Quick Review to save my sanity.

Let me sum this up real quick:

Erza takes out Kyouka, despite Kyouka being stronger and Erza having no senses, Hiro justifies this literally by saying "because she's Erza", Minvera kills Kyouka, Face activates.



Where...where to begin? You all already know how pissed the last chapter made me. I've officially given up on Erza and Natsu as 'actual characters'; they exist as nothing more than forces to beat the shit down on something. And before any of you say "Look at Jason mate, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones", I know damn well Jason sucks as a character. The difference is I am writing fanfiction, and I could make Jason a tapdancing, tutu wearing trap and still get away with it. Hiro is making money off of producing absolute shit.

Kyouka should have easily been able to defeat Erza. Look at it this way; Kyouka blinded her, removed every one of her basic senses, turned her pain sensitivity up to 11 and ripped the knob off. She shouldn't have been able to move without suffering blinding pain, much less have had any idea where Kyouka was. And every hit Kyouka delivered should have felt like ramming into an oncoming train. But she kept trucking because she had her friends in her thoughts.

This isn't being cool, Hiro, this is bad writing. And here's what's bad; I think Hiro thinks all of this is cool. It's NOT. Action and badass poses/actions with no logic do not mean they are still good for mindless action. Not in a series such as FT. In Gurren Lagann, it was accepted, because that show estabslished itself as doing the impossible.

Hiro is simply pushing his luck.

There are a dozen ways this could have been done. Erza could have been defeated, for starters, given how Kyouka was repeatedly raising her own power and she shattered Erza's armor in one fell blow (which, by the way, is going from "look at how strong this enemy is" to "telling Erza to ditch armor entirely"), and Minerva could have taken over the fight. We've seen repeatedly that Minerva is a very powerful contender, and I don't care how badly Hiro ruined her with nakama magic, we've yet to see her Curse, and if she's so intent on becoming 'good', she could have stepped in to fight Kyouka to atone for her sins, I don't know. Anything but Erza haxing her way through this again.

And Minerva killing Kyouka should have been a highlight of this chapter, complete with Face's activation. But here's what sucks. It wasn't. After all the bullshit Hiro put us through, I couldn't even feel the abject terror I was supposed to feel of magic being wiped from the world.

I...I can't even form coherent thoughts with this. I'm one with this chapter, here's hoping the next carries through with the erasure of magic.