User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail Double Feature - Imperial Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon and With Friends, Always

"Let's do it together. Since we've done everything else together."

- Wendy to Charle

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So, there were three chapters in total this week, count 'em, three. However, as one of them was a special chapter that wasn't really worth much, I'm only going to focus on the main two chapters of this week. The Guild Ace can handle that side chapter; in fact, I think he already has. I cannot emphasize this enough; three Fairy Tail chapters. One week. Doesn't this make Kubo look lazy?

Fairy Tail 377 - Imperial Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon




This chapter was mostly fighting, and it's going to be the shortest of the two reviews, but dear God was it epic. Since the first bit of it is simply Wendy being awesome at fighting, let me show that all now.

Just...My heart cannot handle all this awesome Wendy!

During this entire battle, Wendy dominates, using her new Sky Dragon Slayer abilities in her Dragon Force state to gain complete control and dominance over the wind currents in this cave, and given the wind is possessed of immense Eterano...this stage is the perfect place for Wendy to dance. And sadly, even with a transformation, Ezel just couldn't keep up with Wendy's steps. She even managed to destroy Face, which means she saved the day, right!?

Ohhhh no.

With this, everyone starts to feel the ground shake as it would appear Face is about to activate, dooming every Magic Wielder alive! But then...we have a new chapter, let's go!

Fairy Tail 378 - With Friends, Always




Pay close attention to that image, because it's going to become important.

We start the chapter continuing the despair from the previous. These battles are tougher than anything anyone's yet to see; true demons are on a different scale entirely than what Mira is, as she (and Erza, and Gray, and Natsu and everyone else) are quickly finding out. Wendy, as well, is losing hope because Face is still active, however, Charle has discovered a way to prevent it.

USELESS ASS PSYCHIC POWERS!

With her foresight. Ya know. The ability we forget she has. Because we rarely see it. And it's inaccurate as Hell. Don't you love how she can see the future, but couldn't foresee Face not getting destroyed? Charle inputs the necessary characters, and tells Wendy to run, get away before she makes Face explode, which would surely them both. Since Wendy just came out of Dragon Force, however, she can barely move, and refuses, telling Charle they are always meant to be together. And then, both of them deciding to die together, Hiro shows us a VERY touching montage of how they met, and some of their closer moments together.



And this....is where Hiro fucked up. This seems pretty touching, doesn't it? Hiro has set it all up right, we're flashing back to their life together, how they met, various moments as friends, and even when they die and are reincarnated, they want to be friends again. At this point, I fully admit I was screaming at the manga for Hiro to stop, that I take back everything I said. Of course, I wouldn't want my Wendy to die, would I? I was torn; was Wendy about to die? This is what I wanted, right? For Hiro to finally kill someone? But not my Wendy! Maybe the cat. At least let the cat die, right? He can at the very least kill the cat?

STOP! DORAN TIME!

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Hiro, I...I really do not know what to say. I'm going to go off on a limb and say you are an immortal and from an immortal family, and that is why you cannot comprehend the existence of death. Don't get me wrong; Wendy is my favorite character, and while I am happy she didn't die, I hate how she survived, and I wish she had died. If she was going to survive, Hiro should have done it in an entirely different way; he set this up in a way where we were all expecting death. She was flashing back, crying, there was nobody to save her, and when Face exploded, it all looked like the end. Suddenly Doranbolt's "Wendy Sense" tingles, and he's suddenly there to save her from death.

...Why? Would it really be so wrong to kill Wendy, Hiro? Breaking the firm rule that the children cannot die would show that shiola is hitting the fan and splashing on everyone. I can't even believe this is an apocalypse anymore; Face has been stopped, but there was no sacrifice to do it, no impact from saving the world, Wendy just did it, and got saved. Hiro, I'm disappointed in you, I really, really am. Remember the image I linked at the very beginning of this section? That is Fairy Tail in a nutshell now; there's the ILLUSION of risk but they're never really going to die.

Also, random thought: What if Doranbolt is Wendy's older brother? Discuss.

Imperial Wrath of the Sky Dragon
The art in Fairy Tail is always awesome, and Hiro did wonderfully showcasing Wendy's skills. I also loved her colours for her Slayer Mode, and every bit of the battle was absolutely fantastic. 10/10. The story itself, 3/10. We didn't make any actual progress outside of the fighting and the time limit decreasing, but I DID love the despair at the end of the chapter. The fight, however, is worth the full score of 10/10. I loved absolutely every single second, because Wendy finally dominated a battle and came into her own. This wasn't even a fight, it was an assbeating that Ezel deserved. Overall, this was an AWESOME chapter.

With Friends, Always
Fairy Tail's art is always good and I enjoyed the flashbacks we received from Wendy. 10/10, but the art is the only good thing about this chapter. Storywise, I'm unamused. It seemed like Wendy was going to die, and Hiro had a LOT OF EMOTIONAL BUILD-UP that he just...ruined. The fact that she was saved at the end of this chapter ruins it for me. 3/10. The fight is 1/10, we only got several clips. Overall? Terrible.



Fairy Tail is all done for today, but it should be back next week with Fairy Tail 379 - Tartaros Arc: Part 3 - King of Hades. You can bet I'll be right here to bring everyone the details as they come on in!