User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 337 - In Which I'm Not Sure Whether I Liked Or Hated It

"Shadows...the shadows...they're trying to consume me. They've come for me...time and time again...the darkness within me is permanent...and the day I lost Frosch...I became one with the shadows. In one year's time, make sure to tell 'me' to protect Frosch...in a year's time...or Frosch will be killed."

- Rogue Cheeney



Welcome to the Chapter Review Corner

The chapter has been released, and that means it's time to blog. To those new to my blog, welcome. To my continued readership, all I have to say is, thanks. SARA, start the broadcast.



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So, it's been awhile guys. The most recent chapters have been terrible, and quite honestly, this wasn't much better. With the impact into the magic gates, Natsu destroyed them (and sadly still has his eye). Due to the gates being destroyed, Rogue has no means to come to the past in the future, and thus, time has been rewritten. The Dragons begin to glow, returning to their own time, and we find out Zilconis is the Jade Dragon not due to his powers, but his colour. Makes sense. I hated how Atlas Flame told Natsu he'd never forget him. What did Natsu do that requires eternal remembrance in the mind of a dragon? But, my favorite thing about the chapter was this:

See that?

See that?

That one line right there proves Dragon Slayers are not worth anything. Seven Slayers all in the area. Not one dragon was slain. Attention to the public. Dragon Slayer Magic is just elemental magic that lets you eat other elements. You could quite literally achieve everything a Slayer can with the proper use of other elemental magic, minus the "eating elements" part of it, and is that really necessary? A Slayer can't eat their own element except from an external source, so if you're, say, an Ice Dragon Slayer and you happen to be doing battle in a desert? Where did all that ice you could have eaten gone? Thank you, Hiro, for finally proving Slayers are not worth the pedestal the fanbase keeps putting them up onto. Future!Rogue then tells Natsu that the darkness is, and always has been, trying to consume him, and the day Frosch died, he became one with the shadows. Rogue, in a year's time, must protect Frosch.



Future!Lucy, meanwhile, I'm actually not sure what just happened to her. She vanished, returning to her form before all of the terrible shit in the future happened to her. But, I'm confused, did she go back to her own time, did she go to heaven, really, what happened here!?

I am so confused here

Present!Lucy begins to cry and is embraced by Natsu, saying thank you.

Now, without further ado, let's bring up the scoreboard.

Score
The art this chapter was awesome. But Fairy Tail always has awesome art, scenery, the effects, etc, 10/10 but why are these the ONLY AWESOME THINGS ABOUT RECENT CHAPTERS? The story was very meh, we found on Frosch died and Rogue cried, but really? That's it? That's it? And no one died in all of this! 5/10 and that's generous. Overall, the chapter wasn't BAD but it wasn't GOOD, it was Okay.



Fairy Tail is all done for today, but it'll be back next week with a shocking triple chapter release. Per, Hana, and I may have to take one chapter each and review them, otherwise you guys will be without a review for over a week. See ya around.