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Fairy Tail 376 - Wendy vs Ezel
"She used to be such a coward and a weakling...but take a good look at Wendy now. She's attained Dragon Force!"

- Charle

Fairy Tail 376 - Wendy vs Ezel

Hello everybody and welcome to the show! This week's review is a double feature consisting of the actual chapter, as well as this week's special chapter. I have to say that I enjoyed both of these chapters immensely and I doubt you will hear any complaints from me this week. ALSO! Everybody! Wendy party in the comments! Grab your favorite image, gif, or video of Wendy and place it in the comments if you want to participate. It's been ages since I've actually done a character party.

We begin everything with our least favorite member of Tartarus telling us what we already know; Face is about to activate and the world is screwed. In just ten minutes, Face will activate, and the magic of every Mage on the continent will be lost. Do you guys know what that means? Do you know what that means!?

Thanks, Buggy!

How'd Buggy even get here? Don't the Warlords have things they do? And when the heck did he grow a beard? He also really let himself go. Lucy realizes quickly that this means everyone is pretty much screwed. With only nine minutes (yes, nine now) before Face activates and removes everyone's magic, right in the middle of their fights! I know, because this is Hiro, it won't really amount to much, but you have to appreciate the tension of this moment. If it's just a second too late, everyone would be utterly screwed. And considering Wendy and Mira are fighting potential rapists...they need as much of their magic as they can get. Happy, meanwhile, has complete faith in Wendy and Charle, and he's right to, because Wendy is Wendy. We cut to the Poison Jelly Valley, where Wendy is looking for Face.

WRONG FACE!

And who should appear but Ezel, who, irritated by the fact that he's stuck with a child....despite his moniker of "Child Slicer", kinda weird there...attacks Wendy in a rage. For the first few minutes, it goes about like this: "KAIO-KEN!" "KAIO-WHAT!?" "No, seriously, Kaio-what?!?" "Kaio-crap!" "I thought so."

That's more or less what the fight was at first; Wendy displayed some awesome new spells in addition to her usual buffs, I love that she's developing her skills further. Physical parameters increase, elemental resistances, plus her usual trio of enchantments to boost her power far beyond what it normally would be. But, since these ARE Tartarus demons, Ezel was able to fend her off fairly easily; in fact, he broke through her defences with his unique set of curses, modeled after five famous Japanese swords. It's more or less a beatdown on Wendy...then he makes the standard shounen villain mistake of telling his opponent information she really doesn't need to know if he intends to kill her.

I don't even have a joke here, this is literally a girl and a monster looking as a machine dick, no one can argue against this.

This is actually where I get a bit confused. Judging by the description of Face, it's a machine powered by Eternano, and when it activates, it will remove ALL magic from every mage on the continent. Okay, I can get the nullification thing, but why would a device that runs on the very source of magical abilities remove magic? Does it absorb every bit of magical power into itself? I'd buy that if it wasn't releasing a metric shitton of energy around it's entire being right about now. Does it release a massive pulse of Eternano that completely overloads every mage it comes into contact with, 'shorting out' their origins and rendering them unable to reabsorb ambient Eternano? Come on guys, put theories in the comments section; these are the questions that keep me up at night. Either wayy, Ezel went into a long spiel about how the very air is rich in Eternano now that Face is active, and soon, the age of mages will be finished and curses will reign supreme. Then Charle decides she's had quite enough of this: Ooooh, scathing.

Kind of a mistake on Charle's part, as Ezel decides she looks like she could be his lunch. Because...ya know...cats. Part of a nutritious breakfast! As her skull is about to be crushed, she whispers for Wendy to use the air, and Wendy realizes that the very air around her is rich with power, and, as the Sky Dragon Slayer, she can abuse it maliciously. Devouring the air around face, Wendy unleashes a roar larger than anything we've ever seen from her before. In fact, I don't think even Natsu has released a roar as large as that before.

"SERIOUSLY, THE FUCK IS NAMEK!?"

Wendy. Has. Attained. Dragon. Force. If anyone heard a complete and utter shriek of GLEE earlier today, chances are, that was me. THIS RIGHT HERE is gonna be the highlight of the arc for me. Wendy (who Zico never ceases to say is not a fighter) has achieved DRAGON FORCE! This could not make me happier; my favorite character has finally attained a bloody power-up and she is about to use it to kick some demon ass!

Fairy Tail Side-Story - 413 Days
"If lives were lost today, then today, lives were also born. How important each and every day is depends on how important you feel it is to you. Right?"

- Erza to Juvia

Fairy Tail Side-Story: 413 Days

This was quite a surprise from Hiro; two extra chapters in a row. Anyone whose seen my reviews knows I usually don't bother with more things than I like to handle (and just reviewing both of these is actually diminishing some drawing practice I wanted to get in today), but, I actually liked this extra chapter, so I decided I would review it. This chapter stars Juvia as the leading role and Is she....yep. She is.

Yeah, she's doing exactly what you think she's doing. So Juvia appears to have a metric crapton of Gray-related memorabilia, from loofah sponges to towels to dolls. Honestly, it makes me scared to check any of her drawers, we may find something Gray-related that we really shouldn't. Juvia kisses one of her many plush Grays as she leaves her house, only to run into Wendy and Erza, who are curious as to why she's so happy.

Anyone find this both creepy and adorable?

Process that; this girl has counted each and every day since she's been with Gray. I know it's only been over a year (not counting the time-skip, which I do count), but this is like when parents say their child is "14 months old". JUST SAY THE KID IS A YEAR. Anyway, Erza suggests giving Gray a gift to put him in good spirits (she's playing matchmaker), and Juvia knits him a scarf. While waiting for Gray in the bar of the guild, she starts to hallucinate everybody getting in on.

Bow Chicka Wow Wow

I wish that hadn't been an hallucination (and for a second, I thought it WASN'T, I was again, immensely happy), but Juvia was just seeing things. When she heads out to meet Gray, Juvia offers him the scarf she made, but he completely blows her off, even though she kept desperately trying to have him take it. It was at about this point that I started to hate Gray because...what the hell man, she took time out of your day to make you something, and you brush her off? Nooooo Gray, no no no.

Would you believe this didn't make me pity Gray at all?

Juvia is crying because she figures she hurt Gray by besmirching the anniversary of Ul's death without even knowing about it, and thus, Erza has to console her. Gray, meanwhile, is walking through town, stony-faced as snow begins to fall, and he remembers when he was a child, and Ul gave him a scarf to warm up. Gray, I assume realizing he'd been a complete and total jackass, rushes back to where he and Juvia had been, and digs the scarf out of the snow, putting it on and realizing it really is nice and warm. Erza sees this, and smiles to herself. The next day, both Gray and Juvia apolgize, Juvia by giving Gray a NEW present.

I bet I can actually find this at a store I know.

To anyone not in the know, the back of most dakimakuras are a similar image to the front, only nude. Look at the side of it Gray is facing. He just got an eyeful. Now, process the fact that Juvia had to take time out of her day to pose. For both sides of this thing.

....Why has he not jumped on this?

Wendy vs Ezel
The art in Fairy Tail is always awesome, and Hiro did wonderfully showcasing Wendy's skills. 10/10. The story itself, 3/10. We didn't make any actual progress outside of the fighting and the time limit decreasing drastically from two chapters ago. I was gonna score it 2/10, but the tension earns it an extra point. The fight, however, is worth the full score of 10/10. I loved every minute of it; this is the first time, I think, that Wendy has faced an enemy (not just an opponent but an actual ENEMY), alone, by herself, and while her initial showing wasn't the best, Wendy tried her hardest and Hiro had to cap it ALL OFF with Dragon Force!!!! Wendy, the Slayer Zico respects about as much as my 11-month old niece respects me, got Dragon Force before Gajeel! Mother.Fucking.WOOT! Overall, this was an AWESOME chapter and it honestly could only have gotten better if Chelia was with Wendy.



Fairy Tail is all done for today, but it should be back next week with Fairy Tail 377 - The Sky Dragon's Imperial Wrath. You can bet I'll be right here to bring everyone the details as they come on in!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT' The newest Fairy Tail Anime Promo is IN! Natsu's fire...ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE FIRE!