User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 407 - In Which We Put This Series On Ice (In Order to Destroy Me)



"Fight? Nay. I won't be fighting you...I'm going to destroy you."

- Acnologia to Igneel

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Hey, everyone. It's been a long time since I've done a review; Alpha did the previous few because I was too tired and disinterested to bother. And as of the moment, I am actually too tired to do this one; some issues happening in real life are starting to stress me out, but I figured this review would take my mind off it. So, let's begin, since I have work very soon.

Ya know, I'm pretty sure "Girl In A Crystal" is an epic rock band name

Carrying over from last chapter, Makarov reveals the Lumen Histoire, which, in truth, is Mavis' corpse, preserved in a giant crystal. I have mixed feelings about this, personally; I assumed the Lumen Histoire was so much more than just this, and which Makarov's son calling it "Fairy Tail's Darkness", I expected a big secret. As it turns out, it's just a corpse encased in crystal. Not much to speak of, but maybe it has some awesome power. Makarov hurries everyone to the Guild's basement, and has Doranbolt come along so he can wipe everyone's memories after the event, even his own. Doranbolt's thoughts sum it up: just what the hell is Lumen Histoire?

"Can't Igneel move any quicker?" "Acnologia is too fast!"

Methinks Hiro was watching Pokemon The First Movie. I'm not entirely impressed with Acologia. Yay, he can speak, but it's all standard dialogue I've heard before. Please go back to being quiet, Acnologia. We cut to Mard Geer trying to get ahold of Kyouka, allowing him to reuse panels and dialogue from a few chapters ago. We do get a little light shed on Zeref, however. As we all know, he wants to die; but no one is strong enough to do it. So the reason he created the Nine Demon Gates is simple.

You know, given that Acnologia wants to kill Zeref, and the Nine Demon Gates want to kill Zeref, the protagonists could just stay out of this and let the plot resolve itself

Irritated by the fact that humanity is getting wrapped up in Mard Geer's drama, Sting, Rogue, and Natsu continue the battle. Mard Geer, however, proceeds to continue to take his lessons from the fabulousness that is Yōko Kurama, growing a plant that thrives in the underworld, preparing to rid of us Natsu once and for all. Gray arrives, dropping Natsu's scarf on his neck and preparing to end Mard Geer, freezing the shit out of his arm.

"It's time to kick some ice."

Oh dear, the puns. Okay, let's score this.

Score
Hiro's art is always his saving grace, and the plants and shit were beast. ✓+ The story, I'm actually not hating right now. The Lumen Histoire is still full of mystery; Hiro's had his ups and downs, but maybe he can do this right. Just maybe. Or mayve my depressed state fills me with blind hope so that I can perceive the world as not as shitty as it ought to be. Anyway, ✓. The fight, ✓+. The effects were awesome, MARD GEER was fighting, and then GRAY of all people comes in, determined as shit, "You killed my father prepare to die", and he isn't gonna take this sitting down. He's already frozen Mard Geer's arm and winter is coming! Overall chapter, ✓.



Fairy Tail is all done for today, but the main series should be back this week with Fairy Tail 408 - Absolute Demon. You can bet I'll be right here to bring everyone the details as they come on in!