User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 163 - Mirajane vs. Jenny

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Last Time, On Fairy Tail Elfman and Bacchus fought. It was actually a pretty good episode, ending with Bacchus as the loser and Elfman as the victor. GO ELFMAN!

THIS was a good episode. One of my favorites, thought it only spanned a chapter and a half due to added filler, it was very hot, very amusing filler that put me in such a good mood, I may as well have eaten some chocolate.

Animation: Of course, the animation quality was superb as always. Nothing much to complain about; except the fact that the animated the Guild Master of Lamia Scale...ick.

Effects: While only used once, the effects around Mira and Jenny transforming were what we've come to expect of such a high-quality animation studio; double for the flames of Satan Soul: Sitri.

Soundtrack: Naturally, everything was strung together quite well in terms of the musical score. In addition, this is just something minor but apparently Fairy Tail's anime has a sound effect for fanservice. Yes, really.

Voice acting: As usual, voice acting was great. I think that the seiyū of the main characters have fully gotten in sync with their roles; though the others also do good jobs; of course they'll improve over time, but still, knowing that most of the actors are renowned voice actors I'm not surprised that they're instantly at an excellent level of skill.

Fanservice: There was fanservice galore in this episode; and for a while, it was quite easily the best episode of the anime...until well, Lamia Scale's Guild Master showed up and killed a completely awesome sequence. Other than that if you ignore that, I'm happy that the filler animation team knows what they're doing.

Ship Tease: As so, the bride segment of the fanservice parade did manage to provide us with some good shipping fuel; even more so that Romeo wasn't with Wendy. I was kinda expecting that Wendy and Chelia would be together in that section, really...then I remembered they haven't met yet. Shit, anime, get it together.

My favorite scenes:

Poll
Did you enjoy all the fanservice? Hell yes! No, waste of my time. They could have gone through another chapter in this episode.

Score
Fairy Tail always has excellent animation, but it's not always perfect, so, 9/10. The voice acting is great, it never does fail to impress, and...er...the old biddy really...well, sold her appearance. 10/10. While I did enjoy the episode, especially the fanservice, I can't say we actually got anywhere with the story. Had they forgone the filler additions, we'd have made progress, but they didn't, so, 4/10. Does the soundtrack NEED further promotion? It's awesome, and good GOD that opening!!!!! 9/10. Overall, it was Very Good, but not Excellent.

Fairy Tail is all done for today, but it'll be back next week with Fairy Tail 163 - Kagura vs. Yukino. As usual, all of you, give a huge thanks to Per, who does quite a bit of work for these, if it wasn't for her, the episode blogs would be quite bare. Also, we will still be reviewing an additional OVA next week, so, look forward to that! As always I enjoy comments, and I don't mind if you keep it clean.