User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 412 - In Which Hiro Hammers The Final Nail Into The Coffin Of His Career (Dance Unto Ishgar)



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All systems are up and running TOM; are you ready?

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! THIS IS AHA AND WELCOME TO THE SHOW!! IN THE RED CORNER, WE HAVE HIRO MASHIMA! IN THE BLUE CORNER, WE HAVE HIS CAREER!! THIS IS THE FIGHT WE'VE BEEN WAITING TO SEE FOR MONTHS, LOYAL FANS! AFTER SEVERAL MATCHES STANDING IN THE RING BEFORE, HIRO MASHIMA HAS ALWAYS SCORED A ONE HIT KNOCKOUT ON HIS CAREER! AND TO MAKE THINGS WORSE, WE'VE FOUND OUT THIS WILL BE THE FINAL MATCH HIS CAREER HAS BEFORE IT RETIRES! IF IT CAN'T MAKE A TURNAROUND NOW, WE'LL NEVER SEE IT STEP INTO THE RING AGAIN! NOW, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET'S BEGIN! ALRIGHT YOU TWO, I WANT A GOOD, CLEAN FIGHT!

-several minutes later-

AND IT'S DOWN! IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN TEN MINUTES, FOLKS, AND HIRO MASHIMA HAS KNOCKED HIS OPPONENT TO THE GROUND! WAIT, WHAT'S THIS!? THE REF DECLARES THE BLOW WAS SO POWERFUL IT KILLED THE POOR THING! THAT'S RIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HIRO MASHIMA'S CAREER IS DEAD!

Let's have a moment of silence for this brave, brave fighter and his valiant efforts.

And that, boys and girls and those of indeterminate gender, is how you set the tone for a review. But in all seriousness, let me show you an image that perfect sums up Hiro's career at this point...or at the very least his dignity.

Barring the bad photoshop

And I'll be the first to admit it; by this point, I read Fairy Tail to bitch about it, when I have nothing else to do. Those times where the chapters come out and I just let them marinate, that's cuz I've spent that entire week at work and with friends. I still use them damn thing but since I try to get out a lot more, why bother reviewing? I save the reviews for days like this, when I have no choice but to stay in the house for one reason or another, or I'm just plain bored. In this case, it's both. And trust me, I'm damn sure all of us have a series like that. For me, it happens to be this piece of shit Hiro can't even polish.

So let me tell you what I think now: this chapter was complete and utterly terrifying, and not in a scary kind of a way, but in an "I cannot believe an editor let a mangaka drug him and slip this into the magazine" kind of terrifying. The "I bet Hiro committed assault and battery to get the editor to approve this" kind of terrifying.

Since I know I'm far too biased, writing this as a former fan of series, I asked a good friend of mine, good 'ol Mang, to give me his opinion as a writer on (I refuse to call myself one, so I wanted an actual writer's opinion. And so, this is quoting him:

And that right there has been an opinion from someone who actually writes quality material. Thank you, Mang, for summing up why this chapter is bullshit. Why this arc is some bullshit. I wish Hiro would learn that not everyone is gonna make their way out of a problem. As someone who enjoys writing for a hobby, as someone who tries my best to make sure my own fanfiction series has conflict and shit (which is really fucking hard to do when you're writing a Dragon Ball Z fanfic), it irritates me to no end to see a published writer put in so little effort into his series, and still raking in the money. When aspiring writers see a published person half-ass their shit, this makes them think they can do it, Hiro. And that's not right.

I'm done reviewing for today. This chapter isn't even worth a score. Just know it'd be bad. Like, Twilight bad.

See you all next week. I'm going to binge read Naruto, look at a series that's actually brilliant.