User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 373 - In Which I'm Late (Life or Death?)

"The despairing prayers of young maidens are the resounding chimes of Hell's bells. Your dwindling magics will breathe anew, restoring life into the Earth. You maiden Fairies who have fallen into Hades shall become corpses and drift away into Purgatory."

- Keith's ominous speech to Lucy and Wendy

Welcome to the Chapter Review Corner



Every time I walk through that door...it feels like the first time. To those new to the blog, welcome, to my continued readership, all I have to say is thanks. SARA, how's it looking?



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

So, sorry for being late on this everyone, I felt awful yesterday so I couldn't review, so, I let Grizz's review go ahead of mine. Now that I'm feeling better, and have just had a meal, I may as well get this chapter out of the way since I can't review it tomorrow, gotta go somewhere. Let's get into the nitty gritty, boys, girls, androids, and those undecided. Slicing right into this, Zeref is quick to inform Natsu this guild was not made by him, but by E.N.D. Let me just put this out there; there's an idea going around, I heard it from Fire and saw it in Grizz's comments sections, that E.N.D. stands for something truly horrifying.

Evil Natsu Dragneel.

If that is the case, I might truly drop this series if it happens. I don't usually say that, "I might drop " is usually Per's schtick, but....the very idea to me is cringe worthy. Hana and Ash, however, did have an idea that shows the idea of an "evil Natsu" has potential. Hold up, let me sound the alarm.



"E.N.D is Evil Natsu Dragneel. Igneel taught Natsu how to fight himself...because while Igneel might have had the strength to fight E.N.D, he did not have the courage to kill his own child. So he is trained specifically for a single purpose, and perhaps Igneel wishes for Natsu to assimilate E.N.D once again, making him whole. It would justify the positivity of his character being so aligned to light; as well as his sheer power. He was raised from finding for a single purpose, to beat his evil side and then absorb him, becoming strong enough to defeat Zeref and Acnologia."

The idea itself has merit when phrased like that, and it'd explain why Zeref knows Natsu but...this is Hiro, he can't pull this off. Zeref continues to explain to Natsu that E.N.D. is someone that Igneel could not kill (emphasis on that), and, while Natsu thinks he'll inherit his fathers will, he attacks Zeref and loses his cool new sword.

Natsu must go only where his heart leads.

Zeref takes his leave, believing his presence right now does Tartaros a disservice. While we're on the note of Zeref...where the hell is Mavis? Didn't they more or less declare war on each other? Anyway, up on the cube, everyone jumps into the hole Erza made while it turns out Kyouka's moving just fine despite the fact that she should have a hole in her stomach.

Okay internet artists, your move now.

So these two start fighting again, but we all know Erza will win so let's not even bat an eyelash in her direction. Lisanna, down below, manages to find Mira, who is more than surprised to see her little sister down in Tartaros. Their nice moment is short lived by the arrival of the only Tartaros member I like besides Silver, Sayla. She's quite angry that no one in Fairy Tail died (like anyone in the fanbase with any sense), and that her reputation was destroyed (much like Hiro's), and so, she wants to take Mira's sister as compensation (much like we all want to take paycheck as compensation for reading his work). Mira is (naturally) less than amused by this.



I think the Doctor said it best.



During all of this, Lucy and Wendy managed to make it to the control room, much to the surprise of Franmalth, who ducks out of sight. Lucy and Wendy look at the archive and found out (to their horror) that there is only 41 minutes until Face activates. And just when you thought everything couldn't get worse, Keith arrives.

Boys and girls of every age Wouldn't you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see This, our town of Halloween This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of night This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween

I really kind of had to pull that one to finish this off. To anyone who hasn't seen Nightmare Before Christmas...don't.

Score
The art of Fairy Tail is always awesome, even if the writing isn't. 10/10. The story was passable, a 6/10. We're making it somewhere, even if I have seen tree sloths that progress faster than this. There was no fight. Overall, this was an Alright chapter.



Fairy Tail is all done for today, but it should be back next week with Fairy Tail 374 - Revolution. I should see you all next week with a review.