User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 293 - In Which I Almost Bailed Due to the Utter Shit Pile Half This Chapter Was, then Got Taken In By the Ending and Decided to Review Anyway (The Perfume Dedicated To You)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! My aching eyes! Ok, we all know how there are some mangaka who forget their character's they introduced (Kubo, I'm looking at you, where the fuck is Ganju?), and that's usually a very irritating thing. It's understandable sometimes, but I mean, take Negima! where the cast is HUGE In sheer cast number and...other places.

But Ken Akamatsu never forgot anyone. Even Dragon Ball never truly forgot it's cast, you just become unimportant if you're not Goku or Gohan. Now, Hiro also never forgets. And that's usually a good thing, since Fairy Tail can have some interesting characters. However, in this chapter, it was a bad thing. Because we were greeted with this.

What...what is this?...I...I don't even...

The moment I saw him, I wasn't gonna review today. I was seriously going to shove this off on Per-chan because Ichiya's face sickens me. I hate everything about him and honestly he needs to die just to get out of my face. To make matters worse, he won. So, fuck you Hiro and on with the non-ugly shit. Quatro Puppy's strength must have come from their name. The moment their name got changed, they got SERIOUSLY WEAK.

They had to cut this short for the previous crap

Kagura and Miliana and Leon and Yuuka fight...offscreen. THAT would have been a much better fight and Hiro, I am disappointed in you. No cookie, no cookie. It ended in a draw apparently. Now, onto the meat and potatoes of the chapter...or, if you're just fucking classy, the caviar and wine of the chapter.

FINALLY, THIS IS WHAT THIS CHAPTER SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!! HIRO, GO TO HELL!!

Also...Gazelle? WHEN DID GAJEEL'S NAME BECOME GAZELLE!? Also, in the end, we get treated to a spectacular view of Igneel mulling over is thoughts, apparently having lost the ability of internal dialogue in the last fourteen years. SHIT JUST GOT REAL ]]

Igneel is literally the only reason I reviewed this chapter. But, given what he said, speculation is a given. So, without further ado:

This makes it justifiable! (c) Tekking101 "Vice Logia" and "Skyadrum" are most likely Rogue and Sting's "parents". Given the name "Skyadrum", one of them is probably a Sky Dragon Slayer of some sort (deny me not). I'm not sure if Dragons can share elements, but a name like that would imply it. I can't piece together "Vice Logia" tho, which makes sense, Dragon's names don't give away their element.

All I know is, the Dragon King Festival is not going to end prettily. Screw the fact that Lucy is probably gonna die in this arc (with Levi's post-apocalyptic log), but Igneel mentioned "the time for them to take action is drawing to a close". What do you mean, Igneel, and why does my brain hurt for all time?

Score
I scored the story portion here higher than I should have, only because the last few pages picked the chapter up a little bit. The fight was horrid, and yes, I went into the negatives in my scoring, so what, wanna fight about it? The art was good, Ichiya is fucking FREAKY but the art was still really good, especially near the end with Igneel.

Poll
How did you like this chapter? It was excellent!! It was Ok. Only the ending saved it.