User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 353 - The Dark Magic's Purification

"That man thought...he thought I was a 'demon'. He froze the entire village to eradicate me...an exorcist mage. A Devil Slayer."

- Atlas Flame



Welcome to the Chapter Review Corner



The chapter has been released, and that means it's time to blog. To those new to my blog, welcome. To my continued readership, all I have to say is, thanks. SARA, how's it looking?



It took a minute, but we have achieved 100% asskicking.

Once again, this will be a fairly short chapter because not much happened. Well, not in terms of action but...-sighs- you'll see. So, Atlas Flame is back (sadly), but he's not "alive", it's his spirit. Odd, that last arc was so soul-crushing, I'm surprised Atlas Flame survived it. Despite being a spirit, his memory is rather messed up, due to being frozen like he was. One single person froze this entire village, and Atlas Flame, in ice. Let me repeat that. This person. Froze. Fire. And what exactly is this person?



....Devil Slayer. Devil Slayer.

My reaction to this chapter

Another Slayer? Hiro, Dragon and the alleged 'God' Slayer were enough. We don't need ANOTHER type of Slayer. On the note of this, with the introduction of Devil Slayers, please consult this before actually thinking about touching one. This goes to explain why the ice harmed Deliora, at least. He was a demon, just touching that ice seemed to harm him. Everyone's reaction to this is, naturally, shocked, but let's move on as Flare asks Atlas Flame to save the village from it's frozen state.

Probably the only decent moment this chapter.

He uses the last of his power to rescue the village, and Minerva, seeing this, runs like the waste of space she is, before saying she and Erza will have their match later, on a grander scale. Yeah, keep dreaming, minor villain. We also learn that Igneel was trying to destroy E.N.D., the strongest of Zeref's magics, but was unable to. So....plot? Then we meet the man himself.

....okay, this dude looks fucking cool.

Speculation Corner
This makes it justifiable!

A quick little theory I developed in a massive amount of excitement, hear me out. What if this man, Silver, is Gray's father? Yes, I know, he and his wife were killed by Deliora, but, what if he survived? I mean, he looks like Gray, he uses ice, and Gray himself has been receiving, this man could very well be his father. And if it is, what if (Ash proposed this theory), Gray joins him, and learns Ice-Devil Slayer? It's not entirely impossible, if Silver is Gray's father who somehow survived Deliora's attack.

Now, time to score this thing.

Score
Fairy Tail's art is always good, but this is the only thing about the chapter I enjoyed, so, 10/10. The story 3/10. We found out about E.N.D. and Devil Slayer, but we didnt' do much besides that. There was no fight. Overall, it was an Okay chapter.



Fairy Tail is all done for today, but it'll be back next week with Fairy Tail 354- Effy Artis. I look forward to all of your comments, but try to behave, we don't want to have to play mediator.