User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 324 - In Which I AM SO CONFUSED, MAKE SOME SENSE ALREADY (The One That Closed The Gates)

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- Hisui E. Fiore

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Think you can sit through the whole thing? Aaaaaaaand....go!

Okay. This chapter...I like it, I definitely like it. Hiro at least seems to care about what he's doing again, moreso than the Grand Magic Games near the end.

So Rogue arrives and apparently he did save Fairy Tail from those guys, it explains why he left them alive at least. Cut to Arcadios and the Princess, who says that Rogue also came to save the world. Okay, I think we can make a club out of this. All the people I know who have gone back in time to save the world or save themselves, either on purpose or by accident. So, let's see...Ichigo, Lucy, Negi, Chao, and Trunks. What a group.

Now that I look at it, I'm missing Kagome. Either way, we can add Rogue to this group. Know what? In the comment section, you all can tell me characters from series you've read that I probably haven't, was there a time traveler who came back to save the world? ...Now I realize I'm missing Mikuru from Haruhi! Wow, this is really a really overused concept. Not that I can talk, given what I'm planning.

Anyway, the Princess decides to make her move...and in any other series, I'd fall over laughing, shouting "YOU'RE A WOMAN, WHAT CAN YOU DO!?" but this is Fairy Tail, where women can look good and matter to the plot. And while all this is going on, Jellal and company are rushing to the castle. Friggin' Hiro, we have all these side-stories going on at the same time. What's next, Mavis goes shopping? ...actually, I'd like that. Rogue's plan is to open the gates. It'll be easier to show you why than to tell you, I'm running on a schedule: I'MMA FIRIN' MA...don't have time for this >_<

Naturally you'd wonder why not do this in the future. Well, Rogue is from 7 years in the future (yet another instance of 7 years) and, well, ...dragons have taken over again and humanity is mostly dead. The Eclipse is far weaker. So the idea is to open the gates NOW, but apparently someone will stop them, so Rogue must kill them. He's gone all Part I Neji on us, where everything is decided by Destiny. I know a Destiny, and she has nothing to do with this manga series, Rogue. Just when we're wondering who it is, Rogue claims it's Lucy and tries to kill her but...well, he...kinda succeeds. LUCYCEPTION!

As she dies, we go through a whole crying montage and I really dislike it. We get it, it's sad, but...am I the only one who thinks Happy ruined any feels you could get from this moment? At least when he shuts up, I almost started to cry. As we all expected, Lucy's Guild Mark arm is missing and....Natsu is....really less than pleased by this entire ordeal. Lucy denies that she'd ever close the gates, but Rogue is firm on everything being decided by destiny, and tries to kill Lucy again. Somewhere, GraLu fans are crying.

This has been the one time I have WANTED to see Natsu rip someone a new one. I like Rogue but...no. Killing Future!Lucy was uncalled for.

Poll
What did you think of this chapter? I liked it! Lucy's death was done well, and I'm eager to see what's coming. I didn't like it. I expected something different from Rogue, this is a let down, and I didn't care for Future Lucy to begin with.

Now with that....let's bring up the scoreboard.

Score
Fairy Tail's art is always awesome, I can't help but give it a 10/10. The story, I'm gonna give an 8.5/10, purely because I like where it's headed. It PROBABLY should have scored a little lower, but this is my own bias towards how I like what's happening that gave it the score it did. There was no fight this chapter, but overall, it was Very Good.

Fairy Tail is all done for today, but I it'll be back next week with Fairy Tail 325 - Unity. Anyway, comment as you please, I enjoy them, go wild, I don't care if you keep it clean.