User blog:Firegod00/In Which Hiro Doesn’t Make “Blaze It” Jokes (Lamia Scale’s Thanksgiving)

Lucky you guys. A second FRBAWL in a row. For those who are just joining the show, FRBAWL stands for Fire Reviews Because Aha Was Lazy...although in this case, the poor bastard is sick, so this week’s review is more of a FRBAWS than anything else. Hopefully, Aha's good for next week.

To commemorate the rare treat, I have two surprises for ya: First, I actually have some images...and secondly, a guest speaker on Chapter 420, my partner Mangetsu. That’s right, you get to see a counterpoint to the usual wrath and bile that I spew forth on some matters. But I think the act should speak for itself no? So without further ado...

REBEL 3! Action!

The chapter opens on the buffoon (Natsu) and Lucy stopping near a now-rebuilt clock tower that Natsu blew up (not that I would know which chapter you can find that event in, I started in the quagmire of shit that was the Dragon/Eclipse Gate arc, whatever it was). Natsu comments on wanting to blow it up again, earning a smack from Lucy. Natsu screams about how he wants to fight to test his training. When I read this page, I felt like a madman, because we all know Natsu fighting is always a curbstomp victory in his favor, meaning that it’s all bullshit...Not everyone can be the protagonist of a story where the good guys never lose in actual combat (nor do they seem to get beat even when the enemy cheats). Fuck it... Mang’s reaction to the page above: And here's the problem of having your initial Timeskip Quest in gathering up the Guild. Natsu here wants to go wreckloose because he's spent so many years training and tempering his abilities but our goal is...lackadaisical. It feels really like a forced way for us to reunite with those who've scattered across the winds in trying to take down Zeref and Acnologia

He challenges Lucy to a spar, which she agrees to, until, well...Natsu exhales a fucking wind bullet that zips between Lucy’s legs and off into the distance. He clobbers two thieves off in the distance without actually being able to see them. He sniped them...or rather, scored a no scope



Mang : Heeeeee got aaaaa...No-Scope-No-Scope-No-Scope

Fire: FUCK NO! I didn’t know you knew that!

Anyway, the trio of misfits ends up staying at an inn. Natsu has a proverbial cow when he hears Lucy doesn’t know where all of the other FT twerps are. Laughable, predictable and so immature it hurts. It was this scene, here...that proved it, once and for all. Hiro can’t let his characters grow in the way they need to. Lucy says they should go visit Lamia Scale. Natsu latches on to the idea he can fight Lyon and Jura and the dog-faced guy. Again, predictable and pathetic lack of character growth here.

Lucy drops the hint that she knows somebody got into the LS guild...and we cut to the town, during Thanksgiving. So Lyon’s on stage doing some ice magic tricks and ends up creating birds and bunnies, without showing a lick of emotion really, or as Mang called it, his “stoic face being fabulous”. Toby (dog-faced bastard) does imitations of himself crying and other shit, so to call them imitations of anything is a crime. Then the guild master starts doing an oriental dance and tries to strip on stage...thank Bael that was averted.

Finally, we get to the yuri/loli FT fanboy’s dream page. I’d like to share Mang’s take on this one, since he can sum it up far better.

I personally liked this bit. It showed that, unlike Natsu, everyone else has gone on and matured without him. It's kind of sad really, the ONE character I wanted to see have some development past the death of his surrogate father (case his real daddy is his literal author *coughZerefcough*). But enough about that...I genuinely was pleasantly surprised at seeing her here. Being a good friend with Chelia (one of her shining moments in the Grand Magic Games Arc) helps spice up the flair of her debut. It also helps that she takes on a singing role (not sure why Natsu dislikes it beyond him just being an ass -.-) which is usually a plus in my book for cute moe girls. So yeah, I personally loved this part of the chapter in an otherwise mix-bagged update...also Charle's Neko form is cute too, just thought to throw that out there as well XD



Just in case you were curious about the cat.



And now for the shock to the livers of all who drink my poisonous bile, I can’t argue here. Sure, my brain may or may not have thought things that I can’t disclose here, being a classy bastard that I am...but I can’t find a reason to complain here.

The final page is some doof thinking he can disrupt the festivities...and we all know how that’s gonna go down. I’m not even gonna dignify that with wit nor snark.

And that’s the end of the FRBAWL folk. If ya hate me for it, get over yourselves, cause I don’t care. If ya love it, well then I love you too, my little sheeplings. (Name the character and game that's from, and I will give you a damned cookie. No googling, please...let's have some fun)