Episode 12 – Fairy Tail: 100 12 months Quest

Apart from Lucy getting screwed and the fights occurring a bit too lengthy, I haven’t had too many issues with this storyline up to now, which is a little more constant than I’ve typically anticipated from this present. We had been most likely too late to be coping with any sort of weirdness. Even when I had recognized that, I can’t say I used to be ready for the way a lot weirdness we had been about to get , and the way a lot of it was in service of jokes. Individually, most of those wouldn’t be that annoying, however collectively they make for one of many present’s weirdest outings shortly.

First, it’s time to look again at Erza and Jellal’s romantic adventures, which have slowly gone from humorous to barely awkward, as Jellal decides to tie Erza up along with his magic earlier than doing the deed. Erza begs him to let her go, since being tied up like this solely reminds her of her days as a slave and that’s not how she desires their first time to go. Fortunately, he agrees, since even when he was possessed, he might by no means carry himself to do something that will harm her, and I suppose it’s good to know that even he understands the significance of consent. After all, it wouldn’t be within the nature of the present to take any of this too severely, so earlier than issues can go any additional, Erza distracts him lengthy sufficient to tie him up, and she or he goes again to combating Laxus. It’s definitely not essentially the most elegant technique to finish this bit, however it was beginning to lose its objective. And the truth that Jellal assumed Erza tied him up as some form of foreplay was most likely a superb level for this story. So general, I do not thoughts how this ended.

I can not say the identical about Natsu’s struggle with Wraith, who pulls off maybe one of the vital contrived stunts I’ve ever seen on this movie. franchise (and that is saying rather a lot). As Wraith begins to pound on Natsu by means of Makarov’s physique, he realizes that he is synced up a bit too effectively with Makarov, and wonders if the 2 is likely to be associated, since his possession works higher on blood kinfolk. As bizarre as it could be to counsel that Makarov may need a secret love baby or one thing at this level, I feel I’d have most popular that to the precise fact. That is as a result of Wraith is definitely a former Fairy tail a member of the household who died an premature loss of life in Makarov’s arms all this time. Now that he has regained these reminiscences, he can now not carry himself to struggle Natsu and decides to peacefully cross into the afterlife.

That is removed from the primary time we have seen the present give a villain a random connection to the Fairy tail guild, however that is completely the worst instance the present has ever pulled. Not solely does it come out of nowhere, however the present doesn’t even linger on this revelation lengthy sufficient to squeeze any actual emotion out of it, as a result of even in Wraith’s flashback, he solely lives lengthy sufficient to die for Makarov. It’s melodrama for melodrama’s sake, and even figuring out how a lot significance Mashima likes to put on “bonds stronger than blood” and such, there’s a time and a spot to throw that message in, and this isn’t it. I suppose the one upside is that this entire sequence didn’t take up an excessive amount of of the episode’s runtime, however the truth that it was over so shortly solely makes the twist worse, and it’s simply one of many weakest scripts the present has had shortly.

Whereas much less annoying as compared, I additionally wasn’t all that keen on the joke we received with Grey, Juvia, and Lucy encountering Cana, since all of them found that she was by no means possessed and was just too drunk to inform the remainder of the guild what occurred to her. It’s humorous, positive, however it doesn’t actually maintain as much as scrutiny contemplating it’s been no less than a couple of days at this level and even she’s solely received a restricted quantity of alcohol. Usually I’d be okay with that, because it falls below the present’s traditional model of comedy, however what makes this twist lame is that we get it proper after Lucy realizes that she might most likely seize the entire possessed guild members utilizing Cana’s playing cards, since they each use an identical type of magic. Whereas it was (most likely) unintentional, it nonetheless seems like a technique to hold Lucy from making an actual contribution to the crew. And given this and the truth that her struggle was minimize quick, it is exhausting to not really feel like Mashima ought to give the poor woman an opportunity.

Apart from that, we nonetheless have Wendy in the midst of a struggle with the spider-man, however it doesn’t actually appear to be going in some way, so it’s exhausting to say the way it’ll finish. We additionally get a fast conclusion of Kiria taking over Laxus, who finally ends up utterly crushing her, however not earlier than giving his traditional speech about how he’s bodily robust however emotionally weak on the within and the way being within the guild has helped him work on that. By some means, that each one feels like a turn-on in Kiria’s head, and she or he finally ends up falling in love with him. It’s a bit bizarre contemplating she’s solely had eyes for Erza up till this level, however contemplating that that resulted in certainly one of Erza’s worst moments shortly, I’m open to turning Kiria into Laxus’ weirdo admirer as an alternative, as a result of no less than that appears humorous if it leads someplace.

Talking of unusual admirers, it ends with Natsu and Comfortable working into Touka, who begs Natsu to assist her, however we’ll have to attend per week to see how that performs out. All in all, this was most likely the present’s weakest outing shortly, and even when I am used to a few of Mashima’s abrupt left-wing swerves, I did not anticipate to expertise so a lot of them. On the plus facet, none of them had been unhealthy sufficient to utterly suck the momentum out of this arc, however I am hoping this was all only a little bit of a tough patch and that subsequent week will clean issues out a bit.

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Fairy Tail: 100 12 months Quest is at present streaming on Crunchyroll.