Episode 14 – Fairy Tail: 100 Years of Quest

After taking a break for an episode recap, Fairy Tail: 100 Years of Quest is again for one more courand with a brand new opening track. Sadly, since Fairy tail OPs have nearly by no means been something aside from enhanced clips of upcoming fights and characters, there’s not a lot else to understand aside from the track itself. Nonetheless, it is at the very least nearly as good because the final one, so I am at the very least glad the present did not bear a downgrade in that space. I am way more blended in regards to the episode connected to it, although, as we get the climax of Wendy’s combat with the spider man, and whereas it has a good payoff, the street to it feels slightly shakier than it wanted to be. are.

However earlier than I get into that, let’s take a fast take a look at Erza and Laxus, who had been beforehand simply seconds away from Kiria’s dinner. Simply as she is about to arrange a meal with Laxus, the Dragon Eaters determine to retreat, as Natsu has ‘defeated’ Wraith, they usually now not have the manpower to defeat the Wooden God Dragon. It is a bit of an anticlimax, however they at the very least tease that they’re going to be sending their heavy fighters for his or her subsequent operation. Kiria makes it clear that she’s not fairly carried out with Laxus but, so there’ll at the very least be one thing to stay up for the subsequent time they seem.

However whereas the remainder of his guild decides to retreat, the spider man nonetheless desires to eat Wendy, who decides to settle the combat by utilizing Dragon Pressure. Nonetheless, it seems he also can use Dragon Pressure, and when a fifth-generation Dragon Slayer like him makes use of it, they turn out to be way more dragon-like at the price of dropping management (it additionally principally simply turns him into Venom and provides him the Symbiote Go well with , however between the lengthy tongue and the creepy bug eyes, I most likely ought to have seen that coming). This transformation in the end turns into an excessive amount of for Wendy and causes her to conclude that she has probably not turn out to be stronger than she thought, and has solely gotten this far because of the folks round her.

Usually I am in favor of this type of realization in some other context, however on this case it feels actually pointless. Whereas I’ve beforehand complained about how a lot Lucy tends to get crushed in her fights in comparison with the remainder of the present’s feminine forged, Wendy has usually been an instance of how nicely she may be dealt with as Mashima in any respect shoots cylinders, like us I’ve seen her steadily develop in each confidence and fight expertise all through the collection. If something, she’s most likely had probably the most upward trajectory by way of character improvement of nearly anybody Fairy tail‘s ensemble (nicely, aside from Gajeel anyway), so it feels slightly bizarre to pause on that simply so we will get a second of weak point that does not actually really feel prefer it’s including something since it isn’t as if Wendy had ever lacked modesty. After all, it would not actually assist that this little bit of self-reflection takes place whereas her garments are partially torn to shreds and she or he’s pinned down with sticky webs, and regardless that I am normally fairly detached to most of that stuff. Fairy tail‘s common model of fanservicethat by no means occurs not really feel bizarre when Wendy is uncovered to it, and this occasion borders on coming off as notably awkward.

Fortunately, that is all in the end a build-up to Wendy demonstrating a brand new capacity within the type of a magical woman transformation, and whereas I am unable to say it was all value it, it is at the very least fairly neat in its personal proper. Particularly, we study that she has found methods to channel a few of Irene’s spell magic into her personal because of the time she possessed her throughout their combat, and it additionally has the facet impact of turning Irene right into a (Dragon) Pressure Ghost to assist Wendy on methods to finest use her powers. As cool as it’s, it did value me some factors when Irene seemingly tried to pressure Wendy to kill the spider man, solely to have him lose his capacity to make use of magic. Determining methods to management Irene’s ruthlessness appeared to have been a very good trade-off for the facility enhance, so having Irene unequivocally on Wendy’s facet after attempting to take her over of their final encounter is a little bit of a letdown . Nonetheless, Wendy having to maintain all this secret from Erza looks as if at the very least one thing that would have critical penalties down the street, and whereas it is laborious to guess if the present will really decide to that, there’s loads of potential that I am. to see the way it seems.

Talking of disappointments, I someway hadn’t realized till now that Mest hadn’t appeared on this total sequel till now, and since I’ve by no means actually been a fan of his entire double-triple-agent shtick, or his entire I feel it has benefited from his absence. Whereas he is lower than his common antics in that regard, his first look right here exhibits that he is nonetheless as unhealthy as ever. He appears to have been much more brainwashed by the White Mage than the remainder of his guildmates, and the White Mage realizes that she may have simply used his teleportation magic to destroy the orbs all alongside and save the combating from the previous few episodes . I am certain he’ll return to regular ultimately, however I am in no rush to see him again on the guild, so so far as I am involved, that enables the present to final on a regular basis it desires. . Now that he is destroying the final orbs, plainly the White Mage has succeeded in her plans to strip the Wooden God Dragon of his powers, however I’ve a sense this would possibly not work the best way she thinks it would and it appears Like this. extra doubtless, she achieved precisely the other. We’ll see how that performs out in subsequent week’s episode, however contemplating how shaky this arc has felt, I am simply glad that it appears like its finish is lastly in sight.

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Fairy Tail: 100 Years of Quest at present streaming on Crunchyroll.