Fairy Tail, Chapter 445: Filthy Fairies
So, yeah. It's mostly an uneventful chapter with Zeref just monologuing about his master plan the totally-retconned plot for this arc. But first we see four members of the Spriggan Twelve -- first up is the "Winter General" Imber, who is your generic bishonen smart-looking handsome character with an odd looking pattern on his cloak. Zeref and Imber talk a while about reassembling all the Spriggan Twelve, and they kind of do a little comparison of Zeref and winds, like a breeze or whatever...
And then these two tools show up and start randomly talking about storms and spring breezes and sandstorms and whatnot and bsaically drives the whole wind metaphor straight into the ground. These two dudes are the "War Princess" Dimaria Goesta and "Desert King" Azir Lamur. Azir is shirtless, has a sorta-generically-Middle-Eastern theme going on and a ridiculous explosion of hair. Dimaria is a generic looking stripperiffic lady with big boobs. Then there is this old dude, "Magic King" August, with a spiky cape, a giant staff and looks like Hades's twin brother or some shit. He talks about Ragnarok, which is apparently the same thing as the Dragon King Festival.
The weird long-necked old dude from last chapter is apparently not a member of Spriggan Twelve, and his name is Yajeel... is he related to Gajeel? What a freaking weird name. Yajeel. He is just the minister, and he introduces Makarov to Zeref.
Zeref tells his people to leave the two of them alone, and Makarov goes all "are you Spriggan or are you Zeref" which is kind of a stupid question because what the fuck Makarov have you gone senile? Zeref answers "I am both", possibly trying to hold down his incredulous laughter because what kind of a question is that.
Apparently, Zeref has planned for the Dragon King Festival for centuries (despite being all emo and just hanging out in Tenrou Island and only awakened by the Fairy Tail/Grimoire Heart war) and has founded Albaress for that purpose, and it's just grown on its own -- apparently Zeref just wants to battle Acnologia (despite not caring about humans or anything at all, before, y'know, the Tenrou Island business) and the Spriggan Twelve attempted to invade Ishgar on their won. And apparently Lumen Histoire is the greatest of the Fairy Tail magics, known as Fairy Heart. I mean, it's not like anyone ever uses Fairy Law or Fairy Glitter at all after their introduction, so whatever.
Zeref does a monologue on how he intends to exterminate mankind in the Dragon King Festival, basically having them be destroyed in the ensuing battle between Albaress and Acnologia.
Isn't Zeref's goal is to have himself, y'know, killed? Why bother creating all these elaborate plans to combat Acnologia and whatnot if all he wants to do is to die? What's the point of END then? Eh, whatever.
Makarov spouts off some lame comebacks like "I won't let you do it" or some shit. Zeref force-pushes Makarov away, thanks him for raising Natsu, says that Spriggan isn't a demon but a fairy and is about to straight-up murder Makarov when Doranbolt teleports in and grabs Makarov and escapes. How the fuck did Doranbolt get all the way to the middle of Zeref's castle without anyone noticing, and why did he know just when to hop in and rescue Makarov? Kind of poorly written, this sequence. Makarov gets greeted by everyone, while Zeref just knows that Natsu has arrived.
But yeah, Makarov's just being kind of stupid all throughout this sequence. None of the Spriggan Twelve members introduced here really feels like they're going to be interesting, no hint of a personality beyond Azir and Dimaria kind of being like tools and the other two being relatively competent no-nonsense dudes.
I guess I'm excited that we seem to be heading up to the finale -- it would certainly have more impact, again, if I read it straight after the Tartaros arc or straight after the timeskip instead of having the whole "let's re-recruit every single god damn person" bullshit. But eh, I've bitched about that particular mess enough.
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