Fairy Tail 456 Review: Seen enough hentai to know where this is going

Fairy Tail, Chapter 456: Order

Not quite as fun as the last chapter since we open up with a rather boring 'Natsu fire-punches someone and other characters comment on how fucking awesome Natsu is' that has been regurgitated to us ad nauseam throughout this manga, but at least Bakyll (or however the fuck you pronounce his name) is totally fine, and while the manga tries to play it up by having Happy extend the joke to a whole page, it is kinda cool for Natsu to actually worry about magic consumption.

We get a bit of Charle, Wendy and Gajeel doing the things they always do, before Kalim attacks Gajeel, and Kalim's attacks apparently involves, uh, shooting black stuff that explodes. Then we get Gray, Juvia, Elfman and Lisanna doing the things they usually do in quick succession. Mirajane uses Satan Soul... Sayla. Which, I admit, is pretty cool. I'm not quite sure how Take Over works, really. Does Mirajane absorb Sayla herself instead of just essences of her power? Because Elfman and Lisanna goes all 'if she hadn't saved Sayla, she would've died.'

Well, at least Mirajane is weaponizing Sayla and her Macro mind-controlling abilities because, y'know, Sayla tried to have Elfman suicide bomb everyone there and is complicit in torturing Mirajane herself. It's nowhere as bad or poorly-handled as Minerva's "redemption". Mirajane takes out the whole swarm of Yu-Gi-Oh cosplayers, but Mr. Adjucator and some of the mooks around him is unaffected. So Mirajane vs. Adjucator, whatever his name is? Or, well, the Strauss siblings, Gray and Juvia against the Adjucator. 

Erza is still trapped in the sandstorm tornado with her magic not responding, and that's the only scene we see her in. Still unconvinced that Erza won't Marysue her way out of this, though.

Then we get this absolutely eyeball-roll inducing scene between Warren, Max and Mavis that's just, well... it's not a friendship speech, and I guess the minor characters get something to do, but it's just such a weak, drawn-out scene. Warren basically is in a state of shock because, well, who can blame the dude, he's a minor character with a non-offensive magic. Max crushes his family jewels, does some "we're all scared but we must fight" speech, a gajillion times better than a friendship speech. Then Warren gives Max an anal stab with a broom, er, um.

Warren's big conviction moment just involves him, um, asking Bisca how much longer till Jupiter can shoot. That's absolutely anticlimatic. But I literally can't give two shits about Warren so why not.

Then we get to see Brandish and Lucy in their bathroom and, um... Brandish is basically super-passive-aggressively telling Lucy to strip and get into the bathtub with her. Because, er, hentai lesbian sex, I assume? Brandish notes how she can just reduce the entire town into a tiny prick and just step on it, and the only reason why she hasn't done it is because she wants that hot lesbian sexxings, I guess? Tasteless jokes aside this would be considerably a metric fuckton more creepy if it was a dude in the bathtub telling Lucy to strip and join him, but since it's Brandish it's just 'oooh fanservice'. And, well, it's just rather blah other than the fact that I actually do like Brandish a bit so yay for more Brandish, I guess?