Fairy Tail, Chapter 461: For Whose Sake Is That Perfume?
Okay, I'm back! While I'm gone I've caught up with The Flash and watched a couple episodes of the other superhero series I'm reviewing, but expect those to be up... well, later, as I try to work through this metric ton of manga reviews.
First up, Fairy Tail. Don't really have much to say about this one, I'm afraid. It thankfully doesn't regress back to the old-and-tired formula of "good guy looks like s/he's in big trouble, suddenly gets an inexplicable power-up, one-shots the bad guy for no reason". But on the other hand, there's really nothing going on for it beyond having, y'know, Ichiya around. And Ichiya's always great for comedy due to how actually daft and funny he is -- something the rest of the Fairy Tail cast pretends to be. It's bad because... well, because there's really no tension at all to it. Bickslow and Evergreen gets... blackened up a little because of the bomb. Big whoop. Ichiya quote-unquote sacrifices himself by taking the hit from the giant cannon with his ship. I don't particularly care. The fact that you know every single person right down to that doof-ass clown Quatro Cerberus dude is protected by plot armour means that it sucks out all the tension that this fight might have. There's not even the threat of losing their magic forever or being crippled or anything like that, so it's just oh, it's sort of a well written scene but we know nothing lasting is going to happen.
Ichiya cries over the Raijinshuu sacrificing themselves protecting him from Walhricht's body exploding, after an extended (not that I really minded) sequence of him being the butt monkey. We get Walhricht's real body and Di-Maria talking shit about the Spriggan Ten members that have been defeated. Wahlricht... looks like Cobra. So, uh, brothers or some shit? I don't particularly care. Walhricht summons this cool-ass cannon, it's intercepted by Ichiya's ship, and calls the other guilds for help.
Great joy. More people for Natsu and Erza to upstage.
At least Ichiya and Freed managed to be awesome last chapter, even if it'll be underscored by one of the A-Team asshats taking out Walricht's real body. Oh well.
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