Fairy Tail, Chapter 473: Red Lightning
Villain gains an advantage with a barrage of attacks, including one that looks to be a super-huge explosion. Fairy Tail member gasps and has blood on their face and looks ragged. Villain is about to launch a more powerful attack. Fairy Tail member manages to bullshit and/or determination and/or friendship their way to surviving the attack. Fairy Tail member launches a powerful attack that really ends up just being portrayed as a punch (or sword, if Gray or Erza is applicable) that one-shots the enemy. A speech about friendship and about Fairy Tail being family is undeniably involved. Flashbacks are optional.
Sound familiar? Yeah? Because it's how every fucking fight in Fairy Tail ends.
And I'm being harsh because this particular one isn't even bad. If it was done like a hundred or two hundred chapters ago when Fairy Tail was still in the 200's or even 300's, it would've been a half-decent fight, even. It's in what is implied to be the final arc, and we're just getting utterly bland and uninteresting fights that are really identikit.
The fact that Wahlricht, this super-smart robot with all sorts of gundam gimmicks, ends up not realizing that, oh, shooting lightning at the fucking lightning man would do anything but empower him. Wahlricht is just a boring villain with robot dialogue, and the 'personality change' thing ends up being stupidly utilized here just to show Wahlricht's mentality breaking down.
We at least get some justification for Laxus's power up by goading Wahlricht to break the Jutsu Shiki spell that Laxus cast, and... absorbing the energy from there... how, exactly, I don't know, because there really is nothing to imply that Wahlricht's Jutsu Shiki cancelling spell was lightning-based, and honestly it would've made far more sense if Laxus just ate that Etherion blast and actually enters Dragon Force. It would've been something far more interesting, at least.
Of course, I can't even feign surprise, because I said this was what was going to happen.
Hey, Hiro Mashima, you know, there are other ways of fighting that doesn't involve a single punch or a single sword slash, right? I mean, you are writing a manga where the characters use motherfucking elemental magic. Jeez.
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