Fairy Tail 440 Review: The Top Wizard Saints

Fairy Tail, Chapter 440: God Serena

Yeah, I'm kind of late, but I'm kind of busy this week. Sue me. I'll do this week's Shonen Jump chapters, plus Fairy Tail and Nanatsu no Taizai, but next week and the one after that might be a bit short and spotty.

Anyway, Fairy Tail. Doranbolt Mest continues to talk about the whole Magic Council thing, and talks about how Warrod has been helping him out under the orders of Makarov, and apparently the Ten Wizard Saints have became the new Magic Council and the whole Arbaless (or Alvarez or whatever you want it translated as) Country war situation thing. Natsu is all like 'let's rescue the master!' and Mest is all like 'well I've done his orders now let's make his sacrifice meaningless by going into the enemy's den' and Erza is all 'as a master I cannot condone this but as a member let's rescue him'. Granted Makarov's plan is a phenomenally stupid one because not only does it cause emotional trauma, the guild ended up reforming because Fairy Tail is all about friendship, but Makarov also apparently didn't tell all their other guild friends or the council so they can prepare, but hey.

Erza is also all like 'this is a quiet stealth mission'... yeah, Erza, you should really go look in the mirror or something.

Juvia is being her usual 'Gray-sama Gray-sama' self and really it's been four hundred chapters and she's been in a fairly good chunk of it, and her character really extends to 'being stupidly in love with Gray'... and it's really getting old. Can we do something with Juvia? Something cool? I kind of like her before she ended up being totally Flanderized into hopeless love comedy butt monkey. Character development? No? Something that doesn't involve her making stupid unfunny kya kya Gray moments? But Gajeel shows up and he wants to reform the B-Team. Mirajane and Cana happens to just be hanging around them, and Gajeel wants to hunt down Laxus, making their own five-man team to go to Arbaless themselves.

Which is good, because the B-Team is made up of all my favourite Fairy Tail characters and the A-Team has been so ridiculously obnoxious in the past two or three arcs, so yeah.

And then we cut away to the Magic Council, where Levy meets up with Jura and Warrod about Fairy Tail's revival, as well as officiating Levy, Gajeel and Lily's removal from the Council forces because friendship. It's been hinted several times before that the four top members of the Ten Wizard Saints above Jura are not humans, and Warrod is a Broccoli-man... and we meet the rest of the Ten Wizard Saints. Number three initially looks like a normal old man, who is called Wolfheim and calls Warrod out on feigning senility. He then transforms into this giant scaled monster that looks like Elfman crossed with... Ezel, I think? One of the Tartaros demons. Jura is totally freaked out which is funny.

Wolfheim is all pissed off at Warrod, but he is stopped from doing anything by number two, Hyperion, who also looks all human but with some kind of a vampire vibe to him. With Wolfheim being all 'wolf'-y I guess they're going for a werewolf-vampire thing? Except Wolfheim is a scale beast thing instead of a wolf? Hyperion is drinking milk from a wine glass which is a nice little visual gag that isn't called out, which is nice.

Hyperion tells them that Wizard Saint #1, God Serena, has joined the Arbaless country's "Spriggan Twelve", which protects the Emperor. Also, God Serena is a dude (despite his name) that looks like Yuri Dreyar with two giant bunny-ear-hair things on his head and a line across his face. And if he is Yuri, brainwashed or simply just straight-up evil, it's nice since that will make the whole Lumen Histoire and Makarov plot points so much more relevant.

Not particularly bothered with Spriggan Twelve beyond giggling slightly at remembering those Skyrim Spriggans, but apparently Levy and company immediately assumes that the other members of the Spriggan Twelve is as powerful as God Serena... but I'm sure they'll just be another quirky bad guy army like Tartaros or Grimoire Heart and all the big villains that's built up as this giant awesome group of people and end up having half its members being kind of shitty jokes.

Hopefully we don't have Yuri being a double-agent because we already had that with Doranbolt (Doranbolt is a member of the council! But not really, he's a double agent), Tartaros (Silver is evil! But not really, he's an double agent) and Avatar (Gray is evil! But not really, he's an double agent). Shame it's probably going to end with FRIENDSHIP if it's Yuri.

I really hope we get a proper war or invasion arc where we can see some of the lesser characters and these Wizard Saints and the other guilds actually fight all these however many hundred guilds of Arbaless and not be just Team Natsu versus a bunch of other strong mages, so I guess I am kind of hopeful.