Fairy Tail 448 Review: How to Utterly Waste Twenty Pages

Fairy Tail, Chapter 448: Fight the Power

This is going to be a short review, because how else can it be not? Is there anything of value in these twenty pages? I read it twice, and came out with... nothing. There is absolutely nothing. At least in previous chapters they were advancing the plot, however slowly and long-windedly and predictably. This chapter? There is absolutely nothing to talk about. The entire chapter is basically being all "STATUS QUO IS GOD NOTHING WILL EVER EVER CHANGE", which is something that I absolutely loathe about Fairy Tail. Again, it affirms that nothing can change the personalities of these characters -- they're making the same old jokes again and again -- and nothing can make any significant change to the characters. Team Laxus joins Blue Pegasus? Literally no one gives a fuck, because, yep, in two or three chapters they're back with Fairy Tail. Erza becomes the new master? Makarov is stuck in enemy territory? Status. Quo. The entire chapter, again, is re-establishing the same old things over and over and over again, with absolutely no new information whatsoever given to us. Then they make the same "oh we gon beat the super strong enemy because FRIENDSHIP" speech they made over thirty times. The same old inane jokes that's been made countless times throughout older chapters -- jokes that used to take two or three pages the first time they were told, are now stretched out over twenty pages. And we even had Lucy flashback to the very last chapter because Fairy Tail wants to outdo the already bad Naruto in terms of unneeded flashbacks. And the ending? Mavis showing up to explain Lumen Histoire, and then saying jack shit that we don't already know about? They're not even planning their next move, they're just reiterating their situation in different ways, then claiming they're going to beat their enemy just because and it's at this point that you know that these characters all have plot armour so thick that not a single one of them will suffer any more than a boo-boo during the final battle. That's it. Because status quo is god. Absolutely nothing changes at all. Literally nothing is allowed to change. Since the end of Tartaros until now, a good thirty-two chapters, only three things really changed: the Zeref Dragneel revelation, the fact that Natsu has a mysterious bandage, and Charle can transform into a loli-catgirl. Literally nothing else changed, because who the fuck cares about the Spriggan Twelve? Natsu's going to beat them by punching them without getting any sort of explanation of his power up.

Mother fuck, Fairy Tail, just because you have like seven spinoff titles that are telling the same bullshit story and a big selling anime that happens to be selling well (and honestly a good part of that is due to the pretty animation and voice acting) doesn't mean you can write bullshit like this. Not a single panel in this chapter told anything new or interesting.