Fairy Tail, Chapter 460: Pegasus Descends
Oh, two chapters this week! Well. Last chapter was definitely entertaining. We start this one off following up the Ichiya-and-Raijinshuu-vs-Walricht (if that's how you spell his name), and we get this relatively funny moment where Walricht scans Ichiya and finds a metric fuckton of weaknesses. It's just like Usopp versus Perona in One Piece where the weakest person there suddenly gets a tactical advantage.
We get a friendship speech from Ichiya -- who I think is the only person in Fairy Tail that can get away with giving a big, hammy, perfume-laced friendship speech simply because, well, dude's a big ham. Characters we're supposed to take seriously, not so much. Also, Walricht immediately whacks Ichiya aside because, well, he's a robot and perfume doesn't work on him. Ichiya does this thunder perfume: direct inhalation technique, which allows him to launch lightning at Walricht Laxus-style... but Walricht goes on and talks about how electricity is the obvious weakness for machines, and thus as a weakness-themed villain he's conquered his own weakness... and transforms into an utterly moronic-looking robot with a sausage head and large kneepads.
Freed does some considerations and for whatever reason comes to the conclusion that dispelling his jutsu-shiki is the best choice. Laxus is... apparently at home base with Warren, and shouts through Warren's telepathy to tell Freed where his location is so he can come back the Raijinshuu up... couldn't Warren or Mavis tell Laxus that?
We get a rather well-done last stand scene with Freed, Bickslow and Evergreen just charging Walricht while telling Laxus through telepathy how they are his bodyguards and whatnot. And I do appreciate this -- remember when the Raijinshu was first introduced and how they were this badass motherfuckers able to wipe out an entire guild all by their lonesome, dealing far more fatal magic to them compared to just burning/freezing/bleeding them a bit?
We then get a rather.... m'eh montage of everyone switching partners so they can take out the differing Weakness Soldiers. That's honestly kind of stupid that Walricht didn't consider the fact that, y'know, maybe equip these Weakness Soldiers with skills to counter the others with them? Bah. That's honestly the only disappointing thing about this fight, really.
Oh, and the random splash page of Team Natsu telling Freed that the enemies from the West are all wiped out off-screen. Whatever it means.
Freed's eyes go dark, Ichiya stands up... and they do this awesome double slash where Freed transforms into his Dark Ecriture demon form, while Ichiya uses MANLINESS POWERRRR. And I do absolutely would love to compare this to the Erza fight. Both Dark Ecriture and Manliness Power have been shown in previous fights, so it isn't pulled out of nowhere like Erza's Poseidon Sword and Wind Control Armor and Moonlight 'Shoot Here' Armor. And we actually have a reason why Freed didn't use Dark Ecriture right off the bat -- he's holding up the Jutsu-Shiki. Compare this to Erza unable to fight and then suddenly able to just 'cause. And Walricht wasn't shown to be super-powerful like Ajeel, who was able to withstand like everyone and their mother's attacks back when Fairy Tail attacked Albaress, and suddenly just croaked after taking two slashes. Walricht's shown to hide behind his little soldiers, who don't seem to be impressive either.
Well, that was actually fun. I honestly expected Laxus to come in and save the Raijinshuu since Laxus is among the seven people allowed to defeat an enemy (Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Erza, Wendy, Gajeel, Laxus, sometimes Juvia, Makarov and Mirajane) and it's cool to see the side characters actually getting a chance to shine. Shame this probably won't last for long, though.
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