Fairy Tail S2 - 09 Review

This episode was hands down the best of the second series. With action character development, epic fights and surprising reveals. As a manga reader, I had been looking forward to these events for some time now, but I wrongly assumed they would be spaced out in separate episodes.

Two events took part in this episode, which were broken up and switched between, but I will cover them individually.

The start of the episode returned to team Natsu as they were heading towards to escape route of the cave.  They discuss all the information they currently know, giving a nice conversational recap for those who may not remember everything about the beginning of the arc before series two.

On a side note we found out that the reason that Arcadios survived falling into the lava was due to a magic stone that he wore around his neck, given to him by the princess. This all seems very… stupid to me, he literally fell into lava and emerged with what seems to be a very bad sun burn, very illogical indeed.

 

The group approaches the exit where, after some Natsu silliness, a mysterious figure appears. This figure is of course Lucy. If the opening didn’t spoil it enough for you, there where constant signs in several other moments. Although it did seem illogical without the inclusion of time travel. 

Future Lucy doesn’t really have time to say much however we do learn that the country will be destroyed very soon if something doesn’t change. Unsurprisingly, Future Lucy seems very distressed as she breaks down as soon as she sees Natsu.

The episode ends there but I was personally very happy that we got to see Lucy at all, so I’m willing to wait for the explanation next week.

 

The following scene is a discussion between the princess and one of her advisors. The advisor makes her aware of the fact that he knows she is leading Project Eclipse. The princess states that she is using the grand magic games to decided whether the information given to her from a mysterious person from future, is actually true. It really doesn’t take a tremendous amount of brainpower to work out she is talking about Lucy.  This means that we will most likely be seeing the princess over seeing many major event and battles in the following episodes as she decides what to do.

 

The first fight between Juvia and Cheria in the episode is more used as comedic value than action at this point. The fight didn’t really get much screen time this episode, however these are two very strong individuals and there is no telling who is going to win at this point. The fight will most likely get serious once the three way battle finishes.

 

By far the most epic part of the episode was the three way battle between Erza, Kagura and Minerva. There is a sightly humorous moment with the first as her initial prediction of Erza facing off with Minerva turns out to be wrong. The first’s reaction was very cute which is kind of funny considering she most likely probably died at an old age and is now a ghost.

Kagura brings back the issue of Jellal again which I had honestly forgotten about. For Kagura, the fight against Erza seems personal but she is not angry at her specifically, she just wants answers out of her. By far my all time hated fairy tail character is Minerva. Everything about her just really makes me cringe, I suppose that makes her a fantastic antagonist but I still hate her.

We saw a lot of fighting with little talking so there isn’t really much to talk about this peisode. One thing I did find interesting was that they were all facing against each other equally. I presumed that as soon as Minerva rocked up Kagura and Erza would gang up on her but it seems I was wrong and I am personally glad that I was.

 

Next episode it seems the fight will continue, however I think it will focus more on Kagura’s issue with Erza more than the physical fighting. We will also have to see some more of future Lucy’s story, even as a manga reader, I am very intrigued as to what she has to say. I give this episode a 9/10, by far the best episode to date and left me very keen for the next. 

-PandaSlayer