User blog:Real Godisme/The Ultimate Review - Week 3

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Sorry for no blog last week but Saturday's are no good for me in terms of time to type stuff up. But enjoy this week instead

Fairy Tail
There was nothing to this chapter. All it was was a boring fight showcasing that Natsu is able to hold his own against Mard and set up Sting and Rogue to fight against them. Pretty boring if you ask me so instead lets talk about the two highlights of this chapter. First, Acnologia can speak. I was under the impression that he was mindless and knew only destruction but he is intelligent, which changes things. This means he knowingly attacked Tenrou Island and purposefully tried to murder all of FT. Though I think I prefer him as a mindless dragon. I liked the idea of him blindly attacking out of instinct rather than any forethought. I guess it doesn't really make a difference but eh. Secondly, Rogue posits what we have all been thinking, that there may be more dragons coming. Weisslogia and Skiadrum might still be dead but Metallicana and Grandeeney might be coming. I'm not sure what the proper way to bring them in is though. Who would they fight at this point? It will probably be a while before they show up if they do. All in all, boring chapter. It needed to do more work.

Nantsu no Taizai
Taizai is encountering a problem right now. While the battle with Hendricksen is awesome, the story is not progressing. I love a good fight, but there needs to be something happening besides the fight. Elizabeth used an amazing new power and we got almost nothing about what it was or how she could use it. Hendricksen is so tough that its going to take a while to beat him and the story is stalling around it. While I liked the chapter, I just want more out of it. Something needs to happen in the next chapter or two to turn the tide of the fight as I worry that things will get boring.

Bleach
A lot of people were saying this chapter was decent. I can see why but it still felt disappointing to me. I liked that we got to see Nimaiya kicking some ass but at the same time, its not what I want. What I want is an actual non one sided fight. Whats the last time we had that? If you remember back to the glory days of Bleach, the Ichigo vs Grimmjow fight lasted like 5+ chapters. That was an excellent fight that really defined what the series was about. Now the only thing Bleach is about is one chapter fights and no real skill shown. I wanted to see Nimaiya release his own Zanpakuto and fight with that. Hopefully we get something good with this guy who won't die but really, I'm not expecting anything too great here.

Naruto
I am so torn on this fight. On one hand I liked that the previous chapter was evoking memories of part 1 of the series and the fight between these two there. On the other hand I like what is happening with this chapter and the two really going all out. What I don't like is the switching between them. With only a couple chapters left, Kishi needs to end things strong and switching between 2 different styles here isn't the best. This fight doesnt feel like its going to end in 2 chapters though which has me worried we wont really get much wrap up at the end of the series. I have high hopes for the end so I am hoping Kishi doesn't let me down.

One Piece
I actually really like Corazon and I usually don't like OP characters. Corazon seems to genuinely care about Law and wants to see him cured. The big thing about this chapter to me though was that we got some information the D. The D was a clan according to Corazon. One that is feared and used to scare others. I don't really buy it for a minute and there is probably a hell of a lot more to it than that, but at least we got our bi yearly small hint of one of the mysteries of OP. Tune in in 2 more years for another. Oh well. The rest of the chapter was ok. Don't really have much to say on it.

Toriko
So many monkeys @_@. This seems to be the week of nothing chapters as there really wasn't anything to this chapter other than showing the pecking order of the creatures of the continent. The fact that the King shows up already though means they are aware of what the 4 kings are capable of. What interest me though is the very end. Is that a nitro approaching them? This would make the second speaking nitro that we have seen so likely we are about to learn something big. The chapter overall was pretty meh but still decent.

Magi
This dungeon is just sadistic and I love it. Whereas the dungeons we have seen before have put people in great physical danger, this one is all mental. Turning desires against the people inside. Its a nice turn to the series and I like how it explores the characters a lot more. We got to learn that Judar tried to destroy Sindria just after it was created. We will likely see this in Adventure of Sinbad eventually which will be cool. I was just a very big fan of how this chapter was utilized and learning about what Judar and Hakuryuu had been hiding inside of themselves all this time. Possibly my favorite chapter of the week.

Adventure of Sinbad
This chapter went a bit too fast. It tried to do too much in a single chapter. We have Barosa's djinn, the introduction of Judar and Drakon becoming a dragon all in one chapter. All are big enough that they should have had their own chapter. Instead, we get one attack from each and then the chapter is over. I really would have liked to see more out of all this, especially Drakon's transformation as we were led to believe in Magi that it came from using his vessel a lot. This chapter really needed to just slow down and take its time on these major plot points.

Thats all for this time. As always, comments are very welcome, so comment away.