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After his strenuous battle against Bacchus, Elfman's been recovering in the infirmary. Erza takes the time to praise his tenacity and show she's not that uptight and can give praise where need be. So much to the happiness of some pedophiles, Wendy is gonna take his spot on Team Fairy Tail A which was her spot in the first place since he can't continue. To prevent intruders from coming around again, the Thunder God Tribe sticks around while he sleeps, with Bickslow deciding that Elfman and Evergreen need to sleep together, much to the delight of some shippers :)

Out in the stadium, it's the battle of the Sex Goddesses beauties: Mirajane vs. Jenny, the reserve of Blue Pegasus. Evidently, Ichiya finally realized people didn't want to see him around and so he decided to hide in bed and let the sexy young blonde go out in his place. Too bad we all know that won't last long :(

Up in the stands, Carla is worried about that crazy vision she had. Cause yeah, the last one she had came true in every form exactly like she thought it would >_> Thankfully, she decides to stop being lame and start cheering but much to her surprise but not to ours :P the "fight" is actually a bikini contest!

Anyone who reads the manga no doubt remembers the chapter on which this episode is based. If you're a guy, no doubt you went back to this chapter so you could do your business and if you're a girl.....well, I dunno what you would do.

Have you ever looked forward to something and been disappointed. I know you have. If you haven't, then you've never had any expectations. As a guy who really enjoyed the manga chapter, I found myself having the urge to download this episode. Not for that reason >_> Get your mind out of the gutter. One of the best things about Fairy Tail's art is that the girls are attractive without the need of over-detailing or ridiculous proportions *cough*OnePiece*cough* but this episode seriously decided to throw a porn-bomb at us. I dunno about everyone, but the detailing on the girl's bodies looked way too messed up and awkward to even remotely be sexy.

But the anime doesn't stop there. Oh no. The anime decides it's a good idea to get all  the girls in on this. Mavis even wants the Fairy Tail girls in on it but Cana feels she can't since she doesn't have a swimsuit, cause, you know, that top she ordinarily wears that shows off almost everything north of her waist apparently isn't revealing enough for her. Though Mavis decides to take care of it by using her Magic of hammerspace to cause bikinis to RAIN DOWN LIKE VISITORS FROM HEAVEN HALLELUJAH!!

Somewhat legitimately, Juvia gets in on it as the water Mage and soon after every girl is down in the arena posing awkwardly and comparing themselves with one another. Mavis enjoys herself a ton, making Cana ask her how she's having so much fun when she's a ghost. Even Evergreen shows up, having apparently decided that spending time with bikini-clad girls was better than spending it with Elfman. Evidently, Bickslow couldn't keep the two of them together.

Then we get into all the themes of the day. School Swimsuits, bikinis + thigh-highs which Lucy finds more embarrassing than the normal bikinis, cause apparently showing less skin is embarrassing to her. Or maybe it's a girl thing. Then we get into glasses girls where Laki Olietta feels right at home, cat girls which would make a certain virgin very happy were it not for the fact that a child is in on this. I don't know much about what's acceptable in every country so I'm not gonna be strong on this point but this was just wrong to me. Still, leave Cana, Bisca and Jenny there and you've got three of FT's hottest girls in cat costumes. I guess I and some others can live with that XD

As far as topics go, the next is bondage! One can't deny that it's funny as hell seeing Evergreen get confident about it, only for Erza to take it away from her. C'mon, Erza's a master of that stuff, does anyone really have a chance? If you don't believe me, just ask the last guy she tortured. I guarantee you that that perverted yuri-writer enjoyed it and hated it at the same time :3

And then we get into the serious matter: Weddings !

Apprently, Mirajane thinks Master Makarov is a more suitable person to pose as her groom than his tall, blond, young, muscular, handsome stop me before I start sounding gay grandson Laxus. Evidently Hibiki is more turned on by that fact that he was chosen for being nearby than he would've been if Jenny really liked him. Yeah, cause that's how men are >_> Meanwhile, Levy is the object of affection for both Jet and Droy, who seem to have forgotten that she rejected them well, maybe Jet remembers. Clearly she's more interested in Gajeel, much to the delight of GaLe shippers, though Gajeel being his usually indifferent self doesn't care. Oh, and Asuka is gonna marry Pantherlily. Is that bad parenting? I think so :)

While everyone pairs off, Lyon has Juvia taken from him by Gray, who won't let her go with a jerk from another guild. Bad news for Lyvia shippers, but I guess it's good for Gruvia shippers. Lucy gets swept off her feet and into the air by Loke, who Magically knew exactly what was going on. Meanwhile, Natsu actually receives a compliment from Lisanna after giving her one, but is then flattened as Lucy is dropped on him. Apparently, Loke wasn't all that attracted to her. It's all fun and laughs there.....

Until the wrong person joins the fight in a swimsuit of their own.

OH GOD! MY EYES! I'M BLIND! POKE ME! SOMEONE FREAKIN' POKE ME!

This is the kind of thing every fan of fanservice fears! Just when you're getting hyped up something comes that just has to bring you down. Ooba in a swimsuit is the kind of thing that only the gnarly, scary, demon-spawning testicles of Satan himself could have conjured. The entire idea of this was misguided since Ooba isn't even remotely close to the sex appeal of a young female character like Erza or Mirajane. I'm sure the animators wanted to give us a laugh, but I think they've forgotten what "Laughing" is.

There's nothing funny about an old woman scaring the sexy out of people with her ugliness. The sex appeal of an entire stadium full of hot young women yeah, though some of the young girls should not have been there died with ease. I'm so sad I think I'm gonna cry >_>

So thankfully, we end that load of baloney-porn and get back to what the manga had made us love: the battle between Mirajane and Jenny. Back to the issue, Jenny bets Mirajane that the loser of their battle is gonna have to pose naked for the Sorcerer Magazine. Like a boss, Mirajane agrees. No doubt that made a lot of characters and fanboys happy :P

Jenny, being the sexy, sly slut she is, has heard that the judges love younger women and since Mirajane hasn't aged in 7 years, she's young. Wait .....Jenny used to work with Mirajane in the business. Mirajane was 19 in X784 but she and Jenny look the same age now O_O How old was Jenny way back then!?

Uh.....keeping the potential sexual exploitation of a young Jenny aside, there's the battle. Jenny uses her rather boring, but kinda cute battle form to engage. I swear this thing reminds me of Erza's bondage armor. That thing's so skin-tight I'm surprised the girl is able to breathe. Though for her relief and the relief of some fans as well she's not covered from head to toe :P Next up is Mirajane, who decides to go with the flow and use her battle form: Satan Soul Sitri, the one Erza calls her most powerful. Is it her strongest cause it's the least revealing? Yeah, I guess so. One way or another, Jenny's screwed :P

So for the next couple seconds, we get to see a few multi-angle shots of Mirajane as she sweeps Jenny with one attack. Jenny's armor is smashed to smithereens, Mirajane is the winner and the audience is astounded and the members of the guild are happy. Especially the two older pervs who wanna buy the next Sorcerer Magazine. Not like we can blame them. After turning back to normal, Mirajane decides to taunt Jenny and say she's looking forward to seeing her in her birthday suit, making the blonde bombshell cry. Nice to see a little vanity, Mira ;)

Hell, she even gets a comment that she's not someone to piss off. From  Laxus  of all people! And Jellal acknowledges. I'd say that's a hell of an accomplishment. Mirajane feels she wore a lot of immodest outfits. Yeah, cause that's so very different from what every other girl in the series wears XD C'mon. The stuff they wear would never be suitable for battle. Though since it's skimpy, it'd be perfect for the town :P

So with Mirajane's victory, the B team gets 10 points and gets tied with Natsu's team. Still, Jellal is anxious for some reason, though he tries to hide it. I think he knows his stalker is coming back not too long from now XD

Elsewhere, big-nose meets with the Midget Minister of Defence and tells him that their Eclipse plan is fast-approaching and they'll soon have a Celestial Spirit Mage for their plot. Apparently, for the sake of king and country, a man may even become a devil or god. Uh, ok. Nice job being ambiguous and boring simultaneously :|

So back to the tournament, we have the final fight of the 2nd day: Kagura vs. Yukino. Sabertooth isn't too happy about Sting's screw-up but Yukino understands. Mermaid Heel is apprehensive since they're fighting Sabertooth, but Kagura doesn't care, cause she knows the destination of her sword. Ok :| Everyone knows that this is the fight that makes a wiki admin drop his pants but sadly for him, the fight hasn't started yet so he's kept his pants on. Instead, the girls decide to continue the tradition of the day. Yukino proposes that they bet their lives on the fight yet Kagura doesn't answer.

Thanks for the suspense, animators >_> Though I'll give those guys the credit that the fade into the ending theme works quite nicely with that and hopefully, the next episode gives us some substance to work with.



Picking up from where we left off, Yukino has proposed to Kagura. No, not that kind of proposal >_> She's proposed that they bet their lives on the battle. Most of Fairy Tail looks on in surprise except Ms. too cool to care while the members of Mermaid Heel worry for their strongest Mage, in comparison to the cocky Sabertooth Mages, who praise Yukino's foolishness. Oh boy =_=

Back on the field, Kagura decides to accept Yukino's offer, since, you know, when someone offers you something you just have to take it no matter what. The stakes have readily been raised over the course of the day, from secrets, to sex, to nudity to life. At least there's a nice degree of consistency.

So the battle begins with everyone gawking over the fact that Yukino is a Celestial Spirit Mage. Arcadios and Datong are surprised and so is Lucy. Erza, upon hearing that she'll summon a fish spirit begins thinking remembering the creepy demons from Galuna Island 0_0 of what it may look like while Natsu remembers something from his past life. Finally, Yukino summons the beast, which decides to dance around the arena.

She pronounces Pisces with a hard "c". Isn't that wrong or is it just me being unaware? I could've sworn it was a soft "c". A Japanese pronunciation thing, perhaps? Screw it, I dunno >_>

Sadly for Yukino, Kagura dances around her fish with ease, though Happy is wondering why she doesn't just eat it, failing to realize it's so damn big. To stop Kagura's dodging, Yukino summons Libra, the Scales, much to the delight of the perverted audience there's another pronunciation issue, but I'm not gonna touch it. Once summoned, Libra makes Kagura heavy and allows Pisces to attack her. Or so it seems. Instead, Kagura has jumped into the air. But unfortunately for her, she gets smashed into the nearby Statue of Liberty. Didn't happen in the Manga and sure isn't gonna make a certain Kagura fanboy happy :3

Luckily for him, Kagura manages to use her own Gravity Magic to stop Pisces' incoming attack with her own Gravity Magic. Oh, and she managed to overpower Libra as well. Apparently, the spirit's Gravity Magic is weaker than Kagura's Seriously, though Yukino's own Magical power is certainly not that low, wtf >_>

So Kagura goes back out into battle and Yukino calls off her spirits. Frosch is worries but Lector and Sting aren't, since they know Yukino has her trump card: The 13th Gate. I think everyone knows about the day that they turned on the TV/read the newspaper/went online and read about the "new" Zodiac sign. It became an issue of fanfiction for a long time and as it happens, Mashima introduced it to Fairy Tail. Now the anime has taken the reins and introduced the massive serpent bearer: Ophiuchus.

The serpent bearer is certainly more of a serpent than a serpent bearer and is actually rendered quite nicely with CG, allowing it to move in a snake-like fashion. So as everyone jizzes about the spirit, Kagura, with her sword undrawn, cuts it down and into pieces with ease. OK,  who   thought this was a good idea? I know it was Mashima, but this is an anime review :P

One of the most irritating things about Fairy Tail that always pisses people off is how that which is hyped is often shown to be completely nothing in front of something unknown or even something familiar. You can easily talk about a legendary spirit beyond the 12 Zodiac keys and then have it thrown aside with easy but why would anyone wanna do that? One issue with this is that when you introduce something genuinely strong and that you plan to showcase, it's rendered asunder because expectations have already been built up and smashed. Plus, it's irritating >_>

So with that, Kagura easily defeats Yukino, claims her life, and goes on to marry Omega natsu2, spending her life caring for him (as an equal) and pleasuring him with her mouth. He wishes XD Nope, Kagura just walks back to her team and leaves Yukino on the ground, crying over the loss and the fact that her life now belongs to Kagura. As if she has any use for it =_=

That night, Jellal and Erza go down to the docks and do it right there right then. Nah, that's a joke XD Please don't kill me, girls. What is happening though is that Jellal hasn't been able to sense that mysterious power that he was sensing in previous years. Naturally, he has a lot of theories, but we know why, don't we? Yeah, correct, his fangirls are blocking his senses. :P Deciding to take a riskier approach, Jellal is told by Erza to take care and walks off, happy that the two of them are now able to have a normal conversation. How sweet :3

While walking, Erza is called out to by an old friend. Millianna is back and she's decided to exchange her original wardrobe for the outfit that I think I saw a stripper wear on the internet last week.

Reli:You watch strippers? Ultra: Shut up >_>

Anyways, Sho and Wally haven't joined since Mermaid Heel is a women-only guild Sorry Omega.

Elsewhere, some of the Fairy Tail gang is partying with Quatro Cerberus, or rather Quatro Puppy, drinking, being merry and even engaging in their verbal quirks. While Lucy confers unto Levy her feelings about Yukino's bet, Bacchus has Natsu pass on a message to Elfman since he can't be bothered to do it himself. I'm kidding Al, I know it's practical to have a messenger here :p Suddenly, Lyon and Chelia appear.

At Crocus Garden, where Sabertooth resides during the game, Sabertooth's Guild Master, who will henceforth be referred to as Guild Bastard, Jiemma, decides that he's a sexist pig and will give Sting one more chance even after his humiliating failure while Yukino's failure earns her the chance to be hit by grapes and forced to strip naked. Sexist bastard >_>

So as the day ends, Yukino is forced to take her clothes off, Gray is being hounded by both Juvia and Lyon in different ways, Natsu and the gang have fun, Erza converses with Millianna and Jellal is on the hunt. In the overall, Fairy Tail is still low down, but despite this, there's always the chance for a comeback. It wouldn't be Fairy Tail otherwise :)

Gotta say though, the fade into the ending theme is essentially perfect in this episode. Too bad the lyrics get weaker as we get more into the song.



Let's all wind the clocks back and remember what has recently happened. Some thugs claiming to work for Raven Tail, but really worked for Arcadios, kidnapped Wendy, Carla and Porlyusica cause they wanted a loli, neko and an old hag they were too dumb to understand their orders were to capture Lucy. Evidently, Arcadios, the real mastermind, didn't think to say anything about capturing a blonde woman cause, you know, that'd make things too easy and make too much sense >_>

At first, we're treated to a little spat between Risley and Lector, who are bitching about the eventual victory of their respective teams. After finding out the standings, in which Raven Tail is first and Sabertooth second while both Fairy Tail teams are in the last two spots, we go off to see the events of today's episode.

In Sabertooth's lodging, Yukino is answering to guild bastard Jiemma, who, disappointed with her understandable loss against an opponent who was just too much for her, has decided he wants to gratify himself like the old perv he is and makes the poor girl strip naked. Plus he wants to kick her out while stripping her. Cause, you know, she can't remove her guild mark without doing that, he has to humiliate her as well >_> So the poor girl starts crying and as far as we can see, only Frosch seems to care not sure of Lector's intentions, it seems he wants Frosch not to make a scene, still given his personality about it. Yukino decides to be polite and thanks the old kook for having let her join Sabertooth, but nope, he's pissed and calls her trash and tells her to get out. Fag >_>

We then see two sides of the dragon coin. On one end is the blond dick Sting Eucliffe who doesn't care about his comrades and regards Yukino's excommunication as necessary for the guild since she was weak. Yeah, cause flailing around on a chariot means you're truly deserving of being in the "strongest" guild. On the other end is the emo Gajeel-fanboy Rogue Cheney. He questions the guild's nature and at least cares about Yukino as a comrade and likes Frosch, though it's weak. That ought to make some fangirls happy :3 Though I wonder why we haven't been given Frosch's gender take off the damn frog suit Oh well, at least we know that the "Lady" will be coming into the story to assemble the Strongest 5.

Elsewhere, Erza has reunited with her old friend and fellow slave from the Tower of Heaven, Millianna. Millianna now walks around in her stripper gear. Having apparently come off her last show and hidden her tip money, she decides to chat. Millianna and Erza talk about Kagura and her strength and the sword she carries: Archenemy. A sword to be used to kill Jellal Fernandes. Silly girl, don't you know that Jellal's fangirls are going to stop you before you even get close to him? But hey, it'd make for a cool scene. Millianna has come to hate Jellal as well for making her a slave and believes Erza feels the same way, cause she doesn't know her well enough to see that she doesn't hold grudges like that.

In the Fairy Tail lodge, Yukino meets with Lucy and the others. Though she offers her two Zodiac keys to her, saying that with them and the 10 she has, Lucy can open the gate that will "change the world". Lucy declines, saying she doesn't want to break the bond Yukino has with her spirits, since that's what Celestial Spirit Magic is about.

This has to be one case that, as far as I'm concerned, does show a good degree of character development. When we first met Lucy, she was a person who'd do anything to get a key including use her sex appeal, which strangely never works but now, she's more interested in the relationship aspect with the spirits themselves. I think this does show an example of character development in Fairy Tail, though I'll add that it's not enough.

Anyways, Yukino, now in attire as skimpy not that I'm complaining :P as any other Fairy Tail girl, leaves. I'm not one to comment on style, but I have to say, I think lilac would suit her better than the turquoise top she wears. Though I think her skirt is fine, do the two colors match? I'm just gonna stop this before I sound like a perverted fashion idiot. Too late. I'm gonna continue. Afterwards, we're shown a nice quick scene of Wendy putting a shirt on, Carla bathing too bad nobody gives a damn about her and Lucy taking her stockings off. Nice for the dudes that Natsu and Happy left during this scene.

The reason why they left? Well Natsu felt he was an ass to Yukino and decided he needed to apologize. OK, he was a bit dismissive of her. Not really something another person gets depressed over as far as I'd think, but hey, that's just me. Happy seems to feel the need to undermine Natsu's attempts, which are about as genuine as they get. Obviously, they're genuine and get Yukino's emotions worked up, and scare the pants off Natsu when she starts crying and reveals what happened, from her dream to join Sabertooth, her excommunication due to her loss and having been stripped naked and forced to erase her guild mark, killing off her memories and feelings about the guild. Obviously, this pisses Natsu off and makes him claim that no guild that makes their members cry can be a guild. Gotta say, it's nice to see him caring for Yukino in this way. Sure, it's kinda a nakama issue, but it's not making him stronger in battle. He's just angry about what they did to the poor girl.

To me, this is Fuyuka Oura's best performance in Fairy Tail. She also does the voice of Eve and Angel and she's well but in this role, she can really make the character pop and her voice brings out a lot of Yukino's inner turmoil and makes the viewer genuinely feel sad for her. I'd probably go as far as saying she's one of the best in the GMG arc alongside Shizuka Ito who voices Flare. With her, the emotion rises beyond the screen and into the viewer and I'd say this beats the manga version of the scene. I'm a manga reader and to me, it's almost remarkable that the anime did something to improve what the manga did, but it did and I do often hope for it *cough*LaxusvsHades*cough* and I'm happy when it happens :)

Elsewhere, Gray meets up with Erza and more or less confirms that he knows Juvia likes him. OK, it's nice to know he's not totally dense. A while ago, I went on a little issue when someone said that since Gray ignores Juvia, he has no balls. I'm not gonna start on that since I feel Gray has his reasons for avoiding a clingy girl, and hey, everyone approaches love differently. Erza loves Jellal and vice-versa as far as I'm concerned but both act differently about it. At this point, there's a perfectly obvious deep care between the two of them, though probably not deep enough for some fangirls. :P

Oh, and in the palace, Arcadios is busy being a creep and chanting Zeref's name. Like anyone cares >_> This would be a more interesting issue if they actually tried making it interesting rather than just plain and ambiguous. We have no motivation, no personal feelings. It's really just the ravings of a mad man and the nearby going "Wtf".

So over at Crocus Gardens, there's an explosion and Rogue rushes into Sting's room to wake him up, cause he evidently doesn't care if he's naked or not. Something tells me he has experience in the matter :P So the two run off to find out what's happening after Sting sends away his latest one-night stand and who should be attacking but Natsu, taking out Sabertooth members by the second and seeking their guild bastard, who decides to show up.

Natsu: Where's your master!? Jiemma: Got business with me, kid? Natsu: Are you the master?

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Ridiculous Natsu, as usual. But hey, at least the dude has good intentions. If he wins, Jiemma, by his own logic, must leave the guild. Seems clear that one can only speculate what's gonna happen next unless you read the manga :P.



Picking up where the last episode left off, Natsu has barged into Sabertooth's lodge to challenge Guild Bastard Jiemma to a fight. If he wins, Jiemma has to leave the guild just like he forced Yukino to. Hopefully, Natsu won't make the old kook take his clothes off 0_0 >_<

However, before he's willing to fight Natsu, he sends Kakashi's Earth Land counterpart into battle first. Though the manga made this fight rather small, the anime extends it a bit with Dobengal throwing some smoke bombs, knows and seemingly turning his hand into a rainbow tentacle whip. Of course, none of those stop Natsu and so Kakashi uses his new technique: The Rainbow Chidori, which seems to have the same weakness as his normal one in that it can only go straight. Without much difficulty, Natsu takes him out and amazes the guild with his strength.

Sting decides that he wants to get with fight Natsu but Jiemma has other ideas and takes him on himself. At first, it looks like Natsu won't really do much but then he starts landing his hits, which Jiemma decides to take for some reason, not even putting his arms up to block. Evidently, Natsu doesn't wanna waste any time fighting and decides to use a brand new attack: Lightning Flame Dragon's Firing Hammer'. However, his attack doesn't go quite as planned.....

3.....2.....1.....

IamJakuhoRaikoben: Expelliarmus!

Who should stop the battle but Minerva, daughter of the Guild Bastard and the user of Magic with no official name. Through her abilities, she's managed to diffuse Natsu's attack, pretty much damaging everything except his intended target. I can only imagine the repair bill. Having coincidentally arrived in the nick of time with absolutely nobody noticing, Minerva tells Natsu that if Jiemma were to kill him, it'd cause problems during the games. Yeah, not to mention all of Fairy Tail coming to kick Sabertooth's ass. Revealing that she's as much a bitch as her dad, the eye-shadow wearing Green Day-reject shows that she's captured Happy and will let him go if Natsu leaves. Agreeing, Natsu forgives Happy. Does Happy forgive him for leaving him behind? :P With a little speech, Natsu leaves Sabertooth with a few words on Nakama. Though the others think on them, Sting still just wants to bang fight him.

Oh, and for anyone who wants to see a little something I noticed:

So moving away from the Final Fantasy stuff which I'm not gonna get into, we get a little scene of Lucy, Erza and Gray hearing out Natsu on his fight. Happy is sad it ended the way he did, though Carla points out that it could've been worse, with Wendy agreeing. Gray and Lucy seemingly get pissed at him, though Gray is more pissed about not having been told about the fight in the first place. Gotta admit, it's perplexing that Gray is so bent on beating Rufus. Sure, the dude kicked his ass in the first event, but it's not like he was attacking him exclusively like Nulpudding was. Moving on, the people wonder where Yukino has gone now that she's out of her guild. Though the serious issue is quickly stopped by a pillow fight that Erza completely exacerbates. You'd think the guys would've learned by now :P

The next morning, Yukino hears about the fight and blushes a bit about the idea that Natsu did it for her. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHekNnySAfM Is this love that I'm seeing? :P]

Anyways, the next day of the game starts with Yajima and Chapati Lola (the latter of whom is wearing a wig colored way too much like Michelle's hair) welcoming Lahar of the Rune Knights as their guest judge. Along with him is Rai's male lover who was dragged along. We know he just wants to see Fairy Tail and Wendy :P

So the name of the game of the day is Pandemonium. While the Fairy Tail members in the stands speculate about the nature of the event, one member of each guild gets told to go out. Erza goes from Fairy Tail A, shutting down Natsu who wanted to do it. From the B Team is Cana, who's taking the place of "Mystogan", who can't be seen due to Lahar's presence. Sorry Carrot :( From Mermaid Heel is Millianna, who wants to go out just cause Erza is going out. Really, gonna go out cause your friend is there even though she's basically among the top members of the competition? Your loss :P The Soul Sucker from Raven Tail goes out, as does the playboy sorry, not me :P from Blue Pegasus and Seaweed Hair from Sabertooth. Sting doesn't wanna go since Natsu won't be in it for him to grope . Jura goes from Lamia Scale, though Toby is concerned about his sock cause buying a new one is apparently too hard. Nobarly goes from Quatro Puppy. Not much to say on him.

Did anyone else noticed all those names. I know anime has messed 'em up but really? "Olga Nanagia"? So he's an old woman art teacher now?

Anyways, so the castle descends from above in relatively mediocre CG. At least, I thought it was CG Gotta say, Ophiuchus was way better when it appeared. Moving on, Mato explains the monster scenario of the event and how strong the monsters are. So the S-Class monster is so strong even one of the 10 Wizard Saints isn't guaranteed to be capable of destroying it. Damn. You'd think if they have the ability to make monsters that powerful, they wouldn't have their hands full with Dark Guilds or whatever. Trap 'em inside a castle or whatever and UNLEASH. Doesn't really seem impossible though I guess it ain't very practical. Meh, it'd be cool as hell if they did though.

Go down in the template, you lose any accumulated points in there, though your previous points are safe. At least it's not over-the-top though in all fairness, that'd be a pain for the event holders as well.

So the contestants draw numbers to see who goes first. Erza draws #1 while Cana draws #8. Wow, her boobs look bigger than ever.....not that I'm complaining.

Erza, impatient as ever, even for the rest to finish drawing (looks that way to me), decides that her luck is paying her off today and decides to challenge all 100  monsters. Naturally, almost everyone wets their pants in the arena while the crowd is equally surprised as well. Everyone stares, mouths gaping wide open, except Natsu and Gray who apparently like the idea of Erza dying a horribly painful death. So the episode ends with Erza having a staring contest with all 100 monsters. I think most who watched this and read the manga equivalents knew that just beating 51 monsters is enough to win the whole thing. 100 is overkill, though not really something we're unfamiliar with when it comes to Fairy Tail.

This episode is pretty much transition for the next episode which, judging from the preview, will be a dramatically lengthened battle of Erza vs. the 100 monsters. A battle which Mashima just glossed over in the manga. It begs the question as to whether or not we’ll see any real development or if the whole thing is gonna be a slugfest barring the last couple minutes, which rarely are. Then again, if you’ve seen the other episodes, you’ll already know that anyway.

The real issue I found with this episode was the constant transition. Rarely did it stay anywhere with one group longer than a few minutes. Anime-only content here was…..bland, as I often expect. The episode could’ve benefited if could have lost a few minutes in a couple spots like the group chastising Natsu.

Though on the other hand, it was cool seeing Doranbolt and Lahar, having not seen either of them for a little while now. These two actually have something interesting to say and do this time around and for Doranbolt, there is Fairy Tail and all the Mages he knew to go along with it.

So while this episode isn’t anything particularly special, it isn’t really a bad one and I’d say it’s a good build-up for the next one, which shall be covered by the Carrot, who will hopefully be back to action after her trip to Thailand.

Until then, this is Ultraprime2 saying "Goodbye".