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  In episode 116, The Power That Becomes Life, Ultear Milkovich and Gray Fullbuster continue their battle where Gray eventually emerges as the victor due to the memories of Ur.

Well, lets get to the most important part of the episode that everyone was waiting to see it being animated, the red ice. Even though, as everyone knows, the anime does not portray blood, it sort of did in this episode for the first time. The blood gushing out was made purple for some reason but the ice being filled with blood did not change. I'm just glad they didn't take the scene away or made Gray freeze another body fluid... One of the best moments was when Ultear summoned a Magic Sword and Gray jumped at her and the screen went dark several times; so epic. The music playing during her defeat and while she is just hanging in the ice is awesome, check it out in high volume if you can. Anyway, I hope one day the anime shows blood completely uncensored and I also can't wait to see Ultear stab herself.

In episode 117, Thunder Crashes, Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza and Wendy square off against Hades, where they are easily struck down. However, Laxus storms in to save the day.

Well, it has been quite some time since the anime last showed 3 chapters in one episode, but it makes sense because the middle part/chapter was fairly quick as it just contained the beginning of the boss fight. Anyway, I'm just glad that Zancrow is now dead in both the anime and the manga and I also liked Juvia in super creepy mode. The middle part of the episode, in which Chapter 243 was animated, only took 5 minutes! But those five minutes were amazing. I loved how Ice-Make: Cold Excalibur, Moon Glimpse and Unison Raid were animated. OMG! OMG! Bullet Magic finally was animated! It was so funny how he kept shooting everyone like a maniac. Also, go to 18:10 and hear Lily's voice, the big guy sounds like he is really scared of lightning. And finally, Laxus arrived and directly went to attacking Hades like bad ass he is, which made his biggest fanboy jump on one leg.

In episode 118, The Man Without the Mark, Laxus fights Hades managing to overpower him for sometime until he is defeated and gives his power to Natsu.

Well half the episode was filler material so too bad for the ones that don't like them (yes, I'm talking about you DaRinor). Anyway, this episode was super funny simply because of one picture. Yes, if you've seen the episode you know what I'm talking about. I also liked that Yomazu and Kawazu said that they were just under the Seven Kin of Purgatory and that they were next in line to be part of the team because that means that Gajeel defeated two Mages whose combined powers could have surpassed one of the Kins. That's also awesome because Bicsklow was attacked directly by an attack that broke Gajeel's Iron Dragon Scales but he just stood up without any injuries. Go Bickslow! I hate how the anime keeps combining Magics making it seem like Unison Raid can be done easily (Btw, I know it was named Triple Unison Explosion). It makes Lucy strength not seem as high as in the manga, but then again, there was this. Now to the non-filler stuff. Well, it was nicely animated and I liked seeing Laxus beating Hades around. I laughed at Lucy almost getting hit by the giant sphere. But it ended in something that's been repeated several times before, Natsu getting another power up and now is going to go after the boss.

Natsu, entrusted by Laxus, seems to be able to hold his ground against Hades, but Hades still has something hidden up his sleeve under his eye patch XD

I wanted to do a "What the Fuck?" sections this issue too but the animators didn't really do many mistakes, so I just did a normal review. Ok, the fillers were TERRIBLE, in a terrible way. Freed and Bickslow having trouble with Yomazu and Kawazu? Hell no! And Elfman eating the Egg Wall made me barf. Bickslow having his dolls envelope themselves in Dark Ecriture: Pain kinda made me angry because of the whole "Anime keep combining Magics" I mentioned before, but it was done by Bickslow so I wasn't too angry, but angry nonetheless. Freed losing to Yomazu! What?! And leaving it to Elfman?! And beating him by screaming?! WTF?!?!?!?! Sometimes the anime makes me want to kill someone... Now to the non-filler stuff. At 5:50, there was this little dragon-like growl made by Natsu that sounded awesome. Natsu's powers while in Lightning Flame Mode were kinda nicely animated, but the fact that it was him having the power up... again... kinda ruined it for me. Happy getting angry at Pantherlily for bumping into Charle's but was hilarious and Charle's face (12:10) was priceless. Well, it seems that Hades can use Requip too and his heart looked really awesome. Did anyone else notice that Pantherlily had his armor back when he did his Battle Mode Shift? And with his new Musica Sword he made a lot of destruction with each swing. And lastly, enven though I hated it in the manga, having Natsu's friends push him towards Hades was amazing in the anime.