User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 241: Tartaros arc: Devil Reincarnation, Review/@comment-24.200.220.241-20150712055421

The more I follow the Tartarus arc, the more I'm disappointed on how it's executed. I really like the design of the demons and they seems very strong and they look like a very strong "guild". But the problem, for me (stating an opinion throughout this text, not facts), is the way Fairy Tail come into contact with Tartarus (guild and their members) :

1) The battle with Jackal. This demon successfully beat down Natsu before, for some reasons, he gains back energy and ko'd Jackal. They were three of them against Jackal... why only Natsu fight ? For Laxus' battle, it was decent I think since Laxus has the potential and experience.

2) Natsu rushing in Tartarus' guild and the way he located it. Since when his senses became so well develop to locate something so far away ? I didn't like that he just located the guild like that and rush in without even contacting his guildmate about the location (Well' he's "hot-headed" after all, I guess). Anyway, later, he got froze by Silver but Happy manage to escape somehow... There's two high-level demons standing there and they let Happy escape...? If Silver could freeze Natsu instantly, why letting Happy escape ? (Happy hides in a barrel later and the guards state "it's just my imagination"... The barrel just move like a few feet... I would have understand if it moved from a few step...)

3) Why did Silver freeze Natsu, bring him in a cell and "defreeze" him ? I don't understand that move. Why Seilah bring Lisanna in jail ? It sounded like these demons aren't so cold-hearted to actually kill their opponents (or beat them badly). For Erza's part, I understand why they did capture her.

4) Jellal's key "removal" : I was very interested to have the possibility of seeing Jellal fight against strong opponent (it will maybe happen later) but Mashima somehow decides to fast-forward the arc and to let the chairman find an alternative way to bring the "key". So, there's no more point for the demons to seek Jellal...

5) The flame sword thingy : This sword came out of nowhere... Also, how can Natsu embedded the sword with his magic when... he can't used magic since he got shackles that prevent him to do so...? Yes, it's a magic weapon I understand but to "activate" the magic within the weapon, an user would need to use a certain amount of their own magic I think.

6) The exceeds survival with cards : If the bomb was more powerful than Jupiter, I would have expected a more bigger explosion. It seems like it was only big enough to blow the guild only and not the surrounding building. Also, for the few seconds that Cana needs to come up with a plan and to make a move seems to me impossible. Putting someone in a card, I guess, should have consume some magic powers. Yet, when she's on the cube, it's like it was nothing at all. Also, she needs some times to explain what to do to Happy/Carla/Lily.

7) Tartarus defense system : They just put their opponents on their cube with an anti-gravitionnal system to deal with them with their army. It seems like it was created to let the exceeds slip in to release the FT's members. They could have used others defense methods instead against three flying cat such as ranged-magic attack coming from a machine or from one of them instead. (Just an idea like that, they could have desactivated the anti-gravitationnal system to kill a bunch of FT's member by falling to their deaths (3-4 of them would have survived since exceeds are there))

8) Erza's escape : No explanation... she was tortured alot with her five senses increased. She was chainned with magic handcuffs that prevent her to use magic and yet... here she is, free like a bird (Is she Houdini ?) and with an opponent on her shoulders. They captured Kyoka (for a few minutes) quite easily. I don't think a demon can be captured that easily though.

9) Finally, Erza making a way for her guildmate to enter in Tartarus' guild : She just creates an huge hole by hitting Kyoka with her weapon. Seeing the location of the guild and the distance between the top and the bottom part of the cube, it should be quite a good distance. Yet, it seems like she was only a few feets from the bottom part. I don't think that the "donjon" are so deep from the top.