User blog:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 8 - Magnolia is on Fire?/Blue Cat Happy, Review.

Hey guys! I was meant to review this last night before I went to bed, but then raw spoilers for AkaYona chapter 102 were released and sufficed to say it was "Fairy Tail: Zero Fucks Were Given Then" after that.

Anyways, I haven't reviewed FT0 in a while just due to others doing it first or being too late to read and therefore the hype having passed on the Wiki. Tbh, I can't remember many details of the last chapters, so bear with me if I get anything confuddled here D;

Having all learnt Magic (somehow? quickly?) in the earlier chapters, Mavis tells the group that she wants to free Magnolia, which is impoverished and under the Blue Skull Master's (Geoffrey, LOL that's almost as bad as Keith) control. Aaaand, am I the only one with Yury here? Yury points out that they are massively outnumbered, though the others think that just because they learnt Magic they can handle everything. Funny to see Yury as the voice of reason, but I'm wondering if it is actually a voice of "reason", or a voice of "crap, I don't want to get my ass handed to me again". However, Yury is outnumbered and I guess it comes down to an off-screen "you can help us or not", because everyone is in for Mavis' plan - she's starting to show her tactical side here :3

The plan is to get Geoffrey whilst he is away from the guild hunting. I am SO HAPPY that they were being cautious and didn't just pull a Natsu kind of "rush in and get him". I was scared Yury would be that kind of character but thank God he's not ^__^ Anyways, the group know Geoffrey is too strong, so they confront him in the forest from afar and tell him that they aren't going to fight him...

No, they are just going to take everything from him... by... uhh... by burning down freakin' Magnolia .-.

Geoffrey rushes back to the town and walks through the flaming village until he finds Mavis. This guy isn't an idiot, and states that he knows Mavis is pulling a fast one on him again: the fire is an illusion. Mavis, happy to admit that, then also adds that, not only is the fire an illusion, but the entire town. They lured Geoffrey out alone and proceed to hastily slap him in a cage on him before he can do anything else.

Well, props to Mavis for a good plan. I love it when plans in FT don't involve some kind of "well, we can overpower X to achieve Y", as usual. Here, Mavis used what they had in a clever and simple way to achieve the outcome needed without anyone being put into immediate danger, so good job to her. Also, awesome badass Mavis there for a while >:)

However, this cage plan only involved Mavis, Warrod and Zeira(lol?). Meanwhile, Yury and Precht are in the actual Magnolia getting the guild members. They seem to be exhausted and have struggled a bit, but this is a nice addition - really, if they had done it easily with no sweat or tears then I'd have been a little miffed. Still, they won and things are looking good, right?

WRONG! Yury spots the Tenrou Jade in the guild hall and goes to get it. At the same time, caged Geoffrey tells the group not to touch any of his shit in the guildhall, as it's fake and all rigged to blow if someone tries to steal it. Badda-bing, badda-boom, guess who's concurrently reaching for said treasure? ;)

Welp, it was a nice chapter. Not too interesting or wow, but definitely not boring or unbelievable. As I've said before, I like the simplicity of FT0 and the characters and their motivations usually seem spot on, no difference here. We know that Yury is going to survive because he is in the founding-FT photo, BUT... things are still interesting because how does he survive? With Mavis knowing about the danger of the Jade, is her death coming up? Does she save Yury or something? I have no clue, but I look forward to seeing :3

Also, just quickly, if you haven't read Blue Cat Happy it's up on Panda. At first I was reading going "okaaaaay, wtf is this?" but make sure you get to the end and read the infobox on the second half of the last page. Reading that, I was incredibly impressed with the little story, and once again my heart goes out to Mashima, who is such a kind and caring man. If anything, Happy Blue Cat just shows that. Nothing more, nothing less. You can put up a good argument towards me that you don't like Mashima's stories or characters or art (lol, like you can hate his art XD) and I might agree with you, but you could never convince me that Mashima is not a hard-working and lovely person :)

Hmmmm... guess I should give a rating yeah? HBC doesn't seem appropriate to rate due to what it is actually for and about, but I'll give FT0 a 7 out of 10 :)

What did you guys think?? :3

Carrot out~