User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 301: The Dragon King, Review and Commentary/@comment-4047931-20120929202932

I like the polls here adds some originality to your review. Now finally the big flipping reveal we waited 4 weeks for. 4 weeks which could have been spent doing something fruitful yet we got two chapters which may have been slightly enjoyable yet that were pointless and then a chapter which would have fitted in perfectly instead of those other two. Anyway I'm glad Hiro has now decided to give us a good chunk of back story. Anyway on to the chapter.

Well Wendy begins to draw here circle for Milky Way and with bright shiny lights and a little bit of disturbance to the grave the spirit of the Emerald Dragon, Zealconis appears. Now after a few minutes of admiring the art work of the dragon I realized something about this dragon. He is funny as hell. This guy was a hoot bringing a decent bit of comedy to that which without would have been a bit too serious a chapter. Still I love this guy and his sense of humour. Just the way he had the group crapping bricks and went on to toy with Natsu, ah it was priceless. This guy was a great addition to the chapter with his funny and conflicting personality and it is a shame we won't be seeing more of him. Now with the introduction to his character out of the way which was well done, we got on to answering the questions of the past.

So Zealconis began to inform us of 400 years prior to the current events of the series and how Dragons roamed free as the dominate species, even to the extent of looking down on humans as nothing more than a food-source. Then one day a Dragon, who looks suspiciously a lot like Igneel in pretty much every aspect, came wishing for piece with the humans. Pity dragons had the same problems as humans as civil war broke out over two ideas. Being a stalemate the dragons yearning for peace with the humans had the humans enter the battle teaching them Dragon Slaying Magic to gain the upper-hand. Yeah, teaching humans the art of war after half of you have been eating them for years, good move guys. Still it had to be done and with great power comes great responsibility but fondly enough these humans never read or saw Spiderman and Superman because they straight up abuse it attacking their former allies. Why are we such assholes? Well things got really interesting here with the information of the man who bathed to the blood of the dragons. Thinking of a man so powerful to take down so many dragons is just crazy. What I find even crazier is that we possibly saw the most powerful dragon in action before any other because we learn this killing machine becomes the Black Dragon, Acnologia aka The Dragon King and just when that's announced Zealconis takes his leave, leaving us with some unanswered questions. Anyway I’ll miss you buddy. Now if that didn't give you enough to think about well along comes Acardious and Yukino out of the shadows stating that the ascension of human to dragon by Acnologia may had something to do with Zeref and that taking him down is the root to defeat Acnologia. This chapter has just given us a hell of a lot to think about. It left me with numerous questions I'm waiting for to be answered but I still enjoyed what we learned.

So this chapter did give us a big reveal I was hoping for and was rather stimulating making think about why this chaos with dragons and humans happened, what Zeref’s exact connection with Acnologia is and what is Arcadios's exact intentions in the graveyard. Still this chapter was let down by the fact it could have been revealed a week earlier leaving us with chapters that were just put in to fill the space and then continued with chapters would have worked the week before. This fact has lowered the excitement I once had for newer chapters but the last two has moved me closer to that past excitement for Fairy Tail that I haven't felt since 292. Anyway this chapter brings a few theories to mind like by simply looking at the dragon searching for peace with humans brings the idea that the dragon was no other than Igneel looking at the clear similarities in appearance and his training of a human child and belief of how the dragons should not meddle in the affairs of the humans boosts this idea. It also explains some little things like describing the change of the human form of Acnologia explains the reason why Dragon Force changes the appearance of the user. One little thing that had me thinking was when Arcadios entered the scene to tell the group of the 'connection' between the Dark Mage and Dragon. Gray's reaction was the cause of this thought. Now I'm not sure if this was because of the mention of the Book of Dark Magic but Gray was quick to think Deliora making me think that maybe Zeref can recreate his demons. This is just a speculation but having something like Deliora on your is not a bad idea seeing its power to level cities and defeat strong mages. That's just a shot in the dark there but the adviser guy did mention the Ryuuousai was a feast of Humans, Dragons and Demons and having a loyal follower of great power as a human would be very useful. Heck maybe when Deliora crumpled all that was left was a human and demon rubble but if I wanted to go further I would have to make a blog. One last thing before I sum up, Arcadios is clearly using his time in the graveyard to take Lucy by force or to get her to join him but to be honest I'm not sure if what he said about defeating Zeref is true or not. It would make some people jump to the conclusion that Arcadios wants to kill Zeref but the way he pretty much worships Zeref says otherwise but this could just end up being some form of obsession like with Lyon and Deliora (hey this big guy is helping me out today) and there's always the traitor card. Still I’m slightly more in the favour for him being a two-faced b*stard just wanting Lucy for the plan but I’m really uncertain. This chapter makes you think doesn't it?

Okay so overall a decent chapter let down by the wait to get to this point of the arc. Good thing though that a fair bit is being explained especially with the next chapter being called 'The Eclipse Plan' as that should hopefully more than make up for the wait. Man I'm pumped now just thinking of the possibilities of what it could be though. I can't wait.

P.S. Um are we not going to look to what happened to Jiemma because that seemed like a pretty big deal? I mean me has a hole through his chest now. What's that? No? Oh okay...*sigh*