User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 353: Exorcism, Review./@comment-4449950-20130928030704

I is teh awakes \o/

Oooooooookaaaaaaaay. Man oh man oh man... Once again after filtering through so many prediction blogs, theory blogs and other review blogs I have made it here... So let's do this!

This was a good chapter. And I don't mean good like "Yeah, it was good I guess", I mean "FUCK- That was gooooood!". I am so annoyed that I was absent for chapter release but I was at a friends production. What annoys me the most though is that I knew we'd be getting a new character this chapter (anyone who reads Mashima's Twitter would have known) so I was super hyped all night to get home and read. But onto that later...

Atlas Flame was brought back by Wendy using Milky Way. Well fuck me, congrats Misk! XD I remember Misk mentioning this idea in chat and everyone pretty much went "Yeah, whatevs Misk yah stupid noob " so I'm sure Misk has the biggest 'up yours' expression on his face right now :P However, last time Wendy used Milky Way it was really pretty. I mean, where'd all the sparkles and glowing rings of light go?? :/

I digress. Atlas is back and his memories are a little jumbled, which is expected I guess. I'm still a little confused about him being the Flame though. So... Was he the Flame as a Dragon until he died upon being frozen, or did he die and his spirit somehow powered the Flame until it just suddenly vanished?? :< Both seem a little stupid. I mean, if he was a Dragon, like he'd want to sit still for 400 freakin' years >___> Whatever though. Him restoring the village was okay I guess, and Minerva running off was okay I guess, because, if I'm honest, if she had been beaten again here (and she will be beaten again) it'd be waaaaay too soon. So maybe her retreating is a good thing...

Now onto E.N.D. Hmmm... Interesting name ( .__.) I dunno if it's meant to be an acronym of sorts or just a fancy way of writing 'end', but we'll know in due time. I don't think I'm going to worry about it that much until we get more information on it, because, to be honest, a name isn't giving us a lot to work with. I just hope it's cool.

Speaking of cool, we get the new character! Fuck... Silver... He looks preeeeeeetty awesome :D However, it's only been a day and we have sooooooo many theories on him. So:
 * He is Ur's husband and Ultear's dad: NO! Please. I don't like this at all because it serves no purpose whatsoever. I mean, Ur is dead... Ultear is next to dead... What good is bringing in some long lost family member? It's not like Gray/Lyon knew him, so he doesn't mean anything to them. The only way this idea could be used at all is if Silver and Gray fight and Silver reveals that he ditched Ur and Gray cracks it cause he saw Ur's pain and uses that anger to kick Silver's ass. However... that.would.be.lame.as.fuck. So please... No connections to Ur/Ultear Mashima.
 * He is Gray's father. Meeeeeeeeeeeehhhhkkk. Again... I don't see the point. I realise that they both have black hair and colour names and such, but really? *shrugs* One of the things about this is the fact that when Gray first saw Ur performing Ice-Make Magic he was startled and surprised. I'm fairly certain that if he had some super, all-powerful Demon Slaying daddy that normal Ice-Make would be pretty standard for him. Then there's the theory that Silver learnt his Magic after the Deliora attack to learn how to beat them, but again, I don't see how a guy (who likely had no Magic prowess before) could suddenly become so awesome in not that much time. Moreover... Why join a Dark Guild?? Makes no sense to me. Hence, I don't like this GraySilver connection...
 * He is Doranbolt's father/Gildarts' brother: Omg... XD No... No comment...

Anyways... I am SO EXCITED to see Tartarus now!! This Nine Ghost Gate thing sounds pretty awesome~ I hope it's to do with the Nine Circles of Hell thing we see floating around, cause that would tie into their theme of the Underworld and be cool :3

However... I am a little pissy with the Demon Slayer idea... I mean... It's starting to be a bit Soul Eater-ish XD Witch Hunter, then Demon Hunter, then Kishin Hunter... Like... What's next? :/ I just hope Mashima pulls this off nicely.

Lastly... about Tartarus... Damn it, I hope they have some sort of proper goal. I mean, Silver froze the village because he thought Atlas was a malicious demon. That's a little... nice... isn't it? Most of the bad guys we've seen in Fairy Tail have two motives: 1) They are bad for the sake of it, or 2) They need revenge for something. Now, I know Grimoire and the like had goals, but they were still malicious goals. I'd really like it if for once a dark guild actually wanted to do something good, but their "good" went against the current "good".

I dunno, think about X-Men I guess, cause that's the closest comparison. Magneto didn't want to harm people, he just wanted rights for mutants, but to get that he did bad things. He wasn't necessarily bad, but his ideology (for the good of many) went against the current idea of "good", and as such he was seen as bad. I'd really like it if Tartarus was like this. Maybe they want to take down the Council because they don't like the idea of being run by a group of old people, I dunno, but I hope they have some goal besides "Oh, let's just be evil for the heck of it."

Hmmmm... I think that's all I have to say for now. I feel like I should have more... but I can't seem to remember atm, so I'll leave it. This looks pretty long already anyways XD

Carrot out~ ;D