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Okay, so we got a new opening, and can I please just say how awesome it all is? It was one of the best openings Fairy Tail has ever had, even if for just the hype of it all. We transition from Sun Village right smack into at least the somewhat middle of Tartarus Part 1. It was just so beautiful (and spoilery, lol! If you're an anime-only viewer, I'll just tell you that the scene where Natsu was thinking of Igneel and Lucy had Aquarius' key was just so damn full of spoiler goodness XD). Though tbh, there were spoilers everywhere, but if you just have a "no spoiler opening" then you're going to get Mysterious Magic and BREAK OUT, so they (the spoilers, not those two openings >_>) weren't that all bad. You have Natsu battling Jackal, who no one knows, Laxus with Tempesta, who no one knows, a little bit of spoiler on the battle between Wizards vs. Hunters, and tbh, the biggest spoiler of them all is Jellal & Meredy with the OS (though Cobra with Doranbolt was pretty bad too XD). Though instead of hammering the opening with comments of "Lel spoilerz omg bad!" look at it from the perspective of an anime-only viewer. They are like, "Oh, Laxus is going to fight so-and-so!" and "Natsu gets a battle with a cool-looking villain!", and best of all they are going to jizz in their pants because they saw the entire OS in a pan shot. Oh well, it was fucking awesome as shit! Better than STRIKE BACK, but unfortunately still outclassed by ft. I guess we can all hope that something of its caliber will come along.



This. Episode. Was. Amazeballs. From start to finish. To start, we have the bath scene where there is not just hilarious lesbian action, but also some hilarious filler homo guy action (Freed x Laxus shippers probably died). But in the bath, the girls talk about Lucy's tits being deliciously handled by Natsu during the GMG, and they also talk about how all these people are out on these different jobs since an influx of requests occurred after the Grand Magic Games. They also think they see Erza in the bath, but it turns out it's Flare, and more hilarity occurs after when Flare tries to "wash" Cana's body with her hair, lol. Flare gives some sob story about how Raven Tail disbanded after the GMG and that she has nowhere to go, but she trolls us and says that she in no way wants to join Fairy Tail, lol. Her appearance is foreshadowing anyway. >_>

So we also learn that Natsu and Gray went out on a mission together but they haven't been back in three days, so Wendy, Lucy, Carla and Erza go out to find them after they all get back from missions, but according to Happy, who they find dehydrated and ravaged, they finished the mission almost immediately but then started to fight for three days, only stopping to eat and sleep, because why not? Erza tries to stop them but they punch her in the face, and then she proceeds to kick their asses. =) They go back to the guild, and everyone is told by Natsu and Gray that they are requested to be paired together almost all the time, and that is why they had to go on that specific mission together. So blah, blah, blah, something about mentioning Borwatt Town, and then Makarov gets a request that details that Natsu and Gray go and complete, but Makarov sharts his pants because it's not just any request from anyone: it's a request from Warrod Sequen, the 4th ranked Wizard Saint!

So Natsu and Gray are accompanied by Wendy, Carla, Happy, Lucy and Erza, and they travel to Warrod's house, and find that not only does he look like a tree, but he also has a mad fucked up sense of humor. ( .___.) Okay... Anyhow, after some useless banter and hilarious jokes, they go outside and Warrod basically says that he goes around and stops deserts from expanding with his magic, and that he came across a frozen village called the Sun Village, which worships a giant, ever-burning flame as their deity. Long story short, they accept the request, and Warrod creates a giant sakura tree to carry them a really long distance (I think it was a few hundred kilometers? I can't recall), and after they leave, Warrod goes into flashback mode and thinks back to the day Fairy Tail was created...and he was a founding member! We can see Mavis, him, Precht and, if you guys aren't familiar, a blond game whose name is Yury Dreyar. Pretty easy to figure out: he's Makkie's dad! After that, we get the whole, "you youngsters are gud stuff" and the episode ends.

Also, mid-episode inserts! They're awesome. =)



Eh, not really a fan. The song is okay at best, imo. I'm not really a fan of pop music in general, so the hollow, mechanical aspect of her voice really kind of put the tone off. >_> That's mostly the lyrics, though; the actual composition was okay, and we get a different ending card every week! It's all art personally made by Mashima, and it makes me think that they must have really, really loved Tokyo Ghoul Root A, because they did something similar (a different ending animation every week, however theirs was much better and the ending was 10000000000000x more awesome...). Oh well, we're stuck with it. XD



This one is pretty straightforward. Basically after unnecessary recaps, we get to the Sun Village, and after some pitter-pattering around the...pink...purple...magenta (?)...ice, they find out the place is home to giants. Gray sees all the ice and goes all PTSD about Ur and Deliora, and after a whole lot of me not caring, Gray and Natsu try to unfreeze the village, because apparently it would have been totally necessary for a Wizard Saint to request you guys to unfreeze a village if it could have been done in .476 seconds. >_> So now we get introduced to these three treasure hunters who are after the prized treasure of the village: the Eternal Flame; to really hit home how they're going to steal it, they reveal liquefied Moon Drip (link included for all you forgetful folks) and then book it, with Team Natsu in close pursuit, realizing that they can use the Moon Drip to unfreeze the village!

Right after, we are introduced to the secondary antagonists of this arc, members of the Dark Guild Succubus Eye, and the members sent on this mission are the later-named Doriate (or Doriath, whichever) and...Minerva! She joined a Dark Guild and is now seeking revenge on Erza. Decent.

So Team Natsu + others catch up to the treasure hunters and engage in combat, only to find that the hunters are more than a match for the wizards (no play-by-plays, here ( ^___^)). So elsewhere, we see that Erza has made her way to this giant mountain, looking for the Eternal Flame, and after she climbs to the top, she suddenly turns into a child! Holy crap. ( .____.)



This episode was pretty good. Essentially, Erza freaks out because she is now a child and thinks about how her life will change if she cannot go back to normal, the biggest problem to her being that Jellal will not love her anymore and that Doranbolt will touch her. ...right.

So back with the wizards and hunters, the fight is still pretty even between the two, but after some time, when they aren't looking, Gray steals the Moon Drop from the hunters and plays hot potato with it, until Happy tries to catch it and fails. Rofl XDXD, he's such a little bastard. The Moon Drip shatters and melts a tiny portion of the ice; Happy asks Natsu to smack his ass if he's going to hit him (little masochistic kitty), but Natsu puts his face right in da dirt and says that he hears a voice, one that he's heard before, too. Natsu then runs away to look for the voice, but then ends up running into Doriate, who is revealed to be the one who has turned Erza into a child, as he does so to Natsu too, with his magic, the Law of Retrogression!

So after this we cut to Erza trying to use magic, which she does, but with difficulty; after she runs into Minerva, and all hell begins to break loose. =) Minerva reveals to Erza that she is a child because of Doriate, as well as that she does not care about being in a Dark Guild as long as she has power. Back with Natsu, his magic power is lowered, as are his offenses and defenses, and he is completely overwhelmed by Doriate. He then plays a trick on the dude and gets the shit out of there, saying that he made Gildarts fall for the same trick years ago. Lolol, being a kid is awesome. I wish I could go back too... ... ( ,____,) However! Doriate is pissed as shit and takes off the bandanna around his mouth, revealing fangs and whiskers. Again, ominous!

So now Lucy and Wendy are looking for Natsu while Gray went his own way and Happy and Carla take to the skies, however they are tailed by the hunters Lala and Hiroshi, who are disguised...kinda...as Happy and Carla. They super blow that disguise with a dun, and then Hiroshi cuts open a giant's leg with his sword because he can, making it a point that treasure hunters do whatever the hell they want. After this, Drake starts shooting them and before Lucy and Wendy can be sniped (no, not like the hobby where you basically Kinnear people), Flare shows up (see? Foreshadowing!) and saves them, starting a nice 3-on-3 fight. Meanwhile, Erza and Minerva prepare to throw down while Gray runs into Doriate, who set off to chase Natsu.



This episode picks up right where the last one left off, you know, after like 6 minutes of recap, with Flare, Wendy and Lucy going up against the hunters. They struggle a bit, with Flare getting her hair chopped up, but thanks to Cancer, it grows right back. So during all this we learn that Flare is from the Sun Village and gained her Hair Magic from the Eternal Flame itself, and that the giants raised. Yeah, so she's pretty pissed at seeing her family frozen, her god trying to be stolen, and her semi-friends being shot at. So now we see that the girls run pretty even with the hunters, with Sagittarius matching arrows with Drake until some real life common sense kicks in, where bullets are faster than a man pulling a bow and arrow and Sagittarius gets taken out. There was also something about summoning Virgo and trying to burrow her way to Drake to take him out, but the ground is frozen in a way that even Virgo can't break through it. From here the hunters overpower the girls, but then the power of estrogen kicks in and the girls defeat the hunters! It's just as well, though. They were all sexist assholes. Flare even smiles! Holy shit! Kawaii~ <3

We now see that Happy and Carla are hiding from that monster that Doriate and Minerva rode in on, and then we go back to the girls, where Flare tells them her backstory about how she knew nothing about the outside world, and she only learned to hate Fairy Tail because that's what Ivan taught her after joining Raven Tail. Flare then thinks they can melt the village with the Eternal Flame, so away they go~!!

We cut to Natsu looking for the voice and Erza getting her ass kicked by Minerva, who while hot, is a cheater. Erza then offers even more foreshadowing by suggesting that if the caster is defeated she will get her body back.

Hey guys, we're finally back to the last episode where Gray runs into Doriate and sees his fucked up monster mouth. Doriate immediately turns Gray into a child and runs up to him, and when he is about to hit Gray, Gray again goes PTSD, but Doriate attributes this to his magic, saying that those he turns into kids sometimes experience vivid memories of traumatic events. He then grabs Gray's face and starts intimidating him, but then we get a very nude (well, it was blacked out, but I'm pretty sure in the manga she was fucking naked and we could see her ass!), very bonerific Ultear waltzing into Gray's subconscious and pushing him to move on and fight. Gray frees himself and asks Doriate if he was the one who froze the village; Doriate does not answer, so Gray thinks that he is the real culprit and threatens to show him real Ice Magic. At the same time, Erza's sword is stolen by Minerva and Natsu arrives at the mountain that Erza climbed before becoming a child, which Natsu says is the source of the voice.

All in all, it was a good month for the anime! We are going to going straight canon until the end of Tartarus, so I will try my best to make this review-ish article the best it can be, because odds are, after Tartarus we will go on another possible 1, maybe even 2 year hiatus. :/ Anyway, see you guys next month!