User blog:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/Fairy Tail 2015 Christmas Special, Review.

Well, I saw a few people in the comments humming and hawing over whether to review or not, so sorry to all of them but I feel a deep need as the wiki's biggest Jerza fangirl to review this omake :D I have to go out in a mo so I'll make this quick, but I really liked this omake! ^__^

So it's Christmas and everyone has raided Lucy's house once more to throw a celebration party XD And once again I'm sure many of us are hit with a lovely sense of FT nostalgia from this alone. Everyone gets drunk and the girls go back into OVA 4 mode with their respective drunk states. I should probably state now that out of the 5, I only like Erza and Levy when they're drunk. Guess I just don't like clingy drunks *glances at Juvia and Lucy* and Wendy shouldn't be drinking at all, but I'll gloss over this fact.

(Omg though, Levy's "Gajeel, why're you so... Why don't you have eyebrows?" killed me XD That was so funny!!)

Speaking of not liking clingy drunks, Erza gets a little put out by all the flirting going on and decides to break it up by playing that master game (the GM is just the master in the non-FT version, yeah? I can't remember too well) and dish out evil orders. Everyone sobers up when Gajeel has to strip and ngl, I would totally be like Lucy if I had to play this game (X and Y shake hands - yep, very innocent XP Wbu guys?)

Things get out of hand after a while no thanks to Erza and I've seen some people complaining about the fanservice, or once more calling FT a hentai >__> Guys, I get that people don't like fanservice (heck, I don't like it in FT a lot) but calling this omake a hentai is plain dumb imo. Please don't do it. Anyways, I didn't mind the fanservice at all (I was more put out by the cover tbh) because this was a party with drunk friends. Totally normal imo (or haven't you guys been to/heard about parties like this?) The atmosphere was totally different to the fanservice that puts me off, and as such I have no real issues with it. For example, Jellal groping Erza in Ryuuzetsu was iffy for me (that was awkward), and Lucy and Brandish's naked battle was poor fanservice (because it was so unneeded in the serious plot-line), and Macao and Wakaba's comments about Brandish in the last chapter were very poor too imo, but this is just friendly fun. I will admit that I paused when the entire candle thing came up, but that's when the cast themselves told Erza she was going too far and planned their revenge, so I don't see anything to turn my nose up at. It's not like this was a serious chapter in the actual series after all, but maybe it's just me.

Aaaaaaanyways, Gray cheats and decides to give Erza a shock by demanding she walk home naked and OF COURSE Erza does it. If there's one thing Erza is good at, it's taking what she dishes out. Again, seeing Gray and the others worry when she was willing to go through with the command highlights that this was all fun with friends, but the best is still to come because Erza leaves aaaand bumps into...

JELLAL FUCKING FERNANDES.

Long time, no see buddy. It's been what, 4 years now?? (I might be forgetting just how long :P)

Trust Mashima to leave Jellal out of canon for years in heaps of situations where he could have played an awesome/great role, and then make him turn up randomly in a random omake. I mean, isn't he on the run? I know omakes have no timeline, hehe, but still :P Ah well, it's Jellal... I should focus on the fact that he's even being shown and be happy.

And I am happy!!! Jellal looks awesome in his coat and he spots Erza and unlike OVA 5 where the anistaff made him way OOC and had him respond to Erza's naked form like a 5-yo who's never seen a woman, Jellal (thank you Mashima!) calmly gives Erza his coat and asks what's going on. Erza admits to feeling slightly jealous and Jellal agrees to escort her safely home :3 AWWWWWWW!!!!

This is what I'm talking about!! Jellal and Erza rarely get much interaction (unlike the other "big 3"(?) ships in FT) but when they do it's always so special and great. Mashima didn't even have to draw anything for those last lines and they still convey great friendship and support. They don't need to tell each other that they care, you can make it out in their actions. And the same with the rest of the cast - this was a really cute chapter in that everyone interacted. It was funny and cute and really reminded me of old FT and just why I adored it. You all know I've been quite disillusioned with the manga of late, so this was just what I needed.

Well, that's that! All in all I'd give this omake a solid 9.5/10! Only reason for the -0.5 is for Jellal's unexplained appearance (even though I loved it!) and for the imo slightly distasteful cover. But, still, it's a great omake!! Likely one of my favourites :3

What did you guys think!? Harmless fun or did you not care for the fanservice? Jerza yay or nay? Why doesn't Gajeel have proper eyebrows?? XD Lemme know!

(Also, sorry to Gruvia fans, but I'm laughing at all the people I'm seeing on tumblr posting that image of Juvia clinging to Gray and Gray saying "I don't care!" with captions such as "Look at their love!" and "This is what an OTP is". Lol, sorry, but if a guy I like told me he didn't care about what I was saying all the time I'd be legging it. That ain't love to me, but oh well, opinions .-.)