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I want to start off THIS MONTH IN THE ANIME by advertising my fight prediction. Now let's get started!

The eleventh opening, The Starting Sky, debuted this month in episode 125, Magic Dance Ball. It relates to the filler Key of the Starry Sky arc.

Ok, the start of the opening is very slow and unappealing (though I love the echo) while the characters' new appearances are shown. Then, the filler stuff quickly take over. First we see an old man who seems to be performing a dark ritual and is quickly covered by Kinana. Could this old man be the person who turned Kinana into a snaked named Cuberos when she was younger? Then we see what seems to Lahar fighting a mechanical teddy bear. WTF? Then it's Lucy's relative who seems to have a very important role in the filler arc and then the Jiggly Butt Gang. Ewww right? Then come the action parts.

Natsu and Romeo seem to be fighting a guy who thinks is related to Cobra, but I don't see it. Then Lucy is running from who obviously is Coco's Earth Land counterpart. Then a guy, who is also obviously Sugarboy's Earth Land counterpart, sends some kind of slime towards Gray and Lyon, who freeze it. Then, Hughes's Earth Land counterpart, who is a female XD, seems to be controlling Mirajane. Dang! lol @ Lily's hater. And finally, a guy controlling a giant Octopus. Could he be Byro's Earth Land counterpart?

All in all, the opening was awesome! Because it's been over a year sice I've seen an opening that actually leaves me wondering what the arc is about. Throughout the opening, and also the ending, we keep seeing a key wrapped in bandages. What role will it take in the filler arc? Keep watching and find out!

The eleventh ending, Glitter (Starving Trancer Remix), debuted this month in episode 125, Magic Dance Ball. It features epic Lucy with her new outfit.

Well this ending has Lucy written all over it. Awesome! Lucy's past is explored and her relationship with her dad seems to be an important part of the arc. The ending isn't very long, but what I'm most interested in is those gears and tools which gives me various ideas about what the filler arc might be about.

The Empty Seven Years was a transition episode without much action. It starts with all the FT members talking in the guild, Romeo showing his Rainbow Fire Magic which looks different in the manga, Romeo getting to keep his position as a weak, useless master, Bisca and Alzack telling Erza that they are now married and have Asuka as a daughter, Reedus's drawings of Happy, Carla and Lily as if they were older, and Wendy still is flat (much to Remnant13's liking). Then Lamia Scale arrives and joins in the fun, especially Lyon who immediately falls in love with Juvia (who imagines Pandemonium) and now we Fairy Tail's first love triangle. Yay!

So after finding out from her really creepy Landlady that she owes 5,800,000, Lucy heads to Love & Lucky to find her father ans ask him for money. When she arrives, she struck by the news that her father has died *cries* I need a moment... Ok, I'm good now. So even though her father died, Lucy seems to be unable to cry about it. Tough. Meanwhile, Makarov, Erza and Mirajane (3 beasts) head to Twilight Ogre to settle FT's debt in the past 7 years, but since the ugly master refuses, the 3 of them go wild! I was hoping the anime would've shown at least a little bit of the fight, but they disappointed me. At the park, Lucy's landlady shows up in some of Lucy's clothes (I'm going to have nightmares about it) and drags Lucy back into her apartment saying that somebody sent the money to pay for her rent along with other gifts. All of them are from her father, along with a letter, which after reading it, Lucy finally manages to cry and say that she loved her father.

Fairy Tail prepares itself for a Magic Dance Ball. I liked the way the episode started. Everyone learning to dance, people pairing with each other and having fun. Though why do the animators try to ship Gray and Lucy a lot? Warren X Wendy? Ew, Warrendy. I was hoping more of Romeo X Wendy since they are about the same age. Yes, Romendy. Bickslow X Cana? That's the first time I've ever seen that pairing. I don't like it as much as I like this but oh well. Lastly, Freed X Erza? Ew, Freed is gay. The rest of the episode was boring so I'm done.

In episode 126, The Truly Evil Jiggle Butt Gang, stupid things happened.

I hated this episode so much that I don't want to waste my time reviewing it. So just enjoy this image until you get tired, but we all know that's not going to happen.

In The Terror of Invisble Lucy Happy starts the episode by reading Lucy's books about an invisible Phantom which, in my opinion, was awesome since the phantom reminded me of the Phantom Renegade of an old anime I used to watch when I was like 6 or 7. After kicking Natsu and Happy out of her house, Lucy takes a bath with a Magical ointment she had created 7 years ago to make her skin look better, but after all those years the effects of it had changed, so she becomes invisible. Lucy then heads to Fairy Tail to find a solution to her problem. So she walks around town NAKED and starts doing sexy poses. She is then licked XD by a dog, little kids play with her body and is then touched by Natsu. The animators are really perverted... The Fairy Tail members then start drawing her a face which all of them made me laugh, but the best one was Elfman's. Lucy looks so hilarious with Elfman's face. Some members of FT then start thinking about making Gemini be the new Lucy forever. I loved it! But then the episode got boring. Lucy becomes completely invisible and disappears from people's memories, yet Natsu suddenly remembers her and she reappears again. Natsu saved the day yet again for the 4000 billionth time... great. Then the ointment falls on top of everyone else and they all become invisible. Too bad for Jet, Droy, Max, Wakaba, Vijeeter, Macao and Reedus because nobody will ever remember them XD just kidding. Don't hate me if you are a fan of any of them *cough*

Ok, after the last two random filler episodes, it seems we are finally getting into the story filler episodes with Father's Memento. So Michelle Lobster, a distant relative of Lucy who is supposed to be older but because of the seven year timeskip Lucy is supposed to be older but that doesn't matter yet stupid Micheele still calls Lucy as if she was older than her, arrives at Fairy Tail with a special case containing a memento that Lucy's father has left for her. The memento is a key which really has nothing interesting about it. *skips boring and uninteresting part* Team Natsu goes on a job to capture some bandits and Michelle goes with them see first hand what Mages are like. GAY! The bandits are HOMOSEXUALS! I didn't expect that to happen, but the next part was totally expected. Team Natsu whooped ass. Team Natsu heads back to the guild and accidentally activate the memento, which leads Lucy to think that her father has left a riddle behind for her to solve. I honestly have no idea why the key was glowing and levitating so yeah... Anyway, after pondering about why Lucy tried using Fleuve d'étoiles instead of her keys and then failing to activate it, I've come to the conclusion that Lucy didn't demonstrate her power in front of Michelle because later on this arc Michelle will become the villain and try to fight Lucy, only to get her ass handed to her.

So why is there a giant mechanical teddy bear destroying churches? Why is the Magic Council so involved in it? Who really is Michelle? What is Jude Heartfilia's Memento to Lucy? I hope all these answers and more are revealed in the next issue of THIS MONTH IN THE ANIME.