User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 289: Tiny Fists, Review./@comment-4047931-20120701082306

Okay now for essay time. Again this arc has failed to make an un-enjoyable chapter. There are still parts of it that I didn't enjoy, but it still made me really anxious for the next chapter which I'll be missing because it's summer holiday time over in bonny old Scotland and by Thursday me and my mates are heading over to a music festival so you won’t be seeing me beautiful face around here till next Tuesday so the next essay will be even later so see you all then. Now on to the chapter.

First of all a good cover which again is keeping up tradition of good points of this arc, but right off the bat I've changed my opinion of Chelia completely now. Chelia was a cute and nervous girl to begin with and I was really interested to see how she was going to cope in battle and what "new" magic we would see from the little girl. Though she got an even cuter appearance her personality was just sickeningly annoying. Just how she told to Wendy give up like that. It was just so disrespectful and just made want to kick her right in the face, she was so annoying. So to Hiro, congrats you made me want to hit a little girl. Lucky though Wendy refused and her speech was very Fairy Tail if you know what I’m saying and I'm so glad she stood up to the b*tch. Wendy was also quite bad-ass during her speech as well. Now the only thing I liked about Chelia in this chapter was her strongest spell and it was interesting to see how it missed by Wendy making her opponent stronger or was it the fact how Chelia couldn't recover from her fatigue with her magic? Well anyway it was cool yet I do agree it was kind of stupid. I do want to say this though. Ahem, deep breath. CALLED IT! A draw. I saw that coming and was glad that they did as would have been stupid if Chelia lost after the ass kicking she gave Wendy and I didn't want Wendy to lose either, but was surprised there was a time limit, probably because I wasn't paying attention in previous chapters, but now I kind of hope to see a battle which takes the whole day now. Anyway the conclusion after to the battle were Chelia and Wendy became friends was just too cheesy, but it was nice and what made the end of the battle great was Jura's recognition of Wendy's growth in power a personality. It was awesome and made me think of what Wendy could be able to do with more time to train. Anyway good fight, good action, bad opponent.

So with the battle out of the way on to my favourite part of this chapter, Doranbolt doing his job. After the Tenrou arc I really wanted to see more of him. Anyway last week left so much suspense over will Jellal get caught or not and it reaches its climax and then ends making me even more anxious for next week’s chapter, I really hope it doesn't disappoint. Will he get caught or won’t he? I hope he does. Seeing if he gets caught I think it would be good as Fairy Tail B would get disqualified leaving an even number of teams, I enjoy seeing others reactions for other guilds and I see what I wanted from the team, Mira’s new Satan Soul, Laxus kicking ass, Jellal in a battle of two great powers, Cana showing great results from her training and Juvia’s panties. I still hope that the Batsu Game would still be valid and I’m losing track of myself so back to the chapter. I don’t know why, but Doranbolt tracking down Jellal was still epic even in the stadiums crowd and it looks like Acardious has some subordinates which leaves it open to a battle between guilds and knights, but it could have been someone else and as soon as we’re about to know the D-man (D for Doranbolt not Dobaagal even though both are awesome) comes in stopping Jellal’s advances which honestly was a little bit annoying and also epic on Doranbolt’s behalf, but damn I want to know! What will happen next? I hate that I have wait even longer than the rest of you guys and gals, but Chapter 290 < Music Festival and I’d hope he does get caught out as after all this suspense and he gets off scot-free it would be a massive anti-climax and add to my list of reasons to stab Hiro. I wonder how Erza would react if Jellal does get caught?

Overall another good chapter a good bit of action and lots suspense built up so I can’t wait for next week’s chapter even if ruined the whole idea of how we might learn about the Magical Presence, but Doranbolt was awesome and Wendy too.