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  The tenth opening theme, I Wish, by Milky Bunny, debuted this month in episode 112, The One Thing I Couldn't Say. It contains major spoiler from the upcoming episodes, even from what seems to be the beginning of the X791 arc.

The opening begins with a huge spoiler, Natsu in Flame Lightning Dragon Mode. To some people, that is awesome because they are Natsu fans, but to others, like me, it's horrible. You don't just tell the whole audience one of the biggest happenings in this arc just like that! Not to mention, Laxus arriving, Acnologia arrving, Hades's Devil Eye, and Mavis! Sure, it looks epic, but WTF! It's like they gave away the next 20 episodes. However, some goods did come out of it. The first one being Bickslow's new super epic outfit! Though I liked that the crest is red in the manga, purple isn't bad. He looks so epic! Also, Gildart's wet hair looks so badass and Acnologia appearing bigger than Tenrou Island itself and with a red background just looked so epic. Lastly, even though it was such big spoiler, Laxus looked so cool that I had to make a gif of him here, though in the end I gave it to Aldarinor since he loves Laxus so much. Now we wait to see what the next opening has stored in for us. The tenth ending theme, Boys Be Ambitious, sang by Hi-Fi Camp, also debuted this month in episode 112, The One Thing I Couldn't Say. It features all arcs prior to the timeskip.

The ending begins with a red Fairy Tail symbol zooming out and then being set aflame and the flames then take the shape of a tornado. After this, a picture of the Macao arc is shown in chibi form. From the picture, there is a trail with pictures from the arc around it that lead you to a picture of the Lullaby arc in chibi form. This continues until it reaches the Edolas arc and then you see Lucy coloring a picture for the Tenrou Island arc and the rest of her team puttin down the pictures. That is so nostalgic because in the final episode before the timeskip, when the narrator says that the Tenrou Team was supposedly never found for seven years, and then have this ending appear, reminding everyone of everything that had happened up to that point, it will certainly make a few girls cry. The ending ends with a painting of Lucy that reminded me of Reedus's drawings that appeared in Chapter 254. In episode 112, The One Thing I Couldn't Say, Cana gains Fairy Glitter and goes to save Lucy from Bluenote, however she fails and ends up being saved by Gildarts.

The anime portrayed this episode really good in my opinion. It made some things clearer, for example the spell he used against Natsu here. We had initially thought that it was a beam-like spell (it even had a page named Gravity Beam) but the anime showed us what clearly happened. The anime also added more to Cana's flashback, in which there is a part that I like very much: the reason why Cana uses Card Magic! I think it's a good idea the anime department had, since the manga was probably never going to reveal why she learned it. It turns out it was to find her dad! Lastly, have you fucking seen this image?! Cana looks so epic. In episode 114, Tenrou Tree, Gildarts, Freed and Bickslow return and fight. Meanwhile, Erza starts her battle with Azuma, who destroys the Tenrou Tree.

I hope I'm not being bias just because Bickslow is my favorite character, but this episode had potential to be animated 10 times better. The animators made the extreme epicness of Bickslow's and Freed's return too rushed! It took the anime only 3 minutes (yes, I timed it) from Freed and Bickslow's arrival until the part where they are standing over Rusty; something as epic as their return should have taken a bit longer. In the other hand, they took a lot of time with Baryon Formation; they took like 20 seconds with the loading when it should have just been a quick massive shot! In my opinion, the speed in which it was casted was a testimony of how much he had grown, but no, the anime made it take a long time. They changed the epic explosion of Crush into some kind of smoke or something. I was also expecting for the anime to show what kind of Magic Freed used while using Dark Écriture: Absolute Shadow but they completely removed it! I hate the animators when they do stuff like that. One good thing did come out of this though, the epicness of Ghosts of Brittia's performance by Rustyrose looked awesome! The falling of the Tenrou Tree also looked awesome, but Azuma's dehydrated body because of it looked really weird and it annoyed me. In episode 115, Erza vs. Azuma, Erza squares off in an intense and close battle against Azuma, the only one who can restore the Fairies' power, finally taking him down.

I loved this episode! It was so awesomely animated! However, it contained a lot of fillers and the fight was lengthen severely, but I think it just increased the severity of the situation since so many armors were requiped. The major thing for me was at around 15 minutes with 50 seconds. The music played was so amazing and it gave a melancholic feel to her defeat and how she overcame her seemingly defeat. If you haven't watched, or if you have watched, GO WATCH IT NOW/AGAIN!!! Demon Blade Crimson Sakura was also pretty awesome, as well as the animation of Terra Clamare. The last part, where Erza is pushed by her nakama just didn't do it for me. I was expecting something really big, but the way the anime portrayed was not the best way to do it. In episode 116, Frozen Spirit, with Azuma's defeat, the Fairy Tail member's power return and defeat their opponents while Gray begins his fight.

Ok, so just to let you know, the file I downloaded was very glitchy and the sound sometimes did not match with the image, so I didn't get the best experience out of it, but still, it was good. Anyway, the anime know how to make up for their mistakes! They noticed how they could have animated Tenrou Tree better and made their come backs so good!!! However, there were a lot of "What the fuck?!" moments in this episode. Here are some.
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