User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 44: August 2015/@comment-25111584-20150903084824


 * Good episode, Tartaros arc plain sailing for me now excluding Gajeel's fight. Erza is easy to ignore. /o/
 * Mashima's Twitter awesomeness. ( ♥_♥)
 * Poor Wrath. Hope you have more free time from now. :)
 * Dat Lyvia pic. <3 #PreserveWomensDignity #LyviaShouldSail #SinkGruviaPlz *^* *votes Juvia* Wendy is a tempting option, but Lyon and Juvia should be together. :3
 * Eh, Laxus' badassery is getting repetitive, Zeref is pathetic and Mavis is boring. Pretty bad month for me. For Zervis ... well, Jerza also happened in 3-4 meetings over quite a few years. Not to mention that their initial romance was spawned in a friggin' slave tower. If that's plausible, I don't have any problem with Zervis. ._./ And that petition needs to pass! Pippoko Yury Dreyar! \( ^_^)/
 * Poor Reli. Hopeully Wrath is free to review the Mard awesomeness in store next month. *starts hyping CSK vs. UK and Gray vs. Silver* (/*^*)/
 * Awww, and I wanted to rant about Jellal too. D: Still, now I get to rave about Ultear! \( ^_^)/ Still can't decide who my fav female FT char is: Ur or Ultear. Miss them both. ;_; ... Guess I'll take them both. <3 Oh, and Telekinesis is part of her Arc of Time, Raven. Look at her M&A. And I completely agree with your evaluation, except for M&A and characterization about Meredy and Jellal being just as good. Ultear easily deserves the top-spot in the Coven. *looks at past scores, then glares at Raven for tying her personality score with Lucy's* Ah, well, personal opinions. \( ^_^)/ *votes Mest*
 * As a kind guy, he needs to be adept at imitating a cow, ie. looking into the distance with a serious look on his face while thinking about absolutely nothing (or possibly about boobs). If he can do that, fantastic choice. If not, go kill yourself. /o/ *votes Kagura* Can't believe she's the one whom I like best amongst the given choices. D:
 * Victory to nobody! \( ^_^)/
 * The time-gap is too large to properly compare the two. :/ If we consider them during ToH arc ... Kagura was only 14 or 15 then? No way could she have gone up against Ikaruga. And power-scaling is too random in FT. For example, if we tried normal scaling, then 7 years over Erza means that she can easily stomp her, Second Origin notwithstanding. So she would own Kagura. But ... *looks at Bluenote*. Eh, impossible to compare as far as I am concerned. So I'll go with Ikaruga 'cuz she is awesome while Kagura is pathetic. \( ^_^)/
 * Don't really listen to covers. .-.
 * Love the take on E.N.D. vs. Acnologia.
 * Don't worry, Lisanna, I like you. *cuddles Lisanna* <3
 * Eh, Zeref has done too many bad things to live. And all because the whiny brat couldn't accept his brother's death. He definitely deserves a painful death. >.> And Aquarius' sacrifice doesn't really mean much to me. Lucy can still correspond with her or even meet her if CSK invites her to the CS world. Igneel, on the other hand, ... ;-( Although Milky Way might be possible for some time ... And Minerva for best hair! \( ^_^)/ ... Actually, she's the only one with a kinda unique hairstyle in this list. .-.
 * SM really short-staffed this month, huh?
 * More Mashima Twitter awesomeness! \( *^*)/

And now for an Ultear rave for my peace of mind. \( ^_^)/
 * I like her design when she is dressed in simple clothes. The Grimoire Heart informal dress, for example. Simple yet elegant. Love it, easily my second favourite female attire, tied with Minerva's human attire. While I'm not a fan of skin-tight suits, at least Ultear's combat suit actually looks suited for combat, unlike some of Lucy's ridiculous Star Dresses. ._./ But the CrimeS outfit is a bit ... stupid. Seriously, does the Guild realize that wearing a cloak and pulling a hood over their head makes them much more conspicuous? >.>
 * Oooh, her personality is aweshome! (/*^*)/ I don't really have much to add to what Raven said. Love everything about her. Oh, her flashback is my fav FT flashback. And the anime actually managed to make it better, so yay! \( ^_^)/
 * * takes a detour* I disagree about the characterization of the rest of CrimeS being as good though. Meredy used to be a cool, emotionless char (we need more of those in FT, and Kagura and Juvia don't count 'cuz they turned into crap -_-). Now ... she's a Lisanna clone. Nothing wrong with having such a personality. Lisanna's one of my fav chars. But ... completely out-of-place in CrimeS. ._./ As for Jellal ... Raven features him, then I'll rant. \( ._.)/
 * Ultear's Magic is easily the most broken there is. Damn hax and I love it. No wonder Mashima used her so infrequently and got rid of her as soon as he could. T_T Gray's statement about her still being alive gives a fanboy like me some desperate hope though. >.< Maybe Fairy Heart does the opposite of Death Predation: reverts the side-effect of Forbidden Spells like Iced Shell, Last Ages and the Contradictory Curse at the cost of parts of Mavis' body. God Serena, Ur's husband, learns about this and decides to join Alvarez Empire to get it. We could also have an actual Gray betrayal! *^* Never gonna happen. T_T
 * Ultear can move any non-sentient thing as she wishes by manipulating its time. Say Jellal summons a meteor. She just uses it to bash its creator. And she's not restricted to manipulating just one object at a time either. Say Erza attacks her with a thousand swords at the same time. Instead of turning them into dust, she just turns each armour Erza summons into dust and sends her swords back at her, although there are now a million of them because of Parallel Worlds. Or, even better, she uses Parallel Worlds on the Meteor and has it attack Erza too, allowing her to make Mashed Erza to go with Mashed Jellal.
 * Any shield she has is basically indestructible. She can just create several rock domes about herself and that's that. Simultaneously, she can attack her enemies with whatever she wants. The only limitation on her is Mashima, literally.
 * I dunno if Mashima meant Arc of Time to be this hax (mp not :P), but the following is definitely possible with the explanations and limitations we have been given so far, so, as a fanboy, Imma consider it possible. \( ^_^)/
 * Ultear can basically manipulate the time of any non-sentient being as she wants. Well, doesn't really sound that OP, does it? But the interesting part is that Ultear can choose the future for the object. The future isn't set, so this basically means that she can create any non-sentient being anywhere by just manipulating the time of the space available. Arc of Embodiment as long as she doesn't touch sapients. Want a simple use? See the air around the wrists of her opponent? Now that is a pair of Magic-sealing Handcuffs. Simple, yet effective. She definitely doesn't need to turn the area around the enemy into a Senbonzakura Kageyoshi. :3
 * Now, this ability would be a bit limited as she needs mass for it to work, right? She obviously can't create mass, right? Wrong! Allow me to introduce you to Parallel Worlds. As long as she has an object with her, her ability is pretty much unlimited. An Arc of Embodiment (just lay off the sapients). And Arc of Embodiment can't directly affect the objects around the user, unlike Arc of Time. So damn hax. XD
 * The obvious question is ... did Mashima actually intend her Magic to work this way. Tbh ... I dunno. I would think not. But I don't really care. 'Cuz, given all that we've seen and been told about the Magic, all of the above is definitely possible. That's enough to make me fangasm over her Magic. It also helps that she is an absolute monster when it comes to MP and intelligence, so can't really use that reason to limit her. \( ^_^)/
 * Ultear also stated that she could have taken control of Deliora, Raven. Demon Supremacy Magic sounds quite cool too. ;)
 * Manipulative badass is awesome! *^* Nothing to add to what Raven said.
 * Her role was so damn good as an antagonist. And I like how she and Ur are Gray's main motivation. Completely obvious in his fights against Doriate and Silver. The only grey patch is her association with CrimeS. Here, she suddenly becomes quite average. All the focus seems to shift to Jellal, for some inexplicable reason. He's the one who gives the GMG job to Team Natsu, he's the one who is CrimeS' spy in Crocus. Ultear and Meredy are pretty much pushed to the back. Mashima does play around a bit with Ultear's character at the end of the GMG arc, but that doesn't really have anything to do with her as a member of CrimeS.
 * Also ... why the hell did CrimeS send Jellal into Crocus instead of Ultear? Does she lack in the brains or infiltration department? No. Does she lack in the disguise department? No. Does Jellal lack in the disguise department? Hell yeah! And why in the world would you put him in a position where he is the center of attention? Mashima's reasons are obvious. Increase Jellal appearances, more interactions between Jellal and Erza. Fanservice, to be more precise. In-universe, it makes CrimeS look like utter idiots. This is also why I find CrimeS to be so damn boring. It's more Jellal than CrimeS. >.> Well ... this part became a bit of a Jellal and CrimeS rant rather than an Ultear rave. ^_^" Still stand by what I said though, Ultear's role began to fail the moment she came in contact with goodie Jellal. The guy is like a corrupting force or something. ._./

* *gives waffles to people who actually read the rave* Actually, have a waffle even if you didn't. (>^_^)>#