User blog:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 429 & 430: Code Blue & Purification Ritual, Review and Commentary

This week's issues were pretty good! First of all, Code Blue (I still have no idea what the name is supposed to mean though).

There's a small timeskip and we see imprisoned!Natsu,Lucy&Happy, in an excellent colored page. The colored cover also looks good!

I don't like seeing Lucy imprisoned, because last time that happened with Erza we saw some sick stuff ( ._.) but let's see how this will work out. And why is Lucy still a maid, other than fanservice reasons? -__- Since they prolly have their magic sealed, the Star Dress should have gone away too, no? Anyway, Goumon visits them and the guy is kinda hilarious, bowing to nobody like that. Also, he's been cosplaying as Zeref and added his kanji on his forehead, although that kanji means something else entirely. Goumon reminds me of those crazy fanboys/girls that every fandom seems to have nowadays.

Anyways, my fears prove to be true as Goumon somehow controls the chains to have Lucy standing up(also giving readers an ecchi shot of her) and then says he will torture her. As expected, I guess...and for what? For some intel? Why does he think they do have intel?

That next part of the chapter tho...srsly wtf...

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For people with weird feet fetishes this chapter is probably the best. I hate anything involving the use of torture for fanservice though, so I won't comment further on this ( ._.) the interesting part arrives when Goumon opens his kawaii eyes and says he would rather just tear Lucy in half rather than slowly torture her. Well, that escalated quickly I must say...

BUT! Gray arrives and freezes that bitch, saving the day! And guess what! Code Blue is something about his undercover mission(probably that he's not undercover anymore tbh) and Erza is the one behind it! That was def the highlight of the chapter! I do wonder though, did most FT members just join the council? Do not they see the irony behind that? :P

The Good

 * Erza and Gray's part.
 * Goumon's weird personality.

The Bad
Everything else? Don't get me wrong, the chapter was not bad and it certainly redeemed itself in the end, BUT! Everything up to Gray's appearance was completely and utterly pointless. We learn nothing new, and see nothing interesting. The chapter could easily begin at page 15 when Gray appears, and nothing would really change, except if frozen!Goumon is so essential to the plot... I don't see it though ( ._.)

Overall
Pretty good, mainly because we found out what's been going on with Gray(we do not have the whole story though, I still think he is obsessed with E.N.D.) and we also finally see Erza! The first part of the chapter was kinda pointless tho.

Waiting for Purification Ritual right now.