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Macao Arc
The first arc in the series. Okay, and like most starter arcs I've seen in Animanga series, it was short and not much interesting.

We start off with our cute heroine (or so we believed) Lucy Heartfilia charming her way to get a Celestial Spirit Key and then getting captivated by a tall, good-looking Mage with Charm Magic. And who comes to her rescue? A pink-haired punk and his talking blue cat. Amusingly entertaining. So then, our heroine gets into talking about Magic and Mages to our "heroes" for maybe a half hour (in their universe) when it turns out both "heroes" are Mages themselves. Wow. Great way to kill thirty minutes... And then at the end of the chapter, Lucy is about to be kidnapped, but is saved, then she has to save her rescuers, and then a fight and she runs happily into the daybreak with her friends.

After no transition whatsoever, she arrives at Fairy Tail guild, sees how eccentric they are and is quickly admitted in the guild. So, she accompanies her new friends (aka rescuers from last chapter) to Mt. Everest so they can save another comrade and return him to his son. Now, here's the part that's intriguing. A vulcan (no, not like those from Star Trek) literally "takes over" a Human's body and soul. While we saw an example, it was never shown how exactly they "take" over the person. Other Take Overs simply transform into a type of creature instead of something more... possession-like. Weird, but it may be because they're not Humans taking over, so they don't have to transform. But anyway, after a brief battle involving a hothead, blonde, talking cat, perverted bull and Abominable Snowman, Macao is freed from a Take Over spell and brought back to his son. How... touching?

Opinionated Review: 6.5/10

Daybreak Arc
Natsu, Lucy, and Happy make a team. No surprise there. And apparently, Lucy is a writer who's rather fond of reading books. Well, now that's interesting. I somehow gain more respect for this character. Weird, but oh well.

So anyway, later, the new team take a job request for a hell of a lot of money. They steal a book from a greedy, somewhat sadistic old man and return the book to the author's son, who learns something very surprising about the book. The end.

Opinionated Review: 4/10

Lullaby Arc
Since I'm Either Too Lazy To Type This Review Or Just Cannot Remember Much Of This Arc, Skip It For Now!

Galuna Island Arc
Since I'm Either Too Lazy To Type This Review Or Just Cannot Remember Much Of This Arc, Skip It For Now!

Phantom Lord Arc
Since I'm Either Too Lazy To Type This Review Or Just Cannot Remember Much Of This Arc, Skip It For Now!

Loke Arc
This reminds me of that Turn Back the Pendulum series in Bleach... only, this one is less interesting.

Loke's a Celestial Spirit. Okay. And he was formerly owned by a sadistic Bisca of Blue Pegasus. Okay. And he's pretty much responsible for her death. Okay.

That's it.

Opinionated Review: 3/10

Tower of Heaven Arc
Since I'm Either Too Lazy To Type This Review Or Just Cannot Remember Much Of This Arc, Skip It For Now!

Fighting Festival Arc
This arc is personally one of my favorite arcs, as well as Oracion Seis Arc.

Okay, aside from the new Guild building, firstly we saw two old S-Class Mages from Phantom Lord come switch to Fairy Tail. Wow. What a kick in the face that must be for Jose! So, we got Gajeel and Juvia; nice choices, especially Gajeel. Now, as the guild celebrates and the PL former members try making new friends with everyone, here comes Laxus insanely furious with how his guild is being remarked by others. He claims he'll take it all for his own; damn, must be serious.

So, here's what Laxus does. He gathers his Thunder God Tribe legion and has several female members of Fairy Tail petrified by Evergreen's magic, then blackmailing the rest of the guild into fighting each other if they still want the girls safe. So... the ignorant people in the guild all decide to fight each other, while the sane ones such as Makarov is locked inside the building thanks to Freed's runes. And the only way to stop it all is if Makarov makes Laxus a guild master. Pretty thought-out, Laxus. Nakama Dragneel tries to save the day but luckily, he can't do anything either. Brief moment of happiness there for me. But then here's Gajeel who can't do anything either. He was inside the building the whole time. At least for a while. And he didn't do anything? Guess he had a secret grudge inside him there, maybe because of Jet and Droy or even Natsu. But eventually, Erza manages to unpetrify herself because of some effect in her magical right eye (or left, can't remember which). What a miracle! And somewhat typical seeing as she's a main heroine! So, Erza goes out and fights against Evergreen, but then uses sheer intimidation and slight physical offense to make her remove the spell on the others. So... Evergreen does, the others are freed, and they find out that they have to save the rest of the town. And because of Laxus' good thinking, doing so would be difficult as attacking the Lacrima that can destroy the town would cause the same amount of damage to the user who first attacked. Nevertheless, Fairy Tail decides to go forward with this plan. Reckless, maybe?

So, now we got the other Thunder God Tribe members to fight: Bickslow and Freed. Bickslow fights Lucy & Loke, winning a majority of the battle until Loke finally showed up and helped. Freed got into a serious brawl with the Satan Soul Mirajane, who is revealed to be a lot stronger than she was taken for, and he nearly got his ass kicked until Mirajane remembered the kindness within herself and convinced him not to hurt his friends. And in the meantime, Levy helps rewrite the runes trapping Gajeel and Natsu so now they go to a Cathedral and fight Laxus.

But prior, Laxus was already fighting the most mysterious person in the Fairy Tail guild: Mystogan. And apparently, Mystogan looks exactly like Jellal. Shocking, even for Mystogan (guessing at this time he's never seen his own face?) Erza and Natsu arrived coincidentally at that moment, and afterwards Mystogan leaves suddenly. So does Erza, so she can destroy all the lacrima around. Erza ends up destroying a lot of them while her guildmates take care of the rest, eventually causing them all to take serious injury because of the spell Laxus put on the lacrima. So... yay, for that!

Anyways, while the Lacrima all got destroyed, Natsu fights Laxus and eventually he gets his ass saved by Gajeel. When both Dragon Slayers gang up on Laxus, Laxus reveals himself to be a Dragon Slayer with the Lightning Element and seriously knocks the hell out of them. He then uses Fairy Law on all of Magnolia Town, despite Levy's already pitiful attempts to stop him, but apparently Laxus still cares for FT? A little disappointing, actually. And then later, Laxus ends up being defeated by Nakama Dragneel...

Wow.

And then, he's excommunicated and leaves just after the Fantasia Parade, where he has a little teary moment about his actions. Aww. Poor Laxus. While I wasn't necessarily pleased with how Laxus... ended like this, everything else about the arc was very well-done. Good writing, artwork, quotes, fights. Maybe not at the end where Nakama Dragneel saves the day again, but oh well.

And I won't review the rest because that's more of an aftermath of this arc, apologies.

Opinionated Review: 8.5/10

Oracion Seis Arc
Since I'm Either Too Lazy To Type This Review Or Just Cannot Remember Much Of This Arc, Skip It For Now!

Edolas Arc
Since I'm Either Too Lazy To Type This Review Or Just Cannot Remember Much Of This Arc, Skip It For Now!

Tenrou Island Arc
Since I'm Either Too Lazy To Type This Review Or Just Cannot Remember Much Of This Arc, Skip It For Now!