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Reli here, bitches! It's my time to start cause I always come first! * groans*

So the Oracion Seis is still fighting Jellal while Tartaros keeps looking for him through the former councilman's Super Archive and by torturing Erza. I don't know about you but hearing Erza scream of pain sends shivers down my spine. Fantastically done. My respects to you voice actor. So Jellal says he is going to defeat everyone when suddenly Brain wakes up (love his evil laugh) and effortlessly kills him, not just that but completely eradicates his body next. NOT. It was all an illusion made by Midnight. Ok so I loved this moment in the manga but I think the ainme was just giving it away the entire time with Midnight's eye colors changing. I'd really like to hear from an anime-only watcher about how much they saw it coming. Anyway, Jellal breaks through the illusion and finally brings down his heavy arsenal with one of his most powerful spells Grand Chariot, which does nothing to the OS besides making them growl a little, but then follows with his most powerful move Sema. OMG JELLAL DEFEATED THE ENTIRE ORACION SEIS!!!

Not really. I mean I'm sorry Jellal-lovers but to me it looks like it Mashima had to really level down their powers a lot in order to have Jellal win and have the six five join them. I mean Midnight didn't use any of his cool Reflector spells besides an illusion, Cobra didn't use any Poison Dragon Slayer spells besides poison punches, Angel only used some melee-based angels, Racer could have easily run away from Sema (its AoE wasn't that big as Hoteye and Meredy weren't touched), and Hoteye just watched. If the five had actually gone all out no way Jellal would have won but whatever ok. Let's continue. So newly-blinded Jellal recruits the former dark Mages to Crime Sorciere and his key to the White Inheritance is taken by the former chairman who then gets backstabbed by Kyoka in order to release Face. Somewhere else in Cube, Lamy has resurrected Tempesta in a cool new body as well as Jackal and new-born demon Minerva. Lamy also shows her new lab specimen Mirajane, who soon will be made "the world's ugliest caterpillar". Wow. Jealous much? And finally, Elfman bombs Fairy Tail, destroying it yet again. Nice.

And since I now need to go touch myself, Raven, you take over!



Gee, thanks Reli...

So, in this episode, Cana ex Machina finds Elfman as he is about to bomb the guild, and saves the day like the motherfucking boss she is. Two things though: First, Elfman is a huge guy, and you mean to tell me he couldn't just smash Cana's head in easily, a la Oberyn? Second, am I the only one who thinks the hottie that taught Cana this trick is Sho?

Meanwhile it was nice to see people in Magnolia worried about the guild as opposed to finding them a nuisance earlier on. Back to Tartaros, Sayla is happy because senpai noticed her and we have some evil plotting until they find out that Cana is Fairy Tail's lord and savior and that they did jack shit to them.

So in the flashback Cana built the strongest Yu-Gi-Oh! deck ever, and also found matching colors for each person she trapped in the cards. Good job Cana!

Back to the present, long story short, everyone reaches the Cube and starts fighting Tartaros. Meanwhile, Lamy and her asthmatic laugh wants to mess with Mira's face and get away with it. Lol, she's barely Lisanna level strength-wise, so I wouldn't be too afraid for Mira. In fact, in only a minute, Mira revives herself, obviously stating that she already has demon particles in her. Do your homework next time, Tartaros.

Meanwhile Natsu and Lisanna ambush Kyoka and Erza also frees herself, so she decides to have some reverse torture time. Alas, it's not even needed, Kyoka tells her everything even though she doesn't have to. She then frees herself and begins fighting Erza.

For the rest of the episode everyone uses their strongest attacks to fend off Tartaros except Lucy who just Lucy Kicks them until Erza penetrates through Kyoka. Yeah, that's exactly what happened.

Oh and Natsu meets Zeref but who cares amirite?

Anyways, I'm done with this now. Ultra, your turn.



* yawn* and I just got back from work...

Anyways, we've got this episode opening with some exposition from Zeref about E.N.D., how he fought Igneel, how Natsu will be the deciding factor blah, blah, blah. Natsu also attacks the guy but his heat sword that he swiped doesn't work on Zeref. Too be he didn't use...oh, I dunno...magic. Anyways, Zeref exposits a lot of stuff the manga readers already know and even a bunch of stuff the anime-only viewers already know. Honestly, this is really boring so I'm just gonna skip ahead.

However, I do have to say that I love the title card. They actually look really engaging and intimidating in a way. As a further plus, there's nobody shouting aloud the name of the title, giving it a very ominous feeling.

Anyways, Erza's fight with Kyouka takes her down to a lower level, where she ends up creating a hole for the recently-arrived Fairy Tail mages to go through. Kyouka isn't down however and continues to fight Erza as her friends go through. As we follow them, we even get to see Makarov get in on the action. He doesn't go all-out of course, because if he did go all-out, we'd have a lot less content since things would end faster.

Elsewhere, Lisanna finds Mirajane and rubs her face into her boobs as the two sisters reunite. When Mirajane hears from Lisanna and Sayla about what happened though, like the guild explosion scenario, she's not pleased at all and both demons give one another the death glare. I gotta say, Sayla's is good in the anime but Mirajane's feels off. It looks to me like she's more shockingly surprised than actually angry. The manga panels for their staring contest look a lot more evenly toned between the two of them.

Elsewhere, Lucy, Wendy, Happy and Carla have located the panels for Face. They talk for a while about what they see and note that Face has been activated but it takes a while for Wendy to notice the big orange countdown in front of her that appeared even though nobody seemed to press anything. Franmalth is watching them from behind, though it's Keith/Keyes who actually shows up to confront the two of them, joined by his obese guildmate a moment later. The girls know they need to stop them and so Lucy summons Taurus and Aries to hold them off.

While they run off though, Keith manages to find them. Luckily, Gray's not too far behind and holds him off, hearing something about whose son he is in the process. Suddenly though, pink wool is everywhere and catches Lucy and Happy, but Carla and Wendy manage to narrowly escape the grasp of Franmalth thanks to Natsu, as it's now the 2nd time these two had to be bailed out by a man in less than three minutes. Anyways, as Wendy and Carla rush to stop Face, Franmalth reveals that he absorbed Taurus and Aries and can use their abilities now, as well as alter his body with their features, making him look rather creepy. After some awkward humor involving "rats", Natsu begins to fight but before long, Franmalth decides to show him his strongest soul and begins activating Revolution once again, taking on an all-too familiar face.

This episode is...acceptable. The animation, music and actin are certainly up to par but story-wise nothing has really stood out. Anime is a bit hard for me to review since I already read the manga and thus know the story and therefore end up wondering if I should omit story from consideration since it isn't actually the animators writing it.

I'll give this episode credit on decent pacing, though. There aren't really any boring scenes barring the two expositions and the action is relatively well-done without too much interruption. For an anime-only viewer, this is probably pretty awesome since the episode ends on such a good cliffhanger.

A cliffhanger that will be revealed and discussed next, as Rai concludes this review of This Month in the Anime.

Hey guys, Jak here. This is my first anime episode review!!! ^____^ And... I have no comment on the episode whatsoever. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-wIgsRZklo ♪♪Sorry, not sorry. Sorry, not sorry. The only thing I'm sorry for? Is being not sorry.♪♪] ಠ◡ಠ