Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest Chapters 82, 83, 84, 85 & 86 Review

 Written by Shiggins

Catch-up extravaganza!

Yes, I've kept you waiting long enough, so here we go! Four full chapters, reviewed by me. And to keep you from reading a bunch of pointless paragraphs, I've decided to stick with just writing the "Opinion" section for this review, and will hopefully return to normal next time. To all those patient enough to let me take a break, thank you! I really needed it. I know this year has been rough for my articles but I've got some fun ones planned, so I hope you keep reading.

It was a really bad idea for this series to make a character that would make a better protagonist right now than the actual main characters. Suzaku is too good.

So we've got the fight between Selene and Suzaku still going on. Lots of fun movement and choreography, but it was hard not to be frustrated because we kept jumping back and forth between them and the main characters. However, the twist reveal that Suzaku's dragon-victim was actually one of Selene's sons makes this interaction even more interesting than previously thought. Are there more sons out there that we'll meet soon? Or are they already dead? Is she going to find the Dragon Balls to bring them all back? And most importantly, is it a bad sign that the most interesting fight of this review is one that doesn't involve a single main character, but rather someone who has had so little screentime in comparison to the others?

Which brings us to Gray's fight against Hakune. The fantasy provided by Hakune of the happy life Gray would love to have is a nice reminder of how far he's come over the years, as well as some cute cameos by Ultear and Silver, but all it really did was repeat what we already knew; He wants to have a child with Juvia soon. The way Gray defeated Hakune was so simple as well, all it did was make me wonder why he waited so long to do it. Was it to raise the tension and let them get captured for a while? It seems so.

At least the Princess Mimi fight was a lot more enjoyable, since it actually felt like a large amount of effort was needed to succeed. It also helps that I'm obsessed with every panel Princess Mimi exists in, as many of you are no doubt aware by now, and she literally gets defeated while remaining standing strong. Yes, that's a cliché we've seen a bunch of times now (Whitebeard, Rock Lee, Makarov etc) but it's still so cool. It's a cliche for a reason, and it totally belongs to Princess Mimi. I also got flashbacks to when Lucy fought off Tartarus opponents by herself as well, and this served as a nice reminder of how engaging she can be as a character when the story isn't making her need to be rescued.

Something much less engaging to me however are those damn "Hands" that make their reappearance. I commented on them when they first showed up, but I really do hate these things. They look ridiculous, and the way they create monsters by their "fingernail dirt" is both stupid and just plain gross. A multitude of hands can be intimidating when drawn in a certain way, but this isn't it. On a more optimistic side however, Wendy is noticing a similarity between the Hands and the Face bombs from the Tartarus arc. Could these things be about to cause a larger problem than we realised? I'm personally curious to see if we're about to have this arc's final boss be a giant multi-armed yokai of death. That might be interesting if done right.

The way the final chapter ends, with a wounded Selene trying to escape while Natsu vows to track her down does feel a bit awkward. When the hero is saying "I'm going to kill you", you want them to say it to an evil foe that needs to be defeated. This is a bloodied and pained woman who just told us her son was eaten by the man who cut her down. I agree she has to be stopped but the execution (ha, puns) of this is at a bad time. So yeah... awkward is the word we're going to use here.

Oh and there are men now! Elentir has male monks at the unexplored White House religion. So that's my theory about this world screwed over, which seems unfair. Where were they this whole time?! And now we'll probably never see gender-swapped Gajeel. I am heartbroken.

Thanks again for reading everyone! I hope to bring out more articles and reviews over the rest of the year, and I'm so glad for your patience and understanding. Unless you don't understand. Then I don't have any good answers for you, guys. Sorry!