#ch182

So, one thing I find myself pleasantly surprised by while reading the manga version of Edolas is Hughes. 

In the anime he’s just the doofus with a rather annoying speech pattern, and that makes me rather not like him because he feels very surface level and gimmicky. 

But in the manga-- he shows up, hauntingly asking them a question. And when we actually fight him, we see that he’s not just the goofy dude that likes to mess around and speak in ‘fer real, like, fer real’ blabber.

In the anime he smiles and plays around the whole time he says these lines. In the manga, he’s serious. He’s genuinely annoyed. He really hates the Earthlanders for being able to enjoy their magic while they run out in Edolas.

It gives him a depth.

It honestly makes me rather happy to know that Erza and Pantherlily aren’t the only serious ones in the royal army. It’s Sugar Boy and Coco that are the off ones out, not the other way around. Hughes is also capable of fooling around, but he knows when to be serious, too.

(Also, I love that for both Hughes and Erza, when their murder is questioned, they take a moment, before answering with a smile. It makes me like the idea that they know, somewhere inside, that it’s wrong, but they’re willing to dirty their hands for the greater good because they’re in too deep now.)

Also, my previous observation justifies Hughes’ stone-faced calm reaction to Lucy’s seduction tactic. He knows when’s the time for nonsense and he’s honestly just baffled they tried. 

According to one twitter account, it’s gonna be a very short roller coaster….

Apparently just 11 pages of Bard’s home life before he goes off to war.

Marriage, a child… their deaths.

bokuto has bad days, too, sometimes

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