#ft 519

"I've always loved you.." -Eileen Belserion

Guys if you’ve read my reviews you know I do try to find something positive in every chapter. I don’t want to ever let the stimulus of “this arc sucks” to affect my first read of a chapter. I want to love every chapter of FT. SO please understand when I say, this was bad. So here we go:

Oh look more glamour shots. Don’t think LL Bean will let you publish that one, given the angle.

so we have Erza heading right for the meteor and trust me when I say this is the least BS part of this chapter. Also this light Erza has, not explained.

So Erza pulls a saitama and destroys the meteor.

You don’t know the half of it Irene. It gets worse from here and let me remind you that Erza has all the bones in her body broken except for her arm.

Y’know the idea of Wendy enchanting dragon slaying magic to the sword isn’t a bad one. In fact had this fight been re written, the idea of Wendy giving Erza the Sky dragon slaying magic to use in her sword would’ve actually been pretty cool. But as of now and all evens that’ll transpire, this will only lead to more BS.

Yep. We just saw Erza do critical damage to a dragon slayer. Okay. First, Erza has all her bones broken, she most likely can’t move her body all that well, so why don’t you move out of the way Irene? Or turn into human form? Second, how sad is it that Natsu, the MC and powered up by Atlas’s hell flames couldn’t even do that much damage to Motherglare but a broken woman only using dragon slaying magic compressed into a katanna can make such a gapping wound.

And Dead. Or at least Erza should be, flopping on her side with that many broken bones. Also Irene, why did you compress yourself back into human form?

Irene the only one pulling crap is you, for not staying in dragon form and just stepping on everyone like you should. Also this leads into the dumbest part of the chapter, no seriously.

What. the. fuck.

Okay Hiro if you want to justify what Irene is about to do next then you should’ve extended the flash backs, don’t just add in other part of the flash back to create conflict. Second, Irene what the hell are you? Look I’ve said before Irene’s torture only justified her want to be human and that want is what drive her to act crazy when given the chance to take a new body. But this childish personality, this one where you literally say don’t laugh at me with a baby crying, where did it come from? You’ve given no reason to justify this childish behavior. And it still gets worse.

The Fuck. Erza you not only have most of your bones broken, you some how after destroying a meteor have enough strength to launch yourself, while being stabbed. I guess you could try to argue that due to her broken left side she can’t feel the stabbing but look at this.

(Okay how the hell can you launch yourself like that as well as do that much damage) Hey Irene be smart and stab Erza.

Oh my god. Why? No, why?

Not even you know why this crap is happening? Actually I do know, Hiro is too lazy to come up with a way to defeat Irene that would make sense and we obviously can’t have Erza lose and let Alvarez have some victory.

Oh what fresh hell. Irene you said you couldn’t enchant yourself into Erza because you saaid you didn’t share the same magic so enchanting personality was not possible. I had said this before myself that a logical reason she couldn’t enchant herself is because she’d be stuck in the body of a child. Also you were already crazy, Irene. That was the whole point tis flash back with you, to express why you were crazy, also how do you stop being insane just enough to know that you’ll go nuts again. We saw chronologically through this flashback that you were already mad before you gave Erza up.  It makes no sense.

Oh fuck off. Lets look at that “Love deceives the heart” crap. None of this was done out of love this was all portrayed as her being selfish. Also what Love has Erza shown that’ll “remedy” the heart? Her laugh? Throughout this fight you both have expressed you don’t love each other. Irene you kept referring to Erza as trash. You tried to wipe her out with a meteor that couldn’t be stopped and only did stop “cause she’s erza” so if Erza didn’t stop it what then? So much love I’m feeling. The only way this could make some fraction of sense is if Irene had a Brain and Zero thing going that her personalities were split and at war.

Post Chapter Follow up(and follow up of this whole excursion): Wow this was bad. I’m going to say I hated 500 “Fire and Ice” because it was a microcosm of every flaw in FT, but this was microcosm of what every FT hater accuses it of being. This Erza and Irene conflict had nothing but overly done powers, pointless drama, forced drama, ideas introduced only to be solved in one chapter, egregious fanservice, and friendship speeches abound. This is mockery of what FT is, unintentional self parody. Everything good that could’ve come from this is wasted.

Lets look at the negatives. As I said Irene’s motivations keep changing on a dime, this random tweeking to her backstory just raises more questions. Lots of people were pissed that Irene turned out that Irene was a dragon slayer and related to it’s mythos but honestly I liked the idea because dragon slayers often are the most thought out thing by Hiro. But Irene is so damn inconsistent in her personality. First she was introduced as this queenly woman who showed off that she really acts like a child in manner, no now she’s plain psychotic because of her drive to want to be human again, no she was always a kind mother who went crazy for some reason (Yeah the reason she said she’d go crazy isn’t brought up.) The potential for the best spriggan was there, she had a backstory, had power to match up, and developed to the point she’d keep focus. But then she is portrayed as so incompetent that she gives up her whole body only to have lost more power, and get mad and almost kill everyone even though she says she doing this for happiness and now she kills her self for love.

Now on to Erza. My god, she’s Erza is just right because this woman is not the badass that tons of fans fell in love with this. This is a parody that isn’t funny. Look I like Natsu a lot but he does some over powered, plain lazy, wins but I can tolerate it because he is the MC. But Erza even though she’s been here since the beginning should not be held to that because she has prove in the past not to be like this. But no she’s even more over the top then Natsu. I a sense people are going to say Erza struggled against Ajeel and had help against him, well Wendy was right here, Erza could have totally taken Irene with the help of Wendy but not I’ll be completely broken and Wendy you’ll just stand over there.

Lets also get into this love thing. This has been done by Hiro and done better before by him. Perfect example Gray vs Silver plot line, Silver did act like a dick to Gray but he showed that the reason he wanted to die wasn’t cause I’m a parent and I need to die, it was I’ve done horrible things that I can’t justify anymore and you should feel no shame in killing me for it. Because Silver was done in a way that I sympathize with him, want to see him beat for being a villain, has a legitimate reason to want Gray to kill him, Gray beat him on his own skill, and expressed love between parent and child. But you know that a parent should be prioritized to love their child no matter what, but in real life that is not always the case, there is no shame in creating an asshole who is a parent. Hiro has done it right before with Jude so I don’t see how you can’t do that with Irene. nope gotta redeem her. Hell this isn’t even like with King in Rave Master where his hatred for Gale was actually all his misplaced anger that he needed to be justified but ultimately saw he was wrong in doing that and it wasn’t all Gale’s fault, this was I’m crazy cause I have a tragic backstory oh but I love you when I’m to strong to beat.

And this is the worse part of this chapter and this Erza vs Irene fight in general. It is the clearest evidence that Hiro just doesn’t care. This is so lazily done and so impossible to make satisfying that he just needed to release the chapter because he has to end this story. And this is the greatest show of it, not knowing what direction to go, overblown, cheap ways to make or characters seem more powerful. All just a mess.

The only positive was Erza herself didn’t kill Irene. And even then that’s not saying much.

Final Verdict: 0/10

Just all the flaws of writing on display

Erza is just beyond the point of justifying

Tons of great ideas to work with and barely are taken advantage of