Fairy Tail anime to continue

Hiro Mashima himself has said it earlier on: the production of Fairy Tail anime does not end on episode 175. [source 1, source 2] 

A few months afterwards, here's a bit of news! It's not yet detailed, but on the pages of the latest Fairy Tail  manga, Mashima noted: "TV ANIME PROJECT, RESTART!"

Even though there's no details yet, Mashima has since March been telling us to "wait for some good news" and a few days ago has been telling fans that "There will be good news on July 4" which was later moved to July 11. If that isn't confirmation enough to you, I don't know what else to say.

Fairy Tail Episode 175 featured "Natsu vs the Two Dragons" from manga Chapter 296. If the supposed anime continuation picks up directly from the manga (as opposed to inserting a filler arc/episode), the anime will soon delve deeper into the Eclipse project and the forces behind it.

We still await further news on this topic. Hopefully it will be sooner than later.

Fairy Tail Chapter 221 Review.. and a commentary on "Character Death"

They totally skipped Mirajane and Lisanna!!!  *Not that I didn't expect it...my friend totally predicted that 221 will be focused on the 7 kins and we won't see what happens to Mira and Lisanna anytime soon.* Poof. Well, here goes another week of waiting! :'(

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I must say, it was disappointing that Zeref and Urtear's fight wasn't shown. After all the hype w/ Zeref's "I'm angry"... all we see is him losing to Urtear. x.x

Elfman and Evergreen's part for this chapter looked good. They managed to show Evergreen's magic's weakness, and yet I'm starting to think these two could make a good fighting tandem.

Natsu's down, which was good imo. He's been having a LOT of powerups lately for my liking. I hope he'd get a rest for a while. I'm sure they'd make him do some heroistic entrance again later on. :eyeroll (PS- I really do find you adorable Natsu. I'm just not fond of too many unexplainable powerups.)

At last they made it a bit clearer now what GH want from Zeref. I guess FT mages will fight more vigorously now that they know what evil is being planned.

I keep getting excited seeing that Erza and Juvia are facing the same opponent. I hope they'll have some sort of combo! Both fighters are really good. It's interesting to know what they can do together.

As for Lisanna... well, overall I would like to see Lisanna improve, but I wouldn't want to see that as early as next time we see her. I mean, I don't want her to suddenly go demonic (or have a sudden power surge of sort) and pwn Azuma like Mirajane did to Fried when she thought Elfman could die. It would be so...unreal.

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When I first saw Charle's vision, I thought it was Makarov's hand. haha. But people are saying it's a feminine hand. I really don't want to accept yet that it's Mira. I guess it is about time FT would take some real loss on their side... but I really can't imagine FT without Mira.

I mean whew, she's been there from the start. She's always the one explaining things to Lucy. We haven't seen much of her fights, and some of FT's major battles she didn't take part at all (like in the Tower and in Edoras) but even so she's always been one to welcome the team back. She has good leadership skills too, in Phantom arc we saw how she and Cana could take over leading the other FT mages while Team Natsu is busy fighting.

I was also hoping to see her fight more often. I mean hey, she actually said herself she still has a lot to learn when it comes to fighting. (she said to Erza after being beat by Elfman and Evergreen..). I had high hopes of seeing Demon Mira in more awesome fights.

But then this is death we're talking about. Death usually comes unexpectedly, and it hurt more that way. If that's what Mashima is trying to achieve when he decides someone would die, then he'd achieve that with Mira. The more unexpected, the more hopes are there to be shattered, the more a presence will be missed, the more "effective" a character death will be.

If Mira really did die. I'm still crossing my fingers hoping she did not!

Erza vs Erza: Who really won?

At the end of the latest Fairy Tail manga chapter, we see Edoras Erza approaching Natsu and Gray. After mistaking her initially to be Earthland Erza, Gray and Natsu noticed her clothes and concluded that the Erza vs Erza battle has finally ended, and Edoras Erza won. Hmm?

I don't think so. [ Possible Fairy Tail spoiler below, although this is just my take on it, nothing official. ]

Aside from my initial, "No way Erza Scarlet would lose!" reaction, this panel really made me think that something fishy's going on:



She looks and talks just like Edoras erza, alright, but look at the scar on the side of her face... And then look here:



This one was from Fairy Tail 180: Erza vs Erza. Early in their battle, they scarred each other in the face... Earthland Erza's scar was slanted below her left eye, while Edoras Erza was scarred on the bridge of her nose.

If you'd look back to the first picture, the scar on this Erza's face is below her left eye. It's slanted upwards instead of Earthland Erza's downward-slanted scar (and slanted in a manner that is more similar to Edoras Erza's scar) but I think it's a minor mistake, and may even be made so it won't be too obvious.

So I have a hunch that the Erza that won is Earthland Erza... I really don't need the panels shown above. (It's just sort of a little evidence, in case someone wanted to challenge my hunch, haha.) Let's just say that I believe in Erza too much. ;)

If you want another, just look at the last panel on page 19. Doesn't that confident, all-knowing smile look very familiar? The next chapters could prove me wrong, but don't go telling me that I don't have faith in Erza Scarlet. She may not be my favorite character, but she's the one character I truly admire, and I just won't accept it if she lost.

I can't wait for Fairy Tail 187.