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Spoiler for 47:

Gah, Lucy's speech ruined everything. I tend to support changes from the manga in this series so far, but why the hell does Fairy Tail need Lucy to tell them how to be themselves? In the manga they just do it, no questions asked and complaining to each other all the while. Because, well, there are no hard feelings in Fairy Tail. It really was an awesome moment of them all coming together as a guild because they've always been a guild and they're not gonna let petty things like being forced to fight each other stop that. They even in the next breath talk about Laxus' attack being part of his rebellious phase, with the implication that they'll forgive him after this is all over. Fairy Tail sticks together as a family, you can give em that.

Except they don't in the anime. At least until their newbie gives a heartfelt speech. I'm sorry, but that ruined everything. I guess they wanted to give Lucy her moment in the climax of this arc, but they did so by ruining the characterization of every single other member of the guild. Seriously, this bugs me a lot.

...I guess the fight was okay, but they sort of spoiled the cliffhanger in the preview, as always. Should've taken the ad at the end as an opportunity to skip the preview entirely.