[Ash Falls Town]

Spoiler for 80:

This episode we got a lot of background on Edolas and how the arc will continue. The last episode was OK but compared to this episode it wasn't that good at all, we finally have a direction now.

Wendy and Natsu are finally up to speed and we've ditched the minor guild members so that progress is nice. Also we've got a bit of an explanation why the Edolas guild is so on edge. Lucy seems to have gotten the moniker Scary Lucy although deep down she's just a generic tsundere. She even says that line which kind of pushed the limits for acceptable non-parody characterisation unfortunately. Although she does show some nuance so I hope that was just a one off obvious characterisation moment.

We get introduced to the remaining villains and the black guy is actually a black Panther Lily. Dog boy Coco is actually a girl and Hughes is like whoa totally different from Midnight which doesn't refute my Hughes=Midnight theory. Old guy'z the king and really old guy haz a speech impediment. Their plot dumping was an acceptable realistic conversation.

I'm still liking the atmosphere of Edolas although it makes parts of Earthland seem boring in comparison. It's amazing what putting a crap ton of stuff into an alternately coloured sky does to atmosphere.

It does seem like kind of a sensible idea to limit using magic when it's a non-renewable resource but the king is hoarding it for himself (probably for evil (possibly immortality)) so I'm not that worried on that part. Anyway Lucy at the end revealed she can use her key magic (The scene they told Lucy about that was funny because they obviously couldn't explain it well). So we should be seeing some good Lucy fights this arc.

I'm interested in what Gajeel is going to do with his writer friend as well. It seems he still has his steel hard body in this world. The magic shop owner in this world however was the same as the one at the start of the series so he's kind of the same as well. Since the sign said Bobby on the front I was expecting Bob to be the shop owner though so that was kind of a disappointment.