Fairy Tail Anime Episode Discussion Thread [Episode 165 and Onward]

[dahak]

Originally Posted by Shirou Emiya

Why did Episode 49 not air this week?

Because Episode 48 was the end of the original 4 cour season and the second wasn't green lit early enough for episode 49 to be ready.

Spoiler for More devianart:

[Kid Ryan]

Originally Posted by dahak

Because Episode 48 was the end of the original 4 cour season and the second wasn't green lit early enough for episode 49 to be ready.

Ah, okay. Thanks for the explanation.

[Sinestra]

Man i actually felt bad watching Laxus get expelled from Fairy Tail. Now i know where Natsu gets his temper from thats one angry dragon. Gajeel being a double agent is PURE WIN

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by Sinestra

Man i actually felt bad watching Laxus get expelled from Fairy Tail. Now i know where Natsu gets his temper from thats one angry dragon. Gajeel being a double agent is PURE WIN

Think the anime did a better job making me feel some sympathy for Laxus. It's just weird overall considering how far he went during this incident. You got to love Igneel who really has one heck of a temper when pushed.

[Krono]

For those that are curious, the next few episode titles are available:

Spoiler for Episode titles 49 - 53 titles:

Courtesy of this link: http://anime.webnt.jp/program/index....il&detail=4194

49　(10/11)
運命の出会いの日
Day of the Fateful Encounter

50　(10/18)
特別依頼。気になる彼に注意せよ！
Special Mission: Watch out for that Guy!

51　(10/25)
LOVE ＆ LUCKY

52　(11/1)
連合軍、集結！
Allied Forces, Assemble!

53　(11/8)
六魔将軍(オラシオンセイス)現る！
Oracion Seis Appear

[Clarste]

Originally Posted by Krono

For those that are curious, the next few episode titles are available:

Spoiler for Episode titles 49 - 53 titles:

Courtesy of this link: http://anime.webnt.jp/program/index....il&detail=4194

49　(10/11)
運命の出会いの日
Day of the Fateful Encounter

50　(10/18)
特別依頼。気になる彼に注意せよ！
Special Mission: Watch out for that Guy!

51　(10/25)
LOVE ＆ LUCKY

52　(11/1)
連合軍、集結！
Allied Forces, Assemble!

53　(11/8)
六魔将軍(オラシオンセイス)現る！
Oracion Seis Appear

Spoiler:

So three cooldown episodes before the next arc starts? That seems a bit excessive, but I guess they're not in a rush now that they have another full year without really that much manga buffer.

[Simonsy]

so no break for season 2

thats nice

was wondering since season 2 just got announced recently if there was going to be like a month or two before it started

[Kaijo]

I don't mind buffer/filler episodes, really, as long as they don't go too far off the material and they don't take up 100+ episodes (I'm looking at you, Naruto).

[Simonsy]

they aren't filler, or at least none of them are except possibly the "Special Mission" one

[Clarste]

Yeah, I wouldn't call them filler necessarily, just non-arc episodes in between the major stories. Same classification as Loke's little mini-arc (which was two episodes I believe?)

[Krono]

Originally Posted by Simonsy

they aren't filler, or at least none of them are except possibly the "Special Mission" one

The special mission one adapts one of the bonus chapters. So it's all non-filler in the sense that it all adapts something done by Mashima. On the other hand, for two of the episodes it's going to require some reframing on the part of the anime staff, somewhat similar to what episode 20 required.

If you're curious as to what episode title corresponds to what chapter for these episodes:

Spoiler for Title's source chapter numbers:

49　- Title of one of the special chapters, and by the preview with episode 48, also adapts skipped material from chapter 104.
50　- Title of one of the special chapters.
51　- same title as chapter 130
52　- same title as chapter 132
53　- same title as chapter 134

[Ash Falls Town]

Spoiler for Episode 49:

Natsu doesn't care if we watch Fairy Tail in a brightly lit room anymore.
Anyway the OP is probably spoilery but it's all new characters fighting and it's hard to make anything out except apparently Lyon returns.
Also the entire episode is filled with scenes of a blue haired girl who screams "I'M IMPORTANT AND MYSTERIOUS"

The episode started by cleaning up the aftermath of the last arc. I personally think Juvia should have gotten first place though. And apparently Laxus's father inserted some dragon slayer lacrima in him. Which sounded as if it were a douchy thing.

Lucy has had "3" boyfriends which makes sense since she's Lucy. And she has a Fateful Encounter after reaching for a book entitled Fateful Encounter. Cana is apparently his type though. Well I'm sure Cana is a lot of guys type.

Also a reporter visits and ignores Lucy a lot. But really that reporter must have gotten a ton of other stuff anyway. Some people will probably disagree but a dragon slayer battle is fine too.

Ending is all blue haired girl.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by Ash Falls Town

Spoiler for Episode 49:

Natsu doesn't care if we watch Fairy Tail in a brightly lit room anymore.
Anyway the OP is probably spoilery but it's all new characters fighting and it's hard to make anything out except apparently Lyon returns.
Also the entire episode is filled with scenes of a blue haired girl who screams "I'M IMPORTANT AND MYSTERIOUS"

The episode started by cleaning up the aftermath of the last arc. I personally think Juvia should have gotten first place though. And apparently Laxus's father inserted some dragon slayer lacrima in him. Which sounded as if it were a douchy thing.

Lucy has had "3" boyfriends which makes sense since she's Lucy. And she has a Fateful Encounter after reaching for a book entitled Fateful Encounter. Cana is apparently his type though. Well I'm sure Cana is a lot of guys type.

Also a reporter visits and ignores Lucy a lot. But really that reporter must have gotten a ton of other stuff anyway. Some people will probably disagree but a dragon slayer battle is fine too.

Ending is all blue haired girl.

In case anyone is wondering the "Miss Fairy Tail Contest" was actually held in real life when it happened in the manga.

They asked readers to send in post cards with their vote, tallied them up, and then 2 volumes later he made the results public in this chapter.

So the ranking Erza->Lucy->Juvia is actually based on the fan feedback when it came out in the manga. (I don't know what he would have done if Lucy had won... he probably had something planned where she wouldn't get the money anyway ).

[Clarste]

Spoiler:

Since when is Wendy the main character? I guess the anime just really loves her. Unless they squeeze her into the filler episode next, we won't even meet her for another 3 episodes. So it's kinda weird for someone we don't even know the name of to be the star of the ED.

As for the episode itself, they sort of awkwardly squeezed the two sidestories together. It might've worked slightly better to focus on one at a time instead of mixing them, but whatever, good enough. And of course Wendy walks around shopping for no particular reason, but I guess she's Lucy's fated encounter now?

Spoiler for manga:

Come on, she's never been that important even if she managed to squeeze her way into the main cast pretty quickly.

[Kaijo]

Originally Posted by Ash Falls Town

Spoiler for Episode 49:

Natsu doesn't care if we watch Fairy Tail in a brightly lit room anymore.
Anyway the OP is probably spoilery but it's all new characters fighting and it's hard to make anything out except apparently Lyon returns.
Also the entire episode is filled with scenes of a blue haired girl who screams "I'M IMPORTANT AND MYSTERIOUS"

The episode started by cleaning up the aftermath of the last arc. I personally think Juvia should have gotten first place though. And apparently Laxus's father inserted some dragon slayer lacrima in him. Which sounded as if it were a douchy thing.

Lucy has had "3" boyfriends which makes sense since she's Lucy. And she has a Fateful Encounter after reaching for a book entitled Fateful Encounter. Cana is apparently his type though. Well I'm sure Cana is a lot of guys type.

Also a reporter visits and ignores Lucy a lot. But really that reporter must have gotten a ton of other stuff anyway. Some people will probably disagree but a dragon slayer battle is fine too.

Ending is all blue haired girl.

Spoiler for Episode 49:

Lucy hasn't had any boyfriends yet. Right after she says three, Cana calls her out as a liar, heh. It appears Lucy doesn't return Loke's feelings, as she was quick to imagine a possible marriage to the reporter dude.

Decent episode overall, though I thought the blue-haired chick felt a bit out of place. I don't think she showed up in the manga chapters, so I wonder why they included her here (I know who she is); from what I understand, she mostly stays in her town. But possibly included a few scenes with her to pad the episode a bit to make it fully fit the timeslot. I notice she didn't have her companion with her, which would have raised even more questions from those who don't know.

Anyway, Wild Mass Guessing time: The dragons are in the spirit world. Natsu was able to pass through with Virgo, which Lucy thought was impossible. Natsu and Gadjeel couldn't leave the guild when Fried put his "no one over 80 can leave" barrier up. Thus, I think the dragons left some of their essence in their protoge's, which triggered the "over 80" clause, and also will let them go to the spirit world to find the dragons eventually. Lucy will probably be key to getting them there.

/end Wild Mass Guessing

[amjzz]

Episode 49:

OP: Spoilers, many spoilers. Most of the surprises of this arc were revealed.

The episode was a combination of 2 fillers and the manga plothole was avoided.

Also, wendy appearing constantly in the town, which doesn't make much sense.
And which was lucy fateful encounter?. It was wendy or natsu?. I don't think it was wendy, but the episode made it look like that.

It doesn't make much sense, the cana said fateful (unlucky), why was lucy so happy about it?.

Next episode will be a filler again.

[Quarkboy]

Originally Posted by amjzz

Episode 49:

OP: Spoilers, many spoilers. Most of the surprises of this arc were revealed.

The episode was a combination of 2 fillers and the manga plothole was avoided.

Also, wendy appearing constantly in the town, which doesn't make much sense.
And which was lucy fateful encounter?. It was wendy or natsu?. It doesn't make much sense if it was wendy.

It doesn't make much sense, the cana said fateful (unlucky), why was lucy so happy about it?.

Next episode will be a filler again.

"unmei" (fated) doesn't have a bad meaning in Japanese in this context.

The translation of "Fateful Encounter" was somewhat forced on me to match what was written on that book... In english that doesn't necessarily have a bad meaning, but it's not as positive as in the Japanese.

[Bombo]

Spoiler for ED 49:

Forget about the episode just focus in ED ..I fall for wendy <3

[Simonsy]

Originally Posted by amjzz

Episode 49:

OP: Spoilers, many spoilers. Most of the surprises of this arc were revealed.

The episode was a combination of 2 fillers and the manga plothole was avoided.

Also, wendy appearing constantly in the town, which doesn't make much sense.
And which was lucy fateful encounter?. It was wendy or natsu?. I don't think it was wendy, but the episode made it look like that.

It doesn't make much sense, the cana said fateful (unlucky), why was lucy so happy about it?.

Next episode will be a filler again.

only half of it was a manga special filler

the reporter part was in the actual story, it was just skipped before. it took place before the fairy festival arc.

and yea it seems the fated reunion was this blue haired girl, which they decided to randomly have be shopping in town all episode for no reason than to hint at future.

[dickdatduck]

Why do manga readers, who read the manga and thus already know whats going to happen, worry about spoilers in the opening?