Fairy Tail 5
June 2, 2009
Hiro Mashima – Del Rey – 2009 – 14+ volumes
The ice monster story goes on. I don’t actually have a lot to say about this volume, since it was mostly fight scenes and not a lot of story or exposition. The fights were about what you would expect from this series, in particular Natsu’s scenes. While he does tip over an entire stone temple, the rest of his fights are just… you know, him throwing fire with varying degrees of success. Lucy’s fight was only slightly more notable because she opened her golden celestial gate, but not much comes of that.
Erza reappears and is not happy with the trio, but it looks like the story will march on to completion with her along for the ride.
There’s some more background info revealed for Gray. It’s pretty typical shounen manga stuff, with motivation, love, betrayal, giant monsters destroying towns, sacrifices… you know how that goes.
The one thing I love about this series is its sense of humor. The jokes are stupid, but somehow they are very, very funny. It’s hard not to laugh when Natsu tricks an opponent into knocking himself out with his own poisonous claws by telling him he has something on his forehead. There’s just lots of little jokes crammed in that make reading it a pleasure. This volume wasn’t all that notable or special, but it was worth reading for its sense of humor alone.
June 3, 2009 at 6:42 am
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