2013-02-16, 08:36 PM
I disagree about the pacing. Everything is being shown in a very deliberate order. We could have done without jumping back to natsu and co beating up mooks this chapter, but that was what, 3 pages? There might be some arc fatigue I guess, because this is easily the longest fairy tail arc, but i'm not feeling it.
I feel like the arcadios thing is going to be very important, besides that, he never actually accused Future Lucy of lying. He had a thought for one panel that she was keeping something from her friends, but decided himself that it couldn't be true. The fact that he feels he needs to be ready for a fight when going to see the princess is a interesting decision, and we now know that he (probably) is the white knight from Charles vision earlier in the arc.
And the results of Gajeel vs Rogue are clearly going to have long reaching meaning for the rest of the manga. Obviously, Gajeel getting a second element is important, but we might have just found out where the source of zerefs magic was, (possessing Rogue) and there is a very good chance it has possessed other people during this arc. For instance, I'd bet Arcadios was possessed by it at earlier in the arc when he was talking about "Lord Zeref". He certainly isn't behaving like someone who would want zeref revived right now!
I feel like the arcadios thing is going to be very important, besides that, he never actually accused Future Lucy of lying. He had a thought for one panel that she was keeping something from her friends, but decided himself that it couldn't be true. The fact that he feels he needs to be ready for a fight when going to see the princess is a interesting decision, and we now know that he (probably) is the white knight from Charles vision earlier in the arc.
And the results of Gajeel vs Rogue are clearly going to have long reaching meaning for the rest of the manga. Obviously, Gajeel getting a second element is important, but we might have just found out where the source of zerefs magic was, (possessing Rogue) and there is a very good chance it has possessed other people during this arc. For instance, I'd bet Arcadios was possessed by it at earlier in the arc when he was talking about "Lord Zeref". He certainly isn't behaving like someone who would want zeref revived right now!