Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10
フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト

SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:

Lucy uses her Leo-Virgo “Star Dress Mix” to battle Lisanna. Lisanna turns herself into a nine tailed kitsune. Lucy’s attack takes out Lisanna, and though it nukes Mira and Elfman as well, they are still standing. Since Virgo has been “captured”, Lucy and Loke have to face the siblings alone.

Meanwhile, Gray deals with the Thunder God Tribe. Fried removes Gray’s Ice Make abilities, leaving him with only his demon abilities. However, in this mode, Gray easily overcomes all three.

Elsewhere, Erza easily makes her way to another orb. She finds Jellal waiting for her. He shocks her by disrobing and coming onto her. As such, she decides to use seduction against him, causing him to “attack” her in lust. Laxus shows up, scolding Jellal for losing the objective. When Jellal decides to defend Erza, Laxus decides they should have a rematch. However, Kiria shows up after getting Erza’s scent. Kiria gets excited that another dragon (Laxus) is there.

At the same time, Wendy and Charle (Carla) make their way to an orb, where they find several Fairy Tail members webbed up. They were defeated by Diabolos member Nebaru, the Clinging Dragon. Nebaru quickly overcomes Wendy to consume her.

Still elsewhere, Levy defends Gajeel from Natsu. Since she’s pregnant with Gajeel’s child, Natsu doesn’t attack, allowing her to send him off in a cart. Natsu gets stopped by Wraith, the ghost Spirit Dragon member of Diabolos.

Thoughts/Review:

Lots went on in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10, so lets get started.

Lucy’s Fight

To get things started, we got to see Lucy’s fight against Mirajane, Elfman, and Lisanna. Of all the characters in the Fairy Tail franchise, Lucy is the one who’s powers constantly get tweaked. I don’t mean the usual power ups, though I suspect Mashima-sensei considers it as such. What I mean is that at the start of the manga, Lucy’s Celestial Spirit powers were limited by a contract. Then the contracts pretty much disappears so Lucy could summon at will.

Sometime later, Celestial Spirits could come at will, when the plot demanded. Now, Lucy can chance costumes and gain the powers of the Celestial Spirit who’s Star Dress she’s wearing. And for Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10, that was a combination of Virgo and Leo (Loke). How she has power to keep two Celestial Spirits AND use their powers via a costume, I don’t know. Part of the power creep, I suppose.

Nevertheless, Lucy’s big attack only took out Lisanna. Virgo gets put on the sideline for comedic purposes. That just leaves Loke to help Lucy, and I don’t see how they win.

Erza’s Fight

As one of the big dogs of Fairy Tail, Erza easily blew through her first fight in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10. Granted, that was done more for comedy. Still, what made Erza’s next fight interesting was the fact that she would go up against Jellal, a guy she has feelings for and has known since childhood. Sometimes, Mashima-sensei likes to pull the rug out from folks, and he did that here. I did not expect Jellal to strip down like Gray and forget his mission, just to be closer to Erza. That made me laugh.

From a story perspective, I don’t know what Erza thought she’d achieve by going through a series of seduction outfits. From Mashima-sensei’s perspective, it was a way to service Erza for the viewers. However, Laxus showing up put an end to that.

Speaking of Laxus, once again, we got the rug pulled from under our feet. I really thought we’d see a Laxus vs. Jellal fight, since Jellal’s infatuation with Erza overrode his orders from the White Mage. But then Kiria shows up, meaning now there could be a four-way fight. No clue how this will go.

Gray’s Fight

The biggest letdown fight in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10 was Gray’s rematch with Bickslow, Fried, and Evergreen. As I figured, Fried would use his powers to stop Gray. However, it seems that “plot” demanded that Gray get through the fight as fast as possible. As such, Fried only stops Gray’s ice powers. From a story perspective, that makes no sense. There was no reason for Fried to allow Gray to do anything.

Oh well. It would have been fun to see Gray and Juvia team up and battle the Thunder God Tribe.

Levy’s Intervention

Since Natsu had effectively defeated Gajeel in this episode, it was interesting that Levy intervened. I don’t remember Levy getting pregnant in the OG Fairy Tail, but man, she’s apparently pregnant now. So did Gajeel and Levy get married? I hope so, though the episode doesn’t say. It just had Gajeel and Levy being sweet on each other after dispatching Natsu.

Speaking of which, I did like how Levy tricked Natsu. Assuming the pregnancy announcement and flashback were introduced in Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10, then she had to figure that Natsu wouldn’t attack her and risk harming the child in her womb. Thus she had an opening to use her powers to send Natsu away and unable to fight due to motion sickness.

You know, now that I think about it, one of the omake shorts that came at the start of the episode revealed Levy’s pregnancy. I get the feeling the story wanted to spring that on the viewer, but the anime production team nixed that by revealing it via the omake content.

The Final Battles

As I said, there was a ton packed into Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10. Natsu ends up confronted by a ghost member of Diabolos. And since Wraith is incorporeal, how does Natsu battle him? We’ll see what Mashima-sensei had in store.

Then there’s Wendy, who got caught by another member of Diabolos. Apparently, the spider-like Nebaru is unaffected by Wendy’s powers. Here too, I’ve no clue what rubbish will be pulled from someone’s rear to resolve this fight.

Regardless, things are quite chaotic. You have Team Natsu plus the powerless Juvia. Then there are the enthralled members of Fairy Tail. Add to the mix the members of Diabolos. And to top it all off, there’s the wood dragon god. So there are a lot of moving pieces, almost too many since most of the parties are split up.

Final Thoughts and Conclusion

In the end, Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 10 was crammed full of stuff, hence my bloviated article. However, the episode was entertaining overall, and even funny in one spot. However, the omake content at the beginning of the episode feels wrong.