Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 19
フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト

SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:

Many of the girls of Fairy Tail decide to celebrate Aldoron’s defeat with bath in a multi-person outdoor tub, shaped like Aldoron. Brandish decides to make the girls all small, so that they can enjoy the experience even more. However, Brandish disappears, leaving the tiny girls scrambling to find her. Natsu and Happy find the tiny Lucy. Together, they find Brandish at a sweets shop, where she restores all the girls to their normal size.

Meanwhile, the White Mage wakes in a panic over a place she calls Elentear. She wakes Touka about it, then uses Touka’s Aqua Aera spell to teleport away. The members of Team Natsu are also teleported away to a mysterious land, where they can’t use magic. They quickly discover they are on Edolas when Edo-Lucy shows up, looking for her daughter, Nasha.

After reuniting with the Edo-Fairy Tail, Team Natsu head to the Royal City to meet with Prince Mystogan. At the palace, the team greet Prince Mystogan, but get attacked by Edo-Erza in a maid outfit for not being more respectful. When Mystogan gently admonishes her, Edo-Erza begs to be spanked. The group discuss how Team Natsu could have been teleported to Edolas. Mystogan believes on a world called Elentear, the Moon Dragon god Selene has the ability to open portals and cross dimensions.

Thoughts/Review:

Well, Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 19 was mostly filler and an excuse to give cameos to characters from Edolas. Shockingly, this was all from the source manga.

Return to Edolas

I only vaguely remember Edolas from the OG Fairy Tail manga. However, the one thing I remember most were the alt-universe versions of Fairy Tail members who lived there. Oh yeah, and the Exceed intelligent cats lived here. Beyond that, I don’t remember what the conflict was or the like. And yet as Mashima-sensei is wont to do, Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 19 became an excuse to have more cameos, this time from Edolas.

However, because I don’t remember very much about this Edolas story, some of the more plot relevant elements were a mystery to me. I had to look up what Anima was. 😅 Clearly, hardcore Fairy Tail fans will remember, but for new fans, or like myself, casual fans, something more needed to be done to explain what happened. Alas, that was not the case.

Still, Mashima-sensei gets to have his cake and eat it too. He gives us the cameo reunion with all of the Edolas folks, complete with the comedy hijinks. Then he links it to the ongoing story with the Selene reference. Pretty convenient for the Edolas folks to know this.

Final Thoughts and Conclusion

I need to get to bed for an early morning doctor’s appointment, so let me wrap up my thoughts on Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 19.

• Nasha is a girl. Yet the subtitles refereed to her as if he were a guy. I checked the official manga translation and fandom, and both confirm this. So either the translator/adapter made a huge mistake, or just assumed Nasha was a boy for some whacked reason.
• The first story of the episode made me roll my eyes. I get in the manga, having a chapter to take a breather. And that should be adapted. However, this tale of the girls becoming small just bored me.
• Pretty convenient that the White Mage’s spell only teleported Team Natsu. I wondered how Team Natsu would be separated from Fairy Tail again. It was my hope that Juvia could join in on the quest, but obviously, that ain’t happening.
• Speaking of the White Mage, I see Mashima-sensei is now trying to redeem her. So she was going to do all sorts of evil things to save Elentear. But now that she’s failed, she’ll repent and become an ally, right? Well, that’s how Mashima-sensei usually does these things. Whatever.

In the end, Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 19 is mostly a filler episode, filled with Edolas cameos, a likely redemption arc for the White Mage, and a tie to the actual plot. All that’s missing is for Diabolos to somehow show up.