English Dub Review: Fairy Tail – 100 Years Quest “Homecoming”


OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Natsu’s team cracks a way to defeat Alta Face and return home before resuming their quest, while Selene takes over Diabolos in order to track down the remaining two dragons.

OUR TAKE

And that’s a wrap on Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest, at least until they have enough manga to adapt another six months worth of episodes, assuming they don’t already. We’ve checked two dragons off the list by this point, since Mercphobia is depowered and Aldoron is dead, with three left to deal with. Selene apparently played possum a bit when getting captured and then, when challenged to a fight in her dragon form, easily cleaned house and essentially performed a hostile takeover of Diabolos, becoming its new leader in order to track down the remaining dragons. One we know is Ignia, the son of Natsu’s foster dad Igneel, who appeared briefly early on this season and then disappeared again, while the other is now named as Viernes, but while we know Ignia is the Fire God, it’s unclear what element Viernes will be packing. I suppose that leaves us with plenty to hold us over and ponder on while we wait for the next season and conveniently decide to not read the manga to know what’s coming, which is what I will be doing. I enjoyed this season fine more or less but not nearly enough to go through all of that.

As for what happened with the actual Fairy Tail characters, that was a bit less interesting. Like good job defeating that giant face of pure magic and all but the means of which they defeated it are a bit headscratching, even by bullshit shonen fight metrics. Yes, it was established early on that this world is overflowing with magic in a rather unstable way, hence why Alta Face exists in the first place, but even fighting him off with that doesn’t take him down. So, the weird spirit in Wendy’s mind who is apparently Erza’s mom tells Wendy it’s actually that their bodies simply don’t know that they have even more magic they can use, so they all just…decide to be stronger and win, essentially. I mean yeah, sure, fine, whatever I guess. I know this isn’t exactly meant to be the most clever of stories but I feel like they could’ve done better than that. Or maybe they can’t and I’m just overestimating them. But whatever the case, that draws this first season to a close. No idea on when or if we’ll be getting a second one but for now we gotta look at it all and sum it up, so come back next week for that.