I many times thought that I wouldn't make recap of this chapter since it sucked so much. I've been a bit disappointed lately with Fairy Tails plot development, meaning that every possible enemy is defeatable with powerful feelings and 'friendship'. Those cliches used very sparingly they would make a good impact to the reader, but Hiro Mashima is honestly spewing it very needlessly around. Couple of things that I didn't like about this chapter
-Mavis speaking her pretentious crap, I understand what Mashima was aiming with it, but it didn't really work for me - it lacked depth and was too forced.
-Laxus thinking what Natsu would say "I'm getting fired up", that moment also felt very forced and it somewhat changed the image that I had of Laxus - to the worse. Even though Laxus' obsession for getting rid of weaker Fairy Tail members was a bit weird in my opinion, he was the only character that didn't really beat anyone up with the power of friendship, but with the power of awesomeness.
-Laxus beating Jura: this was absolutely the worst thing in this chapter. Jura was very highly hyped to us as being the strongest human alive and Laxus managed to beat him in one chapter. This makes me wonder that was this victory only to satisfy fans with the sight of their favorite character winning over one of the most powerful mages in the series? It will be interesting to see how and what he will plan to make after this, since one of the things that in my opinion makes some of the battle shonen good is the unclear power hierarchy that the reader has in back of his mind making them speculate of what's about to come.
-Erza getting up and "releasing second origin" and exquipping "Armor of Nakagami" (Mashima should have named it "armor of nakama" to at least parodize himself), what is this? I feel like I've seen this same thing about a hundred times in Fairy Tail alone and no, it doesn't get better each time. The whole thing of her leg getting crushed was to make the fight with Minerva a serious challenge, but Mashima decided to fix that with a spell that we haven't seen, which mysteriously healed the injury (or at least makes her ignore it, or maybe she ignored it anyways) and apparently gave some (much?) power to her. I believe that this spell has a backlash of reducing Erzas lifespan or something, but I think that this solution was somewhat a lazy one plotwise. Also "my anger is my guild's angers" seriously dude?
(half a star because Laxus vs. Jura fight actually looked pretty good)
Recap of Fairy Tail Chapter 321: Laxus vs. Jura
-Laxus had just hit Jura with an uppercut. Jura counters with raising earth pillars from the gound.
-Laxus attacks with Lightning dragon's heavenward halberd, which gets blocked by Juras Talus.
-The fight continues and they fight in melee for a while. Laxus hit with seemingly powerful lightning attack, which makes Jura say that he's astonished.
-Erza vs. Minerva is continuing. Minerva says that his War God magic allows her to manipulate anything within her field of vision. "Territorial Magic", she says.
-Erza however has seen thorough it and manages to damage Minerva slightly.
-Erza releases her second origin which makes her a bit buffed up. She exquipped in to Tengami's armor, which is a new one.
-Grey and Juvia are saying to each other that they'll defeat their enemies with their teamwork.
-Laxus uses Dragon Slayer secret technique: roaring thunder defeating Jura of the Ten Wizard Saints.
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