Episode 15 Fairy Tail’s 100-Year Mission

Last week’s episode ended on a pretty big cliffhanger, and it’s no surprise that things start to escalate pretty quickly this episode, but first: we have another random short to kick things off. It’s basically Wendy and Kara panicking about a bug in their room, and then Erza shows up and destroys their entire dorm in an unsuccessful attempt to get rid of it. That’s basically the whole joke. I did get a little excited about Elsa’s murderous eyes, but other than that, this one was pretty forgettable compared to the previous installments.

Thankfully, the actual plot is toned down a bit there, and sure enough, the White Mage’s efforts to seal the Wooden Dragon by destroying the orb only seem to make things worse. We learn from all the townspeople that the orbs were actually limiting his powers, and now that they’re destroyed, this causes him to reawaken while everyone living on his back is reabsorbed into his body , just like they were, were never truly human to begin with. All of this was completely unexpected for the White Mage, and it seems that she was deceived by an unknown group. Although the fact has not been confirmed, the implication is that Moon Dragon is the mastermind behind the scenes and she has her own purpose, which seems to be related to distorting the world. That’s all well and good, but it also reminds me that the White Mage’s motivations for sealing powerful magic users are still unclear, and while there’s a lot of mystery to ponder here, I’m hoping we’ll at least find out one before the rest of this arc wraps up answer.

Meanwhile, at least it looks like we’re done with the entire subplot about freeing the guild from her possession, because when Natsu and Wendy go back to face her, they learn that the Roar of the Wooden Dragon’s awakening has seemingly been cancelled. Casting her spell. Wendy also manages to use her separation barrier spell to separate Tuka from the White Mage, and while the others are content to leave the latter to their fate, Natsu decides to take her with him. In almost any other context, I might complain that this is a rather anticlimactic way to deal with the White Mage turning the guild into her personal cult, but like I’ve said in previous reviews, I feel This plot had already started to wear out its welcome a few episodes ago, and at this point I’m happy to be done with it completely. I’m not going to lie either, I laughed so hard at Laxus’s literal “Who did this?” While I was recovering from this, I was wondering how Elsa got beaten, and Mirajane had vague memories of being attacked by Gray, so I’m glad we at least got some good laughs out of the whole deal point.

The rest of the episode mainly focuses on dealing with the immediate threat of the Wood Shenron, as the Wood Shenron begins sending out creatures called Godseeds that can read a person’s mind and transform into the most powerful being they can think of. Big people. For Gray’s team, this meant having to face off against clones of Gildarts, but in Natsu’s case, he somehow…became happy. For some reason, even after getting the explanation that the clones were based on being strong, he was completely unaffected, which I guess means Natsu thinks highly of the little guy? I’d say it’s heartwarming, but Natsu himself admitted that this was the second time he’d hit him today, so he definitely had no qualms about fighting Natsu. However, when the godseed tries to read his mind again, it transforms into Zeref, which seems like it might cause problems worse than anything else going on right now. Obviously this was Natsu’s plan, but no one could tell what the specific plan was. Maybe he’ll try to use the whole death curse to kill all the treants or something? The possibility was bizarre, and while I wasn’t on the edge of my seat waiting to see how it all unfolded, I was intrigued and it caught my attention while we waited for answers.

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Fairy Tail: The 100 Year Quest Currently streaming on Crunchyroll.