Summary Key Points:

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• Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Happy and Carla are tasked with protecting a Freight train filled with Gold
• The Jiggly Butt Gang (famous from Hiro Mashima’s other manga, Groove Adventure Rave) makes an appearance on the train and tries to steal the Gold
• Lucy, Carla and Happy are knocked off the train by their Triple Gas Bomb, and Wendy is left to protect the train by herself with Plue (Lucy’s celestial spirit)
• Wendy ends up befriending the gang and attempts to have them change their evil ways
• as it seems like she’s making some headway, Carla, Lucy and Happy return
• Natsu also wakes up from his car sickness, and send the three thieves flying
• The episode ends with the Jiggly Butt Gang, later, saying that they will be back as they are sent flying away

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Opinions: (C)

It seems that even awesome series can have a bad episode every now and then, and this latest filler episode has got to be one the weakest episodes we’ve gotten out of Fairy Tail in a huge while…

I’m personally all for funny 1 episode fillers episodes, that play with interesting concepts, but there  really was nothing much in this episode to make it even mildly interesting. It seemed like the Anime production team decided that simply adding the Jiggly Butt gang from Groove Adventure Rave was enough to make this episode an episode.While the Jiggly Butt Gang was a bit funny in Groove Adventure Rave, any form of humor in this episode was really lost on me. If anything, the episode seemed to be filled with rather juvenile (even for a shounen series) fart jokes.

This is SO not working out guys!

I can appreciate the idea of trying to put something as random and weird as the Jiggly Butt gang, and have them interact with Wendy, but there really wasn’t any chemistry in the pairing, even from a purely comedic standpoint. The whole episode felt underwhelming and somewhat boring.

The one thing that was of note was that Natsu may be developing a resistance/tolerance for Toria, the spell that keeps his motion sickness away. Poor guy is doomed to torture by transport XD

In the end though, this was just a bad episode. It was so bad, in fact, that there’s nothing to really hate about it but at the same time it just feels empty and forgettable.  For the first time in a huge while, its really difficult for me to really say much on an episode of Fairy Tail, and most of my posts are short essays in terms of length. That’s just how unremarkable and boring this episode. Given how well the first filler episode we got was, its kind of disappointing. Hopefully not every filler episode is as bad as this one.

Preview:

Next week seems to tackle a more interesting topic. Namely, Lucy being invisible and running into all sorts of hilarity. See you all next week!

• Ana

  Fair enough, totally notable I’m better off to totally not watch this one
  I knew the animators would screw up anytime. They think just because they can draw pretty that would cover their poor stories?

  Animators # Writers
  COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORLDS!!!! IT’S LIKE ASKING AN ILLUSTRATOR TO WRITE A BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES!!!

  That’s the bad side of the fillers. I only like fillers that are a good laugh. Screw shipping fuss, that works on others.

  Aaaaaand next episode seems like a good skip for me as well. Yeeep, guess I will not see FT animated for a looooooooong while.

  Have fun, Natsu x Lucy, I rather a plot.

  • setsuken

    Yeah they failed big time this episode. But given how good this series, I mean, it was bound to happen sometime. They can’t all be AMAZING episodes when its an ongoing series like this.

    Hrm… next episode doesn’t seem to be shipping related, and I think it’ll be more on the funny side. We’ll have to see though.

• Ian

  I wouldn’t be lying if I said I didn’t feel a little nostalgic thanks to this blatant Rave Master reference, so I probably felt I got an ever so little bit more out of this episode than I probably would have if these thieves were anyone else not from anything else.

  As for next week’s episode, I honestly have no expectations other than seeing Lucy turn invisible. Just like how last week, I expected the episode to be about a magical ball. But at this rate, next week’s episode should be the last before the main filler plot kicks in, I believe. I managed to get a peek at a source of sorts (well, more like a blog) that somehow managed to attain the titles of episodes for the next three weeks. The thing is, this source came out last week and managed to be right about the title for next week’s episode.

  • setsuken

    I definitely liked the idea of a RaveMaster/Groove Adventure Rave referrence, but I think, given the source material, there’s better and funnier ways to handle this entire thing.

    I absolutely, positively loved the Manga chapter that had Natsu and Lucy meet Haru and Elie. I don’t see why we can’t have fun things like that.

    I think next episode will hopefully be a fun filled little episode, much like episode 124. Hopefully anyway.

    As for the episode titles, I know of sources and generally see them ahead of time as well. I dislike actually sharing those in the episode blog posts though, as there can be minor spoilers in those titles for some people.

• Envyus

  First episode I was too embarrassed to watch through.

  • setsuken

    Yeah, it was pretty bad. I definitely felt like some of the butt jokes went a bit too far.

• FlareKnight

  I have to agree this was pretty weak. It’s nice to give Wendy some focus, but at least do it in an episode that doesn’t seem incredibly stupid. This gang was frustrating since they could have been beaten at any point. Instead they wasted time with the fart jokes and focus on characters who only would have meaning for people who knew them.

  Let’s just hope next week is better overall. I don’t even have much to say about it.

  • setsuken

    I guess every series has its off week, and hopefully this was the lowest we’ll ever see the series fall. I’m hoping the next few fillers are better!

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Miller/703922941 Justin Miller

  Hey setsuken Its me justin from the last 2 episode reviews i did not know you can link your accounts like this so well i would have to agree with you i found it hard to watch

  But! ( no pun intended) I did find some bits funny like :Gas Butt Triple Ecstasy (farts Lucy out of the train:)

  The Gang Leader Breaking his spine and foot trying to lift the box that made me lol

  i also liked Wendy doing roar of the sky dragon..i havent heard that music since the tower of heaven arc when Natsu blasts into the sky with his flame and happy making a makeshift jetpack

  and Lucy arriving to save wendy from the gang…also because the Music is so..Lucy like even tho it really reminds me of Lucy getting chased be Kain Hikaru

  and The gang flying far far away to hopefully somewhere where they will be thrown in jail and we wont see them again =)

• Briankzy

  Thats the Reason why i hated filler in anime, in almost in every anime filler I watched has never caught my interest, maybe because of your review of the previous episode that made me give Fairy Tail filler a try, well it seems I jumped in the train at the wrong time and now i want get out.

  I had never liked the Butt gang in Rave in the manga, i would just skip the pages as i hated them so much, looks like their coming back to haunt me in the Fairy Tail Anime Hopefully this would be their last appearance but seeing the opening, i highly doubt it. Hopefully the next filler would be better as I have yet to give up on Fairy Tail yet!