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Review: Fairy Tail, Vol. 03

Fairy Tail, Vol. 03 Fairy Tail, Vol. 03 by Hiro Mashima
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

2.5 stars.

I didn’t really like this volume that much just because I don’t really like the Lullaby Arc which encompasses all of the chapters in this volume, sub one. I find this arc to be “meh” probably because the villains are boring… And also all of it is pretty uninteresting now that I think about it. I was planning on reading all of the Fairy Tail manga as a way of “rewatching” the series, but now I’m not so sure about it. Eh, maybe I’ll start reading the master’s editions since they’re cheaper, because I still do really want to read Jellal’s arc again. I blame that Jellal teaser at the end of this volume for saving the whole thing, without it I very well might’ve called this manga quits. Speaking of Jellal—

Why is Jellal’s name not Jellal!??!!??!!?! What the hell is Siegrain!??!? I was thinking that maybe Erza would call him Jellal, but she called him by that imposter name too. Colour me very confused.

*EDIT*: Because my money is not infinite and I have other series that I enjoy much more than this one, I'll be saving up for those instead of Fairy Tail. This is not saying that I'm dropping this manga by any means, but my progress will be slower since I'm going to now be relying on my library's Overdrive to continue reading the series... And my library has the annoying habit of buying only one measly digital license for most books in its collection... And no one ahead of me in the queue ever returns books before the two week lending period is up... :I


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