Fairy Tail Chapter 323: Rogue From The Future

Comments:
Pretty good Fairy Tail chapter this week. Things are starting to make more and more sense right now. Couple of pointers:

I believe that the future Rogue is in fact having good intentions: why I've come to this conclusion is because of the moment that Rogue and Frosch had where Rogue said that he wanted to become a man who treasures his friends - after losing he felt completely invigorated. Him having malicious thoughts about the people in daimatou enbu wouldn't make at this point very much sense so I believe that the scene previously mentioned is the key in all this. You could perhaps say that he was somewhat blinded by the aiming for power -mentality in Sabertooth and has somewhat reached clarity now (which is of course the concept friendship..)

I think that in the future something bad happened (10 000 dragons attacking them?) and Future Rogue ultimately wanted to come and make things to go some other path. It's also noteworthy that Future Lucy who's from near future and Future Rogue seem to be from completely different timelines, at first I didn't even think about this, but considering how much Rogues outlook changed I think it's pretty much obvious.

Anyways I think that the Shadow Dragonslayer is ultimately one of my favorite ones, I could imagine so much amazing stuff in fights with it which would only be limited by imagination, but I feel that Hiro Mashima isn't using the possible potential of each characters set of skills. I think I've seen too much spells and skills which only change by name (he's often adding some adjectives like secret, ultimate, super etc. but the spells look basically the same). One example would be Laxus vs. Jura fight. Basically when Mashima manages to make some new stuff in the fights and reuses very little some of the stuff that we've seen already that's when I enjoy Fairy Tail the most. One example would be Laxus vs. Mistgun fight, that was pretty awesome.

Well, at this point Fairy Tail feels like decent, enjoyable series which hopefully has a lot to offer for chapters to come now that Daimatou Enbou is behind us. I do hope that Mashima would keep the future stuff to minimum if he doesn't figure out some very good way to use it - there's just too many "paradoxes" that's ultimately linked to time traveling so they too often stumble on some details which are easy to miss when making them.

Recap Of Fairy Tail Chapter 323: The Returning Shadow

-So, Fairy Tail has managed to win the Daimatou Enbu.

-There's a scene of Rogue and Frosch where Rogue says to him that he wants to become a man who treasures his friends.

-Inside the castle Natsus group is fighting against the soldies and the Garou Knights

-Suddenly a huge shadow appears and swallows all the soldiers inside it.

-Arcadious and Princess Hisui talk for a while and it is revealed that the person who Hisui met wasn't Future Lucy, but some man. Jellal coincidentally comes to the same conclusion at the same time.

-The other person from the future is revealed as Rogue.