<figure id="attachment_52685" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-52685" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/05164502/Untitled-1.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-52685" alt="" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/05164502/Untitled-1.jpg" width="300" height="300" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-52685" class="wp-caption-text">Kid-Gray is a trickster!</figcaption></figure>
<p>Take note bad guys; reducing <a href="http://www.animevice.com/gray-fullbuster/18-16875/">Gray Fullbuster</a> to a child only makes him more devious! So far with <a href="http://www.animevice.com/erza-scarlet/18-17564/">Erza</a> and <a href="http://www.animevice.com/natsu-dragneel/18-22626/">Natsu</a> we&#8217;ve only seen the disadvantages of age regression; weaker bodies, disorientation, lower magic power, and so on, so I&#8217;m glad Gray has received a buff of sorts to help balance out the debuffs of his kid-form. Having less physical strength and magic power means he has to rely more on his imagination, and who has a better imagination than a child? This leads to some pretty clever moves on Gray&#8217;s part, though you have to question how a guy would miss the fact that he&#8217;s walking across solid ice when there should have been grass and soil beneath his feet. I suppose Doriarte was too occupied being angry to notice little details like that. Rage seems to be one of his major characteristics, after all. Speaking of rage, I&#8217;d probably be pretty mad in Erza&#8217;s shoes at this point, being smacked around by <a href="http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Minerva_Orland">Minerva</a> with no way of fighting back. What started as a fight just turned into child abuse! Erza doesn&#8217;t lose her cool, though. Even reduced to a defenceless child with a sword pointed at her throat, wearing nothing more than a shirt, she still stares Minerva in the eye to tell her it&#8217;s not too late to change her ways. Come to the light-side, Minerva&#8230; actually, I&#8217;m glad this only makes Minerva angrier. I don&#8217;t know about you, but Minerva seems like the kind of villain who can&#8217;t (and shouldn&#8217;t) change her ways. She&#8217;s pure evil, right to the core. Besides, we already have <a href="http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Flare_Corona">Flare</a> turning a new leaf, and she&#8217;s a much better choice.</p>
<figure id="attachment_52689" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-52689" style="width: 920px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/05164448/Untitled-3.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-52689" alt="Fairy Tail #349" src="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/05164448/Untitled-3.jpg" width="920" height="724" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-52689" class="wp-caption-text">Bottomless Roundhouse &#8211; inappropriately hot, but equally bad-ass.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Of course, Erza reverts to her older, more shapely self just in time to save her neck and deliver a swift heel-kick to Minerva&#8217;s jaw (ouch!) and a follow-up roundhouse to the face. I suppose I could complain about the convenient timing here and say <em>ERZA SHOULD BE DEAD</em> &#8212; but come on, we don&#8217;t read shōnen battle manga to see the main characters lose. We read it to see them take a beating and then make the most kick-ass comebacks imaginable by the author. Though what isn&#8217;t normally part and parcel of the genre are the ecchi antics thrown in by <a href="http://www.animevice.com/hiro-mashima/20-17785/">Hiro Mashima</a>; like Erza spending the remainder of the chapter nude from the waste down. I mean, she could <a href="http://fairytail.wikia.com/wiki/Requip">requip</a> into any one of her hundreds of different outfits instantly&#8230; but where&#8217;s the fun in that, right? Back to the raging demon to explain Erza&#8217;s sudden change in dress size. It seems the regression magic breaks when Doriarte loses his cool, quite inconvenient for such a ferocious character. He hulks-out into a monstrous beast and I&#8217;m suddenly having weird <em>Bleach</em> flashbacks, anyone else? Just me? Okay. Anyway, looks like Gray will be facing his biggest fear after all!</p>
<h4>Closing Thoughts</h4>
<ul>
<li>I kind of wish Natsu, Gray, and Erza had stayed miniaturized for the rest of this arc. Gray and Natsu were deviants and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/05164401/Untitled-6.jpg">Erza was adorable!</a></strong></span></li>
<li>She claimed otherwise, but we all know Erza really <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/05164412/Untitled-5.jpg">ripped off Minerva&#8217;s clothes</a></span></strong> on purpose, right?</li>
<li>Yeah, monster-Doriarte is somewhere between <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(comics)">The Incredible Hulk</a></strong></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Ayon">Ayon</a></strong></span>, I think.</li>
<li>Gray, please don&#8217;t try to sacrifice yourself to kill a giant demon again. Please?</li>
<li>&#8230;is that a power symbol on <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://cdn.bagogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/05164435/Untitled-4.jpg">Doriarte&#8217;s forehead?</a></strong></span></li>
</ul>
<p><em>Have any thoughts on this chapter or theories on what&#8217;s to come? Be sure to leave a comment below!</em></p>

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