I wept reading one of the recent episodes of Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima's ongoing anime saga that has captivated a lot of young readers, including myself, hahaha... In the series, Ultear Milkovich is a very powerful witch that is shown to have crossed over to the dark side due to a series of unfortunate circumstances. She starts to repent, and during the battle against the invading dragons, she desperately wants to save humanity. She thus uses an ancient magic spell, known as Lost Ages of the Arc of Time, which rewinds time by the life's worth of the spell caster. She asks that time rewind itself to the point before the dragons discover the gateway to invade, but when the spell is complete, she finds out that time has rewound itself by a mere minute. She dies in despair, thinking that she has achieved nothing, without knowing that in that one minute, several of the good wizards see their own impending deaths, and the time rewind enables these wizards to cheat death.
Such a wonderful tale of love, irony, power, desire, shock, repentance and sacrifice! Such a beautiful woman, destined for purpose, yet in the end, she fulfills the purpose without even relishing the true value of her own deed. Truly heart-wrenching! I tell you, this is just another one of the reasons why I love Manga and Anime.
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