Is it just me or did Natsu seem far more devious and unrestrained before he noticed Lucy and changed his behavior(to the point that Lucy pegged the person in the cloak as havin evil intentions before the reveal)?
And while Lucy appears all smiling during her scenes with other people, I doubt that Lucy having a new job is all that's changed with her too(after all we know that she usually trains at night time, so I doubt she just spent whole year working as reporter and doing nothing else). There's also the fact that she seemed to judge people powerlevels this chapter, including Natsu's, which she was never shown doing before, and make predictions of the guild motivations and winners, which is also new. Then we have the creepy conspiracy stalker wall in her house, which makes me fearful she went slightly crazy.
I guess Mashima is going for the whole "seems same on the outside but when you look closely you see how much they changed as people" with everyone post this timeskip. Which makes me think we are getting a mini arc of Lucy and Natsu tracking down other FT members and in process us finding out how much everyone, including Lucy and Natsu have changed.
SD_CV said:
2) So Lucy could have used hear year wisely, looks like she went modeling and took a job as a reporter. Would be nice to see her train, get stronger, not get behind again compared to Natsu & co... HIRO WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS xD She should be more then a fan service character :(
Except that we do not know that that's ALL that Lucy did since we are seeing it through her eyes and it is not a first time she omits information about herself training (how she learned Urano Metria before GMG). Not to mention that she trains at night(as was shown before) so having a day job at WEEKLY newspaper as an INTERN would not be all she did for a year.