Of all the things I expected Fena: Pirate Princess to remind me of, a Stephen King novel was not on my list.

Fena, on the other hand, learns that her entire life has been leading up to her journey to Eden so that she can make a very important choice: should she end the world because humanity's a lost cause?

But she's also seen what happened to Abel when he lost Helena, and even if she didn't fully understand what was going on there (and did any of us, really?), she wouldn't have wanted that sort of descent into madness for Yukimaru.

While this does once again make Abel a more important character than his behavior merits, it also shows us that Fena is breaking what cycles she can.

While a piece of me really would have preferred that she stood up to Cody and her not-dad (who are basically less fun versions of Terry Pratchett's Auditors) and refused flat-out to make the terrible choice they forced upon her, I do think that she still managed to come out better than the two previous maidens we know about, Helena and Jeanne.

Maybe she just was wiser in her choice of allies, or maybe Yukimaru was more stubborn than Abel – but I like the idea that it was both of them and their mutual feelings that made things turn out all right.

In the end, I think Fena: Pirate Princess was a show that was too ambitious for its own good and lost its way.

Shitan's whole issue was dropped, Abel was drastically overused and didn't deserve his ending (you can't make him and Helena the next Zeref and Mavis, show!), and really the writers just got too enamored of their own schtick

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