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Fairy Tail is in its Last Arc, final story events beginning.
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Finally got to actually read the chapter. It wasn't half-bad as far as an ending goes. Even the teasing was a lot more blatant than I thought it be for some, though some characters didn't get shit in that department.
I would say it ended better than Bleach solely based on the fact that it wasn't some rushed mess to begin with. Not that it really matters.
Honestly I don't even remember.
Lol, all yours
Understatement on "just a tad more extreme". Regardless, there's a bunch of reasons as to why it works a lot more effectively in Naruto and One Piece as opposed to Fairy Tail.
I would say it ended better than Bleach solely based on the fact that it wasn't some rushed mess to begin with. Not that it really matters.
Honestly I don't even remember.
Lol, all yours
Understatement on "just a tad more extreme". Regardless, there's a bunch of reasons as to why it works a lot more effectively in Naruto and One Piece as opposed to Fairy Tail.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Nah, we already knew that. The answer is probably in Fairy Tail Zero, since that's when the guild was founded. Or maybe he forgot, I dunno.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
The only good thing about Fairy Tail is the inevitable Super Eyepatch Wolf video that'll come out of this.
psynergylover
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Ooh, that's where one of the Erza things happened. Fought a demon that took away all five of her senses, and also enhanced the amount of pain she feels. She inexplicably beat said demon...
Then it was some other shit where her bones were broken or something, but she was still strong enough to smash through an incoming meteor.
not only that then she mortally slashed the dragon the casted the meteor as well with ONE. FREAKING. HAND....as the rest of her body bones were broken...
a dragon(which none of the FT guild ever managed to even scratch) that was and mage that lived for 400 mage whe knew a variety of mage enough to stun the final antagonist....and she defeated her with one hand...
would've been the biggest cop out in fairy tail if it wasn't for August killing himself...because...well..no reason at all.
BladeoftheImmortal
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But over or under Bleach's ending?
Frozenprince
Banned
Lol he didn't even show any of the freaking couples? That's like 90% of why people read this shit. At least above the other series I will at least give it that the characters weren't all asexual. A babies ever after epilogue should be stupid easy to do.
Grey is such a bitch, just tell that thirsting girl you want her and get over it.
Grey is such a bitch, just tell that thirsting girl you want her and get over it.
AND FOR REAL ZEREF EVEN CAME BACK TO LIFE? literally zero fucking consequence for anything ever except that they killed off their kid in one chapter which was super weird.
People talk about these things having no steaks but this legit was 500 chapters of absolutely fucking nothing of value or tension.
People talk about these things having no steaks but this legit was 500 chapters of absolutely fucking nothing of value or tension.
It's perfectly normal to die because you saw your mommy lol
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God Serena completely jobbing also pissed me off. Not even just because I would've liked to see him fight if he was still alive, (We know how it'd end) but because it was used to hype up Acnologia, but then Acnologia loses against Natsu like it's nothing. The hell...
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Also, I guess Lucy did pretty much forget about Aquarius, damn lol
Better than Bleach's because at least it was consistent to its incessant theme of friendship, and left it open-ended instead of a time skip, meaning we don't have to worry about a sequel ever happening.
Bleach on the other hand is this rushed mess with an undeserved conclusion. You can't really feel good at all about how Bleach ended, but you can for FT at least.
Yea, I just don't see why he'd half-ass it. Hell, even Erza didn't get shit lol
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God Serena completely jobbing also pissed me off. Not even just because I would've liked to see him fight if he was still alive, (We know how it'd end) but because it was used to hype up Acnologia, but then Acnologia loses against Natsu like it's nothing. The hell...
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Also, I guess Lucy did pretty much forget about Aquarius, damn lol
Better than Bleach's because at least it was consistent to its incessant theme of friendship, and left it open-ended instead of a time skip, meaning we don't have to worry about a sequel ever happening.
Bleach on the other hand is this rushed mess with an undeserved conclusion. You can't really feel good at all about how Bleach ended, but you can for FT at least.
Yea, I just don't see why he'd half-ass it. Hell, even Erza didn't get shit lol
Lmao, Zeref and Mavis reincarnating was literally the one time in this manga where I'm fine with someone not actually dying. Love is too strong or some shit? I don't fucking know. I don't even know why they came back a year later to begin with. Actually nvm, shit is pretty stupid LOL
JonnyDBrit
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Over. In this regard the ending itself (as in, the standalone chapter) isn't too bad, but it's attached to an arc that is kind of the culmination of FT's longterm ails.
And again, it's weird since he was just fine literally ending Rave Master on a wedding.
With regards to spoilers though, I admit I just don't get that.
It's only been a year since the final battle. Like, what's meant to have happened? Are they supposed to have reincarnated fully grown? They just came back to life months later with no memories? Zeref's the king of a whole fucking continent how is this not an issue?
Frozenprince
Banned
Erza and what's his face McEmopants even make out on the damn page! It's just so damn lazy to not even go "yeah these guys smang" like that's the only thing people who kept reading this schlock wanted lol.
I still can't believe not one single person in this thing except the old evil guild master, what's his faces henchman, and a couple jobber mages died and stayed dead.
I still can't believe not one single person in this thing except the old evil guild master, what's his faces henchman, and a couple jobber mages died and stayed dead.
Lmao, I forgot all about Alvarez, who is even running that place now lol
I think the only relevant death that actually stuck for the good guys was
Igneel.
SigmasonicX
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Ending was pretty alright. Glad they at least resolved the Lucy becoming an author thing. Given the spoilers, the shipping was handled a lot better than I expected.
I do think there's a good arc buried in the Spriggan Twelve arc somewhere. Hopefully the anime changes enough to at least make it make sense.
I do think there's a good arc buried in the Spriggan Twelve arc somewhere. Hopefully the anime changes enough to at least make it make sense.
Frozenprince
Banned
Was there ever a character that did less with his powers than Natsu? Ichigo of course doesn't count.
Dude has supreme command over all fire everywhere and he uses it too... Punch things gooder.
Dude has supreme command over all fire everywhere and he uses it too... Punch things gooder.
JonnyDBrit
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I don't fucking know and I don't think Mashima does either. Again, he works for relatively short term writing but cannot handle longterm lore and worldbuilding to save his life, in his present state. Or hell, maybe it's always been an issue, considering this is the guy who, in his previous series, retconned '10% of the world was destroyed' with a geography lesson in order to expand the setting.
SigmasonicX
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He can suck in fire and emit it from his body, but when has it been shown he can control other fire?
psynergylover
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JonnyDBrit
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See in that regard I'd be tempted to say it was because he 'merely' had dragon slayer magic, so he could spew fire in various ways but couldn't go completely nuts with it. But then that would require:
A) God Slayer magic to ever get properly explained as to why it's so special
B) For Dragon Slayer magic to still be relatively rare but still 'normal' magic instead of
something literally only five people in the present could ever have naturally, and for which the artificial versions increasingly made less and less sense
He just uses fire as a source of energy for his own magic, not much else he can do. What annoyed me the most is his Dragon Force magic, a form which has constantly been hinted at as being something significant, has taken down major antagonists and for most of the series he could only go into it by ingesting special substances, but we didn't get a significant build up to a scene of him going into it by himself like Sting or Rogue? Against Mard Geer it was just so insignificant.
Monochromaticx
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took too long to fucking die
Frozenprince
Banned
I did enjoy how quickly the majority of the supporting cast became utterly frigging useless though.
And yeah magic made no sense. Like two of them use GUNS lol.
And yeah magic made no sense. Like two of them use GUNS lol.
JonnyDBrit
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The fact that gods were even a thing just came completely out of left field. Like there's these ancient war gods too and Natsu just kills one of them straight up. So are they also just normal but immensely powerful beings or are they actually related to the cosmology of the setting?
Mashima don't care.
And it's annoying because otherwise, I really like how magic is handled in Fairy Tail's setting. Yeah it could get arbitrary as to what was or wasn't an individual form of magic, but it also allowed the series to be creative and was perfect fanfic fuel. It's up there with quirks, devil fruits, and stands in terms of what you can make up and claim it's a valid power.
Yes, 2018 I believe.
The holy trinity will always be: Stands, Devil Fruits, and Nen. These 3 abilities allow you to get away with whatever the fuck you want, and the respective audiences will not question it for the most part.
Quirks are cool, but it's just regular superpowers for the most part, and its universe establishes that it attempts to have these powers work as how you'd think they would in real life. So if there's some obvious or fucked up side effect or disadvantage to a particular power, then MHA will probably adhere to that.
FT's magic isn't as limited, but it is pretty damn uninspired for the most part, especially when the really cool stuff happens to be Lost Magic or whatever.
I imagine it will just be him screaming into a pillow.
He never came back, and also Gajeel has the best hybrid form:
Damn, he was one of my favorites
. At least they couldn't ruin him I guess.Also gotdam, now I almost feel bad for not pushing through lmao.
The Silver
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I might as well ask.
What happened with Acnologia(I think that's how you spell it) and that strong guy that had crush magic I think, he got one of his limbs eaten by Acnologia.
And did my boy Laxus put some work in at the end?
What happened with Acnologia(I think that's how you spell it) and that strong guy that had crush magic I think, he got one of his limbs eaten by Acnologia.
And did my boy Laxus put some work in at the end?
Muskieratboi
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So... did Natsu turn into a dragon, finally?
I mean, it's the only freaking reason I was even really interested in the series.
I mean, it's the only freaking reason I was even really interested in the series.
JonnyDBrit
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On the former,
Acnologia is the final enemy of the series
Dragon Slayer who consumed so many dragons he basically turned into one.
Natsu and the other dragon slayers (mostly empowering Natsu) defeating his consciousness inside the ravines of time (long story), while his body is trapped and weakened by everyone else using Fairy Sphere to trap it on a ship, since all Dragon Slayers have the motion sickness weakness
Laxus had a few cool moments in the final arc, not as many as one might hope though.
He died.
There was this whole thing where Natsu and the other dragon slayers fought him in his human form basically in his mind, or something like that.
Meanwhile in the real world, the rest of the mages from Fairy Tail and the other guilds had to deal with a rampaging, mindless Acnologia.
The Dragon Slayers got their asses kicked briefly, but they won due to Wendy putting the powers of her and the rest of the Dragon Slayers into Natsu. (I didn't remember her ever indicating that she could do that, but whatever.) So here's Natsu, has all their powers,
so they've essentially weaponized their friendship, and he punches Acnologia with this one big fist that's engulfed in flames and resembles a dragon's arm. Acnologia couldn't dodge the attack in time because he somehow forgot that he was missing an arm.
Anyways, that single attack (I don't believe they ever hit him before, as Acnologia is, well... was OP and can eat magic, but apparently not the magic that was used to defeat him, so yea.) was enough to beat Acnologia, and so he pretty much disappears slowly. Natsu said some standard protagonist stuff, and Acnologia reflects on it right before he completely vanishes. So that's done.
Meanwhile, they deal with Acnologia's dragon form in the real world. Lucy devises a plan where they trap him on a boat, exploiting the whole "dragons have motion sickness" weakness. An older character Meredy uses her magic to link all the mages together, and then they use a grand-scale version of Fairy Sphere to defeat him.
The End.
There was this whole thing where Natsu and the other dragon slayers fought him in his human form basically in his mind, or something like that.
Meanwhile in the real world, the rest of the mages from Fairy Tail and the other guilds had to deal with a rampaging, mindless Acnologia.
The Dragon Slayers got their asses kicked briefly, but they won due to Wendy putting the powers of her and the rest of the Dragon Slayers into Natsu. (I didn't remember her ever indicating that she could do that, but whatever.) So here's Natsu, has all their powers,
so they've essentially weaponized their friendship, and he punches Acnologia with this one big fist that's engulfed in flames and resembles a dragon's arm. Acnologia couldn't dodge the attack in time because he somehow forgot that he was missing an arm.
Anyways, that single attack (I don't believe they ever hit him before, as Acnologia is, well... was OP and can eat magic, but apparently not the magic that was used to defeat him, so yea.) was enough to beat Acnologia, and so he pretty much disappears slowly. Natsu said some standard protagonist stuff, and Acnologia reflects on it right before he completely vanishes. So that's done.
Meanwhile, they deal with Acnologia's dragon form in the real world. Lucy devises a plan where they trap him on a boat, exploiting the whole "dragons have motion sickness" weakness. An older character Meredy uses her magic to link all the mages together, and then they use a grand-scale version of Fairy Sphere to defeat him.
The End.
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As for Laxus:
He helped by giving Natsu his powers, so he has that going for him. Previously the Fairy Tail guild and other mages fought against Zeref's top mages, and Laxus took down one of them using some red lightning magic or whatever.
Ocarina_117
Banned
I remember mystogan being a very hyped character who ended up as a damp squib. Dropped the series near the time skip. Glad to see I made the right choice!
Anime sound track was glorious though!
Anime sound track was glorious though!
So... did Natsu turn into a dragon, finally?
I mean, it's the only freaking reason I was even really interested in the series.
No. He didn't even turn into E.N.D.
Oh my lord, they really did kind of drop the whole E.N.D. thing, now that I think about it.
At least I think they did, I don't remember exactly. I guess it was never confirmed that Natsu would reveal himself to be some big scary demon, but still... Dude didn't go evil or anything either.
The Silver
Member
thanks guys, now I can leave this all behind in peace
Wait, I forgot about the "crush magic guy".
In the final arc, he also fought one of Zeref's 10 strongest mages, an old guy named August. He didn't beat him, or at least didn't get a chance to potentially do so (August was super OP), because said mage randomly killed himself because he saw Mavis. Apparently he's Mavis and Zeref's son.
No, I don't know how that happened. Don't ask me, I don't even want to think about it.
Anyways, after that, that's pretty much it for Gildarts... I mean crush magic guy. There's an epilogue of sorts where he's chilling with Cana, and was briefly perving out on Juvia.
The End.
No, I don't know how that happened. Don't ask me, I don't even want to think about it.
Anyways, after that, that's pretty much it for Gildarts... I mean crush magic guy. There's an epilogue of sorts where he's chilling with Cana, and was briefly perving out on Juvia.
The End.
SigmasonicX
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While Natsu is unconscious, he has an internal conflict between turning into a full dragon and turning into END; those two forces were canceling each other out. He rejects both to be himself.
Okay, good. I was totally just tuning out for the most part in this last arc,
so I had forgotten about it. Glad that got resolved at least, albeit in a pretty uninteresting way.
so I had forgotten about it. Glad that got resolved at least, albeit in a pretty uninteresting way.
JonnyDBrit
Member
Basically there's this point where he
has a magic tumor because his conflicting essences - one demon, one dragon - are tearing him apart. A remnant of Igneel inside him - because that's apparently a thing - explains this to him and uh... I guess Natsu just chooses to embrace his inner dragon and discard the demon? Something like that? It's weird because later on he's still tied to the book of END and as his existence begins to unravel from it, Lucy has to rewrite it on the fly to keep him together
Like seriously, developing the Dragon Slayers beyond 'they learned magic from dragons' went to some really, really baffling places.
Starfish Hero
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Trash > Naruto's ending > Bleach's ending > Fairy Tail's ending
How is anything worse than Bleach's unceremonious, botched, rushed ending?
The author literally discard all plot points and kill anyone that needs to die for no reasons after dragging his feet for more than a year on pointless BS no one (let alone the author) gave a shit about!
Nah, Bleach's ending is the worst.
It doesn't matter tho
Now which is worse overall, hmm, I dunno.
Bleach had potential, but turned into crap. But at least it had cool shit like Aizen.
Fairy Tail on the other hand, my memory is lacking, but it always felt rather average, even before it became abundantly clear that the whole friendship shtick would never go away.
Probably FT in the end I guess.
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