Fairy Tail Chapter 471 Discussion

Ahoy_NATO said:
Everyone else talking about important plot elements and I' just sitting here like YES GaLe WOOO HOOO!



I understand how you feel ... Levi and Gajeel were just so cute <3

Lucy-is-onemagic said:
punching a god was okay. Because he used a little bit of his fire-dragon-king-mode (the sealed magic in his arm. That's what my thought.) and the whitewashing of gray, it was just part of the avatar arc. Because Gray became aware of the devil slaying magic that's why she asked Porlyusica to heal her. Too bad it was an off-screen scene. Those two are okay. Okay just sayin.



THat wasn't even a real god. IT was just a summon that was a bit bigger than the Celestial Spirit King. The only real god that's performed as one so far is Ankhseram.

AllenNoah said:


Plus we got the situation with Laxus (though to be fair, I do like how he's showing some consequence from previous actions that aren't immediately dealt with.  I feel a lot of ire against the Avatar Arc would be alleviated if Gray had to constantly take medication from Poryluscia to hold off the corruption), which basically tells me that Laxus is still so far above everyone in the arc that he needs a health condition to give a sense of tension rather than just giving him an opponent on his level.  May as well've sent him to fight Serena instead of Acnologia.

I heard about Mashima saying once in an interview that it's hard for him to give Laxus a fair fight since he's too strong, hence the reason Laxus always gets quickly out of the scene and now a handicap, that already says that Laxus is indeed way above everyone else but I just can't understand that right now with the Spriggans being as powerfull as they are and not to mention, Acnologia.



I would've preferred if Laxus was the only one capable of solo a Spriggan and everyone else needs a party of 3 or 4, and that leaves Gildarts to fight August since both of them are hyped to be the strongest of each side, but oh well...

Ok chapter... Don't know why but not as pumped to to read this since the chapter with Natsu and Zeref. I just pray that Dimaria and Wahl prove their title isn't fools gold and stomp the competition.. Wendy kicking Dimaria was bullshit.. Blindsided or not. And Dimaria has to do more than strip girls. We get it she like women it's hot but no need to have that bs in the middle of a war. Still not over Brandish and her bullshit character.

I swear, you guys are pretentious as all hell.

I've never seen anybody on this forum toss around "death flag" so much until Mashima himself did in one of his chapters a while back.



I guess Mashima taught you guys what death flag means and now you can't wait to use a new term like little kids. 😁

That GaLe tease though.

Actually this chapter just has a whole lot of shipteasing for most of the main FT ships: NaLu, Gruvia, GaLe...

NOW ALL WE NEED IS FOR JELLAL TO SHOW UP AND RANDOMLY SAVE ERZA OR SMTH AND THEN JERZA CAN JOIN IN ON THE SHIPTEASING.

breaker335 said:
rapidcif said:


Now none of that is happening. Hell Dimaria pretty much let Kagura go back and regathering forces and guess who's with her now? Erza.

I want to comment on this part. Is it so hard to come to the conclusion that they were just arrogant and thought no matter who they brought, it wouldn't have been an issue? Hell given their status, it makes sense. Not to mention it's typical villain mistake 101.

Considerring this chapter Dimaria decided to kill Chelia so that she couldn't heal the others, yes.



Also...the bolded is the real issue, it's typical.  It's been done several times within this very manga.  I was partially facetious when I described the Spriggans we'd seen as ">insert adjective here< Spice" before to highlight their genericness, but it's becoming truer and truer.  The manga wants you to believe that this is supposed to be something on a level far beyond anything that Fairy Tail's dealt with, but it all rings so hollow and token because the Spriggans aren't characters in and of themselves.  They're over designed Mooks with names and given a single trait a top the usual villainous arrogance so that they can seem unique but really aren't.  I feel kinda bad for writing off Azir "the cocky one" because when you get down to it every Spriggan we've seen has a degree of arrogance to them.

It honestly sounds like you have unrealistic expectations of the power levels. This is Fairy Tail for gods sake. The strongest fucking characters have gotten their faces punched in due to things like over confidence and power ups from the main characters.  I have seen nothing from the Spriggans that suggests the main characters at their strongest can't land a single attack, especially from something like Dragon Force (Only time I saw Dragon Force be useless was from the Twin Dragons). That is overhyping something to the point of ridiculousness. Are the Spriggins individually stronger than most of the other characters? Most Definitely. They can still get hurt though (They're not omnipotent and they're WAY too over confident) and having a bunch of main characters face them at the same time puts them at a disadvantage. Also just let me point out the only reason Wendy was able to land that kick without being attacked back was because it was a SNEAK attack at super high speed using Dragon Force.