metsujin said:
Fai said:
Can't wait till Pegasus and Sabertooth get saved and yet again there are no consequences.Why are they not dead yet? Because Mashima, that's why. :^)
This is what happens when the whole arc has been nothing but consequence-erasing bullshit - you see something like this and instead of going "OMG" you go "meh they will be fine in a second". This is the difference between brilliance of Tartaros arc and this bs. Tartaros made consequences believable. This on other hand just makes you go "just end this already".
Also Neinhart looks awful. He looked so badass as a silhouette, but when he was revealed? He was a disappointment. I guess that sums up this arc too - great promising hype followed by awful let down bullshit.
I guess that's another throw-away spriggan that will lose to some bullshit.
Overall boring and slow chapter with nothing of importance happening.
3/5. Thank god the Simon reveal was fake because if it was real I would have literally dropped the manga.
There was no 'major' character death in Tartaros... the council died, but they weren't that build up to feel sorry for them. And these people are fan favorites, the twin dragons won't die, because they need them against Acnologia (probably) and Yukino needs to meet her sister. I don't see the issues of complaining about lack of death in a manga like Fairy Tail, where the author values life above everything.
Council was major superpower their death was in the scale unheard of in Fairy Tail. The destruction of them was BRUTAL and set he tone.Then the guild got exploded, lots of Ft members ended up on death bed and the stakes were higher than ever. It created a tense arc where you genuinely could not know what would happen and every fight(except Erza's bullshit) felt earned and had consequences. IT was the arc where even though fairytail won, they lost.
With this arc its literally just bunch of filler villains goofing off till FujoshiDragon finally gets his final fight with Natsu. These super badass dudes destroyed some country we never heard of or cared about or even saw. Then they entered Magnolia and there's supposed offscreen fights going on we never acre about. The first few spriggans, instead of setting stone ended up being the laughing stock(Brandish acting like a dog....) and focus of comedy. The second set of spriggans were no better and yet again lost to convenience and stupidity. At the same time a lot of consequences of tartaros got erased with VERY convenient asspulls and Lucy literally lost her character arc. The third set of spriggans then offscreened wizard saints only to get the strongest of them owned by fujoshi dragon who enters the plot because I don't know why.
And now Mashima expects the readers to care about the stakes? WHY?
This arc is a mess worse than Avatar arc and GMG by now. At least in GMG there were actual consequences. Which incidentally got shitted on in this arc.
Frostbite4 said:
All these people wondering why they didn't just kill them seem to not understand the concept of giving the enemy a slow death.
Which makes no sense in a war. Its literally one of many "dumb mistakes to make as a villain" things.
