Fairy Tail Chapter 488 Discussion

i still think Gajeel will be back again



and look Eileen vs Acnologia will begin



and Natsu and the gang vs August will begin too

Female readers cried to the melodramatic bullshit in this chapter lol

My idea on how Gajeel's 'death' is gonna go down....



He's gonna be reeeeally close to death but that old-hag-councillor will spirit-whack him back to the living side somehow and he's gonna surprise Acnologia's ass so bad it won't even be funny.



As if Gajeel will reach DF and die in two chapters...



Regading Mest.... dafuq dude? If I were Natsu I'd be like:

"August, he's all yours. This dipshit ain't worth even saving from you..."

*Mest ports out*

Wow! Gajeel is gone, I'm somehow satisfied with that... at least a good guy goes down... for once... for now (I won't be totally good until being sure he's not coming back). Mest sure thought of what could've been the best for the guild, of course, if their opponent wasn't August, now I'm waiting to see what he's capable of.

I'm happy with this chapter's outcomes... you don't see Faiy Tail's chapters like this every day.

Fai said:
Isterio said:
Chaos_Harbinger said:




The DS's have very strong senses and Acnologia being as powerful as he is, probably has the greatest senses. Remember when he killed Serena he said 'Only seven remain' and now he says 'Only six remain'. So there's a very good chance Gajeel is dead.



Of course, I'm not denying the possibility that he could get revived later on in the manga but let's see for now.



This is the biggest excuse in Shounen ever since Dragon Ball invented that "sensing" system.



Sesing someones death has been proven bullshit every single time since Cell extinguished Piccolos Ki. Not a single time in Shounen History was it proven to be true and the few times someone actually was dead, he got ressurected.

Yuup.



Gajeel is coming back. The fact that this is FT makes it obvious too.



If Mashima wanted, he could let Gajeel be dead, and that 'the fact that this is FT...' bit, is dumb. Personally I do think Gajeel will be brought back, how? Probably with Brandish's help, because it seems Gajeel's body was turned into particles, and her magic manipulates mass, so it won't be a asspull. Or he could stay dead. Also you're hyping up Tartaros too much, the fights were arguably the same as here, they followed the same patterns, and this arc had it's fair share of good moments.

short_review said:
Chaos_Harbinger said:
OHHHH BOY IRENE IS ABOUT TO WRECK SOME SHIT UP!!!





Yeaaah I have been looking for it for 200 chapterss !!



Wait no ... she has been introduced 5 chapters ago and I couldn't care less about what she does ...



Have you seen the spoilers?

Fai said:
apollo13z said:
Hmm, It feels 50/50 at this point , having read this manga for so long a MC death doesn't seem apparent, especially when there have been deaths before in the series and they magically returned. Also the author does have a tendency of letting people think his characters are dead but then eventually they return. I see ppl compare him to musica from race master but musica didn't die, his lover did, also the lover was initially part of the bad guys so her death was more so fodder to make him stronger. No MC has died in this man's series, and I doubt that at he'll start doing it now, heck, I cant even see natsu being killed off and he's basically  connected to main villian. It was touching to see gajeel x levy moments. Basically confirmed Canon now. So I actually hope he returns since I'm a sucker for romance.



Also Rave master had actually competent writing in terms of threat level. And the situations of threat were not preceded by 50 chapters of everyone and their  mother getting asspull saved.





Its narrative 101 - if you shit on consequences of death or harm, nobody will take possible death or harm seriously. The only way Mashima can shit on consequences more is to go DBZ level and introduce an actual afterlife people can port in and out of, thus reducing consequence of harm or death to literally "does this character have a halo now or not?!"



Ravemaster has an overall different feel compared to fairy tail. RM was his first work so he had to keep the story and the readers on their toes, fairy tale seems to be more of a lax story, even in dire peril everything has a silver lining. But like a said, no MC in mashima stories every died , the closest one in ravemaster was seighart but he wasn't a MC but rather a catalysts for the story to progress . Musicas lover also was initially Intoduced as a  badgirl so her death was more so a boost for musica. Fairy tale is the typical shonen were the good guys triumph in the end so I'm sure gajeel will return. I kinda don't want him dead since to me he was one of the better characters in the series.

cloud8100 said:
wtf Mest. I actually quite liked him before but now he's just... nope. August was actually gonna listen too. Ugh. Did August realise something about Natsu there?



The Gajeel parts were really upsetting, this and Taizai have left me feeling pretty upset right now lol.



there's a chance that it can also be lucy. IDK i have the hunch for that. But It was focused on Natsu so yeah.