Fai said:
Or Gildartz who can assemble and disasemble shit into particles.
Or any other randomly appearing character out of nowhere AKA how it happened with Urtear.
There are things he can do that wouldn't seem like asspulls.
Tartaros used its build up phase to establish the Demon Gates as formidable and threatening villains and upset the status quo.
Spriggan arc spent time showing us Brandish barking like a dog, characters being oneshotted by Erza upon their introduction, One of strongest most hyped up characters getting oneshoted by acnologia seconds after appearance, one of badguys being defeated, LITERALLY, by fanservice, various consequences(from both this arc and tartaros, including one of the most emotional moments of Lucy's) being handwaved away by things coming up out of nowhere and a character literally coming back from the dead for a while via bullshit excuse to counter the enemy, while that enemy was too busy cutting people's clothes off for amusement instead of actual damage. Oh and Lucy's character storyline and mystery of her family literally ending to be an asspull for Nasu's sake.
All shonen manga use the same tropes. But how they are done and the build up is what matters.
Okay let's start with Tartaros:
- Jackal got defeated, tried to blow himself up, Happy saved them and didn't even get hurt by that explosion, and we all have to thank Afro Happy for that one;
- Fran... whatever his name was, had a interesting ability, however he was literally defeated by a giant rock;
- Seilah, cool design and all, was defeated by a sucker punch;
- Kyoka, 'she's Erza'.
The only fights that were decent, were Natsu vs. Jackal, up until the explossion bit, Gray vs. Silver. Lucy vs. Tartaros, Mard Geer vs. Natsu & Gray, Juvia vs. the necromancer (to some extend, still the dude got one shotted) and Acnologia vs. Igneel. Tartaros had great moments, but face it, the fights in Fairy Tail are not always the best, so it's only natural to comaplain.
Alvarez:
- Ajeel, got defeated by a canon blast, personally I wasn't that upset as the other people, because Erza was losing that fight... anyway;
- Brandish, I agree she's a really disappointing character, feels like Mashima gave her such a OP power, but with a shit personality;
- DiMaria, the whole thing with Ultear is somewhat debateable, if this has something to do with the stuff she did back in GMG, than it's okay, since she messed up the time flow, plus a God Slayer defeated a God Takeover;
- Wahl, again played in the Fairy Tail fashion, where the good guy pulls a strong spell the finsh the other;
- Jason, agree here too, was really disappointing;
- Neinheart, interesting ability, did some damage, however his defeat was underwhelming.
- Bradman, similar to the Laxus fight, but with consequences;
- God Serena, okay, this is a legit one, he was defeated by probably one of the strongest beings in the FT verse, granted I too wanted to see more of him in action, but it's a legit reason, wheter or not you feel salty about it.
So out of the fights so far, I disliked 3, Brandish was hardly a fight. Face it, you complain about this arc, but Tartaros the arc you hype up so much, had the same problems. The fights in Fairy Tail are not consistent. Some are cool/good, but that's it.
