Isterio said:
metsujin said:
Well okay chapter, I'm not even gonna bother complaining about the fanservice anymore... This new Dragneel must be one of Zeref's creation, or he adopted him, its unlikely that his blood related to Natsu and Zeref, unless Zeref resurrected him or something.
You think? I thought this chapter was above average for a FT chapter 4/5.
The fanservice didn´t feel forced at all, because August specfiically commented that, he "pierced her heart". The heart just happens to be located in the chestarea.It´s the same situation as with Erza´s torturing, which I didn´t agree with initially, because the author can just glance over it without showing any nude bodies, but on the other hand no one would complain if a guy would get his heart pierced and holding his cheastarea and Manga is a visual medium. Meaning that for both situations the fanservice is acceptable and does contribute to the story.
Now people may be angry that Brandish has an OP ability that´s a convenient plot device,which I also would disagree on. She was introduced as being OP from the getgo. There have been no contradictions in that assesment. Furthemore, the usage of a shrinking ability is quite creative.
The sole false advertisement around her, stems from Hiro introducing her character as seemingly cold blooded and stern during her first appereance, where she "kills" her subordinate. Just to turn her into the literal opposite as the story continued.
On the other side of the spectrum we learned alot about the characters that were in the chapter compared to a regular chapter. We learned that Angel lives a facade after she turned a new leaf and became a good person.We learned why Yukino was part of the Eclipse programm. We got a glimpse of the abilities of the one Spriggan that we weren´t properly introduced yet and we learned more about Eileens character. At this point it´s obvious to the majority of people that she is in actuality Erza´s mom, which no one should be surprised about when Hiro drops the Bomb. Nonetheless, her demand to torture people doesn´t seem to stem from sadism, but from psychological and probably also physical injury she suffered in the past. It´s most likely that my theory is at least partially true at this point and that Eileen thought Erza to be dead.
This is supported also by the fact that she was annoyed by the Kings reaction to his daughter being turned into a mouse and the fact that she calls her swords "daughters". Since they are magically enchanted swrords they can´t be taken from her. Although they are replacements for what she lost they cannot compensate for the actual kid she lost.
The part with Mira holding her boob, while sorta ridiculous, it was okay, you explained why, but Eileen having her clothes burned, and that whole scene in the beginning was... really ecchi, and the part with DiMaria too. And yes I do belive she's Erza's mom, this and previous chapters hinted at this hard.
As I said, for me this was an okay chapter, nothing really impressed me that much, except for the last part with Larcade and his name... I do hope this guy is a cousin or some sort of creation made from Zeref's DNA... his son or whatever, please no more random siblings.
