Fairy Tail Chapter 494 Discussion

Where is Gildarts for fuck sake?!

Isterio said:
frostmourn said:




Remember me ranting about this? First the forced AF Eileen, now the next cancer larcade immediately elevated to be a counter for Acnologia. Natsu and Erza needs to look REALLY strong right?



Regardless, I gave this chapter 5/5 just for bringing back Serena and showing that the Spriggans are done playing games and are getting serious (till now most of them lost due to being extremely cocky). If Hiro plays his cards right, he can still redeem this arc into greatness.



Oh wait, how's Serena incompetent? He sure fools around and is funny, but the guy effortlessly beat 3 GOI and Jura and was taken out by the end boss.

Even August was blitzed the same time that Serena was blitzed, proving that Acnologia with killing intend can one shot ANY SPRIGGAN. So that doesn't make Serena bad at all, moreover he was just trying to have a conversation with Acnologia but too bad he didn't wanna talk



I predict larcade countering Acnologia by removing the souls he extracted from Dragons and then Serena fighting a weakened Acnologia (this time full serious Serena, no trashtalking, show remaining 4 elements and go dragon force)



For me, this chapter was a glimmer of hope that it could still be redeemed. There are endless possibilities now. For these reasons 5/5.



But if all this leads to another one shot fest, I'll die raging. Natsu's cringe worthy end statement is making me pessimistic for the future of this arc.



You´ve got some valid points there, nonetheless Canaas summarized every flaw that comes to mind immediately when the setup is observed objectively.

I´d argue against the fact that the ressurections are asspulls since it wasn´t established that the memorias require to be killed by the one who has their memory and would be contradictory in Azuma´s and Kyokas case anyway since they suicided. The only implication given was that he creates them out of the memories of the people present. A superior version of  Rufus memory make so to speak. Otherwise he pointed out all the flaws in Hiro´s writing.

It has similar issues as Kubo´s. Both introduce characters with "limitless power"  that turn out to be limited whenever convenient. Don´t get me wrong all Shounen exxagerate their  villains. The good ones though leave leeway for the good guys to win.



As he explained August alone should be capable of soloing all of Ishgar, given the fact that he constantly goes on about how Eileen is on a similar scale the two of them should annihilate the country within seconds with AOE.

I do understand that the concept of the villain dicking around is essential for Shounen, let´s be honest here Dragon Ball started it. But what breaks the immersion further is the fact that 8 of them have been beaten either casually or through C class characters (Shelia) powering up, with Serena being the sole exception whose life is  now tied to a C level Spriggan´s tenacity.

The only way, the only one, he could become relevant again would be if he´d asspull himself to life again by getting his soul released from Acnologia and then entering the Memoria body which by FT logic makes the body real because it has a  soul. But I digress. Unlike most other Shounen villains who leave or are ressurected after a bunch of time and come back stronger those guys died/got beaten and now are back without any progression.



Bradman still loses to Gajeel and this time he knows his Taliban attack.

Wahl still loses to Laxus, who hasn´t cancer anymore to hold him back.

Neinhart can still be oneshoted anytime by Jellal or a mage with a similar powerlevel.

Brandish is less interested in fighting than ever.

Jacob is still incompetent and is prone to be oneshotted by Natsu again.

Azir still can be beaten by an Erza that doesn´t go all out. And before people rush and yell "BUT THE JUPITER CANON HE TANKD!". Yes I´m aware that he tanked an attack, that Phantom Lord Arc Erza could take on and still go on oneshotting people.

Dimaria could be considered an exception, but Ishgar does have space/time manipulation wizards like Minerva and Nakagami Erza should be capable of oneshotting her anyway.



Leaving the 3 "capable" people and the secretary to surprise us, which leads to more complications that  Canaas pointed out perfectly.



Spriggans wreck fairy tail if they're serious.



Serena solo's tbh



Jacob goes invis and claps = GG



Ajeel, instead of fighting in air now fights in land, he's literally a God there. He becomes intangible and drains enemies of water and kill.



Dimaria, no need to say anything Lol, unless Jellal learned time magic too from Ultear, she solo's.



Bradman goes straight for the kill. Macro and order to suicide = dead Gajeel



Brandish is trash tbh



Wahl uses etherion straight up instead of playing around = GG



Protect Neinhart and you'll get 3 free Spriggans.



Actually, as I've explained above, most Spriggans can easily defeat our main cast if they stop fooling around and gets straight up to business

ixarising said:
-ZET- said:
RyuukiBeat said:
Neinhart cheating bstrd, ugh. So all 12 Spriggan gathered again. Thousand or million soldier just flavoring, Maybe Natsu alone can swept them all XD.

So this battle is like 13 vs Entire member fairy tail + who helped fairy tail, hehe. In this time like this, Gildart should show himself, contributing for guild.

Idk how Brandish feel about this :/

More like Spriggan 12 + Zeref vs every single mage from Ishigar.



No, just Alvarez vs FT. Due to Universe One, every location changed, no one knows where FT guild is currently at. FT members know the location because of Zera only and that voice can only be heard by FT members.

I don't think we're jumping ahead to the fights, FT will probably regroup everyone from the guild and that will take at least 1 - 2chapters, then the rest of the other guilds, 4Gods of Ishigar, Crime Sorciere+Oracion Seis and Gildarts might appear aswell.



The thing is, everyone has already fought and seen the power of the Spriggans, there's no way they're just letting FT handle this matter alone, it has already made it clear before that this fight doesn't belong to FT alone but everyone else.

O__O OOOHH...........F*************!!!!!! all of the 12 are here...quite Pissed off on top of that...Mavis is under Slave Magic...+ by looks of it...........Millions of Underlings in bottom of that Hill waiting for FT.....Yeah...FT and Alliance...are in Big Steamy shit.!!



Damn....Zref and 12 standing in Front of the Guild.....I don't know should I Scream for the Hype or Shudder in fear...and On Top of that...they No longer Underestimate FT...and are Pissed off....Yeah...True rounds start from here....Now just Waiting for Acnologia to arrive from where Eileen sent him

Hmm a battle against a large army where the person to rescue is on a higher place with the strongest people surrounded by mountains of ice?? or rock??

Hmm where have i seen this before.....oh yeah



IT`S  F**KING MARINEFORD!!!!!!



And then all the shitty characters are back in action, no no no i`m stopping reading this every week now and wait till its over

Looks like FT is going to get their hands full big time soon...



I wonder if someone of them are stronger than before.

G_Spark233 said:
Everyone is back in action again. Almost makes everything that has happened so far feel somewhat pointless.



Looks like things couldn't be much worse at this point. They are going to need a shit load of nakama power to beat save Mavis.i feel like it almost makes sense, we got s bunch of character development for both sides to set up the epic war that will end the manga. I think it was necessary to make sure this war feels more important than all the previous battles.

The battle that's about to begin will shake the planet. Can't wait to read the next chapter.