Fairy Tail Chapter 498 Discussion

Fai said:
Aiko_Hiroshi said:


He never really fucked it up, considering if you look at it objectively having Gray turn completely dark all the way back in Avatar would have been WAY too soon and is better suited for an end game plotline that makes him lose himself and try to kill Natsu/END. There never was a conclusion to the Gray kills Frosche plotline either, meaning that he never closed the door on this plotpoint.



Come on are we REALLY trying to defend the "end" of avatar "arc" now? Really? Seriously?



Mashima did great foreshadowing and build up and it all amounted too "And then his affection for his nakama thwarted it all randomly and then they all went and beat up those guys and punched out a god, okay okay next arc!".



(and I know "it was just named god" and etc, that's not the point, that just adds to the anticlimatic ridiculousness)





It's called a Red herring and yes I will defend the Avatar arc. It wasn't going to be some super big dramatic arc, it was never intended to be (Even reading Hiro's author notes explicitly states the theme was HOPE to contrast Tartaros' DESPAIR). All the build up with Gray wasn't supposed to amount to anything in THAT arc but a future one. I mean it was the first post timeskip arc, and these arcs in every shounen ever are all about displaying the strength of the main cast after the training they did, the villains weren't ever going to be a threat during it.



Why would Hiro have the main characters struggle first post timeskip arc without being able to have his characters show off their strength difference when pretty much all of Tartaros arc was characters getting their asses kicked or barely winning. All that content you wanted was better saved for a future arc/end game stuff, not the first post time skip arc.

awesome chapter. Hope Juvia will be alive.

"Oh noes, what grAy does might be Very bad, the consequences for lAme free plot power mighT be catching up and he is pitted agAinst his fRiends! WhAt will happen! Gray is Really about to Cause something with dark consequences  guyse!!!11oneone"



Not falling for this again, Mashima.

Not falling for this again, Mashima.

Not falling for this again, Mashima.

Not falling for this again, Mashima.

Not falling for this again, Mashima.



It does prove that Mashime is SUPER DESPERATE if he keeps bringing back old things he himself fucked up(Look! Tartaros Curse powers! Look Gray's demon shadow stuff thing I ruined! Look Serena totally not dead!). Alas nothing is working. At this point Mashima is literally throwing Shit at the wall hoping some of it sticks.



Otherwise lold hard at random giant Brandish. Mashima at this point is going to cover all possible fetishes with her. Not to mention that she continues being a plot device.

2/5

Wonder how they'll get out of this one. There might be a trick of some sort? or maybe they'll break the chain out of sheer will. Doubt they'll go through with killing each other.

It is actually good , except for the well known fact that Juvia won't die

Sweet something interesting happened this chapter, I really hope Juvia won't have to kill her self to stop this fight :/

@ixarising: Even if Natsu were for some silly reason as strong as a Spriggan/able to fight Invel 1v1, it would not matter. With the current buildup a character like August would still easily win. But since it's FT, there's no chance of a villain character actually living up to their hype as that would result in theme easily winning.



August is supposed to be stronger than Brandish, and Brandish casually miniaturizes an entire island. He should be able to casually use attacks capable of dealing island-level destruction. Which would allow him to easily win.



Spriggans could also fight using teamwork without being on their own which would greatly enhance their potential to be unstoppable but this never happens.

Fai said:
tr1ckst3r said:
that's why it gave an inconsistency because nothing happened to Gray father despite both of them a DSM user.



His father also happened to be a corpse controlled by a necromancer.



There's no soul to eat away.But it's eating at your heart, not your soul, covering you heart with darkness and turn you evil is what DSM does.

What does eating your soul away gonna do anyway?  And just to be clear, Gray father (is it Zero?) is not a soul less corpse, he did have a soul despite being a corpse, that's why he retain all of his memory when was still alive.