Fairy Tail Chapter 501 Discussion

Fai said:
> fanservice angles

> jobbing opponents

> in the end Lucy gets tortured and treated like shit



Fuck you Mashima.



Also Brandish is 100% alive, she most likely made the wound smaller or some shit.



Next week friendship will defeat the timestop perv girl too, as Natsu will randomly overcome his "condition" (are we supposed to be worried for him? LOL not after Mashima already shown how easily he can trivialize that) and defeat the timestop girl.



Literally the only good thing about the chapter is confirmation of Lucy retaining her aquarius powers.



Otherwise while better than the ridiculous shit of last few chapters this is still like 3/5 at most. Not tomention most of this will get destroyed and pulled through shit next week since this is Hiro Mashima.

Wait, I'm confused here.  Who jobbed?  Unless you mean the confirmation of Neinhart's defeat (who I actually forgot about until I typed this), then...yeah.  He jobbed.  GJ, Irene.

Finally someone in-universe outright says how to use Brandish's magic in fight more effectively



Torturing and killing enemy slowly = chance for another deus ex machina to happen. Just saying, DiMaria...

frostmourn said:
Brandish (the most cancerous character in the series) getting offed was Golden]



Brandish is indeed a traitor, she healed up Natsu and still plans on healing him back after knowing that he's one of the greatest threats to her home empire, even AFTER HAVING NO OBLIGATIONS to save him, pathetic AF



Dimaria's loyalty and patriotism is commendable, she offed her best friend after knowing that she's a traitor, goes up to my 3rd fav Spriggan after Serena and Ajeel.



Ohh, Brandish's physical stats < Lucy's ............GREAT, so much for being a Spriggan........ (I know she can kill her, but she was only holdin back in using her abilities, not in physical combat)



3/5.......Nothing much happened



Ohh, and ZERO worries about Brandish and Natsu, after Lucy beats Dimaria *magically*, Brandish is gonna heal herself up and then heal up Natsu. Totally no worries there :D



Well, to be fair, Lucy was using her star dresses to boost her physical stats and Brandish wasn't taking the fight seriously.

Was better than last week's chapter. Nice to see some more of Lucy's abilities.

It feels like Hiro has no idea what to do with Brandish.

nisevoucher said:
Heck I sense some Lucy x Natsu ship hereee. I dunno why I ship these two. It just came out naturally lol



I ship one thing only: Natsu x getting his ass handed by Erza/Laxus. XD

TheGrandSage23 said:
Dimaria is finally showing how beast she can be without bullshit in the way.. Starting to like her again



Lucy's Stardresses was badass.. Thank god she's ready to stop talking and throw down



Lol Brandish is the WORST character in Fairy Tail





Talk about taking L's



one shotted by Cana

almost killed by her own servant

saved by the person she wanted dead

Failed to kill said person

Aquarius's making Brandish more crap

does nothing for numerous chapters

has to be manipulated by Mest to push the plot

gets punked again this time by her lesbian friend

Contradicts her words and actions with no consequences(till now)





Inconsistent garbage character... Kill her off Hiro



Lol you basically copy-pasted your post right from Mangahelpers.



Anyways, good chapter, way better than last week's abysmal one. I really liked Lucy's growth both as a character and a fighter. And Dimaria sure is savage, I'm really loving her again.



4/5

About time that Brandish girl got killed off. How will Natsu recover from his tumor, though, if no known cure for it exists on the continent of Ishgar?

TheGrandSage23 said:
Matt_4072 said:
I'd rather have Natsu die in a blaze of glory than get with Lucy.. I know that lots of people ship thee two, but both characters don't have any signals for "loving" one another.



It would be like Luffy getting with Nami, which is totally their characters that have been developed.



While this chapter was decent in terms of fighting, I hope Hiro does not take this "Ill do anything to protect my friend" into a romantic bond between the two.



Natsu would be better suited to marry/ get with Lisana. This will always be the original ship that I believe Hiro intended for originally.



Just like another major Shonen manga (Naruto) I think the main character would work well with a minor character (Hinata/ Lisana) rather than the popular ship (Lucy)



Thoughts??? Hate?? Salt?



My god I never though people could be so in denial. It's very clear that Natsu and Lucy will get together whether you want it or not.. What signals do you need? The context? The interview for that underwhelming movie where Hiro stated Natsu's feelings? The overwhelming Natsu and Lucy pics and other stuff on Hiro's Twitter? The obvious Elie/Haru vibes? I don't pair anyone whatsoever but you NaLi fans are as bad as NaLu fans.. Natsu and Lisanna was never the original ship. She was to be killed off for story purposes. Having Lisanna get with Natsu would objectively suck considering they have yet to say a total of 30 words to each other since she was brought back



Sorry bro but my suspension of belief will go out the window and if there's anything I like about Mashima's writing is that he's pretty decent in the romance department and knows what he's doing for the most part. Max and Broom has more substance



To be fair though what Mashima made no sense(not surprising considering his story writing skills).

The only thing Lisanna's character had was that she was Natsu's little waifu when they were little. Literally that was what her whole character was about.

The only other thing her character had, was her death because it was a person close to the main character and that helped him grow and affected another two known characters(her brother and sister).



Without her death she had only her relationship with Natsu. Yet the author made a whole arc to bring her back and then forgot about her. What was the point?

It was completely stupid writing. If you are gonna bother so much to bring her back, then ether explore and develop what you started with her(her relationship with the main character) or don't bring her back.

Now she is more dead as a character than when she was actually dead.