Fairy Tail Chapter 527 Discussion
- Thread starter Loneclown
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- #4
Eh, I guess you're half right about the abuse of OP things like many miles of range being not too much to think about, although it'd be easier if it just wasn't introduced.
Like, let's say there were only six spriggans, and each was on the level of the top four mages in Ishgar, then if they grouped up it would not be so ridiculous for Hiro to manage the power levels, as long as he didn't just choose to have them oneshotted as he did. But at this point it doesn't matter.
At this point, pretty much everything has been horribly fucked up. And even if there is something of standard Hiro level of just a bland Acnologia vs some dragon slayers and Mavis and Acnologia losing, it'd probably just be really unappealing. Although I wouldn't be surprised if Hiro managed to make it worse than that.
- #5
Every week Hiro Mashima delivers another treason against the arts. This series has been horrendous for a long time but at least it was consistant in it´s badness. Now it has reached a point where it delivers a few good ideas and just blasts shit all over them.
It´s infuriating. A bad series is just bad and that´s it you don´t think any further about it. But this went from a mediocore Battle Shounen with great potential to a fanservice driven nonsensical mess of bullshit.
It´s not bad enough that the quality was on a consistant decline but it had random moments of genius for it´s genre that sparked an occasional glimmer of hope, just to drown it in a river of shit.
This is by far the worst Battle Shounen I ever had the displeasure of reading. It never was boring, but it always managed to anger past a certain point. Writing so bad it has to be seen to be believed.
Specifically to all you fanfaggots out there who´ll yell at me to drop it. No I won´t. This trainwreck is nearly over and I´m on this ride till it´s pathetic ending, because I´m a completionist and it doesn´t waste my time to read 18 pages a week.
^this basically like if it stayed like reborn lvl of mediorce i would have no comment cause it'll just be cool powers
but not only dont we get cool powers that are wasted, any semblance or cool concepts like natsu's humanity and forgiveness of sin is wasted.
here's a fun little thing that i complied as well
the 12 spriggans going in order of their names
ajeel-uses sand magic, first defeated by erza and bisca
august-copying magic, probably gonna be defeated by cana and gildarts combo.
bloodman-can use almost all the demon magic known plus his own seal magic, defeated by gajeel
brandish-size magic, became an ally
dimaria-time magic, defeated by wendy, shelly and ultear
god serena-dragon slayer magic, 1 shotted by acnologia
invel-ultimate ice magic, defeated by gray
irene-ultimate magic, defeated by erza
jacob-stealth magic and transport magic, defeated by natsu and lucy as a joke.
larcade-white magic defeated by sting
neinhart-edo tensei(or revival magic), gonna say defeated by jellal
wall eetho-machine magic,defeated by the lighting tribe and laxus
all cool powers, and only 2 of them had the power to back it up and not get 1 shotted
the only 2 that put up a fight and had their magic not become a joke, was wall etho
- #6
Is nobody going to comment on next week's chapter title??
Dragon Demon... guess those seeds didn't really go POOF after all. I'm all for Natsu to turn into a Dragon/Demon megamix as long as he still has his wits about him.
MS version says "Evil Dragon", it could also be a hint to Acnologia.
- #8
- #9
Hiro: HOLD MY BEER.
...I love that meme.
Anyways...Yeah. Uh. No words really. Fairy Tail is one of my favorite series of all time but this is awful and nonsensical. It's getting very hard to stay loyal to this series.
August was hyped for almost 2 years (July 22nd, 2015.) He barely fought and now he's gone. I understood why he stopped his attack but at the same time the way he went out was disappointing. I feel insulted over this writing.
This is literally what happened to August: POOF I AM DEAD.
At this point, I seriously believe Acnologia will be defeated by Happy.
1/5- Zeref looks really cool. That's about it.
- #10
I don't see why everyone else is angry at you for this, I completely agree. I've been reading this mess for around 6 years now and even if it has become this trainwreck, I can't see myself suddenly stopping after those 500 chapters. I'm going to see i through, although it's ultimately been a waste of time.
I was complaining about how Mashima wasted an opportunity with Zeref and Mavis' child and was actually pleasantly surprised after the reveal last chapter. But Mashima completely crushed it the next week. This legitimately makes me angry. So much wasted potential...
It wasn't JUST the writing this time, many panel layouts and some of the poses seemed off (by that I mean, they were distracting and adding anything new, except another 1000th weird shot of Lucy's tits)
I don´t really feel attacked as it´s just the aforementioned people that get defensive over my criticisms. I agree with all of your points, though I do not mind getting confrontational, wether it´s real life or over the internet. When someone has nothing I consider valueable to add I just ignore them since they don´t matter to begin with.
But let´s get back on topic. Fairy Tail always was a controversial series because of it´s upbringing. From the getgo it was deemed a One Piece ripoff by The One Piece fanbase and while the more reasonable people, including me, thought of it as a series, that may have been inspired by One Piece, but certainly had the same inspirational roots any modern succesful Battle Shounen has, Dragon Ball.
Personally I´m following the series for around 9 years now since early in it´s conception. Not knowing what I was getting myself into, before I started reading. The only reason for my curiosity being the scanalation sites I was using promoting it vehemently. But I immediately got hooked after reading the first panel and was introduced to "Sieglein". A clear reference to Ravemaster, which I had thoroughly enjoyed till complition and also one of my two favorite characters in the seires itself. Fairy Tail continued revealing itself to be the next big Shounen Manga in Japan as well as globally rivaling the "Big 3", a term I didn´t knew at the time, in popularity and quality, with ups downs. Then the 7 year Tenru Island timeskip happened and throughout the arc leading up to it, we were given conclusions to already introduced questions, but also given more questions that impacted the story as whole in an overarcing manner, while the powercreep kept expanding alongside the world and it´s lore by connecting seemingly every plotline relevant to Earthland together. Something Fairy Tail had avoided with it´s mostly self contained Sagas before. Seemingly ushering a new era for the series. Promises were made, developments were hinted upon, just to not only regress them back, but instead remove the majority of the supporting cast from the spotlight it had,to instead keep repeating the same boring conclusions with the inner main cast for most of the time.
The decline of Fairy Tail started with it´s first timeskip since everything from there on out was interconnected and flaws from one bad arc were either carried over or repeated in the next one. It didn´t help to introduce a plehtora of uneeded characters that contributed nothing, barely mattered to anything, either.
It only enhanced the problems the series already had.
Priorities were also thrown out the window, buildup, fighting correopgraphy, pacing, all were bygone to force cheap laughs or fanservice into a chapter.
- #11
It doesnt matter it was is smarter from Hiro to introduce an overpowered ability and then retroactively nerf it through stupid nonsensical behaviour by it´s user, like overconfidence or a cheap time limitation, or exhaustion, or not introduce it to begin with. It is a Shounen staple and should be therefore measured with the same gauge his peers received.
I just hate double standards. Hypocrisi is sadly one of the most common human traits.
Ofc it´s smarter to not introduce an unbalanced ability than finding an excuse why a character cannot use it, but that would take out alot of the cinimatic spectacle Shounen Manga deliver.
I don´t know what Hiro´s reasoning behind the number 12 was, wether it is symbolic or it´ll be revealed to have a practical use. Currently they all have been exceptionless a waste of space and time. I don´t buy that he had planned to introduce Erza´s mother before this arc, or at least this was the sole story he had prepared. One of the Spriggans is Erza´s Mom the end! Same for August. Mavis and Zeref had a kid. The end! He obvisouly didn´t had thought of this idea during the couples conception. That´s why it was so badly written.
Yes I agree that everything has been fucked up and that´s because Hiro has abanoned any obligation, he just writes whatever the hell comes into his head and the Editor just approves it.
- #13
"Oh I'm gonna kill myself and take the whole world with me."
*sees mother in the distance*
"Lol never mind peace bitches."
I'm fully convinced that Mashima just doesn't give a shit anymore. He knows the diehards will literally eat up all the crap he shits out, so what's the point of putting in effort. Honestly though, I feel like once again, Mashima wrote himself into a corner with how powerful he made August, so I guess this was literally the only way he could get rid of him. Still a joke though.
Oh yeah, almost forgot Larcade died too. Whatever, I didn't care about him at all. In fact, you could straight up erase Larcade's existence from this arc and nothing of value would be lost.