Fairy Tail Chapter 545 Discussion

I loved it

my fav forever and Nalu was there. Canon to me I mean have you not noticed the "we'll be together forever and I like Lucy smell? That confirms canon and maybe one day we'll get more FT. Hiro hinted that but now I wanna see his new work

lvl21 said:
Ending I was expecting to be honest. Shippers are probably mad lmao, but who cares about them, this is the only thing that somewhat made sense (the romance wasn't as developed, and NaLu was not really romantic, its platonic).



Wait for the aftereffects it´s going to be delicious.



Obligatory deaththreats to the author, online petitions to change the outcome and nonstop flaming across all the boards.

So this chapter was kind of eh....



The only real "official" pair we got was levy and gajeel with the whole Wendy hearing about the baby.



Natsu and Lucy not becoming an official pair was kind of dumb on the authors part and I'm not even a big shipper, but I mean come on, it would have been smart to do.



The hundred year quest sounds so interesting, I hope we get a movie based on that or a couple OVA's for it.



Mavis and Zeref returning as different people was random and out of place. Some things that felt unresolved for me was E.N.D. (wasn't truly explored), Ankersahm's curse (seeing Ankersahm and tying god slayers into it would have been cool), The One Magic was discussed but never fully explained to what it was even thought its probably love or friendship. Also, the way Zeref and Acnologia and all the Spriggans were taken out was really wack. Sherria using magic... come on lol. Another thing that bugged me was how they didn't delve deeper into the brother dynamic of Zeref and Natsu, I mean Zeref worked his ass off and got cursed, but then it was never really explored between the two brothers besides a couple lines here and there.



The chapter would be 5/10 for me and the manga a 6/10 due to the first half of Fairy Tail, the world building, and character interaction. This is being generous rating it a 6/10 for me.



Edit: Score changed overall to 5/10 after thinking about it some more.

Friendzone confirmed :O

Pretty solid ending chapter but the rest of this final arc was utter crap.



4/5 for this chapter but 4/10 for the rest of the manga.



Imma lurk around Black Clover subforum and see how it goes, hopefully it will turn out to be better than FT.

So, I just finished reading the rest of the manga from where Fairy Tail 2014 finished and here are my thoughts:



Personally, I enjoyed watching the series, it is a fun and adventurous anime. However, I can understand why so many people disapprove of it and how it ended and why it gets so much hate. The ending DID feel rushed, it's like everything just got clustered in and everything was just all over the place.



It's like the whole series is directed to 8 year olds. Like an actual fairy tale, it has a happy ending. Everything was so simple and basic, friendship power defeating evil, so cliche. Fairy Tail is on par with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It's so repetitive, they get stronger and then defeat their enemies. No matter how strong the enemies seem, in the end, they get defeated by nakama power. Rarely anyone dies. Time and time again, Hiro constantly trolls everyone with death flags. When a character supposedly dies, they come back. The only manly part about this whole series is the fanservice.



But the things I love are the plottwists and suspensefulness. Hiro really knows how to hype things up. I really love Zeref and Acnologia. Acnologia especially was so epic. If you think about it, Acnologia is the bigger villain than Zeref because if it wasn't for him, Natsu would not have died 400 years ago. Zeref would not have the curse because he won't be researching on how to get his younger brother back. Zeref and Natsu would be dead 400 years ago and the whole story of Fairy Tail would not have even happened.



What I want to know is Acnologia's backstory. If I recall correctly, towards the end of the manga he says that his family was killed by the dragons. So if it wasn't for that, maybe he wouldn't have been so evil and become this dark dragon which started all of this chaos. The other thing I want to know is the curse that Zeref got. Who cursed him and how? Am I supposed to believe that it was just because of some supernatural being that cursed him without any explanation and out of anyone's control? Because if that's the case, then that's lame.



So much potential has been wasted, but I still love this series.

I completed it, so it was worth it.

Jak said:
Fai said:
Jak said:
blfan said:
I bet we got this ending because the publisher forced Hiro to play it safe because of the Bleach and Naruto controversies. So this is the salty IchiRuki and NaruSaku shippers fault, the ones in Japan at least.



Not at all. It would have made total sense for Natsu and Lucy since it was hinting at it from the very beginning. People were mad about those in Naruto and Bleach because those were built up and then the author's showed off how terrible writers they are by ending with the wrong couples.



IDK about nardo but IchiHIme was literally THE ONLY Pairing thoroughly built up through bleach.  As early as Arrancar Arc was a dead giveaway Kubo is setting those two up. An IchiRukia pairing wouldn't have been surprising though considering how close they were. Bleach had way bigger problems than its end pairings. I personally just didn't like RukiaRenji because it always felt one-sided on  Renji's side just like it felt one-sided for Orihime. I personally thought Orihime would end up with Chad considering how close she was to him and was always with him.



Ichihime was literally the only relationship that had explicitly romantic feelings highlighted even more so than NaLu here, down to a confession(which was implied Ichigo heard).



Rukia only got friendship flags with MC and then Renji was introduced and her romance path was obvious too. There was nothing romantic in on itself in the interactions which was further highlighted via contrast of arrancar arc versus ss arc in terms of Ichigo's behavior.