430-435 were complete junk.
but at least we have something to work with for the future.
430-435 were complete junk.
but at least we have something to work with for the future.
436 definitely added a tremendous amount if depth to the story considering the general flow of the manga. Acnologia looks badass outside of his full dragons laying form. I wonder how old he is and whether or not a full dragon from extends his life span
Nah, it didn't add any depth whatsoever. It only added information out of nowhere. This sort of stuff should be revealed smartly via the main characters finding something and talking about something, not by narration out of the blue. That's just bullshit infodumb. You can't really call this Zeref's flashback when the dude hasn't been a character appearing by his own right in any meaningful manner so far. I wouldn't have had anything at all against seeing only Zeref and Acnologia's meeting, that was quite cool indeed, but Zeref's (and Natsu's) early history should have been revealed elsewhere in a different manner.Originally Posted by toonice714
Good point....it was out of the clear blue. I guess the reveal skewed my judgement.
All in all I'm pleased with the general pacing of the manga ever since I stopped taking it seriously like 4 arcs ago. Btw where the hell is Gildarts??
Funnily enough Gildarts being nowhere to be seen even during times such as these is in fact no wonder. From the beginning of the manga the man had a reputation of disappearing for years. So, since he refused the guild master's position, it's only consistent that he's again and still missing. The guild being disbanded for a year is a detail that might even escape his notice, as a single year is nothing for him. It's kind of like a joke, but at least it's well founded.
437 is the usual shit.
why bother with this? we had the exact same thing after tenrou island: "oh, no! we've been away from the guild for so long, how are we going to make it!"
and a minute later it's "all the guild members love the guild, here's everyone. although it's mostly 4th string characters that you don't remember at all"
it's a cliffhanger for the sake of cliff hanging. there's no story about the guild being disbanded.
Yeah, this was utterly pointless. I suppose Mashima wrote this only to give people a bit of a power-up, new connections, etc. It might be even psychologically sound. If the guild hadn't disbanded, it's likely people wouldn't have dispersed to seek new possibilities, even though Natsu did hit the road early. What comes to the stuff in this particular chapter, perhaps Mashima just loves scenes like this? Like making Lucy cry'n'stuff. He must have a grand entrance for Laxus in mind, to boot.
439 is a bit exciting.
weird to have this happen now, and we've just seen some actual plot progress, but a nice development, nonetheless.
utter crap storytelling as usual.
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I am mainly looking forward to seeing more Dragonslayers. I mean a kingdom of 730 guilds? Gotta have some Dragon Slayers around.
444. guess who's back?
maybe zeref also has a 'kill me someday' brother hiding somewhere in this empire.
It's always Zeref. The Edolas incident must have been the only one that had nothing to do with him. I wonder if Acnologia has been messing around on the other continent as well since Zeref is camping there. The ocean would be meaningless for a dragon, after all, and I doubt the wizards there, no matter how tough they seemed, would pose much of a threat.
I like how they shut down spacial magic users before they get to shine. Lol erza Lucy natsu's and gray would've got wrecked if that chick didn't randomly erase him from existence. It was cool though. Natsu clearly had a trump card to bs his way thru it. He was holding his arm like he had a secret technique a couple chapters ago.
Anyways on the current chapter, meh.....yet another Zeref sighting. Still waiting for him to do something overwhelming
Well Zeref rules the other continent. Pretty much declared war as well.
Chapter 447:
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Who could count how many grand entrances Laxus has had so far? The sand dude was doomed the moment Laxus appeared for the simple reason he would be generating huge amounts of static electricity every time he moved masses of dry sand (he even advertised how dry it is). So, Laxus pretty much had half of his work done for him by the opponent himself. The more effort the sand dude puts in, the easier it gets for Laxus. Azir looked so stupid that I doubt he would have even realised it, making it even easier, if possible, for Laxus.
These chapters with Zeref have been Awesome
They certainly fleshed him out a lot. It's now easier to understand his current personality and why he's doing what he is doing. Although not a fan of flashbacks, I wouldn't mind one explaining better the things between Zeref and Acnologia.
Definitely. It seems like Zeref could be one of those main villains who could split given his dabbling in other dark arts next to the actual caring side of who he seems to truly be. I could accept a piccolo kami separation of his main form. The curse of contradictions could yield an immense evil version of himself that could manifest when they power of friendship him.
As far as acnologia goes, he seems like his back story may be one dimensional. Maybe a power hungry dragon trained him then he killed him by following through with the same basic principle of being strong. Then natsu or someone from fairy tail will beat him showing that nothing is stronger than friendship lol
459 & 460.
really? it takes them more than a single panel to figure out they can switch enemies?
it's not even a tactic, it's lack of foresight from the guy who designed the robots to match their weakness.
what's the proper way to make the sound effect of D'hDoY?
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It's starting to seem to me the Spriggan in fact aren't so awesomely powerful apart from their main skill. Figure out a way around that, and they have a big weakness or a few. Just like this one robot demonstrated. They are like a ceramic knife: Sharper than anything but bend it a little and it snaps. I don't even want to mention the shrinking woman's case here... That was too pitiful. When FT first started to fight the weakness creations, I couldn't help but think Mashima had watched his Days of Future Past.
What I'm mostly looking forward to in this war is Jellal making an appearance. He's an early powerful, hyped, character and has made a number of appearances, but we still haven't got a real fight from him. So, we basically don't know what he's really capable of as a former Wizard Saint who has only grown more powerful since then. While I'd have enjoyed seeing Erza get saved by him, as they are my favourite couple in the series after Gray and Juvia, I think it was much better this way. It would have been sort of forced in an untasteful way considering Titania is not a person needing saving.
And finally we had the reveal to Natsu that he is END. A demon as well as Zeref's brother. Also there are only 5 real dragon slayers. Which is a pity. Kinda hoping for more.
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