Seeing how terrible Fairy Fail has gotten with only 10 chapters left makes me think....
"You Know BLEACH's ending wasn't that bad after all"
Wasted villains with less than believable anti-climactic victories all series boils down to THIS. REALLY!?
Omnipotent with victory already achieved... And still manages to get swept up like a scrublord by Nakama-Power Dragon of the Friendship Flame?
Dragon King getting bodied into the abyss by a busted airship just like that?
Wow... WOOOW.
Not that I expect much. But the bar was low and I was still let down.
Thoughts?
Parker Phillips
>Thoughts? It was always trash. People only read it for the girls and pairings.
Camden Hernandez
>Ichiya defeated Acnologia
Noah Allen
Is he /ourguy/?
Hudson Davis
Truly a man among man
Ethan Rodriguez
What's the purpose of the Dragonslayers in this story if they don't even fight the final boss?
Lucas Morris
>MC was a dragonslayer >Doesn't defeat a single friggin dragon in the entire series.
And people thought Kubo was the biggest hack?
Kayden Gray
Are you really surprised at this?
Fairy Tail has been shit for a looooooong time. It showed promise early on but even then it was a shitty ripoff of One Piece
Jace Mitchell
Fairy Tail makes me sad.
I love magic, I love well drawn women, and it had some neat concepts. I even really like the art style for almost all the characters, there's just something weird about it that really clicks with me, and I find their designs to all be very likable. It's really a shame to see how far FT has fallen. This series could have went eons ahead of it's current position if Mashima didn't write himself into a corner almost every fucking chapter and use plot armor heavily.
I hope his next piece of work is him in charge of illustrating and someone else is a different writer for the actual story.
Overall, Fairy Tail is one of and actually might be the worst series I've ever participated in. With incredible amounts of wasted potential, bad story telling, and only one redeeming element being the art style, I sincerely hope no one actually forces themselves to read this pile of hot ass garbage like I did. Almost from chapter 1, it immediately starts getting worse. I really hope Mashima goes into the hentai business after this. Fuck this series, fuck this hack. Worse than Kubo.
Charles Reyes
I feel you user.
I foolishly kept believing that FT would have its grand moment. But after Tenrou arc, I gave up on this series. If it wasn't going to improve here, it was never going to improve ever. And based on what I've seen on FT threads since, it has only gotten worse.
Ayden Clark
Acno will probably be back. 10 chapters is too long for just epilogue.
Aaron Campbell
The only good part of this ending so far.
Evan Foster
Oh shit its ending? I stopped reading during that last tournament arc. Worth picking back up ever?
Jason White
Probably because the Dragon Slayer part is basically same as Dragon Warrior the way that Magical Slayer Mamika don't use her powers to slay magic but use magical powers to fight.
In short, translators failure of figuring out Japanese phrasing.
Dylan Peterson
It's just a One Piece knockoff, what do you expect
Nicholas Murphy
it has great soundtracks but that's all
Mason Ortiz
I actually had some hope in the tounament arc. I was enjoying the fights, but then some minor character slowly died in a pit of lava. I was really surprised that he actually killed someone in such a brutal way, but surprise surprise, he survived by that clock summon despite already going under the surface. I finally got that nobody would ever die, not even secondaries, killing any and all tension.
Nathan Collins
>"You Know BLEACH's ending wasn't that bad after all" If there was one manga capable of doing that, I thought it would be this piece of shit and I stopped reading when they went to the new continent
Cooper Scott
Except it's a huge plot point that is repeated time and time again for clarity in FT
Normal magic barely harms dragons unless it's God-Tier.
So Dragon Slayer Magic was taught to humans by the dragons so they could aid in the fight against the Dragons who wanted to end humanity (Since some dragons wanted humans to live on)... The downside being that eventually you become a dragon too.
Yet the magic barely even worked in the Tournament Arc when the Dragons invaded. Or against any Dragon. Ever.
>Thoughts? Great designs though at time seemed to rip off One Piece.
Had too many Nakama powerups and that God-awful "The explanation is.... It's Erza" thing
Too many good plot points rolled back over. Like Deliora being Silver and then you hear it was Silver all along? That... Should never have happened.
It had it's imbalances earlier on but at some point all caution was thrown to the wind and he began writing the manga like a serialised one-shot. Where each chapter had the same characters but barely took any past content into consideration given the rules of the world.
It's just softcore rubbish. Skin, boobs, pairings, and the wrong kind of "Plot". No substance.
I wouldn't recommend this to any one.
Connor Russell
I think Kubo tried his best to wrap up what he clearly wanted to be a longer tale... Just that he had very little time. So shitty presentation to a withering series, but... Reasonable. Not great. Just a reasonable attempt.
I don't think Fairy Tale's author had a plan... he just wrote for the pay-checks. I'm sure they said he had only planned up until after the Gajeel Arc. But once it got popular? As one arc finishes he probably thinks "How much more can I milk this?"... And puts something together at random. Time and Time again. Just for that one arc. He just probably wouldn't make any more from "ONE MORE ARC"... So he's lazily wrapping up
Oliver Torres
Wait, whatever happened that Natsu is demon subplot again?
Jordan Hernandez
It really feels like he was just done about 3-4 arcs ago but he had to stretch things out. The whole thing feels like the work of someone who doesn't want to be doing it.
The series should have ended a while ago. Not like it would have changed that much plot wise. We probably would have gotten something at least a little better, maybe.
Tyler Campbell
big titties
Charles Peterson
Yep. It's in it's terminal stage now. Soon the sweet release will come.
Evan Hill
Just give me a NaLu ending and a Lucy spinoff, that's all I want.
A part of igneel's soul was still in natsu and destroyed his demon part making him fully human.
William Hughes
He went into a coma and talked with his dragon dad about it. Dragon dad told him he had to choose between becoming a demon or a dragon, because if he left it as is the two forces inside him would kill him.
So of course he chooses option C: FRIENDSHIP POWER And says he'll be a human.
Then it's resolved. That's it.
Justin Nelson
This series really should have just jumped ship and became a SOL series a while ago.
Jace Reed
Okay, FT is garbage, but bleach is still much worse(as is Kubo)
Mashima might actually be retarded, if you choose to gauge his intelligence off his storytelling abilities, but at least he actually cared about his series. All of the characters had wonderful designs, the art style was also great(with backgrounds), and he put his all into it work-wise. Kubo was a hack that got extremely lucky, until his luck ran dry and Jump axed him. Mashima is a good mangaka with a glaring downside, the kind of author who'll always have fans that could appreciate his works despite the poor stories.
Also: >10 more chapters for ending Bleach got half a chapter for an ending, major characters like urahara and Yoruichi, plus the two espada are considered dead because Kubo didn't write if they survived or not. He threw ichigo a completely undeveloped love interest just because he wanted to. Fuck, chads ending was just them watching him box on tv. The next 10 chapters of Fairy Tail will be spent giving each and every character a mostly-meaningful conclusion, with only pre-developed endgame relationships.
>>Mashima > Kubo
Owen Sanchez
As a fan of Kubo, I agree. Not only that I don't even think Jump axed him, he just failed to meet his own set deadline.
Camden Garcia
Let's wait on the final chapter before we jump to this conclusion. Because this leaves room for a lot more asspulls... Or lotsa poor writing.
We haven't gotten to the true ending. But given the general trajectory of the series... I expect to be disappointed
Luke Walker
I don't know, it seems pretty final. Zeref was done in by Natsu, even after his power up, as the formula for final bosses has gone. The only reason Mashima wouldn't keep acno dead is to have the dragonslayers kill him, and I can't see natsu fighting again.
Brayden Perry
Could someone post those collages of Gajeel and Levy having sex? There were super wholesome and I forgot to save them from the previous couple of threads.
Carter Davis
I dropped FT in the Luxus arc. After that Mashima started to copy OP, the shichibukai and it was very shitty, then he did something with the cats, very very shit, then he tried to do the timeskip ala 3D2Y and so on.... i didn't read it but from the spoilers it was obvious he didn't have any ideas left.
Ryan Gomez
>Ichiya and Anna are in the Ravines of Time Is Ichiya Lucy's ancestor all along?
Michael Carter
Fairy Tail, as a whole is pretty garbage But honestly, the last arc is the most interesting one IMO
Isaiah Moore
There's still 10 chapters which makes it better than Bleach's rushed shit ending
Ryder Harris
someone did die though. With 10 chapters left, they'll be revived.
Sebastian Cook
>muh bleach axed meme
Kubo ended it how he wanted, mashima is suddenly ending it fast because he's tired of serious war moments and wants to do another series.
Asher White
Literally the only good part of the chapter.
Nathan Rodriguez
>suddenly ending it fast
>villains were defeated but there's still 10 chapters left
Chase Ramirez
Use your brains a little. There's is 10 chapters left. I doubt Acnologia is done yet.
Leo King
Implying Mashima won't use those 10 chapters to establish short adventures for his bloated cast.
Zachary Young
But how would they defeat him?
Mashima made acnologia too OP so he had to pull the ravines of time bullshit out of fucking no where just to kill him so he could end the manga.
Evan Long
If Acnologia wants to kill so much the DS that should mean they can beat him.
Adrian Russell
This is the worst manga I have ever seen. I don't understand how it got so popular
Parker Miller
>fanservice >One Piece and DBZ combination
honestly I say it is obvious, though I guess Zeref and Mavis was worth the shit writing.
Leo Martin
watch manga review he is mad the mc wins and didnt get killed
James Lewis
Fairy Tail was always a shonen parody.
Austin Reyes
what i dont understand is why idiots bitch about the fanservice it was always there
Tyler Reyes
The Zeref and Mavis backstory was actually pretty well written. I guess Mashima just stopped putting effort in.
Aaron Miller
Because they didn't realize what kind of manga they were reading to begin with. Fairy Tail was always about fanservice, shipping and friends’ power. But yet still a fun series. It was never a “serious” shonen.
It’s like complaining about One Piece having weird designs or HxH having too much narrative.
Julian Ortiz
> It was never a “serious” shonen.
That's wrong. It's Mashima who tried to make it into a serious series but didn't have the balls to go through it.
Kevin Reyes
yea i never took it to serious
Charles Martinez
Oh please, there's still 10 chapters left, there's no way that Acnologia won't be coming back for one final battle against Fairy Tail and their power of friendship.
Bentley Jenkins
>final 10 chapters of Fairy Tail will just be a whirlwind of all the waifus wearing nice things and getting final shipped >Acnologia will return for a moment but Erza will transform into a dragon and beat the shit out of him >"Did Erza just solo the final boss? Well, she is Erza, sasuga."
Owen Perez
Will the manga ending have a anime adaptation?
Colton Lewis
Why Fairy Tail never got a Naruto style game like Ninja Storm?
Levi Rodriguez
>I really hope Mashima goes into the hentai business after this >he just made NTR over and over again
Camden Thomas
I hate to say this, but even though the fight itself sucked, the conflict between Zeref and Natsu packed more of an emotional punch than the one between Yhwach and Ichigo. Zeref as a villain is just more interesting than Yhwach because we knew his backstory, motivations and relations with other characters.
Christopher Nelson
I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, but I believe in the final volume of RAVE he mentioned that the editor (or whoever) give him 5 chapters to conclude the story.
He got 10 chapters now, surely he can write a better ending for FT.
Elijah Diaz
>surely he can write a better ending for FT.
Isaac Nelson
Having to escape the Ravines of Times will be used as an excuse for why Aconologia is weak enough to get defeated by the heroes.
Aaron Butler
Compared to RAVE's ending, I mean.
Rave Master had the fake death of Haru with an almost-asspull copout, but surely Mashima can do better than that.
Landon Ward
Gotta love that Natsu's magic mostly amounts to "use magic to punch really hard". Truly the pinnacle of magicians. Mostly the same for the rest of the core group. ICE PUNCH! ELECTRIC PUNCH! HOLY PUNCH! DARKNESS PUNCH! WIND PUNCH! IRON PUNCH! LET ME SUMMON A CELESTIAL BEING SO IT CAN PUNCH YOU! And then there's Erza. In the beginning, Mashima still tried to tailor her fights around her being able to pull different armors out of her ass to counter the opponent's magic. Ever since "olol b/c it's Erza" she's been just fighting regularly and any kind of strategy went out of the window. Not that her magic was all that compelling to begin with. Since we've never seen put any effort into acquiring all kinds of armors, not even one lousy quest, her ability became asspull incarnate, since she always has some goddamn armor that just happens to exactly counter whatever her opponent wields.
Joshua Smith
Any word what Hiro is doing after this trainwreck is over? Will he be making Rave Master for a third time?
Angel Garcia
This time, the manga is literally just Siegfried travelling together with Plue.
Camden King
>I love magic, I love well drawn women just read Magi
Nolan Hill
Why do mangaka always hate their readers?
Jeremiah Wilson
Zeref is actually one of the only characters Mashima ever bothered to develop
Noah Collins
> I really hope Mashima goes into the hentai business after this. Absolutely right. Hentai is the only thing he has business doing.
Justin Campbell
because it's not popular enough
Jonathan King
Mangaka don't hate their readers, they just pander to a readerbase that doesn't include you or me.
Cooper Thomas
I just want to see all the waifus doing cute stuff.
Jaxon King
All the cute stuff, like sucking dicks
Luis Walker
Meh. I wont care about how shit this manga became if it takes these last ten chapters to make a detailed ending for all the girls.
Logan Barnes
Fairy Tail got a 277 episodes anime series.
Jaxson Thompson
>Lucy spinoff Levy maybe
Andrew Hill
I would like to see high production value Fairy Tail game.
Jace Gray
>he's tired of serious war moments and wants to do another series. Isnt this basically what he said at the end of Rave Master when he started Fairy Tail?
Ryan Clark
No, it was fucking horrid, and fairy tail is gonna go the same road.
Jace Torres
He next manga should be about smiling happy people.
Charles Gomez
Man his earlier artstyle was great
Jacob Bennett
This isn't an "earlier" drawing at all, it was drawn in 2013. She's drawn no different from today.
Charles Sanchez
Erza's earliest appearances made her look a little bit frumpier. When everybody was terrified of being disciplined by her for being dumbasses.
Colton Clark
Yeah, or how she was wearing stuffs like an armored bikini for the beach.
Carter Phillips
I'm fine with that.
Samuel Green
Truly the manliest among MEN! Dude is like Maito Gai of this universe only better because he's not stuck behind a Kakashi character (Jellal doesn't count).
Brayden Harris
They mention this after the tournament arc that not a single dragon was slain by a DS and everyone was disappointed/feared for when they would actually have to fight dragons again.
Nathaniel Brown
It may become that since there's supposed plans for a continuation of the story afterwards.
Matthew Miller
How is this the most interesting after seeing Spriggan after Spriggan drop like flies? I don't think I can remember a single one of them going down in a satisfying way.
Certainly not the worst Arc but far from the best.
Jeremiah King
Maybe that SoL spin-off will become massively popular and Mashima will stop drawing battle shonen.
Julian Carter
>Mashima stated on Twitter on Wednesday, "Even though the original manga is ending, I don't think Fairy Tail is done just yet. I have a lot of plans, so please look forward to them."
Nathan Cox
>SoL chapter about Erza going out shopping for new equips and having to find room in her already overflowing arsenal closet
Kayden Ortiz
She was an S-Class mage at the start of the series. She wasn't some novice. I will give that to Mashima.
Anthony Taylor
>It's a Fairy Tail tabletop RPG >Fairy Tail VN >Fairy Tail: the Live-Action Musical >Fairy Tail Takarazuka >Fairy Tail Babies >Fairy Tail Levy Chronicles >Fairy Tail ARG
Justin Jackson
>There's autists that actually read this for the fights. Let me just laugh at you.
Cooper Morgan
MASHIMA PORN FUCKING WHEN U C K I N G
W H E N
William Cook
Mashima wanted to make a world of fantasy like from the video games he played and added a lot of anime/pop culture cliches into the work. He succeeded!
Lucas Ward
I mean, Rave Master also conclude its final battle anti-climatically, with the power of My Friends.
Sebastian Sullivan
Problem is, it's not very compelling. She's presented as one of the regular cast who gets in on the regular fight gauntlet, so her being the equivalent of the kid on the playground that one ups your attack by making shit up on the fly, aka ex-quip, makes for a rather poor reading experience.