Question Number of arcs left ?

[kirena]

Hello ^^

I was curious, does someone know how many arcs are left for the manga ?

If I'm not mistaking, I heard two bigs arcs are left after the Tartarus one ?

 

[MangerDan]

Well there ain't much left story wise other than the whole natsu,zeref, and acnologia thing. I think this arc will determine if natsu is finally ready for the impeding battle between him zeref, and acnologia. I think there might be about 2 or 3 arcs left hiro has been hinting the whole natsu/zeref thing doubt we'll have to wait long for that.

 

[SirSamuel016]

I'm not sure how many arcs we have left. This current arc we have may well be a set-up to showing how Natsu has grown and that he is ready to fight Zeref and Acnologia, but then again, I don't want to see him or any of the Fairy Tail members having an easy time against the Arbaless forces. It wouldn't surprise me if the arc after this is the last arc of Fairy Tail.

 

[MangerDan]

So far we've seen natsu throw a few basic punches the closest he got to being serious was against the war God. I actually don't mind natsu being close in power to the strongest of the sprigan 12, now being close to power doesn't mean he'll have an easy time defeating them, but at the same time the power levels won't get ridiculous if even someone like natsu can't beat a sprigan 12. Natsu's whole goal before the times skip was to get strong enough to protect everyone from acnologia someone with the power to take over the world if he wanted to.

 

[milek]

Probably 2,3 more arc + this one. Natsu is close to power that can kill Acnologia and Zeref.

 

[Verter]

Well, we may hope on long story with Ankhseram after it...

 

[Kingiux]

Prob. 4 1.This one (2-3)Acno then Zeref and 4. Ending Feeeeeeeeeeeeelssssssssssssssss arc.

 

[Rarhyx]

so many that the manga will end with chapter 777

 

[Zehahaha]

As much as Mashima wants, after all in Rave, the main plot was revealed only later on (Endless and stuff)

 

[kkck]

Well, what are the major plot points that remain unsolved so far? Lumen historire was a big one although it is a tad surprising that it got dealt with this way. Anyways, things have escalated quite a bit so at least they should focus mostly on zeref after this arc. No more dark guilds and the gang is about to fight an equivalent to the 10 wizard saints. From a human perspective this is about it, there shouldn't be greater enemies in the human world. Which leaves end and whoever zeref makes to fight the final battle. Considering rave to me it looks like end will be an even greater enemy than zeref so perhaps we will have an arc for acknologia, another for zeref which leads to whatever is happening with end.

 

[Pig]

XD i believe so actually
even though natsu will probably defeat zeref in a couple of arcs, i think that mashima wants to continue fairy tail and will drag it out at least till then. If not, he'll add an anime and manga about the next generation of fairy tail and/or the generation of Mavis. Kind of like lotr where peter jackson wants to make stuff even after the three hobbit movies

 

[DemonKing888]

The fact that each of the Spriggan Twelve have such capable mages under them like Marin Hollow alone makes it feel like we're going to get a few sub arcs in the Albareth Empire alone.

at least 4 or 5 arcs left

 

[SirSamuel016]

The way I see it is that we may get two parts/sub arcs to this current arc: The infiltration of Arbaless, and The Arbaless Empire's Invasion of Ishgal/War with Ishgal. So if you count them separately, you have two arcs, which will probably cover most of the backstory and then given on how Hiro goes about it, another 2-3 arcs, one to deal with the whole E.N.D = Natsu Dragneel thing, and then Zeref and Acnologia who could get dealt with together in an arc, separately or possibly bundled in with the E.N.D arc.

 

[MangerDan]

According to hiro mashima himself on volume 49 we still have a long way to go. Now however long that is who knows but were certainly heading towards the climax now that the manga is starting to explorer major plot points of the story.

 

[metsujin]

According to hiro mashima himself on volume 49 we still have a long way to go. Now however long that is who knows but were certainly heading towards the climax now that the manga is starting to explorer major plot points of the story.

With this new empire he can make something good, without dragging. Now he still got this:
-current arc with Alvarez and everything that's going on;
-E.N.D stuff, more backstory of how Mavis died, since we know from FT Zero some stuff, but Zeref mentions in chapter 436 that he'll save his relationship with Mavis for later, we can find out what Lumen Histoire can do, if God Serena is indeed Yuriy Dreyar;
-he could make (hopefully he will), a longer flashback of what happen in the Dragon Civil War, how Acnologia became the Dragon King, Zeref could've been involved in a way or another, around that time Igneel tried to stop E.N.D but couldn't;
-the stuff with Zeref & Natsu learning he's his brother, how he meet Igneel...
-Lucy's mom might appear, since many fans theorize that her death has something to do to how the dragons disappear, we can learn that;
-battle between Natsu & Acnologia, battle between E.N.D & Zeref, fight between E.N.D & Gray, Gray finding out that he has to 'slay' his best friend.

There are still things that need to get answered & that can happen without Mashima rushing the story,

 

[Nemispelled]

It's actually only rumors/hype that we had only 2 arcs left in FT. We actually don't know the number of arcs left, but from what I saw a while back, I remember something like Fairy Tail is planned to end somewhere in the 800's chapters. Cuz when we were in the chapter 400's, it had been said that FT was only halfway complete. That could also be rumors//hype though. Basically, nothing is set in stone right now.

 

[MangerDan]

It's actually only rumors/hype that we had only 2 arcs left in FT. We actually don't know the number of arcs left, but from what I saw a while back, I remember something like Fairy Tail is planned to end somewhere in the 800's chapters. Cuz when we were in the chapter 400's, it had been said that FT was only halfway complete. That could also be rumors//hype though. Basically, nothing is set in stone right now.

It was in an afterword forgot which volume that hiro said he had 3 arcs planned out after the grand magic games so far we've had 1 major arc if you don't take in consideration minor arcs like the sun village which was rumored to be the half way point.

 

[metsujin]

In the recent english volume, which is 49, in the afterword Hiro states that there's still much left for the story. As a joke I'll say that Fairy Tail will end at chapter 777.

He still got good stuff for the upcoming arcs, I'll enlist some of them in no particular order:
- The Alvarez Empire with the 12 shields, that could possibly lead to a war;
- Reveal of Lumen Histoire and it's true power;
- How did Mavis became Lumen Histoire;
- Is God Serena Yuriy Dreyar? What happened to him... in FT Zero it says that he died, but maybe the name "Yuriy Dreyar" died and God Serena was born;
- Natsu finding out his E.N.D and Zeref's brother;
- The relationships between Zeref & Mavis and Natsu & Igneel, how Natsu ended up in that forest;
- Gray finding out Natsu is E.N.D which will create some drama;
- What happened 400 years in the past, the Dragon Civil War, how Acnologia became the King of Dragons, Igneel not being able to defeat E.N.D at that time;
- Lucy's mom dying in the year 777, she might have a play in the story.

Maybe there are other stuff that I missed, but there's still a lot of content and unsolved mysteries.

 

[Nemispelled]

It was in an afterword forgot which volume that hiro said he had 3 arcs planned out after the grand magic games so far we've had 1 major arc if you don't take in consideration minor arcs like the sun village which was rumored to be the half way point.

That would be interesting. If it was actually said that 3 arcs were planned out, there is a possibility that we are currently on the last arc. Of course, we would have to not count the smaller arcs like Sun Village and Avatar. Since all of the arcs must be like this.

- Grand Magic Games (3 more arcs afterwards)

1. Sun Village Arc (if we count it)

2. Tartaros Arc

3. Avatar Arc (if we count it)

4. Alvarez Arc


If we don't count either Sun Village or Avatar, that means that only one more remains to be seen. Now the 3 arcs deal may or may not be true, but if it is true and we don't count smaller arcs (meaning that Alvarez Arc would be the 2nd arc after GMG), then that means there is only one more arc.

As I said in another thread, my theory for the last arc would be Humans vs. END vs. Acnologia.

In my opinion of the current Alvarez Arc, the set up should be Humans vs. END vs. Alvarez (which would in the end, also mean Zeref aside from the actual spriggan members). Which would mean that everything we would know about Zeref would be revealed in this arc in theory.


Although, like I said, if I heard correctly, the chapters were supposed to end up somewhere around the 800's. Having only 3 arcs following GMG would take a long time to reach the 800s. Unless again, we don't count the small arcs, which would mean we have no idea how many arcs should we be having.

 

[MangerDan]

Personally I don't care how long fairy tail is as long as it doesn't go on just for the sake of keeping it going. Once all the mysteries are revealed and acnologia,zeref,and e.n.d are dealt with it, then it should just end.

It was volume 35 that said it by the way, which was a while ago so things definetly might've changed.