He wrote the entire story. And yes, he drew the rough sketches for the anime team to follow on an episode To episode basis. I wouldn't say anime fans know more about the story than manga fans. Regardless, the Starry Night arc is treated as canon in the manga. The Zentopia incident Yukino is talking about is the Starry Night arc. It's the reason why Celestial Spirit Mages have been reduced. It's simply not true that there's so few of every mage except for dragon slayers. In fact, the opposite is true. The only reason it seems that way is because the story actively focuses on them. There's millions of mages out in the world that nobody cares about, including all the Celestial Spirit Mages that Oracion Seis took out.
Oracion Seis broke out of prison before Jellal did. Starry Night Cobra would have defeated Erza if not for Kinana's voice. Midnight would have defeated Natsu if not for Lucy using real nightmare to turn Midnight into a kid. Cobra alone is Tenrou Erza tier. Together, they are stronger.
This doesnt make sense to me. our problem is we have different sources. you are referring to an anime filler while i am only taking manga into account.
i dont think other fillers are cannon. hell i dont even think anime version of erza vs jellal is cannon. while you do
for me after fairy tail came out of fairy sphere, we found out that natsu was basically a max tier. then they had to go on a training session (some got three months training, some got SO). this allowed natsu to be reasonably above max.
in your version. i dont know, did max stalemate natsu after natsu beat midnight. so was midnight with gensis zero about max level( i really dont know). why did midnight even need gensis zero to fight a max level character (shouldnt his refractor be enough).
and cobra was essentially somewhere around gildarts level. because i dont even think bluenote could handle tenrou erza as good as filler cobra handled her.
if your version is true. it means i have incomplete knowledge. so manga readers basically need to watch the entire fairy tail anime to be on the same level as anime only watchers.
i really dont think this is the case.
authors have alot more control over manga then they have over anime. and fillers are meant to keep anime behind the manga. if authors spend time working in the anime or fillers as much as the manga then they would be no point of fillers in the first place.
Zentopia is not anymore important to the story then that drogon zord/robot women arc. or that stupid celestial gone insane arc or the phoenix movie arc (which showed that phoenix would have one shotted aconologia plus all god dragons because it was literally planning to blow the up the entire planet, because that was the amount of power needed to kill it so it re spawn)
if you are saying some fillers are cannon, not all. even that is not reasonable position because normal readers arent crazy fan girls who will follow the mishma twitter feed or even watch that much news on that manga/anime. fairy tail is not such a complicated deep story that i need any sort of background for.
besides, cobra would be the first irrelevant bad guy to improve more than the main group. from clear mishma portrayal of cobra needed racer and sneak attack from hoteye to put down erza, to casually stomping erza.
the same erza, might i add, who took out 99 monsters plus a WS tier monster, who took a blast from minerva which even surprised jura, who moved so fast that markarov couldnt keep up with her.
why would mishma do this? what was the point of making cobra so strong only to stop using his strongest magic after the filler.
Correct. Erza most likely can't cut through melt. She wasn't cutting through Laxus' red lightning, and melt is a stronger attack. And Erza probably wouldn't even cut Midnight's refractor. There's nothing physical to cut with refractor. It's magic that warps stuff. You have to think about what the magic actually is. I didn't ignore any questions. Your assumptions are simply wrong. Sema isn't easy to counter. It's a literal meteor. You have to have enough strength to be able to smash a meteor to counter it. Lyon can't do it. Jura probably can't either. They don't have the attack power to stop an incoming meteor. Alvarez Erza can. Laxus stalemated Alvarez Erza, so he probably can too. My point is just that durability of the meteor rock isn't a reflection of the caster's magical reserves, because their reserves doesn't go into making the rock tougher or harder. Jellal and Irene aren't creating the rock with their magic and trying to make that rock indestructible. They're pulling an already existing rock from space, and throwing it at you with the hopes that it will make a big explosion on impact.
Also, END's power can't burn time or magic. Dimaria's magic simply cannot affect END because END is too powerful for Dimaria. He wasn't actually burning her magic. Infact, her magic was still affecting Lucy. Natsu's flames of emotions can burn time and magic, and indeed time magic. But it's because those flames are hot enough to do so, not because Natsu hits harder than Dimaria or Zeref. He does, but that's besides the point. Merely hitting harder than Zeref does not allow Natsu to burn time.
well your understanding of how magic works is quite different from mine.
i dont understand what you mean when you say someone is too powerful. END is more powerful than dimeria, what does that mean. does END suddenly have more mp then an average springgan?
for me its simple. hax or any magic works on anyone. so i dont believe in that limit thing. evergreen, who got low diffed by erza, could easily hax erza. and not just in sneak attack either. erza had to keep her good eye shut to fight evergreen. thus, in normal scenario i see evergreen easily turing laxus into a stone as well.
so i look at powers (mp) of caster. mainly how much mp one put in. so natsu can burn zeref dark magic or whatever its called but cant evaporate mercophobia water. same would happen with gildarts, gildarts can crash historia serena magic, but wont be able to crash mercophobia water.
same with erza. alverzec erza will easily cut right through hades 100 formula, alverzec pof erza will not just easily cut august refractors and his melt. but the backlash will be so bad that august might be near wrecked by it.
this way i dont come into weird problem you have introduced.
if i am following your logic correctly. once you have reached certain power, breaking rocks become easy. gmg jura is not at that level. so jellal sema might have taken him out. is that correct?
alverzec erza and maybe laxus has reached that level where breaking rocks is easy enough. thus it doesnt matter dragon irene can causally one shot erza and laxus (the power difference doesnt matter), breaking rock level has been reached.
this brings two problems. one, why did irene opt for a move that would be easier to counter?
i thought, and as it is portrayed, dues sema is tiers above dragon irene claw swipe. but if i follow your logic. irene had more chances of killing erza with another physical attack than deus sema. why didnt irene just roared at erza. why use a move which she knows has lesser durability (an maybe even withen reach of erza taking it out,
exact opposite of what was said in the manga)
problem two, why does such a spell exist. it has one major problem. that after a level, it is easy to counter (independent of caster powers) for jellal sure. but for irene. i dont understand. this move is alot weaker than other moves. with no added benefits. i mean, i would understand if you had said its gives up on durability (easy to counter) but causes more devastating damage. which would translate to deus sema hit points being far above any august attack not having same problem.
but we have no information at all.
and the way irene hyped it up, its really hard for me to imagine brandish causally turning it into a pebble or dimeria causally stopping it in track because she can stop time
Yeah lol. That's Jellal using meteor throughout his entire fight with DF Natsu. He didn't just stop using it after he got hit. Natsu slams him through the tower, he responds by flying away with meteor.
Natsu hits him again, and Jellal is still using meteor to fly away and create distance for abyss break.
you said jellal was continuously using it but you gave two panels. this is what i meant, he tried to escape, got punched then staggered away for abysal break.
f Jellal is still using meteor as DF Natsu is hitting him, then what makes you think he's just going to stop using it against Azuma? Jellal doesn't stop using meteor because "it isn't working". He stops using meteor to cast a big attack, and then the fight usually ends. If his opponent is durable enough to keep fighting, then there's no reason he wouldn't keep using meteor to dodge and whatnot.
What he used against Erza is enough to put bind snake on Azuma. All Jellal needs to do is distract Azuma with a thought projection, and then zap him with a bind snake from behind like he did to Erza. Thought projection splits your power, depending on how much of yourself you put into it. Jellal doesn't have to put most of his power into the thought projection. Just enough so that Seig can zip around in meteor and distract Azuma.
well we have what we have. jellal mostly use it once then something else.
if you think jellal can get azuma to kiss him, then he could definitely do it.
i see your strategy, but it wont work. fodder magic arent used to trick strong opponents. atleast not in fairy tail. in fairy tail verse. if jellal uses thought projection, azuma will low diff him. just like how injured erza did.
