Recent content by SleipnirX

That's been an unfortunate trend for the whole series post 7-year timeskip. GMG on, it's felt less and less like a proper ensemble cast and more like Natsu with fiends tagging along. I did do a whole write up about why I think Natsu generally gets less and less likeable as a character as the...

That's my biggest power scaling complaint of 100YQ, from where they were at the end of the original series, still basically a non factor in a fight against a dragon, to having serious 1v1 fights with exceptionally powerful dragons now, with very little evidence of training or build-up to that...

That was my intial thought, too, but I remember someone at the time said the 2014 era of the series actually had a marginally higher budget per episode than the 2009 era. The reason the animation quality declined was more because they had a much tighter production schedule, TV Tokyo wanted the...

The production values on the first run of the anime were incredible, the soundtrack just fit so well too. It's a shame it couldn't have gone on until Tartaros. The second run was all slideshow and recap, the pacing was glacial and the desaturated colour palette (whether intentional or not)...

On the whole pretty typical of post-Tartaros FT, good basic ideas & concepts, but let down somewhat by execution. Having said that, with only 9 chapters, this was obviously never going to be a fully fleshed out story, even the shorter early FT arcs usually ran beyond 20 chapters. There just...

Yep really agree. GMG undermined a lot of what he'd previously established, especially making the guild feel more like the Tenrou group plus background characters that might get the odd line of dialogue. I hated when he started handing (Natsu in particular) loads of easy unearned wins, it's...

Yeah it's a huge shame. 4 of the 5 dragon gods were basically filler, the fifth is little better at least so far, and it's absolutely demolished what was left of the series' already very shaky power scaling logic. Considering the alternative was a series that would now have been over for almost...

This would potentially make quite a good basis for a third movie, if they took the basic idea and expanded it a bit. Other than that I wonder if this will ever be animated?

Yeah I think Romeo falls into the ’next generation’ trap, he’s too close to what’s already gone on and as you say it’s really difficult to build jeopardy with the main cast in the background. Small scale personal stakes, yeah, but nothing that’s going to carry an extended series. An alternative...

A shame it's got to be wrapped up in another 4 chapters, this could have gotten quite good given a bit more room to develop. It does make me a bit conflicted about any continuation of FT beyond 100YQ... I will always love this set of characters, but I do think the series needs at least a soft...

I agree in as much as I thought every arc of 100YQ has had some really good ideas and potential, but execution has been pretty awful tbh so most of that potential got left on the table unfortunately. I suppose that's just how it's going to be when it was his third priority behind Edens and DR...

That works out to be about another year and a half left for the series to run with the fortnightly schedule. Interested to see if the 'FT continuation' series develops into a new full blown weekly serial, or if there are any other projects linked to the franchise that will start up. FT is by far...

You know that rule in horror movies where generally no monster you can design is scarier than something you can't see chasing the characters around in the dark? I feel like that applies to Igneel's human design here, I was imagining something way more impressive! His design looks like a bit of a...

Gold Owl is really emblematic of Mashima still having some really good ideas, but then struggling stick the landing on executing them as a meaningful part of the story. Especially since the start of 100YQ, but also for the latter part of FT too. He introduced a whole new branch of 'magic' with...

Acno is an interesting idea as he did sort of respect Natsu at the end, but it's a bit weird to invoke him on both sides of this? Think Ignia-Faris-Acnologia is complicated enough as it is now! As I've said all along, if he was doing the second personality END/ Evil Natsu, it should have...