Hangout Fairy Tail Hangout Thread

[-Ken-]

How it looks to you doesn't matter to me. He bested her in hand to hand and that's that. How is he stronger than the people in this contest ? Since we haven't seen him fight, we can't know. Can you prove to me that he can't one-shot all the people in this contest ?

How it looks to you doesn't to me either. He doesn't do any damage to her. Can you prove to me that he can one-shot all the people in the contest.

It matters more than what you think. No one said that Erza was gonna die. How about you quit the meaningless tries ? It's a manga fact no matter what you say. As if your opinion is more factual than what two characters confirmed.

And two characters opinion doesn't matter more to me than a manga facts that Natsu takes several more hits and still get up just fine.

Like when Natsu started shaking and crying against Gildarts and remained silent in shame for a whole day ?

If the gap between his opponents was as vast as Gildarts and Natsu, Fried would probably commit suicide because he's even weaker. Natsu takes on opponents far stronger than Erza before without being that way. Fried cries his leg off at only Mira level.

Erza lost. Mira lost. Azuma was stronger than both. Who cares ? Azuma does. Having a sister to worry about raises your MP ? Not when you have to take blows instead of that sister.

I don't care how much damaged he dealt. I really don't. It makes a decent fight because he didn't get one-shotted. No DS have shown the hand to hand prowess that Jura shown.

And that doesn't makes decent fight to me. It would be decent if he can put up a contest. Just because Mira decide to be nice and don't use the move that make Fried tremble in fear from the beginning doesn't make it better. If Mira use the move from the beginning, Fried'll be crying for his mama right then and there. She could one shot him. She just didn't. And while it might be a decent fight to you alone, it's not a decent fight to everyone else in the forum. You may not care about that, so I won't care about you thinking it's a decent fight either.

If she could put up a fight against Azuma (while protecting her sister) as good as Erza did. Then in her strongest Satan Soul she should be stronger. She couldn't use that armor then. Don't even try to use that as testament of her strength. Erza also lost.

Erza wins. It doesn't matter that you think she should lost. She wins. That's manga fact right there.

Nothing to do with what I said. By the time she got all teary, Erza was already acknowledged as the winner.

Erza wasn't already acknowledged as the winner. If she was, she would get the point from beating Kagura.

It's not at his disposal, it's an outside power source. And we should ban it because it's not his power. So Jura, Gildarts, Laxus, Jellal, Hades, Everyone in the world (beside Erza and Natsu) are all just being weak ? Not flying.

It is his power. Duh. He used it.

A comedic beat down is like this. Not even the next page, in the next panel no one cared about what happens. When Nami beat the Monster Trio, no one cares. But when he challenged her, got beat and then have the whole chapter just dedicated to show how weak he's before the S-class mages. Yeah, it's not a gag.

It's not really a whole chapter. And the one-shot is really a gag.

And fine, let's say it's not a gag. Natsu gain second origin and lightning DS magic since then. So that panel is absolutely worthless now anyways. Fried is still a fodder before S-Class mage. Natsu is not because he beat various S-class mage level opponents before.

Let me know when you can find prove that Fried is far above Natsu level. Until then, he's fodder in this after time skip arc. Assuming it's not a gag, Natsu got a lot stronger since then, and he fought many opponents that was on Erza level or higher. I'm sick of you not seeing manga facts that clear to anyone but you.

Natsu also land a hit on Gildarts. So what if Fried land a hit on Mira? Landing a hit doesn't make it a decent fight. As you see, Gildarts wasn't serious when Natsu land a hit nor is Mira in her strongest armor when Fried land a hit. It doesn't make those two put up a decent fight against S-Class mage just cuz. If you still don't see that, I don't know what else to say to you. The impact of the hit that they deals are all fairly minimal anyways.

And don't say that Gildarts isn't the same as Mira. It's the same. They both could complete dominate their opponent in a second if they just go and use their good move from the beginning.

 

[SerpentTailedAngel]

The first 3 pages can't be considered part of the fight at all. At page 10 the battle ended.

Um... Yeah, they can-and should. The stuff in the chapter before where Mira flips out and becomes serious might not count, but after Freed knows she means buisness and she attacks him, it's part of the battle. But hey, feel free to, you know, ignore all the details that don't support your arguement. And whether it's part of the battle or not, he still squeaks and trembles in fear after losing.

How it looks to you doesn't matter to me. He bested her in hand to hand and that's that. How is he stronger than the people in this contest ? Since we haven't seen him fight, we can't know. Can you prove to me that he can't one-shot all the people in this contest ?

Technically, he grabbed her tail. And as -Ken- pointed out, she showed no damage for it. He could probably oneshot Quatro Cerebus, but other than that I think he'd at least have to put a little effort into what he's doing.

It matters more than what you think. No one said that Erza was gonna die. How about you quit the meaningless tries ? It's a manga fact no matter what you say. As if your opinion is more factual than what two characters confirmed.

An actual manga fact is that Natsu has survived every so called killing blow that he's taken, with the most prominent example being Jellal's Grand Chariot spell that hit things with the force of a meteor and left Jelllyfish surprised to see that Natsu's body was still intact. Natsu reacted to being shot in the mouth by loosing consciousness for a few seconds before hopping up and complaining about how that had hurt. When Erigor busted out his best spell on Natsu, Happy said he would be torn apart if he was hit by it, then Erigor delivered the same line as Jellal about how it was impressive his body was even in one piece before Natsu got back up and won. If someone in Fairy Tail says a move will kill, it means squat.

Like when Natsu started shaking and crying against Gildarts and remained silent in shame for a whole day ?

If my memory serves, after crying he was just lost in thought for maybe an hour. That whole arc lasted one day, and he sure as heck wasn't quiet for most of it.

Erza lost. Mira lost. Azuma was stronger than both. Who cares ? Azuma does. Having a sister to worry about raises your MP ? Not when you have to take blows instead of that sister.

Actually, Erza managed to down Azuma before his magic turned on him.

I don't care how much damaged he dealt. I really don't. It makes a decent fight because he didn't get one-shotted. No DS have shown the hand to hand prowess that Jura shown.

It's not a decent fight if you don't do any damage. It's really not. And for God's sake, drop the oneshot thing already. Look at how Jellal being oneshotted by Midnight is handled compared to how Erza hitting Natsu was. See how in one, Erza is in shock over Midnight's power and in the other, Everyone is just laughing at was, in fact, a punchline? A joke oneshot does indicate that someone is stronger, but it means nothing about how much stronger. When the story was actually taking Natsu v Erza seriously he had yet to take too hard a hit before they were interrupted. That is the part that anyone not desperate for evidence to support their claim would consider.

It's not at his disposal, it's an outside power source. And we should ban it because it's not his power. So Jura, Gildarts, Laxus, Jellal, Hades, Everyone in the world (beside Erza and Natsu) are all just being weak ? Not flying.

If Natsu has the ability to increase his power using outside sources, then he has that ability. Technically, any power boost he gets from eating fire is power from an outside source too. And how Natsu powering up means that all those other people are weak to you is beyond me. Especially considering that Laxus has made the whole "Fairy Tail is my family" declaration now.

A comedic beat down is like this. Not even the next page, in the next panel no one cared about what happens. When Nami beat the Monster Trio, no one cares. But when he challenged her, got beat and then have the whole chapter just dedicated to show how weak he's before the S-class mages. Yeah, it's not a gag.

Look, the cast thought the oneshot you're clinging too was funny. If that's not an indication that it was comedic, please tell me what it was.

 

[KingOfNight]

How it looks to you doesn't to me either. He doesn't do any damage to her. Can you prove to me that he can one-shot all the people in the contest.

That's the way it's in the Manga.
That's not up to me, it's up to you. You're the one who kept telling me that he can't stand a chance against the people in the GMG. Prove it then.

And two characters opinion doesn't matter more to me than a manga facts that Natsu takes several more hits and still get up just fine.

The opinion of two characters who have had years of battle experience are much more factual than your assumption.

If the gap between his opponents was as vast as Gildarts and Natsu, Fried would probably commit suicide because he's even weaker. Natsu takes on opponents far stronger than Erza before without being that way. Fried cries his leg off at only Mira level.

Prove it ?

And that doesn't makes decent fight to me. It would be decent if he can put up a contest. Just because Mira decide to be nice and don't use the move that make Fried tremble in fear from the beginning doesn't make it better. If Mira use the move from the beginning, Fried'll be crying for his mama right then and there. She could one shot him. She just didn't. And while it might be a decent fight to you alone, it's not a decent fight to everyone else in the forum. You may not care about that, so I won't care about you thinking it's a decent fight either.

Prove both of those two statements too.

Erza wins. It doesn't matter that you think she should lost. She wins. That's manga fact right there.

I don't think she lost, she did lose. Even with the friendship power up, she lost once again. It's only after Tenrou Tree helped her that she won. Those are Manga facts right there.

Erza wasn't already acknowledged as the winner. If she was, she would get the point from beating Kagura.

Nope. They all went "Ah ? Erza did it, Kagura Lost."

It is his power. Duh. He used it.

Hmmm...I must have been imagining Jellal and Laxus giving it to him. Or him taking it from Eitherion.

It's not really a whole chapter. And the one-shot is really a gag.

It's a whole chapter dedicated to the S-class mages. Prove it is.

And fine, let's say it's not a gag. Natsu gain second origin and lightning DS magic since then. So that panel is absolutely worthless now anyways. Fried is still a fodder before S-Class mage. Natsu is not because he beat various S-class mage level opponents before.

Prove any of that.

Let me know when you can find prove that Fried is far above Natsu level. Until then, he's fodder in this after time skip arc. Assuming it's not a gag, Natsu got a lot stronger since then, and he fought many opponents that was on Erza level or higher. I'm sick of you not seeing manga facts that clear to anyone but you.

And I'm sick of you making up things and calling them Manga facts.

Natsu also land a hit on Gildarts. So what if Fried land a hit on Mira? Landing a hit doesn't make it a decent fight. As you see, Gildarts wasn't serious when Natsu land a hit nor is Mira in her strongest armor when Fried land a hit. It doesn't make those two put up a decent fight against S-Class mage just cuz. If you still don't see that, I don't know what else to say to you. The impact of the hit that they deals are all fairly minimal anyways.

So you've been saying that Mira isn't serious even though her bloodlust and killing intent are both apparent ? Gildarts didn't have neither of those. When he did, Natsu was too weak to get close to him. Those two are different scenarios. It's only when Gildarts released his power that the fight became similar to Freed vs Mira.

Also, Natsu didn't really land any hit on Gildarts. Touching opponents and landing a hit isn't the same thing. And it definitely isn't the same as besting them in hand to hand.

And don't say that Gildarts isn't the same as Mira. It's the same. They both could complete dominate their opponent in a second if they just go and use their good move from the beginning.

The difference lies in the killing intent. Mira was seriously going for the kill until just a second before killing him. Gildarts wasn't.

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Look, the cast thought the oneshot you're clinging too was funny. If that's not an indication that it was comedic, please tell me what it was.

It's an indication that Natsu is pathetic.

 

[-Ken-]

I already prove it. There's nothing in the manga that have evidence that Fried gain enough of a power jump from a common mage in the weakest guild in the continents to the strongest guild in the continents. Whether you take that or not is up to you. Without any proof that he improved, it's just as assumption that he did. You're just assuming that he's improving at the same rate as a person that already show their improvement.

I start to think you're just trolling now. Welcome to my ignore list.

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That's the way it's in the Manga.
That's not up to me, it's up to you. You're the one who kept telling me that he can't stand a chance against the people in the GMG. Prove it then.

Yeah. I already did. He doesn't show any improvement. So he's at the same level that he was before timeskip. That's around Natsu before timeskip. So in other word, it's just Max level. If you don't want to take it, it's up to you.

The opinion of two characters who have had years of battle experience are much more factual than your assumption.

I'm comparing it to manga facts. Manga facts >>>>>>>>>>>>>> those two opinions.

Prove it ?

He's already trembling in fear from Mira power. What's if it's even great power?

Prove both of those two statements too.

Fried died after taking that move. So prove otherwise. You seem to not think Fried doesn't take any real damage before that. So if you want to prove that Fried is not weak, you're the one that need to do the proving. We saw Fried freak out and act like 1 years old after seeing that move. That's the proof.

Oh, and if you want to tame the 3 page you ignore before into account, you would fall under arguments that SerpentTailedAngel make before now. So it'll be to Fried being weaker regardless of your result.

I don't think she lost, she did lose. Even with the friendship power up, she lost once again. It's only after Tenrou Tree helped her that she won. Those are Manga facts right there.

In the first page, he just think he beat her. And she stand up. So what? You're just taking characters thought into account. And in second page, we know that in that time period, Natsu/Lucy/Wendy/Cana are all doing their own thing. They don't actually talk to her. People in Fairy Tail doesn't show ability to have telepathy. They all were doing their own thing at that time.

Since you love the word so much, prove it. You just assume that it's manga fact.

And because of his magic, Tenrou IS helping Azuma in putting Erza into that state. Proof? He's using Tenrou tree magic power. If they were to fight anywhere else, he can't use that. Tenrou tree just refuse to finish Erza off, that's all.

Nope. They all went "Ah ? Erza did it, Kagura Lost."

Hmmm...I must have been imagining Jellal and Laxus giving it to him. Or him taking it from Eitherion.

Laxus stays as power up. So why does it matter for him.

And I'm sick of you making up things and calling them Manga facts.

Same. I'm utterly sick of it. I wonder why you're doing so much?

So you've been saying that Mira isn't serious even though her bloodlust and killing intent are both apparent ? Gildarts didn't have neither of those. When he did, Natsu was too weak to get close to him. Those two are different scenarios. It's only when Gildarts released his power that the fight became similar to Freed vs Mira.

It's so apparent that she doesn't deliver the killing blow. Awesome. You're just assuming her intent. If she truly intend to kill him, Fried head would already be off, but Mira just stop and return to her original form.

Also, Natsu didn't really land any hit on Gildarts. Touching opponents and landing a hit isn't the same thing. And it definitely isn't the same as besting them in hand to hand.

I'm glad you agree. Fried also is just touching Mira. He doesn't land any hit on her.

The difference lies in the killing intent. Mira was seriously going for the kill until just a second before killing him. Gildarts wasn't.

We don't see anything in Mira's mind at all, so you're just assuming here. We saw that she didn't kill Fried, so that's all we can assume.

She also doesn't use her strongest form. If she were seriously going for the kill, why doesn't she used it?

It's an indication that Natsu is pathetic.

I'm sick of telling you the obvious. If you want to think it's a serious fight, go ahead. This is getting really dumb.

Btw, read my signature before you decide to response. It'll save your time. It wouldn't save my time, because I'll be doing what I say in the signature regardless of what you decide to you.

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That's the way it's in the Manga.
That's not up to me, it's up to you. You're the one who kept telling me that he can't stand a chance against the people in the GMG. Prove it then.

Yeah. I already did. He doesn't show any improvement. So he's at the same level that he was before timeskip. That's around Natsu before timeskip. So in other word, it's just Max level. If you don't want to take it, it's up to you.

The opinion of two characters who have had years of battle experience are much more factual than your assumption.

I'm comparing it to manga facts. Manga facts >>>>>>>>>>>>>> those two opinions.

Prove it ?

He's already trembling in fear from Mira power. What's if it's even great power?

Prove both of those two statements too.

Fried died after taking that move. So prove otherwise. You seem to not think Fried doesn't take any real damage before that. So if you want to prove that Fried is not weak, you're the one that need to do the proving. We saw Fried freak out and act like 1 years old after seeing that move. That's the proof.

Oh, and if you want to tame the 3 page you ignore before into account, you would fall under arguments that SerpentTailedAngel make before now. So it'll be to Fried being weaker regardless of your result.

I don't think she lost, she did lose. Even with the friendship power up, she lost once again. It's only after Tenrou Tree helped her that she won. Those are Manga facts right there.

In the first page, he just think he beat her. And she stand up. So what? You're just taking characters thought into account. And in second page, we know that in that time period, Natsu/Lucy/Wendy/Cana are all doing their own thing. They don't actually talk to her. People in Fairy Tail doesn't show ability to have telepathy. They all were doing their own thing at that time.

Since you love the word so much, prove it. You just assume that it's manga fact.

Erza was never down for the count from Azume attack. If she was, she wouldn't be getting up. She doesn't lose to Azuma. In that case, everytime someone get down, do they count as lose regardless of whether or not they get up or not? This is just stupid.

And because of his magic, Tenrou IS helping Azuma in putting Erza into that state. Proof? He's using Tenrou tree magic power. If they were to fight anywhere else, he can't use that. Tenrou tree just refuse to finish Erza off, that's all.

Nope. They all went "Ah ? Erza did it, Kagura Lost."

And then they say Kagura got up. The match isn't over yet. Wow, talking about reading skill.

Hmmm...I must have been imagining Jellal and Laxus giving it to him. Or him taking it from Eitherion.

Laxus stays as power up. So why does it matter for him.

And I'm sick of you making up things and calling them Manga facts.

Same. I'm utterly sick of it. I wonder why you're doing so much?

So you've been saying that Mira isn't serious even though her bloodlust and killing intent are both apparent ? Gildarts didn't have neither of those. When he did, Natsu was too weak to get close to him. Those two are different scenarios. It's only when Gildarts released his power that the fight became similar to Freed vs Mira.

It's so apparent that she doesn't deliver the killing blow. Awesome. You're just assuming her intent. If she truly intend to kill him, Fried head would already be off, but Mira just stop and return to her original form.

Also, Natsu didn't really land any hit on Gildarts. Touching opponents and landing a hit isn't the same thing. And it definitely isn't the same as besting them in hand to hand.

I'm glad you agree. Fried also is just touching Mira. He doesn't land any hit on her.

The difference lies in the killing intent. Mira was seriously going for the kill until just a second before killing him. Gildarts wasn't.

We don't see anything in Mira's mind at all, so you're just assuming here. We saw that she didn't kill Fried, so that's all we can assume.

She also doesn't use her strongest form. If she were seriously going for the kill, why doesn't she used it?

It's an indication that Natsu is pathetic.

I'm sick of telling you the obvious. If you want to think it's a serious fight, go ahead. This is getting really dumb.

Btw, read my signature before you decide to response. It'll save your time. It wouldn't save my time, because I'll be doing what I say in the signature regardless of what you decide to you.

 

[SerpentTailedAngel]

Okay, this is getting way to broken up for me to sanely follow.

Freed is not among the top members of the guild. His specialty is laying traps. His spontaneous fighting skills, for lack of a better word, suck when compared to other guild members. He managed to take out almost the entire guild with traps, but has won a battle in regular combat, with the help of two other people, one of whom his opponent didn't know was still able to fight. Mira curb-stomped him. He did no damage to her. Even if he managed to throw her into the water he failed to do anything in that match but give her the opportunity to do more damage. And she did kick him around before he landed one non-damaging blow on her because she literally kicks him and sends him flying-but you don't want to count that as part of the battle so why am I bothering to mention that detail to you?

And also on the topic of that battle, he used a forbidden technique. That's not uncommon in shounen and usually means your opponent is screwed. I say usually because once you've taken out a few serious opponents with it there will usually be an enemy who needs to be beaten by something even stronger. To lose so throughly in the same chapter that you introduce a forbidden technique in is sad. I have nothing against Freed, but really, that is sad. Doubly so when you consider that Mira wasn't even going all out, and had a stronger demon form in reserve. If you think she had killing intent there, that means she didn't need all her strength to kill him. Not that she really had killing intent, since, you know, she didn't kill him, and told him how the fighting seemed pointless.

Everyone thinking Natsu would die if hit by Laxus's attack meant nothing. There's always some blow that everyone thinks will be fatal or crippling of put someone out of commission for months that Natsu gets right up from. I already listed three cases from before the fight with Laxus. And one of them was with a wizard saint that was out and out trying to kill Natsu, while it had already been established in the manga that Laxus, who for all him might is not a wizard saint, has no true desire to kill anyone in Fairy Tail. As from him losing to Gildarts, the manga has implied pretty heavily that Gildarts is the best the guild has. Even Laxus only dismisses him as the strongest because he's never around to claim the title. Frankly, I think being reduced to tears by the full magic pressure of the guild's strongest at point blank, which can be felt from a ways away, after having failed to do anything more than push him back a foot or so while fighting for several chapters, is much less shameful than getting beaten down in record time and squeaking and trembling in fear at the sight of them landing close to you.

On the subject of Natsu needing power from outside source... wtf? You realize that dragon slayer magic in pretty much based around that idea, right? The impressive part of Natsu's power is that he can take in more power like that. He would have lost to Gajeel if he hadn't been able to eat fire just like Gajeel wouldn't have lasted as long if the room hadn't been full of metal. Sure, Natsu won against Zero because Jellal gave him that flame, but if Freed were the one getting beaten (and since you think he's close to godliness lets just assume that Zero played dirty somehow to reach that point) and Jellal showed up to help him... well Freed's magic lacks some feature that lets him enhance it, so they'd both be screwed then.

Natsu stood his ground against Erza, stopped a wizard saint, managed to double team Laxus, took out one Grimore Heart memeber single handed, then double teamed another. Freed got beaten by Mira so badly that he squeaked in fear when she got close to him, and needed two people's help to defeat a Grimore heart memeber.

As for Erza supposedly losing to Azuma, I'm shocked. I've never seen a shounen protagonist get knocked down, have a moment where they realize what they're fighting for, then get back up and win. Never. Seriously though, you're kidding, right? Erza beat him.

One last thing:

And I'm sick of you making up things and calling them Manga facts.

You took the words right out of my mouth. This is going to be my last post arguing with you, because frankly, you're no fun to argue with anymore. If you could at least counter with valid points or consider the ones presented to you then maybe you'd be worth it, but you've done nothing but ignore what's said against your claim or to discredit your flimsier arguments.

 

[KingOfNight]

You took the words right out of my mouth. This is going to be my last post arguing with you, because frankly, you're no fun to argue with anymore. If you could at least counter with valid points or consider the ones presented to you then maybe you'd be worth it, but you've done nothing but ignore what's said against your claim or to discredit your flimsier arguments.

Was it not you guys who wanted "manga facts" ? If you demand them, then you should prepare yourselves for the same treatment. When I demand absolute facts, I know when to shut up when presented to me. If I give you nothing but facts, you brush it off. If I brush your opinion off, I'm no fun to deal with. The moment I started to use the words "Prove It", both of you dropped the thing. So in the end, you couldn't prove anything and decided to drop it. We're both treating each other the same way. Only I know it's not worth getting all emotional about.

 

[hossice]

I have a question for you all; Do you know of any other manga/anime characters that have similar powers to Freed? I was watching Twilight Breaking Dawn Part II and the young girl reminded me of Freed's powers where she can inflict pain on them by saying it and looking at them. Can you guys think of anyone else in any other series that uses a similar power? Thanks! It's been bothering me.

 

[SerpentTailedAngel]

Maybe... Kore wa Zomibe Desu ka? The necromancer girl can sort of make things happen by saying them, but she rarely speaks, and the two main things she says aloud are "live" and "die" so I don't know if it's what you're looking for. It's sort of like what Freed does but, not often enough for me to be sure.

 

[-Ken-]

I have a question for you all; Do you know of any other manga/anime characters that have similar powers to Freed? I was watching Twilight Breaking Dawn Part II and the young girl reminded me of Freed's powers where she can inflict pain on them by saying it and looking at them. Can you guys think of anyone else in any other series that uses a similar power? Thanks! It's been bothering me.

I thought Kyouraku power from Bleach is kinda like it. People in are caught in it are forced to play by a certain "rule" that was set forth.

Yuu from Kore wa Zombie Desu ka is kinda more like the creation guy from GH than Freed, I feel. Freed power is limited by the rule that he set, and he too have to follow those rule (not that it's hard, since he's the one that set it). Unless you meant the part when he just keep adding the word "Pain" to his opponent, then yes, it's kind of similar.

As of his secret tech, the ability to turn himself into a demon, there's too many to simply list. Basically, any form of Arrancar released give same effects since it's boost the user power. Otherwise, Zoan Fruit from One Piece do similar things. Let from Rave also have a secret form that he can released. I'm probably not going to list anymore, but let's say there's simply a tons.

Freed's Rune is definitely more unique to him than his secret tech.

 

[SerpentTailedAngel]

Don't know if I really want to make a new thread for this, so I thought I'd bring it up here.

So I finally got volume 25 in English today and it translated Meredy's name as Merudy, and I was kind of curious about how the wiki had handled that, so I looked, and they all voted it down because it didn't look as nice and Kodansha doesn't have the same 'we got confirmation from Hiro Mashima' message that Del Rey had. So I was wondering... I mean, to me the official translation of a character's name is just whatever the official translation of the story uses, and even if Kodansha doesn't have that confirmation claim, they're still more official than Edited Mangas that also didn't confirm the name with Mashima. (Although Merudy really doesn't look that great.)

Anyway, I was wondering what you guys thought. About the official translation, and about translating names in general.

 

[-Ken-]

If you read the katakana, I think it's a ru instead of re.

In official Thai translation, I think they pretty much silent the u, so it read more like Meldy.

 

[hoeru]

If you read the katakana, I think it's a ru instead of re.

It is, メルディ is transscribed as "Merudi". I'd go for Meludi or Meludy on the first look, though. There's a French myth figure called Melusine that is transscribed as メルジーネ ("merujiine").

Close enough for me (me, ru, third katakana with dakuten) to put down "Meredy". Maybe someone wanted to bring up an amagram of "remedy".

, so it read more like Meldy.

The official German version ties in.

 

[SerpentTailedAngel]

That katakana part is probably what bothers me the most. Merudy got snubbed as a 'botched translation' despite being a more logical translation. Oh, and also the wiki has hated every name change ever. You can see an old discussion about how some people wanted to stick to Gerard because Jellal just didn't sound as cool.

And even though the wiki already had a note explaining that the kanji for Tenrou island were how you would spell the Sirius constellation, they snubbed the name Sirius Island because it didn't sound as cool and reminded a lot of people of Harry Potter.

 

[Spygrl]

I know that I may have missed something in trying to catch up with your posts about Fried and Mira's fight... Fried had already shown hesitation earlier about going all out. I don't think he would gave actually killed anyone and I think that's likely why he gave up perhaps more quickly vs Mira than he would have in a fight against a true enemy... But that's just the opinion of a noob. I am reading the manga through for the second time so I haven't studied it like some

 

[revas]

Re: Fairy Tail 331 Discussion/ 332 Predictions

Press on your own risk - Happy is getting a transformation similar to Lilly!!!!

Spoiler

I warned you, didint I? Directly from Mashima twitter. Anyone can translate?

Spoiler

真島ヒロ ‏@hiro_mashima 18h
今週号の感想とかお叱りありがとうございます。ちょっとだけでも和んでほしかったんだよう。

 

[liductan]

Re: Fairy Tail 331 Discussion/ 332 Predictions

Indeed, that was scary..lol

 

[ca12nag3]

Re: Fairy Tail 331 Discussion/ 332 Predictions

Press on your own risk - Happy is getting a transformation similar to Lilly!!!!

Spoiler

I warned you, didint I? Directly from Mashima twitter. Anyone can translate?

Spoiler

真島ヒロ ‏@hiro_mashima 18h
今週号の感想とかお叱りありがとうございます。ちょっとだけでも和んでほしかったんだよう。

think hes just happy about what people thought of this weeks issue... nothing more.

 

[Shounenfan]

Plot loophole

A writer should never start timtravelling in his work, there's always mistakes.
This time: If a dragon destroys the gate, it can never come from the past. Therefore it cannot destroy the gate. Therefore it can come from the past. Therefore it can destroy the gate...

 

[Duniak]

Re: Plot loophole

This is manga, and time travelling is popular. But it can't make sense. It just can't, so mistakes like that are normal.

 

[Schabrak]

How can time travel make sense, when we can't even test it and look what's realistic or not? Don't forget, this manga is about magic and dragons, neither of which would make sense in reality.