I enjoyed ft up to edolas/ tenrou arc, but yeah last arc...I mean, I can appreciate Mashima's art as much as anyone. Great details
I did read FT to the end but that last arc was a passive read for me.
i dont even remember the names of the characters and what happened lol, only remembered that mavis became one of my most hated ft char 
I remember the hype of Zeref's army and even another dark guild before that with Gray's dad? it's like all of a sudden everyone's parents came back.
I enjoyed ft up to edolas/ tenrou arc, but yeah last arc...
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What's up
Goldie-kun
Mavis is an abomination.
We don't do headcanons here.
You don't like the name goldie-kun? @Erinyes won't be happy.
Story-wise FT reminds me of Bleach, where it peaked and then it was just a free fall with mediocre to poor story but great character design. For me FT's peak is the battle for FT where Laxus was the villain. Loved that arc. After that Edolas was just a hot mess and I can't remember the order of what came after that; there was a timeskip I think.
Oh there were 2 timeskips. There was a clear lack of cohesion after a certain point earlier on, Edolas was basically filler to me. But i always felt Hiro could bring the hype and the last arc that was true for me until he started to burn everything...
Two? what was the other one? I remember the one on the FT island with Mavis' ability but that's about it.Oh there were 2 timeskips. There was a clear lack of cohesion after a certain point earlier on, Edolas was basically filler to me. But i always felt Hiro could bring the hype and the last arc that was true for me until he started to burn everything...
I'm not big into strategist characters, especially those don't do anything smart. She should just stay dead but Hiro wanted another loli.. and she isn't even cute. Her whole involvement with Zeref puts her at the very bottom of FT.
Her interactions with Laxus bring him down
After the Tartaros arc is a small time skip.
Yes.
Well the whole mavis x zeref was just disgusting to me, i would have been ok if she just had appeared in the spin off and thats all, bringing her in main story was a huge mistake imo (fanservice ?) everything she did when back in main story was cringey.
Yw !Question - how many Bath & Spas have you run? Thought so
Thanks for the pics, Erin.
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still no sense of business
Yeah i ve read in an itw that Mashima initially planned to make Ft just a shonen focused on good moments between friends, thats the whole guild philosophy, it wasnt meant to have too much serious moments. those chill/fun moments corresponds to the early arcs. but he said that he might some day change the tone of the series and make it more serious. My guess is that he built FT world giving openings for potential more serious arcs if he needed someday to stretch, what he did. Might be due to editors pressure too, i know for exple Lisanna was never supposed to be revived that was Mashima's editor idea. seems to me last arc maybe even some before were additional.
I actually do like strategist chars, as long as they re well written (like Kurapika (HxH) for exple, thats for me an amazingly written strategist). But except maybe at the beginning of the spinoff, Mavis was just a semblance of a strategist to me, she never really shone, i may sound harsh but well.
afaik Mashima never took a single break, he even sometimes wrote several chapters plus spin offs, he has good work ethics, but i agree sometimes some little breaks/hiatuses are needed to take a step back and think over things. That said, i suspect editors doing the opposite, when a series is that much popular, they wont give up easily the goose with golden eggs. some just dont care of the authors or consistensy of their work, only money counts, they want their mag to sell. that what happened to Naruto too, Kishimoto who never planned his series to last that long, he expected it to last at best 5 years or so.
There was the first on one the island, between X784 and X791. Then after Tartarus there was a one year timeskip, to X792 (Alvarez). IIRC Tartarus was going to be the final arc, and it was at the editors intervention. There were also some things I read where FT was meant to end at the tower of Heaven, where Jellal appeared. Idk if that's truth or some FT fans going in Hiro defensive mode. In the end, it went for quite some time, and I think the last arc could've worked very well but too much went wrong lmao.
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Yea I'm not begrudging those guys for staying in the game for so long.
Yes, perspective is definitely a great thing. Especially when your series is already popular. You don't want to become complacent and rely on the hype to propel you to the finish line or for the series to write itself. I can definitely see editors just focusing on the success of the manga, despite the quality of the stories being told or its longetivity. It really sucks, especially for the well-being of the authors.
I recally the introduction of Zeref's son and some time travel elements and Belserion. I think it just got too messy for me. Before that point, I was already passively reading the series. So I couldn't even tell you much about that arc.
It was very messy... August was Zeref and Mavis' son
and the other guy was Larcade who was a demon Zeref created while trying to resurrect Natsu.
Right. That's his name.It was very messy... August was Zeref and Mavis' son
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