The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

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Shadow8 said:

Same. I'm pretty upset as well.

Gajeel is my favorite character and his pairing with Levy has always been my favorite. But I do think this is for the best, fairy tail needed an actual main character death. Am I pissed off? You better believe I am, but I can accept it. If they DO bring him back, I'll be extremely happy though and my ship can continue to sail with no worries. Also, Mest blew it in the end whe he used Brandish to attack the old man. I've never liked him and this just makes me hate him more.

I can definitely see it being necessary...it just really sucks to see it happen. I'm still not over it! I'll see what happens and figure it out from there I guess.

And yes, Mest is a freaking idiot. Seriously what the hell. Now I get why he tagged along so randomly.

pokoko said:

Besides a lot of the fights being terrible, one of the main reasons I quit Fairy Tail was because of the Ultear situation and her fate.  Pissed me the hell off.  It was like the author tried to make the whole thing as bloody cliched as possible.  I was furious.  Yes, she was one of my favorite characters, but I still would have been annoyed over such an obvious trope no matter what.  The whole thing with the former villain having to suffer in order to gain redemption is so incredibly cheap and lazy.  More than that, it was ALL SO NATSU COULD GET THE FUCKING CREDIT.  I mean, the way it was handled was just like, "oh, she used to be bad, so this is inevitable."  Seriously, the mangka of Fairy Tail is good at certain things but when it comes to actually writing, I consider them to be a hack.

I feel like I'm really hot/cold about Fairy Tail. I love the characters, setting, humor, and artstyle...but when it comes to actual story flow, it's pretty forgettable. Things often just happen for the sake of happening, and this instance give me that same impression. It really annoys me after catching up on One Piece, which has pretty much become my gold standard for adventure manga. The way Oda sets up plotlines 500 chapters in advance is a real far cry to sudden death scenes like this one, where we might have had one chapter of foreshadowing it. Very few things bother me more than forced character death for its own sake.

I don't mind redemption stories, but I do feel like Hiro overdoes it. Jellal still is punished for Simon's death, Ultear had to be removed from the story due to being bad, and even Laxus is still beating himself up over his attack on Magnolia. I think these type of scenes can add character depth...I just wish they would actually move past the angst at some point and stop suffering forever. 

I suppose...if I had to put things in perspective, this whole mess is nowhere near as bad as Naruto was for me. I had a lot of issues with that manga before I dropped it, but the straw that broke the camel's back was when a major character was literally killed off out of nowhere just to give the MC a scene with the main love interest. It was contrived, forced, and just plain awful honestly.