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persephone-damnedqueen · 7 years ago

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The Downfall of Fairy Tail . . .

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Hiro Mashima published the final chapter of Fairy Tail this past week, and as some one who had been following the series weekly for the better part of 6 . . . oh gods. . . 7 years now, I can honestly say that this left me just bummed.

Now, before I start with my rant, I want to address some things. First: A lot of people will label me as a hater, or a snob, or whatever, and that’s fine, but know this. I’ve been reading this series for years. This was also one of the first Shounens I ever got into. In fact, it’s only because I’ve seen/read so many other series that I can tell where the faults really are in this series. Second: I know whatever I say there will be those people who are like: “But Persephone, it’s his story, he can do what he pleases.” Trust me I know this, and I write this fully aware that this is his work and not mine. If this had been mine, people would have actually lost/died, *cough, cough, Erza, Makarov, cough, cough* and ships would be totally different, *Cough, cough, GrayLu, cough, cough* (Forgive me, it seems like I have a bit of a cold writing this). To me, having been with the series for so long, and dedicated so much of my time to reading this series weekly for YEARS, to have the final battles end how they did and then that final chapter just makes me so disappointed. Fairy Tail had so much potential, and then to see it just wasted like that just leaves me just disappointed. “But Persephone, you’ve already said that.” I KNOW, that’s how bad I feel, I feel so bad that I must reiterate how disappointed I am at a series I spent so much time with only to have it end like that. Okay, now let’s go into what made me so just done with this series.

Flaw Number One: The Spriggan 12

Immediately, I get why he felt the need to go with the twelve, and in all honestly, I do not hate all of the twelve; however, I do have to hate on some of them. For starters, War God Serena.

Now, when War God Serena was first introduced, he was hyped the fuck up. Are you kidding me?! Why wouldn’t he be hyped?! The strongest mage in all of the Kingdom swaps sides? Sounds Amazing right?! Well, it sounds amazing. Here’s the issue with him. The first time we see him fight in the manga, it seems that he uses barely a quarter of his power, and singlehandedly defeats the 2-5 Kings of Ishgar, only to be literally instantly one shotted by Human Arcnologia, literally at the end of the chapter. Arcnologia, having already proved to be the baddest of the bad, killing him wasn’t that big of a deal since after all, it was Arcnologia. What killed it for me was later on in the arc, when God Serena was brought back, he was literally used as a nobody, and more of a comedic relief then a serious BAMF he was made to be at the start. His like brief little skirmish with Gildarts was pointless, and only increased the uselessness of him afterwards. Seriously, I’m left with this bitter taste, forever wondering what the hell was the point of him in the first place.

Jacob:

Remember Jacob? No? Oh, that’s probably because this guy was the literal definition of stupid. How? Simple. This Big, Scary, Villain Mage was deathly afraid of boobs. . . . In Fairy Tail. . . . For those of you playing the home game and have literally no idea why this is fucking retarded, Fairy Tail is a series known for two things: Friendship Power, and Boobs. For a villain to be afraid of boobs is literally like Superman walking over and not only telling a villain he’s scared of this green glowy rock, but literally handing them the only thing that can take him down. It was disgusting, pointless fanservice, that turned Best Girl into literally another object, just when she was actually holding her own. Yaaaay. I mean why give Lucy a proper fight this arc when you can just show her boobs? AmIRite?

Honestly, out of all of the twelve, only a handful of them were even relatively decent characters in the first place: August, Brandish, War God DiMaria, Fucking Eileen, and Larcade. Everyone else was utterly just either pointless, or just overall bad choices. And hell out of the twelve of them, there was only one of them that I actually liked and that was Brandish, who is Best Girl Period and I’ll fight anyone who thinks otherwise, but I feel like Eileen and August need their own section to rant about. And literally the only one of the ones I didn’t mention to get a decent fight was Bradman against Gajeel, and ugh . . .that ending. . . . Moving On.

Flaw Number Two: Because She’s Erza fucking Scarlet

Queue the hate now. Goddess, if you guys didn’t hate me before haha you sure as hell are going to hate me now. Oh well, I’m prepared. Bring it.

Alright, I fucking despise Erza fucking Scarlet. One of the most beloved by the fandom is literally the worst character plot armored character ever created. Hell, she has so much plot armor she makes fucking Kirito look like a masterpiece character.

She didn’t start out as my most hated character, but damn by the end she definitely deserves the title. I loved her during the Tower of Heaven Arc, and hell, she wasn’t even that bad later on in the Tenroujima Arc, and was even decent in the Grand Magic Games Arc, but oh god did she get ridiculous really fucking quickly in the Tartarus and Alvarez Arc.

Have Erza take out a 100 monsters all by herself in a Game? Sure, that’s somewhat believable. Have Erza win the battle with Kyouka after she lost literally every single sense, but because she’s Erza can somehow use a sixth or a seventh sense? Really? Have Erza fucking Scarlet take out a fucking meteor falling from the sky right after she had literally every single bone broken except for one arm and then defeat an actual dragon with a pathetic dragon-slayer-enchanted sword? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? NO ONE IS THAT FUCKING PLOT ARMORED. RATHER THAN LOSE THE FIGHT YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT BECAUSE SHE’S ERZA SHE CAN MAGICALLY TAKE OUT A FALLING METEOR AFTER SHE’S BROKEN ALL HER BONES IN HER BODY EXCEPT ONE FUCKING ARM AND THEN STILL HAVE ENOUGH STRENGTH TO NOT ONLY MOVE BUT TO FUCKING TAKE OUT AN ACTUAL DRAGON?!?! THE FUCK KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THAT?!

And don’t even get me started on the shit about her and Arcnologia. I’m so fucking done with Erza ‘Because she’s Erza’ Scarlet, moving on.

Flaw Number Three: Eileen/Irene Belserion

Getting this out of the way so that I no longer have to talk about Erza anymore because fuck that bitch. Also, I must note that there are a couple different variations of her mother’s name, but I will be using Eileen, since I like that one best. It’s all the same person, and she is indeed Erza’s mother, so moving on.

I loved Eileen and her backstory. In all honestly, I actually really enjoyed her character, and for me that’s saying something in this series. You find out that she’s over 400 years old, and is actually not only the first Dragon Slayer, but a Dragon herself. Her past is a tragic story, and honestly, the most developed out of the 12 and more developed than most of the Fairies’ to begin with. So, if she’s got a good established character, wants Erza dead, or at least her body anyways, and a solid reason for following Zeref, why do I have a problem? Simple. The ending of her fight. Yes, I’m fucking furious that Erza magically won that fight, but what irritates me even more is her stupid, pointless, suicide. Are you fucking kidding me?! On what planet does that make sense?! This BAMF had already abandoned Erza for dead, joined Zeref, body-swapped, turned into a fucking dragon and THREW A GODDESS DAMNED METEOR AT ERZA and then after all that decides to feel remorse and then goes and fucking kills herself?! Really?! Alright. I’m done. #ForeverSaltyAboutEileen.

Flaw Number Three: Zeref, Mavis and August

Alright, these three all go together, so let’s start with the biggest killer for me.

Zeref x Mavis

Personally, when I first read about their relationship, and in Zero, I loved it. I obviously shipped the tragic immortal lovers together, and truly wished for their happiness. . . . well, that was until August came into the picture.

I would have been much happier with the Zervis relationship had Lacarde, a END prototype was the true “son” of Zeref, rather than August. Why you ask? Simple. When Mavis’ death was first shown and you got to see that tragic kiss that killed her, it was stated that that was how she died, thus making it a true tragic love story.

The only love of Zeref once again killed by his own curse the moment they achieved happiness. It was perfect. What killed it? Mavis got pregnant. Now, that could happen one of three ways. One: Mashima rewrote all of chapter 450 and changed it so after Zeref got laid, Mavis became instantly pregnant, AND the child magically survived that, (keep in mind Mavis was dead at this point). Two: Zeref fucked her corpse, magically got her corpse pregnant, in which case ewwww, or Three: I’m completely overpraising this entire thing and expecting this to make too much sense. Regardless, That ship became destroyed for me at that moment.

August:

Not even August was saved from the Power of Friendship defeat. Pooor August. Like Eileen, my main problem was his fight and how it turned out. That fucker had such powerful magic and was the son of fucking Zeref himself, and yet he got defeated by fucking Gildarts and Cana. Alright, alright, alright, but at least it was Gildarts, making it a bit more satisfying. Regardless, what does the guy do anyways after his defeat?!?! Fucking Kills Himself.. . Yet again. . . Really?! Ugh, so done with the suicides for no reason.

Flaw Number Four: The Results of the Battles

Honestly, this was the main killer for most of the fandom. Let’s have a massive country war and have literally zero heroes die in the entire thing and absolutely win with some bullshit tactic. What? Let’s review the massive circle the arc took every fight. Some all powerful baddy would come. He’d fuck some shit up. Oh no! Someone is going to sacrifice themselves to finish them off, Shit he’s dead! But they defeated baddie! Cry! Feels! Three chapters later, Our hero is fine! Are you fucking with me?!

Carla should have died. Juvia’s death would have been perfect right there, her killing herself to save her beloved, dramatic. Gajeel dying after performing a heroic deed right infront of Levy showing the true loss of this war and effecting the aftermath. Erza fucking losing a goddess damned battle for once in her goddamned life. Gray dying for attacking Zeref. ARCNOLOGIA KILLING ONE MORE ACTUAL DRAGONSLAYER TO PROVE HOW MUCH OF A BAMF HE WAS. FUCKING MAKAROV ACTUALLY STAYING FUCKING DEAD FOR ONCE. FUCKING NATSU DYING BECAUSE IT WAS FUCKING STATED THAT ONCE ZEREF DIES, NATSU DIES. ANY FUCKING MEMBER OF SABERTOOTH AND BLUE PEGASUS DYING AFTER LITERALLY BEING CRUCIFIED. AND DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE SHIT WITH ICHIYA.

I’m done with this. I’m too mad. Moving on.

Flaw Number Five: Arcnologia.

Nope. Not even going to begin on the clusterfuck of that fight. Moving on.

Flaw Number Six: The Anti-Climatic Ending

In all honestly, as cliche as it would have been, I would have much preferred a time skip and children ending. Sure, it’s the stereotypical ending for a shounen, but after this clusterfuck ending, it would have been a billion times better. The ending was just meh at best. It really just more felt like a filler ending instead of a conclusion to this 11 year tale. The only part of the ending I did enjoy was the conclusion with Zeref and Mavis reincarnating, despite the fact that they are like teenagers and they’d only been dead for like a year, but whatever. It was just the final straw in an already burning fire.

Overall, this is what caused the Fairy Tail Downfall for me and just killed my love for this series. Regardless on how it ended, Fairy Tail will always hold a special place in my heart, and I’m just glad it’s done with. Regardless, I obviously will be watching the final season in 2018 when it comes back, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it! I just get to be disappointed one last time. I guess the best way to end my time with Fairy Tail is to say this: The ending was shit, but hey! At least it looked Pretty. AmIRight?

Whatever, bring on the hate. What were your thoughts on the ending?

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