Dragneel was dead before the manga started, Silver was also dead, he was a Zombie or something, so I don't count either of their death as deaths that had an impact, plus you never got the chance to really fall in love with the charactors, they were in one arc and their purpose was to give their children a chance to lay some ghosts to bed and gain a powerup.
Ultear had a long history with the readers, we saw her as a enemy, as the wrongs daughter of Ur, the person who sought redemption, and ultimately sacrificed herself to turn the tide of the war with the Dragons. Her return just makes her final goodbye feel hollow now. it cheapens the manga as a whole, you need sacrifices to be made to keep the question of potential deaths in the future uncertain. Two weeks back when we were trying to be convinced that Laxus could die, had zero tension because we knew he would just like his grandfather multiple times end up surviving, but he is a FT member so we expect it.
Now with Ultear's return you don't even expect even any of the other named side charactors from other guilds to die either, and while we have a war going on, the tension or hype you should be feeling just isn't there because you don't feel like anyone will die, which for a battle manga where each fight is meant to be life or death situations, just makes you not care for the actual battles. It's dulled a large portion of the manga.
The relationships between the charactors is what's propping this manga up at the moment. It's the biggest selling point, the battles and even the story to an extent doesn't feel as important as much.
Really? The final good byes they had with their sons had no impact? That Natsu and Gray found out about their fathers after so many years whether they are already dead or not and that there was so much to be said yet they will never get a chance to has no impact? Especially for Natsu who was looking for Igneel all this time? Okay what ever you say. I suppose then, that Ace's death had no meaning too either, despite the fact that He's is practically the most important person in luffy's life. Sure he may have had WAY more development and back story than Igneel and Silver, but that doesn't change how much he means to Luffy and that Luffy felt utterlly powerless to save him is where the emotions hit the breaking point. Well, same here.
Utear having her redemption and then having her come back cheapens the manga as a whole? Right. And yet One Piece villains are redeemed all the time and don't have to die for it, yet I don't hear you complaining about that. Is there a difference? Also are you saying then that you have problems with Sabo being alive cause his death is supposed to impact Luffy and Ace?
Side characters get killed all the time you just don't see on panel because they are side characters. plus It's the Fairy Tail guild. of Course it's member's wouldn't die. You say that you'd want one of the Straw hats Killed for the sake of "drama"? The only difference here is that Fairy Tail is a massive guild of 100+ members. Also the impact of the fights is lessened because there is no fear of death? Right. Again. So I suppose that you must have this problem with One Piece's fights too because nobody actually dies either, yet again I don't hear you complaining about that. And if you say deaths do happen in One Piece then they also happen in Fairy Tail, It just doesn't happen to characters the story isn't focused on.
Well if the relationships between characters are so important to the story, then they don't have to be broken or tragic to be appealing, do they? Couldn't the reason that such characters are alive is so that they cans CONTINUE the bonds that they developed? A bond can be shown as everlasting and deep without the need for it to be ripped apart cant't it? Well that's just my opinion on it at the very least.
Now I don't mean Offence but the thing is For all this criticism you give Fairy Tail, I see similar circumstances in One Piece, but I don't hear a peep from you regarding it, or at least to my knowledge. and yet even if it appears the same to me I do not judge the ideas and in fact enjoy them immensely, So I don't see any reason on why it must be done to Fairy Tail. Sure I may have problems with the writing at times but I just voice my opinion on it and doesn't think that it's "ruining the series" That is just me though.
Edited by Phantom_999, 23 February 2016 - 03:30 PM.
But let's just see how it plays out.
