Catwho

If there is a collapse, it will be brief.

There was a great video game collapse around 1983, due to games like E.T. which were terribly coded and not worth the plastic of the cartridge that housed them.   As a result, the US lost its edge in the home console video game market, and didn't come up with a real competitor to Japan again until the Xbox.  

As long as the manga industry in Japan continues to produce high quality series, then the anime industry will continue to animate them.   Same with light novels.  What seems to be becoming rarer is original anime and movies that aren't based on other things.  

Hints?  It's a canon fact that Freed is more fabulous than a basket full of rainbows.  (I still grin over his reaction to the boys of Blue Pegasus posing naked in solidarity with Jenny in one of the side chapters.)

Bixlow and Evergreen love Laxus, but Freed is in love with Laxus.  And Laxus is adorably oblivious to the fact.  Recently caught up on the anime and the animators are totally playing with that - Freed happily washing Laxus's back and giving him a back massage, and Laxus saying something along the lines of "you can massage every inch of me."  Maybe it was "scrub."  Either way, Laxus didn't mean anything sexual by it - but Freed sure enjoyed it as such all the same.

All that said, I ship Mira/Laxus.  

Well she could died there still. I don't know. That founding day picture and seeing the Gaiden now only makes me think "Ok...when is the time..."

They took a picture with her corpse, like Victorian times 

2) I don't know. As for Zeref and Mavis, we don't know the full extent of their relationship outside the fact they did meet each other and judging how they meet up once again in the current timeline, it seems like they ended in a bad note. I don't know if the Gaiden is a requirement to find out but we'll see.

Ah, their relationship is explained in Fairy Tail Zero.  Yes, it comes to a bad end, but not because of Zeref.