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Top 10 fights you'd change or rewrite entirely?

There shouldn't be ten to begin with but here we are...

10. Natsu vs. Totomaru

I remember this one being the first fight of the series that really just made me pause with irritation. The fight is pretty obviously one Natsu can't win--he can't control any fire he emits, and Totomaru can't be taken down quickly with pure melee, either. So...seconds before Jupiter is charged, Totomaru just stops being able to control his fire, for no reason at all. Totomaru's all "how did he figure out how to do that?!" and maybe it wouldn't have irked me so badly if Natsu hadn't outright been lauded for it with Happy saying he outright felt bad for rushing Natsu because Natsu needed time to "figure out" how to beat him. But the only thing he "figured out" was "it's mine".

What's worse is that a more logical solution was readily available. All Natsu had to do was create a really, really big fireball, one growing to a size that renders controlling where it goes moot. Big enough fireball explodes, it takes the Jupiter Cannon with it, kaboom.

9. Laxus vs. Orga & Jura

While I don't mind Laxus actually struggling for a win in a fight, I disapprove of that fight being...Jura.

The fact of the matter is, we had long since left "wizard saint" as a measure of power behind, with Jellal's fight with Natsu not even being as one-sided as later fights before Natsu powered up and beat him down. Laxus' last onscreen fight was with freakin' Hades, the guy who learned magic directly from Zeref, personally taught the Saint-level Seven Kin, and basically is the standard for power short of the Spriggan 12 tier. And Laxus fought him pretty evenly. I'm not willing to buy that in the arc immediately after this one, Jura--who confessed himself to be weaker than Jellal last time we saw him--is just that difficult for Laxus to beat.

The one who should have given Laxus trouble is, you know, Orga. The guy who would be completely unaffected by Laxus' magic, but could hurt Laxus pretty badly with his own. If you wanted to force the issue, at least let Laxus struggle for a win against Orga and then force him to fight Jura without a break. Instead, Orga goes down in one hit and Laxus vs. Jura is the highlight, which I don't like.

8. Natsu vs. Ikusa-Tsunagi

The Avatar arc sucked. The whole thing just felt...pointlessly fawning. Every time an enemy should reasonably have challenged the heroes--especially Natsu--he just blew through them with no trouble. Bluenote, then Arlok...and then finally Ikusa-Tsunagi.

The whole arc felt devised as a way to hype Natsu, and the breaking point was the final boss. Designing and drawing an entire god just for Natsu to one-shot it felt like a slap in the face.

Cut it. Cut all of it. You could cut the whole arc and lose nothing, really.

7. Sting & Rogue vs. Mard Geer / Erza vs. Neo-Minerva

You know, if you didn't want to have Sting and Rogue defeat Mard Geer, you didn't have to include them at all. The Tartaros arc was long and very busy, there were plenty of other things for them to do in order to contribute.

But instead, Mard Geer isn't threatened by them at all--doing nothing to fix the deflated hype issue from when we last saw them--and this despite Sting explicitly using holy magic that you'd think would be extremely threatening to a literal demon.

Having them be of no real consequence, and then shoving Jiemma back into the story just to give them something to do while Natsu and Gray handle Mard Geer, just felt irritatingly transparent--as if to say outright that yeah, they can be cool, but anything they can achieve should be overshadowed by Natsu so nobody gets any ideas about who's stronger. It was a cheap tactic.

Gray ultimately should've been the one to defeat Mard Geer, sure, but a better scenario would've involved Sting and Rogue being the ones to defeat demonized Minerva, rather than Erza. They had more right to that victory, physical and moral, than Erza did.

6. Erza vs. Kyoka

The infamous "it's because she's Erza!"

Like Natsu vs. Totomaru, this one readily came with an easy justification--Erza has a false eye. One that's protected her from visual sensory deprivation before, in fact. And yet, despite this, Erza is explicitly shown with both eyes darkened and it's made clear yes, all her senses are gone, and the win--which is underwhelming and not nearly what Kyoka warranted as a serious antagonist--is literally attributed to her being just that awesome.

It was downright disrespectful to the audience and, if nothing else, it was cheap and extremely thoughtless.

5. Erza vs. Kagura & Minerva

Are you sensing a pattern here?

The bullshit starts with Kagura. At the end of the day, Mashima succumbed to the same hype-slaughtering weakness he exhibited throughout the GMG arc: introduce an enemy too strong for a hero to overcome, and then have the hero win without any real attempt to justify it.

Kagura was far and away too skilled for Erza to beat--too strong for even her toughest armors and too fast for her on an even keel. I don't necessarily have a problem with Minerva intervening given Kagura was whooping Erza seven ways sideways, but I do wish we'd gotten there faster than Erza randomly blocking Archenemy--something that destroyed her Adamantine armor while sheathed--with a normal sword and then spewing Jopaganda (Jellal Propaganda) at her.

Furthermore, the random "Nakagami Armor" and Erza using her second origin like a mid-fight power up to defeat Minerva was just...garbage. It was, again, disrespectful to the audience. Why Minerva didn't just teleport out of the way of the attack is anyone's guess.

And again--easy solution. Minerva says verbatim during the fight "As long as I can see you, I can tear you to pieces!" in essentials spelling out an exploitable weakness--she needs to see Erza to attack her. Erza has a Morning Star armor that utilizes bright light, which we see her do later in the Alvarez arc--use this to blind her and then go in for the kill.

But no, we have to suffer through bullshit.

4. Erza vs. Azuma

A lot of people consider the Tenrou Island arc, and in particular this fight, to be the point where Fairy Tail started to go bad. It's no real wonder why--a lot of shit builds up in the Tenrou Island arc, and one of the last major slaps in the face is Erza's defeat of Azuma, someone who even at base power is simply too far above Erza's level for her to defeat, before even taking into account Azuma's dramatically increased power due to holding all of the magic on Tenrou Island via his connection with the Tenrou Tree.

Really, it should've been Gildarts who fought Azuma, and even he probably would've had a hard time of it as souped up as Azuma was. If it had to be Erza, she needed some sort of advantage that was set up properly, not magically surviving two nukes to the face composed of massive amounts of magic, and then just yoinking control of it from Azuma in no adequately explained way...and then defeating him with one hit when she hadn't gotten any good licks in before.

Fights like this are frustrating because they never seem to actually give the heroes a chance before the win comes. Me saying Erza couldn't beat Azuma in a million years isn't me being a hater--it's textual evidence made abundantly clear by the fight itself. So the viewer is asked outright "how can she possible win this?" and then the answer never comes before she does.

3. Natsu & Gajeel vs. Sting & Rogue

These last few fights are ranked the worst, because they go directly against the stated themes of Fairy Tail.

Quite frankly, this is one of the most egregious slaps in the face in the entire manga. It's where the Fairy Tail audience had to become familiar with that habit of Mashima's I brought up earlier, where he sets up an antagonist as a difficult fight for a hero and then walks it back without the hero even really struggling for the win.

I never would've minded Natsu and Gajeel winning, if only because up until now we hadn't gotten a very good feel for Sabertooth's strengths--we'd been told they were strong, but not told they were out of Fairy Tail's reach (like so many other antagonists).

However, this fight seems to go as hard as possible to pervert and distort Fairy Tail's themes of friendship. Natsu outright kicks Gajeel out of the fight to handle Sting and Rogue himself, a display so stunningly petty, immature, and unsportsmanlike that it shocked me, and I didn't even like Natsu. Then Natsu's 1v2 with Stinge and Rogue is set up with a passionate speech about friendship from Mavis, who is looking on...but not only has Natsu just thrown his friend out of the fight, Sting and Rogue are performing a Unison Raid, which had up until now been heralded as a powerful magic exclusive to those who have a powerful bond. It's rare to see--we saw Lucy and Juvia do one, and then Gray and Juvia had one that was anime-exclusive, and then Wendy and Lucy got one in during the fight with Master Hades. This is a very powerful and exclusive magic embodying everything Mavis is talking about, but the purpose of her speech is intended to put Natsu on the pedestal. Natsu, who then overpowers Sting and Rogue's Unison Raid with...no effort. Not even a Lightning Flame Dragon Mode power-up, not even the Phoenix Sword move he used against Zero, his basic Exploding Flame Blade.

Personally, I would've had Najeel vs. Stingue end in a draw, with both combatants utilizing a Unison Raid that ends up taking everyone out in the blast. You know why? 'Cause that would've been pants-wettingly, balls-to-the-wall awesome. But what we got instead was effectively sitting down viewers who, up until now, had been carefully directed towards anticipating an exciting fight between these four, constantly highlighting their desire to meet in battle and overcome one another, and dangling the idea of Stingue and Rogue as superior dragonslayers over their heads...and telling those viewers that they were stupid to expect that and that the results wouldn't be nearly that exciting.

2. Jellal vs. Oracion Seis

I emphatically skip this episode every time I rewatch the anime. I skip the chapter when I'm reading the manga. To this day I refuse to refer to Hoteye, Cobra, Angel, Racer, or Midnight as "Crime Sorciere" the same way I refuse to refer to Doranbolt as "Mest Gryder".

Jellal attacked these people.

And don't give me any shit about how they attacked him first. He was clearly there with the intent to induct them into his guild, by force if necessary, and he made that known. The Seis weren't threatening him or Meredy--they just wanted to be free and were happy to finally be able to pursue their lives how they saw fit.

And he attacked them and beat them down.

All while telling them that what they have isn't "true" freedom, and using their real names to their faces.

As a reminder, Jellal held these people in slavery. He was their slavemaster, and terrorized them in the Tower of Heaven.

Calling them by their birth names and not the names they chose doesn't serve to tell me that Jellal has a greater understanding of the truth. It tells me he's a disrespectful monster who is reminding the people whose lives he personally destroyed that they will always belong to him.

This was abominable behavior and a disgusting thing to pen on Hiro Mashima's behalf. I absolutely would not have let it past the cutting room floor.

Personally, disliking Jellal as I do, a better end to the fight would've been each of the Seis shitkicking him in turn before killing him and removing him from the story, but I'll settle for the fight just not happening.

1. Every fight in the Alvarez Empire Arc.

You could also include the Avatar arc in here if you wanted.

From start to finish, the Alvarez Empire arc was just a mess. Hiro Mashima had very clearly stopped caring long before it started, and as such, almost none of the fights are satisfying, either relying on bullshit developments or being an excuse to basically flash titties at the reader. You know it's bad when even Laxus and Gray, characters whose fights have historically been very well-done and satisfying, are joining the piles of shameful scenes, from Laxus randomly busting out a red lightning mode to Gray forgetting that he can eat ice and then trying to su/icide Zeref out of the story.

I think it was about during the Irene Belserion confrontation near the end that everyone I saw on my dash just gave up, and even people on TVTropes gave up and started making edits about how crappy the series had become.

There's too many fights in that arc to stuff into a single 10-entry list, so I'm flushing the whole thing. I don't want this, Mashima. Scrap it, start all over, and do it right this time.

[jdragoncry-ft2018-edenszero]

Natsu vs Bluenote

[kaito-yuki]

-in an AU where Kaito saves Cana from Bluenote, then battles him while Natsu (and the others) are fighting against Hades, Wendy empowers Kaito’s Blizzard Dragon Mode through donating her magic power with their shared wind affinity-

(cc) Natsu: “Lightning Flame Dragon’s...” // vs. Hades

(FT) Kaito: “Blizzard Dragon’s...” // vs. Bluenote

(cc) Natsu / (FT) Kaito: “...ROAR!” // at the same time

[arkus-rhapsode]

Fairy Tail Chapter 524 review

Alright lets dive into chapter 524 “Black Future”

Our cover page is Cana and yes we’ve gone back to glamour shots.  Also Cana seems to have Midnight’s reflector magic given the way the city is bending.

We open with Acnologia’s return and hopefully some actual quality will return to the narrative.

Okay points to Mashima for remembering that no one except Zeref and Irene know Acnologia has a human form.Also just walking past Erza like a mother fucking boss. Only way to make it better is if he had one arm out like he did with God Serena

Okay lets all be fair after the shit Irene put us all through for 4 weeks, tell me who wouldn’t want to do this to her.

Don’t know how this is a sin but hey maybe we’ll get more on it.

So we cut away to Natsu and Zeref’s fight.

So after a few pages of some decent action we get Zeref’s monologue.

Okay first, I did a whole post theorizing Natsu and Zeref’s power and I’ll just sum it up that in term of strength Natsu and Zeref are equal but due to the fact Zeref is Immortal there really is no way to win. So I don’t think Natsu is too outclassed here.

Also Natsu says here “the power of Me”. Now that does seem out of character as Natsu seems to talk a whole lot of the power of Fairy Tail, but you know what, I’m glad it’s something different. That a character actually has total confidence in their own strength to justify why they can win.

Yeah Zeref I know you want to die but I don’t think it was your goal to wipe out humanity. You wanted to die with Acnologia but the power of Fairy Heart would destroy everyone when released.

We cut to August vs Gildarts and Cana

Say August I’m surprised how up your majesty’s ass you are, tell me what’s it smell like.

THANK YOU CANA! See we needed more moments like this especially because honestly we’ve heard this shit from Natsu, Lucy, Erza and Wendy so many times it doesn’t matter but when we have side characters declaring they’ll protect what’s precious to them it actually seems like this war means something, that it isn’t just a fight for team natsu it’s a fight for everyone. Now I do think this could’ve been stronger if say a character from another guild like Lyon or Kagura said this but y’know Cana hasn’t gotten to do anything so I’m good with this.

YES YES YES

Oh come on!

Seriously why can’t this ever work on people? Okay with Bluenote I was okay with it because we had Cana getting a brand new power and she doesn’t know how to use it. But come on she’s used it since and to great effect.

Wow this really is the Bluenote fight all over again, Fairy Glitter fails and Gildarts now has to fight back. Also I know it sounds cheesy with “not knowing the magic of love” but remember in this series magic is influenced heavily through people’s emotions and love is a very strong one, I just hope it doesn’t become totally cheesy. Also August if you’re a master of all magic do you have some lost magic. Because it seems you’re a master of only well known magic granted that is a large variety. Also next chapter we are going to most likely go a get something on Larcade, thank god.

Post Chapter follow up: this was a okay chapter. I’ll get my cons outta the way. Why can’t Cana and Fairy Glitter ever do a damn thing against people. It’s not even like Hiro hasn’t made Cana look cool before, he has,but when it comes to fights she usually gets shafted. So this big moment of using FairyGlitter feels like a waste. It be better if Cana used Fairy Gltter and August took damage and was able to stand up to it would affirm that he is Gildarts level but also give the side character some credit for weakening him.

My other issue is just a nitpick but Zeref even seems to be conflicted again. I know he’s this being of contradiction but now it’s starting to get too confusing at this point.

But on the plus side, I really like the atmosphere of everyone feeling Acnologia’s power, it’s just great tension building. Also Acnologia stomping on Irene is just so great.

The fights are pretty good and I actually like Natsu vs Zeref having Natsu say I believe in my power because while it is something that seems out of character and out of the series message, it still is something different and nice to see.

Cana standing up to August is great but as I said it could’ve been stronger if another character from another guild did it to once again show that this war affects everyone.

Final Verdict: 6/10

Just above average

I Do dislike the pointlessness of Fairy Glitter

The tension is still strong

action was pretty good

[aldigond]

Top 10 moments of FT

I will take the moments that made me cry or smile for hours (not inclueding filler arcs). also I could’t decide so these are the first 10 from the top of my head

10 Natsu breaking the charm spell on Lucy (I shipped them from the start)

9 Entrence Erza

8 Juvia falling for Gray

7 Gajeel saving Levy on S-class Test

6 Wendy’s first apearence

5 Laxus beating Jura or Tempesta

4 Every childhood szene of all characters

3 Gildarts vs Bluenote

2 Gale/ Gruvia in Alvarez arc

1 Natsu/Wendy Dragonforce

Loved the request

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Top 10 Anime Fights Won With A Single Blow

Top 10 Anime Fights Won With A Single Blow

Date: 2019-11-28 23:00:01

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Sometimes it just takes one punch. Join Ashley as he counts One-Hit KOs from anime like One-Punch Man, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, The Seven Deadly Sins the Movie: Prisoners of the Sky, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a…

[ac-liveblogs]

It's debatable who's worse between Erza and Natsu. If you look at all of Erza's asspull compared to Natsu her fights are pretty damn bad. Sure Natsu has some really bad fights. Natsu is bad hell I don't even like him, but all the convient things Erza has going for her and how she never tires and can beat and stand up to people half healed is just beyond BS. If you can give me an Example of Natsu besides Zeref and Acno I will admit though for Erza it's every fight and it's an entire arcfull

i can list more, yeah.

Natsu vs Jellal: Dragon Force Exists. Convenient Dragon Slayer Solution #1.

Natsu vs Zero: Natsu burns through Genesis Zero

Natsu vs Zancrow: Natsu can’t eat God Slayer Flames, so…. empties his body of magic and then eats it…? Like that solves the problem somehow? And still has immediate access to his own magic afterwards. Convenient solution #2 that is never brought up again and is never replicated by any other Dragon Slayer in the series.

Natsu eats Laxus’ lightning to form Fire Lightning Dragon Mode. Every other time Natsu has eaten an element that isn’t fire prior to this, he’s gotten sick. Why he doesn’t this time is not explained, nor is it explained for anyone else. Second convenient solution thtat is never addressed in the series in the same arc. Also never addressed; why Natsu keeps the lightning powerup but not the god powerup, which is probably “Mashima wanted one but not the other”.

Natsu vs Sting and Rogue; Natsu tanks two Dragon Slayers from a superior generation so easily it’s fucking embarrassing. (from the same arc that brought us Laxus vs Jura, wherein Laxus didn’t even get Second Origin)

Natsu vs Jackal; Natsu…. eats Jackal’s explosions…? After they happen, to… prevent getting hurt? Because that’s how explosions work. This one really… does not make anything resembling sense. 

The entire scene that involved Natsu somehow finding FACE’S base with the power of his nose. Because apparently it was that strong the whole goddamn time?! Natsu can just track Mira and Erza into the sky?! Convenient dragon slayer solution #4, Natsu’s supernose is never seen again.

Natsu OHKOs Bluenote Stinger in the single biggest case of power creep I have ever seen in a shonen.

Natsu then punches out a god, again so easily it’s kind of ridiculous. Who needs God Slayers, right? Natsu has now apparently surpassed God Slayers as a concept. He’s even surpassed the fact that Gods > Dragons. 

“You’re dying of dual dragonification/demonisation, Natsu!” “don’t wanna” “fair point you’re cured”

edit: I can’t believe I forgot that one time Natsu was so mad he managed to move freely within DiMaria’s timestop. 

this is literally just off the top of my head. if there’s more i’ll add them later.

[fairytail-whathesays]

anime problem: ‘next time will be different’

I have come across this problem in pretty much every single moderately action-oriented anime and some non-anime I’ve ever seen.

The heroes, who are probably pretty well-known as powerful combatants and have a very good or flawless track record against their opponents or have yet to experience a crushing defeat, suffer that crushing defeat in grim, explicit detail. All the usual tropes apply; the heroes now have a seriously problematic antagonist to avoid or anticipate another disastrous encounter with, and the flow of the media is usually drastically changed. Most importantly, it shows that the heroes are not ready to face everything headed their way.

Examples: Eren/Rogue Titan vs. the Female and Armored Titans, Natsu vs anyone he actually loses to (Gildarts, Bluenote, Future Rogue), Yang vs. Neo and Yang vs. Adam, Ichigo vs. Pretty Much Everyone Who Ever Threatens Him, Meliodas vs. Helbram and Meliodas vs. the Ten Commandments, Marco vs. Striker Round 1, and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts One Piece and Naruto both have abundant examples.

Invariably, there’s always a rematch. Ostensibly, one the fans can look forward to. This will be Round 2, and it’ll go differently. The hero won’t be crushed this time, it’ll be the reverse! 

The problem is that even if they attempt to justify it, the writers do not seem to understand that any justification at all is not equivalent to an acceptable one. Being generous and assuming your main character of choice is heavily experienced, anywhere from weeks of training to months of training is not going to overcome the gap that was established with the original defeat. It’s a terrible problem in Bleach that drags down the whole damn manga, and plagues so much of the rest of animanga that it’s a wonder to me how it hasn’t undergone a subversion era.

Just once I’d like to see the heroes charge in for their rematch, their real showdown with that hated foe that humiliated them before...and still get crushed. Preferably without there being some external reason for their loss so that the author can say ‘well, they were winning, but then X happened!���. I want some damn effort put into the pathetic training sequences we get, if we get anything at all, and I want them to be hardcore and/or lengthy enough to justify bridging the gap. Perhaps most importantly, I want them actually shown. So often I’m treated to offscreen training and then told to sit down and shut up when given an embarrassing show by a villain that previously handed the heroes their asses.

More often than not, this isn’t to show off any real growth or change, but to get the satisfaction of winning. So, I’m calling for a subversion era for ‘next time will be different’.

[fairytail-whathesays]

Every once in a while I’ll get an ask that’s wondering how I’d rewrite the series, and I have to tell you, there’s just not enough energy in me for that. I can barely finish projects I can actually see the end of, it’s not my strong suit. I’ve only ever finished long, ambitious projects a few times (and admittedly they are among my proudest). But, I do excel in breaking shit down into smaller parts. I think I’ll revisit my Alvarez Empire arc rewrite later, and add in all of the stuff about Zeref and Acnologia. If I ever do rewrite the series, I’ll work backwards. The only bumps in the road might be the Avatar arc. I never read that arc, I only was around long enough to hear the rages about Natsu one-hit-KO’ing a war god. So for now, here’s a rough outline of that distant future project.

There is no Fairy Tail Zero, and no Zervis relationship. Mavis does not stick around after the Tenrou Island arc at all. Bye Mavis.

The Tartaros arc’s second half gets a rehaul. Wendy and Carla won’t die, but they will need recovery, and so will Doranbolt.

Alvarez Empire and Avatar arcs get a complete rehaul. As for Avatar, rather than the Magic Council being rebuilt, we’ll have Avatar declaring themselves the new government, due to the absence of both the last member of the council (Doranbolt) and the Balam Alliance to stop them.

Grand Magic Games arc and Tartaros arcs get a complete rehaul.

I’ve decided that while Jellal still dies, he gets to stay in the Nirvana arc despite my hatred of him being there.

The Fantasia arc remains completely untouched with the exception of Erza vs. Evergreen, which I will rewrite by itself later.

The Edolas arc’s first half gets a rehaul. The second half isn’t so bad, but the first half was just lazy, lazy lazy.

The Tenrou Island arc’s second half gets a rehaul. Erza and Gildarts switch opponents, with Gildarts struggling to take down the super-powerful Azuma and Erza taking on Bluenote. The guild actually takes up Doranbolt on his offer and removes the wounded from the island. Laxus defeats Hades.

The Phantom Lord arc remains mostly untouched except for Natsu vs. Totomaru.

The Sun Village arc is untouched. 

The Daphne arcs and Eclipse Celestial Spirit arcs are cut. The Key of the Starry Skies arc remains, with some tweaks.

This rewrite will only partially get the fanfiction treatment. Certain parts of otherwise good arcs that stick out will get fic’d, as will arcs that were so bad that half or all of them need rewriting in full (GMG, Tartaros, Avatar, Alvarez).

[fairytail-whathesays]

What he says: Stop winning all of these fucking battles against enemies 98.6 times your power and skill you fucking Mary Sue.

What he means: Occasionally when I see a series, usually a manga, attempt to hype its hero or protagonist with how strong they are because they can go head to head with superpowered freaks and easily hold their ground, like the Seven Deadly Sins on the shounen side or Hellsing on the seinen side, I want to cry and yell at them that that is NOT how you get an audience excited for your story or fights, because good hype comes from tension, and tension comes from a power imbalance presented by an oncoming threat. As an audience member, I will get more satisfaction out of seeing a protagonist prevail over an enemy far stronger than them than I will out of seeing a protagonist stomp an enemy that only dreamed of being half as awesome as the heroes. Then you have Fairy Tail which plays the whole superstrong, overpowered-right-out-of-the-gate protagonists thing and then, shock of shocks, then hands them opponents way out of their league, which is actually Step One of building hype. So why do I still complain about Fairy Tail's fights when according to what I just said, it's doing something right that other manga are getting blatantly wrong? It's because there are other steps that Fairy Tail is getting wrong, and it's coming off worse for screwing up after getting the start right. Yes, I do want to see protagonists triumph over opponents far stronger than them, but the point behind wanting that is that raw strength isn't everything and there are other ways to win fights. We all like to complain about Fairy Tail's habit of delivering bullshit wins with a healthy helping of Nakama Power Speech, but being honest, sometimes we don't even get that much. Erza vs. Kagura was an example where really, she won just because. So was Erza vs. Kyoka. Don't even talk to me about Natsu vs. Bluenote. Fairy Tail protagonists winning simply (and blatantly) because the author says so actually happens a LOT more than we think, and it starts at least as far back as Natsu vs. Totomaru. It does zero respect to the hype built to not even attempt to subvert raw power being important. Because little to no explanation or thought is given to how FT protagonists win fights, one gets the impression that power IS the most important thing--which is Fairy Tail shooting itself in the ass considering the morals the Fantasia arc and Grand Magic Games arc heaped on us. It also royally screws up any attempt to get a feel for relative power. A Fairy Tail member can be getting their ass literally kicked (see Natsu vs. Zero) at the beginning or midpoint of a battle, and then win with their haymaker + victorious roar, with pretty much nothing happening inbetween to justify it, and nothing inbetween changing or happening to change the situation. It's also called "unzipping and pissing all over the hype" which tends to anger fans.

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Top 10 Fairy Tail Final Season Moments (ft. Todd Haberkorn)

Top 10 Fairy Tail Final Season Moments (ft. Todd Haberkorn)

Date: 2019-11-10 23:00:08

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Forget about getting all fired up, it’s time to get all teared up! Join Todd Habberkorn, the voice of Natsu Dragneel as he lists all the greatest moments from the final season of Fairy Tail. From epic clashes like Natsu vs Zeref, Erza vs Irene, or the Dragon Slayers vs Acnologia, all the way up to…

[ac-liveblogs]

Okay im going to say it: people hate Erza more than Natsu because shes a girl. People are always more critical of op girls than op guys.

Honestly, the Natsu vs Erza case sort of reminds me of the screaming that Rey was a true overpowered Mary Sue, unlike Luke and Anakin, when in reality they were all fairly OP but Luke and Anakin got more of a free pass.

Like, don’t get me wrong, Erza does some real convenient bullshit. But so does Natsu, and… honestly, how much of an asspull was Dragon Force as a concept? How come Natsu and Gajeel can suddenly eat other elements just fine even though Natsu was initially shown to get sick when he ate anything that wasn’t fire? Where was the development from point a (sick) to point b (fire lightning whatever)? And honestly, what can’t Natsu burn at this point?

OHKO Bluenote Stinger? Knock out a god with a Single Mighty Punch? Burn through Genesis Zero, burn through time itself? 

honestly, natsu’s bullshit overpowered nature only really seemed to get called out a lot in the post tartaros era, but there was some shit before that. 

And this isn’t a contest of “who’s worse”, but Erza does seem to get called out a lot more than Natsu does. My experience with this blog, in general. I don’t know if it’s because she’s a woman, but I think Natsu is handwaved slightly more because you tend to expect this sort of thing from the protagonist more. 

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One of the problems I had with Alvarez was how the Spriggan were taken on by a select few. Erza battled what three? Then beat 2 almost 3. Should've had a variety of battles with the team. There's Mak, Loke,Gildarts, Laxus, Erza, Mira,Natsu, Gray,Lucy, Cana, Freed, Bixlow, Evergreen, Elfman, Lisanna, Gajeel, Juvia, Wendy, Levy, Carla, Happy, and Lily. Yet how many of those actually got a decent fight? It was the same guild members battling the 12 and if it wasn't it was off screen or not at all

That’s been a problem since well before the Alvarez arc, it’s been around since Nirvana. Basically every member of the Oracion Seis was taken down by a member of Fairy Tail, sans Hoteye - the other three guilds only ever played support. 

Even in Tenrou, there was a pretty uneven distribution of fights. Natsu fought Zancrow, Ultear, Bluenote, Kain and Hades. Meanwhile, Lucy got three fights, Gray and Erza got two (including Hades) and Wendy got one (I don’t really count Wendy vs Bluenote, she was just tossed around. Ditto Lucy.) Everyone else got one - very rarely, two. 

There’s always been bias towards Team Natsu, but it’s only now that we have such a huge cast crammed into one arc that it’s become super noticeable.

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On Gildarts vs Laxus. I'd say Gildarts though Laxus will surpass him someday. Gildarts went toe to toe with August and survived against Acnologia (Shame we never got to see that fight.) While Laxus got curbstomped by Acno with 6 other DS. Not to mention he was beaten before by Natsu and Gajeel and stalled by Erza and Mystogan. Gildarts also beat God Serena who was able to hold off Jura and co while Laxus was tied in strength. Course timeskip but I'd say Gildarts with his magic simply overpowers

To Laxus’ vague credit, Acno was pumped up on Timelapse nonsense, and he didn’t actually want to kill Gildarts - plus, Serena’s Historia was noted as being way weaker than the original (and that the original might have given Gildarts a proper challenge). Those facts definitely skew the data!

I do think Laxus is going to surpass Gildarts - if he hasn’t already, I have no idea how strong Gildarts is atm when you factor in Natsu vs Bluenote Stinger. FT power levels are so bullshit, man. 

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Natsu vs Erza

Oh, man. This is where Fairy Tail’s screwy power levels come into play again.

Fairy Tail seems to have a constant “power hierarchy” that’s never challenged at any point. Gildarts > other S-Class > Natsu & Gray & (probably) Gajeel > everyone else. With this, you could assume Erza’s stronger than Natsu.

But, Natsu tanked Zeref freaking Dragneel. He’s END, the strongest of Zeref’s demons! He one-punched Bluenote Stinger! An actual god! He should be stronger than Erza, right???

Except Erza’s done more damage to more dragons than Natsu. But then, Natsu always beats the main bosses in arcs while Erza’s usually relagated to their lieutenants. Natsu’s END, but “she’s Erza!”

It should be Erza - I mean, she stopped Gray and Natsu from fighting without too much difficulty. But at this point Natsu should be stronger than her. Right?

:/

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zancrow anon here again, sorry to bother you btw but i was wondering how you would match up the fights between the seven kin + bluenote to the ft members @ tenrou island. personally i always thought it would be cool to have zancrow fight mira instead of natsu bc he has the powers of a god but is an antagonist whereas she has the powers of a demon but is a protagonist. dunno if its the most logical match but its an interesting dynamic i think.

I actually think the matchups as they were were pretty good - Natsu fighting Zancrow makes sense on a narrative level, as that introduced the God Slayers to show them up over the Dragon Slayers, though I certainly would’ve ended the fight differently. Gray and Ultear was an interesting match given the nature of Ultear’s magic regardless of their past, Loke was the only one that could fight Zoldeo anyway, Gildarts was the only on that could defeat Bluenote... 

Though one I thing that could’ve been really interesting would be Meredy vs Makarov - depending on how fair Meredy’s Sensory Link can spread. The idea of Makarov’s senses being connected to that of his kids, and him feeling them terrified and scared and hurt all over the island while he’s too injured to move? Gut wrenching.