Fairy Tail Manga Thread 3: My friendship tells me to defeat you!

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TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Silento posted:

Am I the only one who barely remembers anything of the older Fairy Tail arcs? Like, no joke, all I remember from early Fairy Tale is Natsu and Lucy infiltrating a mansion, Natsu eating some golden fire, the dragonslayers are statues(???), and that there was a machine that changed people's alignments.

This is just part of the Fairy Tail experience.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2013 01:12

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 04:17

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

And Tite Kubo may well just blaze on past them.

Not just as a result of one, but two mangas!

# ¿ Aug 17, 2013 00:40

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Serious Frolicking posted:

The answer is that Mashima is totally making it up as he goes along. Thankfully, he seems to have moved away from that weird phase where Gray kept getting into motorcycle races. That seems like it would be a very strange direction for this particular fight to take.

Ice Make: Harley.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2014 19:18

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Rodyle posted:

I thought she was an old lady?

If you're a woman in Fairy Tail those are the same thing.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 14:37

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Reiche posted:

I thought Juvia was the coolest when she was first introduced. I loved her design and hair style and her powers were waaay more diverse. She just doesn't do a whole lot anymore.

Although the way she beat that necromancer demon was metal as hell so I'll give her that. I'm hoping she's gotten a noticeable power up as well.

I hope over the time skip Gray went and found the kicking rad hat he jacked off of a guy during the magic tournament and that's what Juvia's upset about

# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 09:08

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Reiche posted:

Seriously Natsu, your childhood crush who you thought was dead has been back for a while now. Get you some Lisanna.

that's old news, Natsu's moved on to blondes now

# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 23:06

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

chumbler posted:

It's not like there was really a whole lot of council left.

Also I want everyone in Avatar to actually be a spy and not actually evil except for Gray.

I really don't want Gray to be evil, Sasuke sucked enough in the first manga, he doesn't need to poo poo up this one too

# ¿ Mar 31, 2015 08:18

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Gyges posted:

I do like that Gray is so obsessed with doing a good thing that it's made him evil. And that after explaining exactly what he's there for, the rest of the guild commented on how evil he was.

He's looking for a goddamn evil book to destroy. What the gently caress is wrong with you, Avatar? That's not loving evil. Your whole thing is worshiping Zerif and Gray just said he's all about wrecking up a specific piece of Zerif work.

Avatar is the worst bad guy group ever.

Honestly thinking these guys are waaaaay too affable to actually be evil right now

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 19:46

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

MonsterEnvy posted:

I actually would not be surprised if Laxus has surpassed Gildartz at this point. Makarov stated that Jura was just as strong as Gildartz and Laxus just managed to defeat Jura. Natsu has also surpassed Gildartz from the island given that Natsu one shotted Bluenote who gave Gildartz problems. Given that Laxus is implied to still be much stronger then Natsu I am guessing that Laxus might have surpassed Gildartz at this point.

This assumes Gildartz didn't also progress during the time skip

# ¿ Aug 10, 2015 17:36

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Back when I started reading this I assumed Jellal's hair was red like Erza's.

I don't know why but I feel like I would hate him a lot less if his hair was red like Erza's

# ¿ Aug 18, 2015 03:36

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Spiderdrake posted:

The art gets a lot stronger as it goes and moves away from looking like a weird One Piece. Some of the stuff Fairy Tail pulls off is actually very visually impressive, much like Bleach the art has a huge variance as the artist gives or doesn't give a poo poo.

Unlike Bleach, the quality is tits determined rather than Kenpachi determined

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 02:46

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Mashima's greatest failing in this manga has, if anything, not letting Gray keep that red mage hat way back when

# ¿ Aug 19, 2015 05:29

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Cipher Pol 9 posted:

What the gently caress.

That was amusing but those two series' are like opposite ends of the spectrum tonally. Who the gently caress decided to put them together? I guess it was just "popular thing + popular thing = money" but still, drat, that's surreal. Is "Neo Parasyte" really going to be a thing?

Lucy and Migi sharing the same voice actress might have something to do with it

TheKingofSprings fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Sep 16, 2015

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 02:27

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

tsob posted:

Look at it from Mashima's point of view, it's probably the highlight of his career, because he gets to draw a battle that's actually just two naked women cramped in to one hot tub throwing dirty looks and snark at each other. It's all going to be downhill for him once that's over. That, or Fairy Tail will segue in to his new work Succubus Tail, which will just be flat out porn with the occasional bit of action intruding in to scenes. Maybe eventually he'll come full circle and the readers of this theoretical work will start getting peeved at him for inserting pointless action fanservice in to every chapter and detracting from all the tits and rear end.

I assume he's just going to immediately end the manga after

# ¿ Oct 10, 2015 23:59

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

pinegala posted:

A lot of indications that this could be a good arc:
Ezra getting her armor back -> remaining relevant past the initial fight and not being locked into a sex dungeon(?)
team up with Cana -> 2v2s(?)
Lucy's mom -> PLOT(!?)

Can't wait to see how hard Mashima's going to dash those hopes

Lucy's mom will in fact have plot so you can count that one under Mashima delivers

# ¿ Oct 21, 2015 06:26

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

kohon posted:

I don't think Ultear is dead. The anime spent a little more time on it, but I think she just lives as an old woman now. Although I could see it being interpreted either way.

But I could also see Mashima bringing her back somehow. Hell, I'm still expecting Aquarius to come back at some point.

It's Mashima, is being an old woman any different than being dead

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 01:39

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Spiderdrake posted:

The Gajeel thing is so weird since he seems to have actively sought penance both with the guild and with her, and cares about her in the post-crucifixion era, but they never really explicit show her forgiving him do they?

I mean technically for all the fluff and nonsense in Fairy Tail they are an organization of quasi-legal magi mercenaries who are constantly vying for violent dominance within their cultural niche of insane psychopaths. They live horrific, violent lives of torture and humiliation. Anyone in Fairy Tail is explicitly stated to be on the edge of the law, barely accepted at points in the manga, and just one step above a seething pool of dark guilds that all appear to be completely bonkers. They're all suicidal cults dedicated to a walking incarnation of divine punishment handed out in such a way that he causes massive suffering for an eternity if he so much as gives a gently caress. And he's on the other side of a conflict with a flying death god who seeks to become a mass extinction event or something? Is this why i never think about this manga?

I don't think Juvia and Gray is ending with anything other than them getting married in the undoubtedly naruto epilogue tier epilogue.

Wasn't his literal first act after repenting to tie her up so he could take her place on stage, too?

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 04:02

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Rodyle posted:

Remember how Natsu and Lisana were supposed to be a thing

Natsu switched to blondes about...how many chapters is Fairy Tail, again?

# ¿ Nov 18, 2015 07:20

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

MonsterEnvy posted:

Presumably there is more to it. Given that END is still stated to be sealed in it's book.

Who was it that stated it again?

# ¿ Dec 1, 2015 01:50

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

jiffypop45 posted:

Lucy is already to Nami proportions. We don't need a contest between Oda and Mashima to see who can be more fan servicey.

Lucy will never be to Nami proportions

Eiichiro Oda posted:

D: Nice to meet you. This is sudden, but... please teach us a tip or two on how to draw that hawt hourglass body all ONE PIECE female characters seem to have! Make sure you don't forget to include them airbags ♡

P.N. If there's no bread, let them eat roses~

O: Yes. Hello. It's drawing time at the SBS segment. I would suggest that you think of a woman's proportions as "three circles, one X". Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be leaving.

(I only draw this kind of body, so I get a lot of complaint postcards from my female audience. Let's all stay strong and keep on living life.)

# ¿ Dec 5, 2015 17:37

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

TheLovablePlutonis posted:

"Gah!!! This drawing of a beautiful woman who can bear healthy children offends me! Why can't these Orientals draw Dumpty hunchbacked ogres?!" - Low T Goons after taking some delicious estrogen laced water, courtesy of Dr. Isaac Shlomosteinberg

What makes you think that poster was ironic

# ¿ Dec 7, 2015 21:13

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

this manga really is just a 468 chapter exercise for mashima in drawing one-handed isn't it

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 06:21

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

chumbler posted:

Either of them.

Wait what

There were two?

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 06:30

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Spiderdrake posted:

Did Brandish even do anything to Lucy? She slaughtered civilians, but fairy tail doesn't care about civilians.

And yeah I don't think Mashima concerns himself with the timeskip.

If there's tension between a plot device and Mashima being able to draw a rocking pair of titties only one is going out the window.

Guess which one.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 18:54

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Spiderdrake posted:

Gajeel is just from a different, past culture that hits on women by nailing them to trees. You just don't understand the beliefs of his now extinct tribe. Just like I don't even understand how the loving door of plot device / 8th time skip interact. I mean kinda weird that second and third generation dragonslayers came about like, centuries after dragons ... something? Extinct? Someone make some loving charts for me.

I thought bath tub lady obliterated all of the townsfolk in that resort? Just squelched like ten thousand people right there and laughed about it? Maybe I misread the chapter.

She shrunk a dude and an island but that's about it

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 22:59

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Mulderman posted:

I don't think she did anything really. Even when they first encountered her, she was pretty cool about things. Getting rid of creepo, giving them a stern warning and letting them go.
Then when they invaded she was more preoccupied with sitting in a bathtub.

Having her turn good isn't that big of a thing really. Especially compared to people like Gayeel who crucified innocent people.

I actually reread that chapter recently and they were just stuck to the tree by braces which were nailed in. He still beat on all three of them though, which is pretty bad in itself.

God, Gajeel was a prick at the start, there's no way Mashima originally planned on him joining.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2016 23:04

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

So on second thought I shouldn't be too hard on Brandy.

Yeah, Mashima's had that covered for you since the first page she appeared in

# ¿ Jan 13, 2016 04:26

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

chumbler posted:

Please do not be mean to my friend Lucy. I still have hope that maybe someday she will get to do something cool.

She got randomly turned into a fish for no reason, does that count

# ¿ Jan 15, 2016 02:49

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Honestly if bullshit magical cancer has to get cured, tricking a guy into curing it is a pretty good way to go about it.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2016 23:41

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

It's actually an extremely calculated ploy for revenge where she nails him back

# ¿ May 31, 2016 06:40

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

That was terrible

# ¿ Jun 20, 2016 05:36

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Gyges posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaTO8_KNcuo

Jesus, we finally remember that Natsu had magic cancer and it turns out it wasn't magic cancer this whole time. It was actually way more dangerous than magic cancer, but will inevitably be turned into a power up.

Since Lucy is technically the protagonist of the manga, is there any other protagonist ever who managed never, ever win. Not even once?

Kumagawa

# ¿ Sep 18, 2016 16:48

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

Angry Grimace posted:

So either either they saved their first kiss for after having had sex, or possibly Mavis meant the kiss in a euphemistic way because she thought "graphic unprotected sexual intercourse" would make the story less classically romantic/tragic when explained to her NAKAMA. Or she got pregnant magically through the Force... and then Precht performed a magical Caesarian on a comatose loli encased in a rock then threw the baby out on the street.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 18:14

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 04:17

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

chumbler posted:

It's a shame that the epilogue where Lucy becomes the guild master was left out, but of course we all know that happens.

I'll miss this dumb series, even if post time skip was a bit weak.

Which post timeskip

# ¿ Jul 23, 2017 04:58

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