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Serious Frolicking posted:Ha ha, that was way better than the usual 'take a beating, then win with guts' method. His entire arm got impaled! That kind of confused me reading it the first time through. I was like "So what happened, did he break it or absorb it into his body or what?" I'm going with absorbed, but it's still rather unclear.
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DrSunshine posted:That kind of confused me reading it the first time through. I was like "So what happened, did he break it or absorb it into his body or what?" I'm going with absorbed, but it's still rather unclear. He took the samurai dude's stab in to his palm (possibly deliberately) and it went all the way up his arm, which he then hardened and moved to break the sword. That is one epic gently caress you move.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2010 00:58 |
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DrSunshine posted:That kind of confused me reading it the first time through. I was like "So what happened, did he break it or absorb it into his body or what?" I'm going with absorbed, but it's still rather unclear. Gazille can only eat metal, not absorb it through his skin.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2010 02:46 |
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I take it Mest is the 7th mage?
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| # ? Nov 21, 2010 04:14 |
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U-DO Burger posted:Special chapter: You just know Mashima's going to make it weird at the end with a Lucy/Lisanna/Natsu triangle.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2010 20:32 |
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Serious Frolicking posted:Gazille can only eat metal, not absorb it through his skin. Jesus Christ... then it's still lodged all the way up his arm, isn't it?  Badass Gazille! Badrear end.
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Angry Grimace posted:You just know Mashima's going to make it weird at the end with a Lucy/Lisanna/Natsu triangle. Until Lucy and Lisanna fuse to form Lucynna and blast off into space in their robot rocketship
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Gazille is one badass mofo. Regarding that special chapter though... I think the most hilarious thing amidst all the  is the fact that Natsu dressed up in her clothes. That is seriously the silliest drat thing
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| # ? Nov 21, 2010 21:21 |
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DrSunshine posted:Jesus Christ... then it's still lodged all the way up his arm, isn't it?
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| # ? Nov 21, 2010 22:40 |
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New Chapter
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 09:44 |
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LightWarden posted:New Chapter
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 09:45 |
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Wow, didn't expect Mest to not be one of the Kin. Maybe we need to start giving the author a bit more credit than just that he draws cool dudes punching people with fire/iron. Maybe.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 11:01 |
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Did not see that coming. That's a nice twist - this arc is looking to be really quite good now.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 11:05 |
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FREEZE CRIMINAL SCUM, Agent Mest, Magic FBI
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 17:13 |
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Well, that's a nice twist. Mest is still sort of an enemy, but it looks like he'll have to join forces with Fairy Tail for the short term. Can't wait for the arc to start really heating up.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 17:15 |
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Good to see some sweet cat action.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 18:17 |
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The Fresh Prince posted:Good to see some sweet cat action. But he can't hold it for too long 
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 19:08 |
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Nahxela posted:But he can't hold it for too long 
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 19:41 |
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Is anyone else concerned about how stupidly-easy it was for the evil guild to utterly destroy a ship full of supposedly high-level mages on their way to the island to arrest a group of supposedly high-level mages? That was just too easy.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 19:48 |
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Dan7el posted:Is anyone else concerned about how stupidly-easy it was for the evil guild to utterly destroy a ship full of supposedly high-level mages on their way to the island to arrest a group of supposedly high-level mages? That was just too easy. No, that's Mashima-standard.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 20:13 |
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ZeeToo posted:No, that's Mashima-standard. It's industry standard. The only point of powerful non-protagonists is to get their asses kicked in order to demonstrate how totally badass and powerful the new villains are.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 20:36 |
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Dan7el posted:Is anyone else concerned about how stupidly-easy it was for the evil guild to utterly destroy a ship full of supposedly high-level mages on their way to the island to arrest a group of supposedly high-level mages? That was just too easy. The mages were superpowerful but the ship was not! Also they all don't know how to swim.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 20:43 |
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Centzon Totochtin posted:The mages were superpowerful but the ship was not! Also they all don't know how to swim. Alternatively they do know how to swim, and they all turn up (bedraggled and pissed, naturally) just in time to turn the tide later on. Unlikely though.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 21:48 |
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As soon as Mest pointed out a magical battleship I knew it was going to explode at any moment. Anyone who didn't see that coming should probably read the manga (or at least the beginning of the Nirvana arc) over. On the other hand Mest being a member of the new council instead of the dark guild did honestly surprise me. Well played Mashima.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 23:01 |
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Mest is a weiner, but apparently not a Gerard. Well, color me surprised. Will this be the first major arc since the demon island to avoid a Gerard appearance?
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 23:32 |
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There sure are a lot of people in this thread who think having a twist by heavily hinting at one thing and giving no evidence whatsoever of what it really is is great writing. It's more interesting than the obvious possibility, but not exactly a masterful narrative technique.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 23:35 |
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I just realized that the erza/mirajane exam fights defy the normal shounen ONE VERSUS ONE ONLY thing. Except since the people fighting aren't really main character's and Natsu's fight was 1v1 it doesn't really matter
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 23:39 |
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GoatLord posted:There sure are a lot of people in this thread who think having a twist by heavily hinting at one thing and giving no evidence whatsoever of what it really is is great writing. It's more interesting than the obvious possibility, but not exactly a masterful narrative technique. Any sort of plot twist that doesn't involve a surprise Gerard appearance is breaking new ground for FT.
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| # ? Nov 27, 2010 23:53 |
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GoatLord posted:There sure are a lot of people in this thread who think having a twist by heavily hinting at one thing and giving no evidence whatsoever of what it really is is great writing. It's more interesting than the obvious possibility, but not exactly a masterful narrative technique. Yeah I've honestly been surprised by how many "oh my assumption was wrong, this arc looks good now" posts there were.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 00:48 |
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GoatLord posted:There sure are a lot of people in this thread who think having a twist by heavily hinting at one thing and giving no evidence whatsoever of what it really is is great writing. It's more interesting than the obvious possibility, but not exactly a masterful narrative technique. I thought a chapter just before this arc started up involved the council meeting and talking about disbanding fairy tail? It's not out of left field unless my memory is worse than I thought. Yasser Arafatwa fucked around with this message at Nov 28, 2010 around 00:53 |
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There is no place less safe in the entire FT universe than anything shaped like a ship. Even Pegasus shaped ones.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 02:15 |
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Ooh, the plot thickens!  The heavy hitters of a Dark Guild and the law on the island? Shaping up to be a good one!And, yeah, we haven't seen anything genius from this manga thus far, but the writing and characters have been consistently entertaining for... well, for pretty much the whole series for me. Yes, Gerard was annoying and it's too much to hope we won't see him again, but he has not reached the levels of toxicity and instantly-groaning Oh-Christ-Not-You-Again that other *coughSasukecough* shounen *hackAizenwheeze* characters in the other big series have reached of late. Yasser Arafatwa: No sir, you are not wrong and nor is your memory bad; we have indeed heard of the Magic Guild moving against Fary Tail, making this particular plot twist not as pulled from the rear end as some of you goons seem to think.
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resurgam40 posted:Yasser Arafatwa: No sir, you are not wrong and nor is your memory bad; we have indeed heard of the Magic Guild moving against Fary Tail, making this particular plot twist not as pulled from the rear end as some of you goons seem to think.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 03:27 |
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I wish we'd gotten a scene of the Magic Council putting Fairy Tail on double secret probation.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 03:55 |
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Sindai posted:I wish we'd gotten a scene of the Magic Council putting Fairy Tail on double secret probation. We did, kinda. Right after the whole Edolas thing.
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GoatLord posted:There sure are a lot of people in this thread who think having a twist by heavily hinting at one thing and giving no evidence whatsoever of what it really is is great writing. It's more interesting than the obvious possibility, but not exactly a masterful narrative technique. I thought it was pretty well done. Above and beyond that, yeah, we already knew that the Council was moving against Fairy Tail, we also knew that Mest was bad news somehow thanks to his who-are-you-again nature: never once did he appear anywhere in crowd scenes before this arc, so the reveal of his powers and the fact that he was not a FT member wasn't a surprise. This was a good way to indicate an even more complicated plot in this potential three-way battle. So if the Council continues to be part of this arc, I think it was very good. If it turns out that Mest and his Explodium-based battleship just showed up to make us understand that Grimoire Heart are bad news and very powerful... eh, that's not good writing. Hard to know which way it'll go right now. I'll still read and enjoy it, either way, because I love this manga's energy and breakneck pace.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 07:44 |
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Mest was never going to be an outright bad guy though because when Wendy teamed up with him she said something like "I don't sense any evil in him" and if a protagonist says that it automatically means they can't be bad. Protagonists hunches are never wrong.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2010 14:21 |
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fairy tail 214
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| # ? Dec 4, 2010 22:07 |
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wutz posted:fairy tail 214 Welp. Did not expect that to happen, or at least not so soon.
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Hah. "Is this Guild made up of cats and children?"
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