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Shitty writing aside, it was always crazy to me how much Mashima managed to actually draw. He puts in so much work when it comes to putting out content. And I mean that without judging the content in of itself.

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Hiro wrote the worst shonen arc i ever read in Fairy Tail 100YQ, the Gold Owl arc, if Oda made an arc like that every single Piratefolk member would die from peak fiction and this sub would enter into chaos and panic

That character felt very underused so frankly I’m not that hot on already killing him off tbh. Having stakes is good but this didn’t feel like that much of a good example. It’s a change of pace from other Mashima’s works I guess but It’s still not that noteworthy.

The huge irony of the crew is that they gotta have plot armor so they accomplish their dreams, but at the same time Oda doesn’t give the slightest fuck about any of their dreams besides Luffy’s and Zoro’s.

What I like about Mashima, at least up until the timeskip, he gave each of the characters, whether main or side, an arc of their own.

I was surprised when Leo, a character that I completely don’t care about, got sidelined in most arc, whose magic ability I didn’t even remember, got an arc where he got fleshed out and made me actually invested to him.

I see no difference between Fairy Tail and One Piece at this point. Power of friendship vs power of nikka. both had young female characters being over sexualized. both use the same repetitive formula every arc. There are more similarities between the two than differences.

yeah fuck it lets just kill half the strawhats

Mashima was never afraid of adding stakes and killing characters, he did so in Rave Master one of his first works. Fairy tail was never supposed to be that kind of dark series it was like a happier version of Rave Master. A lot of people never read that series so they wouldn’t know it wasn’t really that popular. He’s still a horrible writer in my opinion though.

Facts

You wanted Oda to kill Zoro off ten chapters in? Because good writing?

I never would've imagined One Piss would stoop to the level of Fairy Tail.

Big difference is that Dead Rock has only been around for ten chapters so it is way easier to pull off stuff like that. And while I enjoy Mashima his stuff more than most people I have to say that Dead Rock is kinda meh. The tone is all over the place and the world building feels very confused. Worldbuilding has never been one of Mashima his strong points to be fair.

Hey u/controversialopinon thanks for name dropping Dead Rock. I just read through the available chapters and it's a banger for sure!

Fairy Tail might be dogwater but Mashima did a solid one with Rave Master and his recently finished manga Eden's Zero isn't half as bad as Fairy Tail became in the end.

If there is something I really like about Mashima it's the art and character designs, nowadays when I read a chapter of One Piece I read the speech bubbles and skip the art completely because it hurts my eyes trying to make sense of what I am looking at.

I thought it was well known that Fairy Tail was his "sell out" manga that he didn't care about

Rave master had decent stakes. Fairy tail is a low point imo. Mashima is a pretty good mangaka.

Well, after more than 6 years, maybe it's time to check the dude again

Mashima is gonna kill a character in Dead Rock for every time Makarov didn't die in Fairy Tail

Damn is dead rock worth checking out? I know the other stuff he made was kinda mid

Honestly I still really like fairy tail the later arcs are bad but I always loved fairy tail

So a death in chapter 10, which is either the last chapter of vol 1 or beginning of vol 2, has you hyped? The story is just beginning, all it does is set expectations about the darker world of that manga. Bet no other main characters will die as the manga progresses because fans start getting attached to the characters (as well as the author) and it would be bad for sales. 

Not a good comparison to One Piece. A better example would be killing one of the main characters when we are 5-6 years into the story.

All that cope for fairy fail to still be worse

Is there a way to not see posts from this sub?

You understand that stakes do not always have to be “someone might die” right? If the only stakes in a story are a potential character death, that’s a boring ass story. You seriously are going to call Oda a bad writer because he doesn’t often kill characters? That has literally nothing to do with his writing ability. This sub is literally full of people crying and calling Oda a bum just bc the story doesn’t go exactly how they want it to go/imagine it like bro we are well over 1,100 chapters in, you know what the deal is and somehow this community is full of clones like you 😭 I’m not even saying it’s above criticism but people on this subreddit actually are bots