Fairy Tail Chapter 221 Review.. and a commentary on "Character Death"

They totally skipped Mirajane and Lisanna!!!  *Not that I didn't expect it...my friend totally predicted that 221 will be focused on the 7 kins and we won't see what happens to Mira and Lisanna anytime soon.* Poof. Well, here goes another week of waiting! :'(

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I must say, it was disappointing that Zeref and Urtear's fight wasn't shown. After all the hype w/ Zeref's "I'm angry"... all we see is him losing to Urtear. x.x

Elfman and Evergreen's part for this chapter looked good. They managed to show Evergreen's magic's weakness, and yet I'm starting to think these two could make a good fighting tandem.

Natsu's down, which was good imo. He's been having a LOT of powerups lately for my liking. I hope he'd get a rest for a while. I'm sure they'd make him do some heroistic entrance again later on. :eyeroll (PS- I really do find you adorable Natsu. I'm just not fond of too many unexplainable powerups.)

At last they made it a bit clearer now what GH want from Zeref. I guess FT mages will fight more vigorously now that they know what evil is being planned.

I keep getting excited seeing that Erza and Juvia are facing the same opponent. I hope they'll have some sort of combo! Both fighters are really good. It's interesting to know what they can do together.

As for Lisanna... well, overall I would like to see Lisanna improve, but I wouldn't want to see that as early as next time we see her. I mean, I don't want her to suddenly go demonic (or have a sudden power surge of sort) and pwn Azuma like Mirajane did to Fried when she thought Elfman could die. It would be so...unreal.

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When I first saw Charle's vision, I thought it was Makarov's hand. haha. But people are saying it's a feminine hand. I really don't want to accept yet that it's Mira. I guess it is about time FT would take some real loss on their side... but I really can't imagine FT without Mira.

I mean whew, she's been there from the start. She's always the one explaining things to Lucy. We haven't seen much of her fights, and some of FT's major battles she didn't take part at all (like in the Tower and in Edoras) but even so she's always been one to welcome the team back. She has good leadership skills too, in Phantom arc we saw how she and Cana could take over leading the other FT mages while Team Natsu is busy fighting.

I was also hoping to see her fight more often. I mean hey, she actually said herself she still has a lot to learn when it comes to fighting. (she said to Erza after being beat by Elfman and Evergreen..). I had high hopes of seeing Demon Mira in more awesome fights.

But then this is death we're talking about. Death usually comes unexpectedly, and it hurt more that way. If that's what Mashima is trying to achieve when he decides someone would die, then he'd achieve that with Mira. The more unexpected, the more hopes are there to be shattered, the more a presence will be missed, the more "effective" a character death will be.

If Mira really did die. I'm still crossing my fingers hoping she did not!

RIP Mirajane?

-spoilers to come, so you better have read FT220 first-

I've been waiting for Fairy Tail 220 all week. Yesterday I logged off really late hoping it would be uploaded but it wasn't. And yes, here it is! Chapter 220.

I was all excited when I saw that the chapter centers on Mirajane. I was fired up reading until I realized what was going to happen... and when it did, I just don't want to accept it. Did she, really, got herself killed?
[] Yes [] No [] Not sure [] Haven't read it yet? (then read!)
I see as early as now forum threads with the same title as this post have started to appear, arguing whether she's gone or not...



^ I don't know if I should believe what was implied. Yes- I said implied, since it's not very much confirmed yet. This being Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima... you can't really tell.  I was told when I started reading FT that Mashima's characters have the habit of coming back from the dead, or turning out as not-really-so-dead-yet. I didn't give it much thought then, but now I do.

I certainly hope they were right telling me not to believe when a character seems to have died. I hope Mira's not really dead! I don't think we've seen enough of Demon Mira in action. She has just started to fight again :(

Hiro Mashima, you better take it back as soon as next chapter. Not Mira. Phuleassse. I don't want another favorite character of mine to die.

I am thinking maybe this is just made so Lisanna would have a "reason" to become stronger. Like, Mira's death would be like a Berserk button for her (mirroring Mira's sudden surge of power when Elfman was almost killed) and she'd have some awesome fight scene to her credit and release hidden powers and all, but it'd turn out big sis is not dead after all... or something. Maybe it's going to be like that. I don't know. 

I just wanna say I hope it's not really a goodbye yet for Mirajane :(