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Dec 20, 2016 1:40 PM
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Both mother and daughter have been stripped naked and tortured...

It's a miracle she didn't lose her sanity sooner.
Dec 20, 2016 1:46 PM
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Im pretty sure at the end Eileen was leaving details intentionally out at the end, she explainedshe couldnt cast herself into baby Erza, but she dint explained why, and im pretty sure "because she dint have the proper magic knowledge to do that" is not the right answer
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Dec 20, 2016 1:57 PM
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wow so Eileen have a human husband thats kinda a relief lol i thought she is pregnant with that Belserion dragon

and look at that Eileen became a full dragon and Zeref kinda hide that when he gave her a human body

next chapter is interesting, the enchantment magic will be revealed

im starting to think Erza could be a dragon or dragon slayer too lol
Dec 20, 2016 3:06 PM
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Dayum, the whole twisted backstory at last!
Dec 20, 2016 3:57 PM
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so if Erza is the daughter of a dragon slayer turned dragon, what is Erza? A dragon slayer hybrid?

I honestly don't want her as a dragon slayer..
Dec 20, 2016 4:11 PM
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This is so retarded and forced. The moral is a nice one, but the whole motivation is pointless and dumb.

It´s just to make Erza´s Dad a dick and justify Irene as a bitch that´s in the right when even a kid can point out how dumb everyone´s motivation is and predict that by the end she´s gonna be proven wrong because it´s obvious that she´s wrong.

She was tortured by her loved ones, but that doesn´t mean that the world is evil. it just means like with every other cookie cutter villain that just those few guys were dickholes for the sake of being dickholes. It´s bs it´s the worst form of teenage literature. It´s anger enducing in how stupid this plotline is.

Even if Erza´s Dad doesn´t have an ounce of love for his wife because political marriage, his behaviour makes zero sense. Even if his motivations are the fear of a character switch on his wife due to dragonification none of this justifies the cruelity or the violence him and his people exhibited towards Irene.
An assasination attempt or a failed execution would perfectly replace all the bullshit and give Irene a believeable story arc that delivers the same character development.

It´s been already done I CAN´T BELIEVE THIS HORSESHIT WAS WRITTEN WHEN A BETTER SHOUNEN DID THIS EXACT SAME BACKSTORY in a good way. JUST STEAL GAARA´S BACKSTORY AND YOU GOT IT. But no we get this horseshit here because "humans are evvviiillllll". Holy fuck Hiro this a new low into bullshit territory for you.
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I still don't get what Irene is.
She is a dragon with human physics thanks to Zeref, but still a dragon so why didn't Acnologia notice it?
Dec 20, 2016 5:24 PM
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She is a dragon with human physics thanks to Zeref, but still a dragon so why didn't Acnologia notice it?


it got something to do with Eileen being a master of enchantment
and it looks like it will be explained next chapter
Dec 20, 2016 6:45 PM
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Wow what a chapter, and Irene's story it does remind of actually fairy tales, how ironic. I have seen some scumbag dads in fiction, heck look no further than Minerva's dad, heck Laxus' dad is not exactly father of the year material, but oh man, Erza's dad what a totally scumbag. Suddenly Lucy's dad is not looking so bad. Cana you are so lucky, you don't need even know it.

But now everything makes sense with Irene, the scar of course, and the whole exchange with Fliore.

Irene becoming a dragon for so long, she lost her mind, you have to wonder what role she played in history when she was a dragon.

Well that was an intense chapter, I have to wonder how this fight will end, I see the loop hole for Erza winning, Irene's enchantment took a while to take effect or Erza's has to awaken her power, and she will be an equal match for Irene and she will defeat her. Calling it.
Dec 20, 2016 6:53 PM

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Woah Irene tortured & stripped.
Failed to enchant herself into her child.

Erza vs Irene.
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Dec 20, 2016 6:56 PM

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wow Erza's dad is a fucking piece of shit huh.
Dec 20, 2016 7:00 PM
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I liked this chapter a lot for some reason. Felt bad for Eileen when she was abandoned by her husband and got tortured. Still, excellent chapter. Did Erza grow boobs? 5/5.
Dec 20, 2016 7:19 PM

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I swear, a spin-off telling how this war of humans against dragons played out would be far more interesting than what we got lately.
Dec 20, 2016 8:17 PM
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I liked this chapter a lot for some reason. Felt bad for Eileen when she was abandoned by her husband and got tortured. Still, excellent chapter. Did Erza grow boobs? 5/5.


I will give her that much, but she lost her mind and failed to keep focus on her daughter. The moment the enchantment failed she just stopped caring about her. I get Ezra's dad is an A-hole. Even if resent the part of his blood for what he did to her, there was still the other part of her blood that flowed within Ezra. She now sees her daughter as trash now. You make all that talk about Ezra, only to trash her. Even if she indeed lost her mind, that doesn't change the fact that she now looks at her daughter as nothing else, not even as her daughter. Stuff like that does get me steamed, but for good reason as to why. But I'll save my later judgement once this whole thing has passed.
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Im pretty sure at the end Eileen was leaving details intentionally out at the end, she explainedshe couldnt cast herself into baby Erza, but she dint explained why, and im pretty sure "because she dint have the proper magic knowledge to do that" is not the right answer


After that last post I posted. I do hope that's the case.
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It´s been already done I CAN´T BELIEVE THIS HORSESHIT WAS WRITTEN WHEN A BETTER SHOUNEN DID THIS EXACT SAME BACKSTORY in a good way. JUST STEAL GAARA´S BACKSTORY AND YOU GOT IT. But no we get this horseshit here because "humans are evvviiillllll". Holy fuck Hiro this a new low into bullshit territory for you.

and i just wondereing where i have read this... LMAO...
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Confused. Very fucked up as well but as someone who went through the same thing with my own birth mother I have got to say well brave and we done Erza. We don't need the people who through us away like shit! I enjoyed this short but very impactful chapter. Lifts my spirits. :)
Dec 20, 2016 10:44 PM
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I'm still amazed at how many people just assumed that Erza's dad was a dragon. I guess many people in the anime community have weird fetishes, which shouldn't surprise me.
Dec 21, 2016 1:17 AM

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Literally a snoozefest. Like am I suppose to care and related with Irene or something? Especially for a character who’s pretty much plot a device for Mary Sue Erza to get even more relevancy and gain even more asspull powerups?. The fight itself is going to suck in trend with most of Erza’s fights, I can’t wait till it ends. Erza: Poorly written character at best.
Dec 21, 2016 3:50 AM

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I hope it doesn't end in the 'Fairy Tail way', Eileen changing her heart at the last moment when she loses and Erza along with everyone of course forgives her.
"At some point, I stopped hoping."
Dec 21, 2016 4:18 AM

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Reymon698 said:
Im pretty sure at the end Eileen was leaving details intentionally out at the end, she explainedshe couldnt cast herself into baby Erza, but she dint explained why, and im pretty sure "because she dint have the proper magic knowledge to do that" is not the right answer


After that last post I posted. I do hope that's the case.


I have two theories

1- When Erza was born, she snapped back to her "mama" self and realized she couldnt do it, disgusted at herself and unable to look at baby Erza in shame, she left her to care in rosmary village. As for why she is trying to kill her in the present, no clue about that

2-Maybe it was because at the end Erza was born part dragon, she spend hundreds of years in Ieleen´s womb while she was still a dragon, so its not weird to think that Erza body got affected, so Eileen found out she would still be part dragon even if she enchanted herself unto Erza
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Dec 21, 2016 6:19 AM

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LOL Irene had it rough, being betrayed by ur people and ur husband, tortued and humliliated, i guess we get why she hates humans that much and respects Acnologia who's almost like her, maybe he had it rough too before he decided to start killing and destroying everything and anything he encounters

Erza being as brave as ever, she has a very strong personnality, she wasnt infected at all by what Irene said, she knows what her goal and who's her family, didnt waver a little (unlike Natsu when he found out he was Zeref's brother, he lost it for real and was about to commit a double suicide xD)

NO NATSU IN THIS CHAPTER ??? WHY HIRO WHYYYYY I WANNA KNOW WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO HIM !

im pretty sure Natsu's gonna have a mini arc only for himself, i mean everybody got his own arc / flashbacks in fairy tail except Natsu, the only thing he did was taking down the vilains :
(Deliora and Lion in Gray's arc,
Jellal and destroyed tower of heaven in Erza's arc,
Done almost everything in Lucy's arc,
Oracion cies was for Wendy too, got zero and cobra, saved the guild and stopped nirvana
Tenrou was related to the past of fairy tail, Gray was a bit related (ultear)
Laxus arc was for Laxus/Makaroc too
Edolas was for Happy and charles)

so i guess it's about time we get one for Natsu, and since this one might be the last and Natsu is the MC (along with Lucy) i think it's going to be dramatic,
Dec 21, 2016 6:20 AM
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I swear, a spin-off telling how this war of humans against dragons played out would be far more interesting than what we got lately.

Really? Let me paint a picture in your head then. Dragons roar fire, other dragons roars lazors beams, clash explosion. Both sites facing each other arguing for 5 pages to pad the chapter.Another blast, more arguing.

Acnologia appears does his own roar everyone dies!

Hiro hasn´t shown an ounce of creativity when it comes to his Dragons fights. Which is partially a limitation of design. You can´t draw an amazingly correographed battle when your characters have little T-rex arms or in Grandine´s case no arms at all. Objectively it makes sense to use the lazor breath instead of duking it out with biting and scratching, but lazor breaths aren´t entertaining if you just let them clash with eachother repeatdiately.

The reason lazor fights are entertaining in mecha series and Dragon Ball is because they get mixed up with multiple rockets being launched, people teleporting all over the place and hitting+punching each other. The lasers being fired are monumental highlights. Hiro has shown no interest in implementing fightning correography in his fights since the Tartaros arc and to top it off, this never was his strength to begin with.

You won´t find a single Anime list that includes a FT fight as "the most epic fight". The politics on the other hand are so barebones generic that a 3 year old would say "seen it" when witnessing it and have been already fleshed out.

Evil Dragons:Humans are food!

Good Dragons: No humans are friend! Don´t eat humans

E: But I like eating humans they taste good.

G: Don´t eat humans that´s evil. Humans do help.

Is this really exciting?
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Isterio said:


Is this really exciting?


Hey, I said it would be interesting not better. At least we get to see a war in FT that is not one-sided to a single faction and have consistent losses on both sides.
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Hey, I said it would be interesting not better. At least we get to see a war in FT that is not one-sided to a single faction and have consistent losses on both sides.


It would be one sided though, Acnologia appears he wins the end.
Furthermore seeing those losses would be meaningless as we´d just be introduced towards those characters that had no screeentime and currently its hard to care about the main cast with their utter retardation and bs excuses for a plot.
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For FT standards this backstory is quite good
Dec 21, 2016 11:39 AM

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Irene betrayed by her lover and humans and gets tortured which gives rise to her human complex.
Erza's word were real motivational :'(
Dec 21, 2016 12:41 PM

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Irene suffered for 3 years yet she didn't care about herself and only wanted the baby to survive, and then after those hundred of years of being a dragon she was still thinking about the baby yet after all that she abandoned her.

That was a very sad ending to their relationship. All that effort wasted mad me really sad.

I went back to chapter 510 to see if she was the same dragon that attacked Zeref & Natsu's village but it doesn't look like it, that silhouette of that dragon looks too different.

At least we now know where Erza gets her selflessness from, whenever she gets beat up she only thinks of her guild mates instead of her own well being.

And the scar was also explained, that's an arranged marriage for you, true love doesn't always from them.

And lastly, did anyone else realize how badass Erza looked in that last panel with that new armor. Realistically though it should not help her, way too much difference in power plus Erza has been messed up multiple times during this war.

Maybe it's the perfect time for Acnologia to make an appearance again? I think only him or END could defeat Irene and August.
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im still in shock after being just stunned for like a hour about what just happened..
but DAAAAMN!
either way now we got the Christmas special along with it all !
cause MAL is doing there job for once.
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Pretty fucked up backstory for Irene, it's unfortunate that he husband was such a jackass. Well, it looks like she and Erza will fight now.
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Kinda a disappointment that the reveal of Erza's father is that he is just a normal, boring human (despite being a general) being while her mother is the mother of all dragon slayers...
Dec 22, 2016 1:15 AM

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Well I didn't expect the father to be such a dick.
Irine sure had it rough T_T Makes sense why she hates humans after she got betrayed like that...
Not caring for Erza though.. I feel like she's lying or that lack of sleep/food made her crazy.
Dec 22, 2016 2:41 AM

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I honestly think hiro mashima doesn't have a clue what he's doing any more. Erza now is like Natsu and all the sudden has ties to the Dragon race and even Zeref. So what Erza is a dragon slayer or half breed or what ever. Doesn't that like contradict the whole story about the "true" dragon slayers coming from 400 yrs in the past though. Come on man this is ridiculous and the reason behind why Eiline is suddenly evil, is a bunch of hogwash. I honestly can't take nothing in FT serious any more. Some of these idea's of his just honestly come out of no where.

Some times I think Hiro just comes up with these crazy idea's to show some development with said main characters, but it doesn't really matter in the long run because these "characters" or villains get pretty much killed off in the same arc and there role in the story doesn't amount to nothing at that point.



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Irene quite desperate to become human again back then..not that I'm surprised about that. The background story about Irene still feels fucked up to me.

I expect the big fight to come next chapter or so.
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Irene quite desperate to become human again back then..not that I'm surprised about that. The background story about Irene still feels fucked up to me.

I expect the big fight to come next chapter or so.


Stark your not the first person to post this time. Your getting a little rusty.



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Does Mashima himself even believe in what he's writing anymore? This backstory was so pointless and void of consequences it's actually pretty impressive. Literally nothing changes.
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I feel awful for Irene and it makes sense why she's the way she is. Tortured, embarassed, treated like shit and abandoned by her baby daddy who wanted to carve her stomach open.

All Irene wanted was to co-exist with dragons because she loved them. :/

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This is so retarded and forced. The moral is a nice one, but the whole motivation is pointless and dumb.

It´s just to make Erza´s Dad a dick and justify Irene as a bitch that´s in the right when even a kid can point out how dumb everyone´s motivation is and predict that by the end she´s gonna be proven wrong because it´s obvious that she´s wrong.

She was tortured by her loved ones, but that doesn´t mean that the world is evil. it just means like with every other cookie cutter villain that just those few guys were dickholes for the sake of being dickholes. It´s bs it´s the worst form of teenage literature. It´s anger enducing in how stupid this plotline is.

Even if Erza´s Dad doesn´t have an ounce of love for his wife because political marriage, his behaviour makes zero sense. Even if his motivations are the fear of a character switch on his wife due to dragonification none of this justifies the cruelity or the violence him and his people exhibited towards Irene.
An assasination attempt or a failed execution would perfectly replace all the bullshit and give Irene a believeable story arc that delivers the same character development.

It´s been already done I CAN´T BELIEVE THIS HORSESHIT WAS WRITTEN WHEN A BETTER SHOUNEN DID THIS EXACT SAME BACKSTORY in a good way. JUST STEAL GAARA´S BACKSTORY AND YOU GOT IT. But no we get this horseshit here because "humans are evvviiillllll". Holy fuck Hiro this a new low into bullshit territory for you.




Aren't you the one who usually say that I'm a bit unfair when it comes to Fairy Tail? ^^


But yeah ... it was quite bad. I really liked how unconsistent the father was. "Hello I'm the father ! Irene I love you ... wait no ! TORTUUUUUUUUUURE !!!!!"
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Aren't you the one who usually say that I'm a bit unfair when it comes to Fairy Tail? ^^


But yeah ... it was quite bad. I really liked how unconsistent the father was. "Hello I'm the father ! Irene I love you ... wait no ! TORTUUUUUUUUUURE !!!!!"



These type of villains just grind my gears. I dropped my rewatch of One Piece during Enies Lobby only because of Spandam. The guy is literally the worst.

I hate when an author pulls this type of of storytelling:
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Sigh this arc has been horrible.

Firstly doesn't Eileen's backstory create a plot hole. How was ezra able to get past Freed's spell in the Laxus arc from what I've seen she 400 year's old.

Secondly this was not a backstory this was victimisation. Simply done to make us feel sorry for Eileen and justify her being a bitch just like obito.

What's the point of giving her a backstory when she will either die in the next few chapters or become irrelevant after this arc.

Glad am not the only one who thinks this chapter is BS.
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Sigh this arc has been horrible.

Firstly doesn't Eileen's backstory create a plot hole. How was ezra able to get past Freed's spell in the Laxus arc from what I've seen she 400 year's old.

Secondly this was not a backstory this was victimisation. Simply done to make us feel sorry for Eileen and justify her being a bitch just like obito.

What's the point of giving her a backstory when she will either die in the next few chapters or become irrelevant after this arc.

Glad am not the only one who thinks this chapter is BS.


1.To be fair, technically she wasn´t born yet and in magical hybernation for 400+ years, inside of Irene . Natsu & Gajeel most likely couldn´t pass the Runes because of theancient Dragons inside of them, not because of the timetravel.

2. Which is the reason for my rant I´ve written down above. Obito at least had the decency to be 13 to max 15 years old when his developing teenage psyche was raped infront of him by soldiers that were at war with his country. Mind you, only because of the ideology his country stood for. Rin sacrificed herself because of the Will of Fire. Irene´s husband on the other hand is a douchebag for the sake of being a douchebag. There are several worlds of distance between the writing quality of both backstories.

3.1 While you are probably right we do not know the future.
3.2 It´s for the sake of bringing up the whole nurture vs nature argument. Irene threw Erza into the trash as her biological mother, but her adoptive father was good to her. Both characters got tortured in the same way, but Erza is still remains selfless where Irene became selfish. It´s a good moral terribly executed and done infintely better by kids shows like Adventure time.
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Erza's mother had it rough. :(
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I don't have kids yet but certainly would do my best to never abandon my birth kid like that. If I was raised in a warring country (like a Middle East country) and went through that type of torture, I still don't think I could bring myself to do that.
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wow Erza's dad is a fucking piece of shit huh.

yeah pretty loser , even if she turned into a dragon i would still stay with her ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

ot: That explains why she so loyal to zefer

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I didn't really like the previous chapter's backstory,but that takes the cake.Mashima is trying to make us feel bad for Irene,who was getting tortured all the time,because she was transforming to a dragon,while being pregnant for 3 years!Since they knew that she was transforming into a dragon what's the point to try break her spirit and not instantly killing her so she can't create the havoc she caused afterwards.Her husband,acted completely irrational and also the scar he inflicted to her has been completely wasted plot-wise,since it didn't affect neither her kid nor her emotional stability since she had been already tortured for her dragonification.I expect next week some kind of ass-pull fight and after Irene loses Mashima will try to redeem her character out of nowhere.Time to drop the score of this manga with this trashy backstory and arc.
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I don't get it.
Eileen was the queen, how could her husband have more power than her to order her jailed?
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I don't get it.
Eileen was the queen, how could her husband have more power than her to order her jailed?


Her husband was from a different kingdom.
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Well then... Sorry Erza
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geearf said:
I don't get it.
Eileen was the queen, how could her husband have more power than her to order her jailed?


Her husband was from a different kingdom.

Right but he was a general, she was a queen, it'd be more likely for him to move with her than the opposite. Or did her kingdom join as a vassal of her husband's?
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For FT standards this backstory is quite good


Agreed, very surprising!
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