Acnologia had an Uchiha-class entrance. Badass at it's finest! I've been loosely on the fan wagon, but this honestly solidifies it! Some respect toward Serena too, other than his over confidence.
I dont think Serena is dead. Right before he challenged Acno his eyes went black. He must have activated one of his 8 kinds of magic. We've seen this before with the robot spriggan.
Amazing chapter, 5/5. I doubt Serena is dead, down but not out. Also interesting that he has 8 lacramas inside of him, would figure a person would die or something; although this would explain the hybrid theory title lel. Serena's eyes turning black was also odd, perhaps there is some cost/risk of using those magics/that many differing magics. Acno's plans may force FT/Ishgar(?) to unite with Zeref/Avarez(?) to confront Acno or something. Little disappointed that there is no ice, water,or other dragon slayers, unless they were already killed/defeated by Acno.
Yes he will. Hiro rarely makes battles that are important be over in a flash and Gildarts lost much of his power as long as the tree was unrooted. When he finally got his power back, he made short work out of Bluenote. You can't assess the full power of one character in only one very limited battle, you need to check several of them, but that is still the only battle so far we have seen of Gildarts and for more than half of it he couldn't even fight seriously.
Also Makarov's words really have become utterly redundant at this point as his perception of the power of the FT mages is severely off. He couldn't believe that Laxus beat Jura. He couldn't believe either the power Natsu and the others showed when they saved him from Alvarez. He couldn't believe either the power many of them showed during the Grand Magic Games tournament. At this point Makarov really doesn't have a very good image on the strength of his mages and this counts double for Gildarts who is rarely at the guild.
Lastly don't forget that it has been quite a long time since his fight with Bluenote and everyone else has gotten much stronger. Why would he be any different? Gildarts follows the traditional method of training by living. He travels around the world on his own strength. Natsu did that for one year and looked how much effect it had. Gildarts has been doing that for his entire life.
Hiro has always proclaimed Gildarts as the strongest mage of FT, but he has only let him fight in a single, limited battle. If there ever was a time for him to go all out, it's right now otherwise his entire character never had any use to begin with and should have been discarded.
I dont think Serena is dead. Right before he challenged Acno his eyes went black. He must have activated one of his 8 kinds of magic. We've seen this before with the robot spriggan.
He isn't a robot and his eyes went black likewise when he started beating the crap out of Warrod and the others and they returned to normal when he stopped. They likely simply signal the fact that he has started using dragon slaying magic, which would rather be a given if you're going to fight the strongest dragon that ever existed. Also there is no panel that shows his eyes went black after he saw Acnologia. There is a panel where his eyes and a part of his face become darkened, but that was merely shade because he was tilting his head.
Amazing chapter, 5/5. I doubt Serena is dead, down but not out. Also interesting that he has 8 lacramas inside of him, would figure a person would die or something; although this would explain the hybrid theory title lel. Serena's eyes turning black was also odd, perhaps there is some cost/risk of using those magics/that many differing magics. Acno's plans may force FT/Ishgar(?) to unite with Zeref/Avarez(?) to confront Acno or something. Little disappointed that there is no ice, water,or other dragon slayers, unless they were already killed/defeated by Acno.
They probably would die. It's strongly implied that having 8 lachrima inside of your isn't normal. August said it himself, Serena is loved by the dragon gods. When he started using all the lachrima, Serena seemed to be quite losing control over his mental state indicating all these lachrima are putting a strain on him if he isn't careful.
And there are two reasons why Alvaraz attacked: to destroy 'humanity' and to obtain Fairy Heart to destroy Acnologia. Neither of these reasons allow them to unite as they contradict one another. It's possible that on the battlefield itself where Acnologia appears they have to postpone their battles, but it's doubtful that Zeref is going give the command that now everyone has to work together with FT and their allies, unless of course he has a change of heart again.
Dragon slaying magic is a lost magic and for a reason. From the current 8 known dragon slayers, 5 are in fact 400 years old who were sent from the past to the future as children. The remaining three got their powers from dragon lachrima, which are extremely rare and expensive and, although not specifically said but strongly implied, dragon lachrima come from real dragons. Dragon slaying magic was also taught by dragons to humans, but dragons have been considered to have been extinct from centuries. So everything required to learn dragon slaying magic is either gone or extremely rare. Not to mention it's not like every dragon that existed taught dragon slaying magic. It has been explained that this in fact was one of the turning points in the dragon war.
It's about time Acnologia showed up. I want a lot of people to die in FT, so I'm hoping he'll just go in and start rekting everything in sight. I want to see Acnologia bring the apocalypes on Fairy Tail and Sabertooth. LET'S GO!
I dont think Serena is dead. Right before he challenged Acno his eyes went black. He must have activated one of his 8 kinds of magic. We've seen this before with the robot spriggan.
Amazing chapter, 5/5. I doubt Serena is dead, down but not out. Also interesting that he has 8 lacramas inside of him, would figure a person would die or something; although this would explain the hybrid theory title lel. Serena's eyes turning black was also odd, perhaps there is some cost/risk of using those magics/that many differing magics. Acno's plans may force FT/Ishgar(?) to unite with Zeref/Avarez(?) to confront Acno or something. Little disappointed that there is no ice, water,or other dragon slayers, unless they were already killed/defeated by Acno.
Yes he will. Hiro rarely makes battles that are important be over in a flash and Gildarts lost much of his power as long as the tree was unrooted. When he finally got his power back, he made short work out of Bluenote. You can't assess the full power of one character in only one very limited battle, you need to check several of them, but that is still the only battle so far we have seen of Gildarts and for more than half of it he couldn't even fight seriously.
Also Makarov's words really have become utterly redundant at this point as his perception of the power of the FT mages is severely off. He couldn't believe that Laxus beat Jura. He couldn't believe either the power Natsu and the others showed when they saved him from Alvarez. He couldn't believe either the power many of them showed during the Grand Magic Games tournament. At this point Makarov really doesn't have a very good image on the strength of his mages and this counts double for Gildarts who is rarely at the guild.
Lastly don't forget that it has been quite a long time since his fight with Bluenote and everyone else has gotten much stronger. Why would he be any different? Gildarts follows the traditional method of training by living. He travels around the world on his own strength. Natsu did that for one year and looked how much effect it had. Gildarts has been doing that for his entire life.
Hiro has always proclaimed Gildarts as the strongest mage of FT, but he has only let him fight in a single, limited battle. If there ever was a time for him to go all out, it's right now otherwise his entire character never had any use to begin with and should have been discarded.
You're acting like before the tree was unrooted Gildarts was just playing with BlueNote when he was clearly serious and having an hard time while Natsu one shotted BN while holding Chelia without using LFM, DF or the tattoo thingy
Yeah guess you're right about the Makarov part
I'm not saying Gildarts ain't gonna come back and be strong af cuz he clearly will but power scalling wise it ain't gonna make any sense
You're acting like before the tree was unrooted Gildarts was just playing with BlueNote when he was clearly serious and having an hard time while Natsu one shotted BN while holding Chelia without using LFM, DF or the tattoo thingy
Yeah guess you're right about the Makarov part
I'm not saying Gildarts ain't gonna come back and be strong af cuz he clearly will but power scalling wise it ain't gonna make any sense
I am stating how most manga battles are portrayed. The fact that Gildarts almost one-shotted Bluenote after having been tossed around due to the unrooted tree says enough. If he could do that after it, he definitely could have done it before, but that does not make for interesting battles nor does it make sense. No one ever goes full out from the start for the simple reason you need to assess your opponent with the exception of course if the writer wants to show the clear difference in skill instantly.
Natsu one shotted Bluenote nearly a decade later. As I stated do you think Gildarts didn't change or something? Natsu did only for one year what Gildarts has been doing his entire life.
It makes all the sense in the world. Gildarts has been described numerous times as the strongest mage in Fairy Tail. However outside the Grimoire Heart arc he hasn't participated in any of the fights FT was in. Phantom Lord, Grand Magic Games, Oracion Seis, Tartaros etc...he was absent at all of them. What was the point of his entire character if his only achievement was to kick Bluenote's ass? A character that later got handled by Natsu easily?
Currently we really don't have any shortage of powerful opponents. Putting aside Brandish and Serena, the only Spriggan they have been able to take down is Azir and that was not the result of the supposed "plot armour", as some people say, but because several characters collaborated and took him down together. Now this scenario will likely repeat itself. With Acnologia appearing it's very well possible all the dragon slayers will be clashing with him and then you still have 9 healthy Spriggans + Zeref. Enough strong opponents left, but doubtful if there are enough people strong enough to take them all on. One in particular will be problematic: August. Hence I believe Gildarts will duke it out with him: the strongest mage in FT vs the strongest Spriggan.
I am stating how most manga battles are portrayed. The fact that Gildarts almost one-shotted Bluenote after having been tossed around due to the unrooted tree says enough. If he could do that after it, he definitely could have done it before, but that does not make for interesting battles nor does it make sense. No one ever goes full out from the start for the simple reason you need to assess your opponent with the exception of course if the writer wants to show the clear difference in skill instantly.
Natsu one shotted Bluenote nearly a decade later. As I stated do you think Gildarts didn't change or something? Natsu did only for one year what Gildarts has been doing his entire life.
It makes all the sense in the world. Gildarts has been described numerous times as the strongest mage in Fairy Tail. However outside the Grimoire Heart arc he hasn't participated in any of the fights FT was in. Phantom Lord, Grand Magic Games, Oracion Seis, Tartaros etc...he was absent at all of them. What was the point of his entire character if his only achievement was to kick Bluenote's ass? A character that later got handled by Natsu easily?
Currently we really don't have any shortage of powerful opponents. Putting aside Brandish and Serena, the only Spriggan they have been able to take down is Azir and that was not the result of the supposed "plot armour", as some people say, but because several characters collaborated and took him down together. Now this scenario will likely repeat itself. With Acnologia appearing it's very well possible all the dragon slayers will be clashing with him and then you still have 9 healthy Spriggans + Zeref. Enough strong opponents left, but doubtful if there are enough people strong enough to take them all on. One in particular will be problematic: August. Hence I believe Gildarts will duke it out with him: the strongest mage in FT vs the strongest Spriggan.
He one shotted him with 1 of or his strongest attack after destroying BlueNote's strongest attack. With that logic everytime someone beats someone 1 on 1 with his strongest attack we could say he was capable of one shotting him but he didn't cuz the fight wouldn't be interesting enough
Actually for Gildarts it was just more or less 2 years, and btw for BlueNote was 9 so he should've been even stronger and Natsu still one shotted him
I know Gildarts is probably gonna fight the strongest Spriggan I'm just saying it won't make sense
Ever since the Color cover page of chapter 1 of Fairy Tail......Mashima sensei has the habit of foreshadowing important plot-points, events, future happenings in the manga either through the illustrations or through the use of words alone. He is so good at foreshadowing or hinting 'certain' something through the words/dialogues alone.
His fight against Bluenote wasn't started serious at all. They were just sharing punches before Azuma cut off the Sirius Tree. And Gildarts took the beating and that made him so tired. After the tree was returned to life, Bluenote made an interesting remark that they should now both fight seriously. Meaning of which they weren't from the start.
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And Precht Gabelog besides himself considered Gildarts as the only one who can stop Bluenote. And there is also an intersting dialogue Mashima threw which follows up in next page. Precht thought FT has zero chance of winning from his arrival on Sirius Island but after cutting off Sirius Island he made a remark of now FT has 'lost even a small chance of winning'. This talks differently. Who would have made that difference?.
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Now clearing that up....I want to mention Gildarts Vs Acnologia. Gildarts didn't stated that his fight against Acnologia happened basically in an instant. But the injuries he got from Acnologia or that attack happened basically in an instant. That is understandable since he fought against Acnologia's Dragon form. Dragons are strongest creatures in FT world.
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The above dialogue was supported by Mashima in Sirius Island arc. We all knew how disaster Acnologia Vs FT battle in Sirius Island. Acnologia didn't even cared and just toyed with them while complete FT crew members used all of their strength to fight against Acnologia and it didn't even caused any damage to Acnologia. That is to be expected because that is Acnologia. While Gildarts had a completely different view about the Acnologia Vs FT battle.
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Saying Bluenote is as strong as Gildarts is like saying Bluenote could fight Acnologia like Gildarts did. There is also something that I want to talk about so called Natsu oneshotting Bluenote. But that can wait till time comes I guess. Also I want to mention that Gildarts is the only one who crushed hot-headed-battle-freak Natsu's will twice. First time in Sirius Island arc and second time in silent chapter after tartarus arc.
I think you all noticed it already that Gildarts had been portrayed to be someone who is not so good at controlling his power and holding back. That doesn't mean he don't hold back but more like he tries his best to hold back and some bit of power that he is failing to hold back is losing out of his control like how he crushed the ground without himself knowing and how he killed that monster he want to eat & destroyed mountain landscape with his punch in silent chapter 2. Mashima has been always portraying him like that since his arrival.
We can't actually take what is said by Makarov as true. Gildarts was rarely at the guild and he always goes on adventures and travelling. No one knows the true extent of Gildarts power aside from Acnologia. There is also something that I want to mention about 'Strongest of West' but that can wait till it was brought back again I guess. There is more and more I want to talk about Gildarts portrayal in the manga so far. There is a lot but I am thinking that might be too long to read so I will stop here.
Btw....small part of credits should go to some random users(sorry I don't remember) from 2ch forums. I didn't noticed all of these until Japanese fandom talked about this around GMG arc I guess. I just simply treasured important key points which they were talking at that time. xD. And waited for a long time to mention this. Actually I only thought to bring this when Gildarts appears in the manga. But since you talked about it I thought I should post it.
Cali read CR version of Trans. I think there is a two changes(?) from MS version of Trans.
Serena is gone for good, I believe. He's not coming back IMO, even Igneed met his end in similar fashion. So, except for the fact that it'd be too foolish to kill such an overhyped character as easily, there is literally no reason to believe that he'd survive it. Serena ain't got access to regeneration, therefore it's safe to assume that he isn't coming back. What's soo important about Serena at this point is the fact that he's capable of using multiple Dragon lacrima. The author is trying to open doors for something new with this so called hybrid theory. IMO the whole purpose of Serena's character is to introduce HYBRID THEORY.
Regarding Gildarts:
I am positive that among the characters introduced so far in the series, he's the strongest character alive bar Zeref and Acnologia. Gildart's has yet to be surpassed by FT mages. Even now, He's the mightiest mage of Fairy Tail for sure. Many might believe it to be Magic King but if Acnologia doesn't mop the floor with him, I can see him getting defeated by Laxus "kind of foreshadowed when FT went for Makarov's rescue" who by all means should be currently weaker than Gildart's according to portrayal so far in the series. If it won't be Laxus, then it'll definitely be a team effort or The mightiest mage of FT may return to take part in the war and defeat August. The guy's probably the only one to date who survived a battle with Dragon King to tell the tail. That's a feat in itself and makes ypu wonder how highly Hiro thinks of this guy.
Serena is gone for good, I believe. He's not coming back IMO, even Igneed met his end in similar fashion. So, except for the fact that it'd be too foolish to kill such an overhyped character as easily, there is literally no reason to believe that he'd survive it. Serena ain't got access to regeneration, therefore it's safe to assume that he isn't coming back. What's soo important about Serena at this point is the fact that he's capable of using multiple Dragon lacrima. The author is trying to open doors for something new with this so called hybrid theory. IMO the whole purpose of Serena's character is to introduce HYBRID THEORY.
Regarding Gildarts:
I am positive that among the characters introduced so far in the series, he's the strongest character alive bar Zeref and Acnologia. Gildart's has yet to be surpassed by FT mages. Even now, He's the mightiest mage of Fairy Tail for sure. Many might believe it to be Magic King but if Acnologia doesn't mop the floor with him, I can see him getting defeated by Laxus "kind of foreshadowed when FT went for Makarov's rescue" who by all means should be currently weaker than Gildart's according to portrayal so far in the series. If it won't be Laxus, then it'll definitely be a team effort or The mightiest mage of FT may return to take part in the war and defeat August. The guy's probably the only one to date who survived a battle with Dragon King to tell the tail. That's a feat in itself and makes ypu wonder how highly Hiro thinks of this guy.
Interesting......you just gave me an idea...you know hybrid theory might be related to Natsu and Gajeel's combo transformations into LFD and SSD respectively
Interesting......you just gave me an idea...you know hybrid theory might be related to Natsu and Gajeel's combo transformations into LFD and SSD respectively
IMO it indicates the possibility of a combo of magic from all Dragon slayers. When they'll face Acnologia, They all will feed Natsu with their power giving him enough strength to battle & defeat him. I don't see any other possible way to defeat Acnologia. At this point I doubt even END is stronger than or as strong as Igneel let alone Acnologia so only possible options are Hybrid Natsu or Fairy heart. I'd be the former IMO.
Being serious and going all out are two different things. You don't always go all out even if you're serious. He might have held back to prevent the Island from getting destroyed"The guy destroyed a mountain with one Punch". For someone who calls himself the strongest of FT, It'd be rather pathetic if 3-5 moves he demonstrated back then were of his best. Not to mention , he didn't use his saiyan mode that he used to scare Natsu so it's more than likely he wasn't going all out back then.
He one shotted him with 1 of or his strongest attack after destroying BlueNote's strongest attack. With that logic everytime someone beats someone 1 on 1 with his strongest attack we could say he was capable of one shotting him but he didn't cuz the fight wouldn't be interesting enough
Actually for Gildarts it was just more or less 2 years, and btw for BlueNote was 9 so he should've been even stronger and Natsu still one shotted him
I know Gildarts is probably gonna fight the strongest Spriggan I'm just saying it won't make sense
And I'm saying it makes all the sense in the world as it wouldn't make sense if it wouldn't be the case. Despite all of Natsu's, Erza's, Laxus' etc. victories, the only person to ever have been seriously and continuously considered to be the strongest mage of FT, is Gildarts. Hiro hyped and waited around 160 chapters to let Gildarts make an appearance. After that he made sure to let him avoid almost all battles. What point was there in doing all of that to make his power be redundant during the grand final?
The only time he let Gildarts fight was against Bluenote and I'm pretty sure the only reason he did that was because he didn't have any other option. I always found Bluenote's character to be rather odd. You have the Seven Kin of Purgatory+ Bluenote... His character came almost literally out of the blue. Why? To keep Gildarts busy. Otherwise Gildarts would have been forced to fight against Precht, which in return would require for Hiro to rewrite the entire final battle if he wanted to keep intact the power scaling he intended to have. He had no other option to keep Gildart's power level balanced if he wanted to introduce him in this arc, hence Bluenote.
And now almost after 500 chapters we still don't know the extent of his power. If you would want to have an accurate assessment of a character like Natsu, Erza or Gray, you would have to check dozens of battles. But you decide, based on one single battle where Gildarts used like one or two techs, the value of his power to state it has become redundant? That does not make sense. According to you logic
The writer of Rurouni Kenshin once said he intentionally avoided Kenshin's teacher to participate much because he was simply too strong. This is what Hiro most likely did too. Gildarts was too strong and that would be problematic for the evolution of other characters. The difference here is that Rurouni Kenshin had one clear main character and one clear boss. Fairy Tail has quite a lot of main characters and currently three bosses: Zeref, Acnologia and August.
If there was ever a perfect time to show why Gildarts is supposed to be the strongest mage in FT, it's right now. If he doesn't, he screwed over his character, which does not make sense for a writer. Unless he has an even bigger battle planned in the future, but what could be possibly bigger than this?
This is a near perfect setting for Gildarts.
Your arguments don't even make sense and you are even undermining them yourself. You say of a powerful character that we have only seen fight once where he used barely two named techs of which we don't even know if it are his strongest techs, as you just said, and where he lost his magic for half of the match to then one-shote Bluenote on the moment the latter clearly proclaimed to become serious and use a highly dangerous move. If Gildarts can pull off such a move in that situation, he could have done it any time before he lost his magic. He didn't, just like how Natsu and many other characters don't go all out each time from the get-go. There is seriously no sense whatsoever in your reasoning. For some reason you find Gildarts' power to have become mute despite you have no idea nor could you know how vast his power is.
Ever since the Color cover page of chapter 1 of Fairy Tail......Mashima sensei has the habit of foreshadowing important plot-points, events, future happenings in the manga either through the illustrations or through the use of words alone. He is so good at foreshadowing or hinting 'certain' something through the words/dialogues alone.
His fight against Bluenote wasn't started serious at all. They were just sharing punches before Azuma cut off the Sirius Tree. And Gildarts took the beating and that made him so tired. After the tree was returned to life, Bluenote made an interesting remark that they should now both fight seriously. Meaning of which they weren't from the start.
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And Precht Gabelog besides himself considered Gildarts as the only one who can stop Bluenote. And there is also an intersting dialogue Mashima threw which follows up in next page. Precht thought FT has zero chance of winning from his arrival on Sirius Island but after cutting off Sirius Island he made a remark of now FT has 'lost even a small chance of winning'. This talks differently. Who would have made that difference?.
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Now clearing that up....I want to mention Gildarts Vs Acnologia. Gildarts didn't stated that his fight against Acnologia happened basically in an instant. But the injuries he got from Acnologia or that attack happened basically in an instant. That is understandable since he fought against Acnologia's Dragon form. Dragons are strongest creatures in FT world.
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The above dialogue was supported by Mashima in Sirius Island arc. We all knew how disaster Acnologia Vs FT battle in Sirius Island. Acnologia didn't even cared and just toyed with them while complete FT crew members used all of their strength to fight against Acnologia and it didn't even caused any damage to Acnologia. That is to be expected because that is Acnologia. While Gildarts had a completely different view about the Acnologia Vs FT battle.
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Saying Bluenote is as strong as Gildarts is like saying Bluenote could fight Acnologia like Gildarts did. There is also something that I want to talk about so called Natsu oneshotting Bluenote. But that can wait till time comes I guess. Also I want to mention that Gildarts is the only one who crushed hot-headed-battle-freak Natsu's will twice. First time in Sirius Island arc and second time in silent chapter after tartarus arc.
I think you all noticed it already that Gildarts had been portrayed to be someone who is not so good at controlling his power and holding back. That doesn't mean he don't hold back but more like he tries his best to hold back and some bit of power that he is failing to hold back is losing out of his control like how he crushed the ground without himself knowing and how he killed that monster he want to eat & destroyed mountain landscape with his punch in silent chapter 2. Mashima has been always portraying him like that since his arrival.
We can't actually take what is said by Makarov as true. Gildarts was rarely at the guild and he always goes on adventures and travelling. No one knows the true extent of Gildarts power aside from Acnologia. There is also something that I want to mention about 'Strongest of West' but that can wait till it was brought back again I guess. There is more and more I want to talk about Gildarts portrayal in the manga so far. There is a lot but I am thinking that might be too long to read so I will stop here.
Btw....small part of credits should go to some random users(sorry I don't remember) from 2ch forums. I didn't noticed all of these until Japanese fandom talked about this around GMG arc I guess. I just simply treasured important key points which they were talking at that time. xD. And waited for a long time to mention this. Actually I only thought to bring this when Gildarts appears in the manga. But since you talked about it I thought I should post it.
Cali read CR version of Trans. I think there is a two changes(?) from MS version of Trans.
Serena is gone for good, I believe. He's not coming back IMO, even Igneed met his end in similar fashion. So, except for the fact that it'd be too foolish to kill such an overhyped character as easily, there is literally no reason to believe that he'd survive it. Serena ain't got access to regeneration, therefore it's safe to assume that he isn't coming back. What's soo important about Serena at this point is the fact that he's capable of using multiple Dragon lacrima. The author is trying to open doors for something new with this so called hybrid theory. IMO the whole purpose of Serena's character is to introduce HYBRID THEORY.
Regarding Gildarts:
I am positive that among the characters introduced so far in the series, he's the strongest character alive bar Zeref and Acnologia. Gildart's has yet to be surpassed by FT mages. Even now, He's the mightiest mage of Fairy Tail for sure. Many might believe it to be Magic King but if Acnologia doesn't mop the floor with him, I can see him getting defeated by Laxus "kind of foreshadowed when FT went for Makarov's rescue" who by all means should be currently weaker than Gildart's according to portrayal so far in the series. If it won't be Laxus, then it'll definitely be a team effort or The mightiest mage of FT may return to take part in the war and defeat August. The guy's probably the only one to date who survived a battle with Dragon King to tell the tail. That's a feat in itself and makes ypu wonder how highly Hiro thinks of this guy.
Serena and Igneel are two different characters. Igneel was in fact already dead when he finally appeared and he had to remain in Natsu all this time to prevent him from becoming dragonized. His character served his purpose. Serena however is very different. He was mentioned for the first time, and not even by name nor face, during the Grand Magic Games. The next time het gets mentioned, it's already the Alvarez arc and he just betrayed his home country for Alvarez. Just before Alvarez attacks we get to see him for the first time and now that we finally see him in action, he's immediately killed?
So the officially recognized strongest mage of Ishgar who barely appeared nor said anything is one-shotted after he only used four of his supposed 8 dragon lachrima's by Acnologia of who it is implied he has a grudge against him while no motives for his actions are explained? That makes no sense, there is no reason to assume he really died that easily. Also because we still don't know the powers of four of his dragon lachrima, we can't say for sure he doesn't have some kind of ability that will make him pull true.
To introduce the hybrid theory? That one actually already got introduced. Remember Future Rogue? He had his shadow powers and Sting's light powers. Even though it's not specifically stated as far as I can remember, both him and Sting are 3rd generation dragon slayers, meaning they were both trained by a dragon and have dragon lachrima inside them and I think it's safe to assume that Future Rogue stuck Sting's lachrima inside of him to get his powers. If the point was for Serena to merely introduce having more than 2 lachrima inside his body, then all the stuff about him being the strongest mage of Ishgar and betraying his home country would have been unnecessary.
A v i said the exact same thing I wanted to say: being serious and going all out are two different things. Someone can be serious, but not going all out and vice versa and this can easily be perceived in 90% of all manga battles. The facts speak for itself. If those two things are the same thing, then why didn't Gildarts use that finishing move instantly at the start of the battle? According to your logic that would mean he wasn't serious, but you are saying he was serious.
Serena and Igneel are two different characters. Igneel was in fact already dead when he finally appeared and he had to remain in Natsu all this time to prevent him from becoming dragonized. His character served his purpose. Serena however is very different. He was mentioned for the first time, and not even by name nor face, during the Grand Magic Games. The next time het gets mentioned, it's already the Alvarez arc and he just betrayed his home country for Alvarez. Just before Alvarez attacks we get to see him for the first time and now that we finally see him in action, he's immediately killed?
So the officially recognized strongest mage of Ishgar who barely appeared nor said anything is one-shotted after he only used four of his supposed 8 dragon lachrima's by Acnologia of who it is implied he has a grudge against him while no motives for his actions are explained? That makes no sense, there is no reason to assume he really died that easily. Also because we still don't know the powers of four of his dragon lachrima, we can't say for sure he doesn't have some kind of ability that will make him pull true.
To introduce the hybrid theory? That one actually already got introduced. Remember Future Rogue? He had his shadow powers and Sting's light powers. Even though it's not specifically stated as far as I can remember, both him and Sting are 3rd generation dragon slayers, meaning they were both trained by a dragon and have dragon lachrima inside them and I think it's safe to assume that Future Rogue stuck Sting's lachrima inside of him to get his powers. If the point was for Serena to merely introduce having more than 2 lachrima inside his body, then all the stuff about him being the strongest mage of Ishgar and betraying his home country would have been unnecessary.
There are reasons to believe that he's dead. A part of his body is ripped off on panel by the man who stands above anyone else "as of now at least" in this manga. You don't need any reason other than that to believe that he's dead for good. Acnologia one shotting one of S12 isn't even that quixotic to believe. Not even the mightiest of the Dragons found any hope in challenging Acnologia head on to a battle even 400 years ago. They've decided to do whatever they did in canon for the whole purpose of taking him down. So it isn't really impossible to believe that someone of his caliber is capable of one shotting characters like Serena. Acnologia conformed that he's dead with his statement at the end of the character. The reactions of fellow spriggan 12 ,who witnessed whole thing conforms it even more to boot. They were terrified because one of their companions was effortlessly one shotted by Acnologia.
Ramal is hyped to be just as great as Serena and look at him now. He's out of the game without accomplishing anything so far. He's taken out by people who're more or less fodders to him.Compared to that Sarena is much better if you ask me. Even other wizard saints received nearly as much hype but look at how easily they were beaten by Serena. If them getting defeated quite easily despite them fighting him at the same time is believable then I don't see why it'd be different with Serena getting killed by Acnologia. Blue Note and Members of Avatar are all prime examples of people who were owned quite easily despite getting hyped to be decently strong.
Serena and Igneel are different , I know that but what's important here is the fact that he's far stronger than Serena. He was beaten in one go by a similar move. Even half dead Igneel should be overwhelmingly stronger than Serena. Hell he might as well be stronger than even Zeref himself. Therefore, if someone like him couldn't survive a similar attack then I don't see how Serena would unless of course he has some kind of ability to regenerate which has yet to be hinted by any authentic source.Even if he's alive for some unknown reason, Him not using all of his abilities by no means can be treated as a reason to believe that he could be alive. It's totally a ground less speculation.
And I don't think Serena holds grudge towards Acnologia, his reason for wanting to kill Acnologia for all we know could be that he wanted to prove himself to be the best by defeating Acnologia. He even claimed himself to be grater than any Dragon. So he likely joined hands with Alvarez Empire for the sole purpose of getting closer to Acnologia. Hybrid Theory may not be new to us but Serena took it to next level by wielding 8 different D.Lacrima. So you could say that he's used to introduce something new regarding hybrid theory while also being a hype tool to hype Acnologia.If anything, it's the other way around. We don't have any valid reason to believe that he's alive other than the fact that it'd be a bad part on writers behalf to kill off such an overly hyped character as quickly. I've already mentioned this in my previous post. Other than this which isn't really a valid reason to make conclusions ,there is no reason to believe it. The reason you have to believe that he's alive get out weighted by the reasons which support the contrary. That said, Serena's death isn't as improbably as you're making it out to be.
I agree that it might be possible. I won't rule that out. In fact I am also a believer of this Serena might be able to survive theory but him being dead sounds more believable than him being alive at this point. I rest my case with this one and won't be planning on continuing it any further as this is a highly subjective matter of opinion that can not be proved with anything definitive at this point. I know where this would lead. :yeah: We've already done something similar with Natsu is END theory,Lmao.:hmm: So I don't want us waste anymore of our time to post walls of texts over something as trivial as this. So lets wait for another week to know which of us is wrong.