User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Launches 'Shocking' Project Next Spring/@comment-7418318-20131130132026/@comment-7418318-20131130180345

Apart from strongly disagreeing with the idea of the anime changing the story, I don't see why you'd mention Elfenlied in regard of "having the same outcome".

The Elfenlied anime didn't even go over half the story of the manga and it's ending left quite a few things to be desired of.

Apart from that, with the Manga still ongoing and Mashima having no obligations to carter to the anime-teams whims, they can't just kill a character just because they feel like it.

What if Mashima brings a char that was killed in the anime back in the Manga? They'd have to create some bullshit to revive the char, or otherwise explain how the clearly shown death wasn't really a death. Or replace the char with some other, which would necessitate re-writing the story even more and so on and so forth.

It's something that can be done with an already finished manga, but not with an ongoing one. And even the former is highly controversial to say the least.