User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 362 Rant : WTF ? Happy surviving a nuke/@comment-3987368-20131129174910

I had a nice little write-up about why this chapter sucks, but my graphics driver crashed on me and I lost it, so I'm just gonna write something smaller. Btw, who's Vince?

I think you've pretty much covered how illogical it is for Happy to have taken that explosion and lived through it. Your solutions, while a bit odd imo, all still make comparatively more sense than Happy living through that. Simple building-level explosions were enough to kill 119 people at the Magic Council Headquarters and yet this one, clearly big enough to annihilate a town, is taken by a cat who somehow does not die and whose only visible injuries are singed fur. The lack of logic here is astounding.

Not only that, but this really makes me question Mashima as a writer even more than I already did. I mean, people here have said that he cares more about pleasing the fanbases of his characters than actually focusing and improving on his storyline and with a chapter like this, all I can do is agree. Happy is popular, I get it, you don't wanna kill off someone whom people like, but how does his popularity justify something this big of an asspull? If you don't want to kill him, don't put him in such a position. The difference between him and, say, Natsu, is that Natsu is a fighter and an action hero who is expected to repeatedly face danger so if we think he's about to die, it's fine cause that's in his nature and role. It's not Happy's role in the story to be facing the death threats of this magnitude. Standing up to the bad guy is one thing but tanking a town-level explosion is absurd.

What also upsets me is that Chapter 356 was so epic. People were dying left and right and unlike most other cases, these were in large numbers and featured named characters. Sure, not main characters but people we had seen and known to some extent for over 100+ chapters. I thought Mashima was really getting ready to hand us a heavy plate, especially when 100 or so people died from Tempesta's dying move. Yeah, not main characters or even named characters, but still, that showed these guys as a credible threat. And now this? I mean, Mashima completely ruined how awesome this arc was heading to be. Sure, Mashima can make the argument that it was too early for a main character to die but if you feel that way don't put them in such a position. I personally praised the initial direction this arc was going in even while urging caution again expectations being raised too high. Right now, my expectations are quite low.

Overall, I feel this chapter was awful and I don't believe it has a saving grace.