Board Thread:Improvements and Issues/@comment-4489126-20130407165653/@comment-2214433-20130408125650

@Wrath (To avoid the myriad of quotes)

I've been thinking about this for a bit lol insomnia

"Everything regarding the Grand Magic Games is over" is what you say.

Actually, I disagree.

I think there's one thing that's not clear to everyone, Games =/= Arc. The arc has been named after the Games, indeed, but as far as I know, it's not an official name. Furthermore, while the Games ended, it doesn't mean that now everything that follows is suddenly a new story. Regardless of whether we call it "GMG arc" or "Eclipse arc", GMG and Eclipse events are closely related to each other, mainly because one was created due to another. Eclipse has been here - indirectly - ever since of GMG Day 1, with Arcadios' introduction. Now, due to that, we cannot say that that suddenly with chapter 323 it's Eclipse arc when Eclipse plot has been there since the start of the Games.

If we follow your logic, then, for example, chapter 198 and chapter 199 shouldn't be part of Edolas arc. because everything regarding Edolas ended in chapter 197. They left Edolas, never to come back again and returned to Earthland. Lisanna arc, perhaps? ;)

I still say that we should wait to see how the story continues. But I believe that as of now, we're still in the same arc. There is no clean line saying, okay, this arc is now over, now the story becomes about something else. The Games ending is not an argument, because the Games only do not define the arc. That, or Mashima himself may tell us himself, like he did it in case of the end of Tenrou Island arc.