User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 435 & 436: The Cry of Victory & Memoirs, Review and Commentary/@comment-24039234-20150518203351

Yep, I'm joining Zz in noting that this is very similar to the basic premise of FMA. Of course, it is a fair game, the entirety of fiction recycles the same basic ideas again and again, but the way his curse is a punishment for his crime was just one similarity too many for me to be entirely hyped for the chapter. Oh well, at least it makes sense and it's consistent with what we've already known.

BTW I've just realized that how badly I wanted Frosh to die to give this series some drama. Am I a bad person...?

(((I mean, come on, even the Zeref's hometown looks like the old kingdom in FMA...! We only need to call Natsu a humunculus and we're all set.)))