User blog comment:Marco the Marine Admiral/Useful Information on the Inner Cover and Back of Vol. 32/@comment-4449950-20121224100050

...*sighs* Great... just when I thought months ago when I saw this that all of this "Jellal's gunna die" crap would be gone >___>

Yeah, I heard about this around half a year ago in June. It was all over the net: "Jellal's gunna die", "Hiro's said that Jellal is going to die", "Omg! I can't believe it, a spoiler's been released and Jellal is going to die". *rolls eyes*

So, I will say exactly what I said to Red in June. Don't believe me, check her archive...

Hem hem:

"Oh Red, please don't tell me you looked at that photocopied page of volume 32 and believed what you saw there...

Because, firstly, stuff like this has been released before. They are mock-up pages that Mashima does for drafts. I saw one for the Tenrou arc, and on it, Mashima had described a dark killing Mage who he originally planned not to be Zeref, planned Makarov's death (which never happened) and matched up different groups for the trials, which included Natsu fighting Gray and Gajeel fighting Mest.

And none of the above happened :) don't believe me, see here or here.

Plus, just look at the page. On the left side it says a list of the teams and their points. Look at the top one... the points are 0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10... and then 0, 2, 3, 6, 11, 14, 18, 20... which we know is way off what they actually were in the manga. We also know from this page that Jura (the name on the right) was originally meant to fight Laxus (the name on the left) and end in a tie (look at the triangles next to the names compared to the crosses and circle on fight 4). This is how Chaos gets some of it's facts for the main page.

And also. If this "Jellal's gunna die" info actually was gunna happen, I am POSITIVE that Mashima would not allow any spoiler to be released, let alone release one in a pocket cover of a volume.

I know that some of the things on this page do happen, but there are 4 things:
 * Jellal and Erza are, like, the most cannon and liked couple in FT... would Mashima really want to test his fans by breaking that...?? I don't think he would...
 * The apparent (and I have no clue) translation is "farewell Jellal". That could mean anything. It could be his leaving of Team FTB, his leaving of the main group... anything. Not necessarily death..."

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As for the other stuff, yeah, it was interesting ^___^

Sorry if I sound grumpy... I'm just sooooo sick of people trying to find ways to kill off Jellal >___> Leave the poor guy alone...