User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 334: Sin and Sacrifice, Review/@comment-10559926-20130608000020/@comment-5840892-20130608014731

Once AGAIN:

THANK YOU AKIRA TORIYAMA.

Don't get me wrong I love Dragon Ball, but the fact that he abused the Dragon Balls to revive the Main Characters he killed off constantly means we have people who believe that main characters can't die.

They can die, and sometimes they MUST. Doing so shows how seroius the sitiuation at hand is, and provides a great emotional catalyst for the story and plot. And it's not unheard for a Main Character to die permanetly. The best example I have is in Star Wars (the novels, not the movies, in particular the New Jedi Order Series). In the first book of the New Jedi Order, they killed off Chewie (a main character from the original movies, everyone here should know who Chewie was). It served a purpose, and made the story feel more real, and allowed the characters a chance to grow.