User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 368: The Third Seal, Review/@comment-3075024-20140124194548/@comment-4829046-20140126052017

I know this is about beam-death but on that matter of killing(which also applies to Sasuke) It's stuff like that(well... not really what MDM said per se) that make me wonder how one is supposed to give a proper story. What's so wrong about killing off an important character if it serves to show that life is harsh and not always full of convenient healing and non-fatal injury? >_> Seriously... I feel sorry for the writers that can't kill off a character for good because of his/her popularity and is forced to kill lesser important characters instead, after deliberately making sure that they are not liked. How about you put a freaking tragedy/mature label and just kill off some more mains!!!!! If most writers do that, then maybe we will face less bullshit plot-armour and super fast healing and a lot less bitching on this topic *cough*Happy*cough* Heck, in DBZ not even a fucking robot can stay dead! But hey, that's not gonna happen and if it does, it won't be received too well but that's just how society is. Which is why plot-armour exists even in my own story, though I try my best to make it believable and not an ass-pull deus ex machina all the time.

This is why I prefer devoting myself to mature, tragedy and psychological series. At least those things don't always have to modify everything to suit fans 24/7. Heck, take Sora no Otoshimono. All the characters and beings on the planet are dead and all died in just under one arc except for the MC and about 5 others and the series is ending too. You should see the massive amount of dread and depression in the comments about it. But I myself applaud the author for creating that much heart-ache and showing that when characters die, they don't die in a good way. But same as everyone else, I expect either a good end, or a neutral end. Neutral meaning that everything is fixed and the world is saved but there is no real happy ending for the main characters. Kinda like Deadman Wonderland and Elfen Lied(fuck now I feel liking crying...). It may be sad but, it gives a change from the usual "everything will be happy". Though I prefer happy endings anyway since sad endings always make me depressed(like any regular human being...).

Long story short though, while I do want good endings, insulting the writer for bringing tragedy is pointless in the long run. Tragedy makes a story better and more realistic and I can't fathom how some media got to the point where they had to actually refrain from killing characters since pretty much in every "proper" Disney animated movie, someone dies and its usually pretty brutal. And yet, people say they are for kids.... seriously?

P.S. This does not mean that I'm addressing anyone here nor that I like Jellal being offed or think it was useful. I liked that it was serious and epic(cause Zero mothertrucker! XD), but in terms of Jellal actually dying? No. I want him to live so as to complete the ship and thus expect Mashima to reveal that he isn't dead or at least bring him back.

Oh and this is just me ranting btw. Feel free to ignore it ( _ _)