User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 474: In the Moment of Complete Silence, Review./@comment-25111584-20160222210554/@comment-1776824-20160223032855

Yes, in Naruto, only one single named person died in the Fourth Ninja War. The rest were fodder shinobi. I felt so much attachment to the lives lost. >_> The reason nobody really died in the Marineford War until Ace and Whitebeard were because the pirates were all of an extremely high tier; the fodder for the most part fought other fodder, and those two only really died because Ace himself let his pride get the better of him. Fairy Tail just is not a series where death is present. It's mostly destruction, but it's honestly just too happy. I'm only sticking it out now because I've spent the last several years reading it and have invested a lot of time. :/