User blog comment:Scarletwind/Chapter 254. Thoughts, opinions, theories./@comment-4499873-20111004012104

There is no way (I'm sounding so dramatic only because I just finished the last chapter and am still shivering), no way that Mashima killed off every single character. It would be the equivalent of starting a whole new series or of a remake orsmth. I just don't think Mashima has the heart to disappoint his readers but more importantly to let go of the characters he created and has come to love like I, and we, I dare say, have as well. No, they're all alive somewhere, someplace, sometime(?). I just feel sort of weird and sad that I will have to wait a whole week for each new chapter and that I'll likely be in my thirties when the series draws to a close... Oh well...