User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail's Ending/@comment-5268982-20140626220416/@comment-7418318-20140626224648

Bittersweet eh?

If that happens I hope Mashima has the guts to pull through with it. I mean sure a happy ending is nice and all, but an unhappy ending can also be amazing (like Elfen Lied) or at least a partially happy ending. That'd certainly surprise us big time and I think it would also be more dramatic and believeable if the victory wasn't a completely clean one. In war there are always casualities on both sides.

As good as the Rave Master ending was, it did bug me a little that despite the entire main cast except for Elie laying down their lives for the cause, they all survived and without any permanent damage to boot.