User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 335 : RIP Ultear/@comment-5782007-20130616032455/@comment-7418318-20130617093951

What other characters would you have killed off to be revived? Btw this is no rethorical question, I'd really like to know.


 * Bacchus was there so you see that it's not all about Fairy Tail and because there are at least some people who like him. He's also one of the better established non-FT member characters.
 * Ichiya: Killing him off would probably make people cheer.
 * Jura: Since people complained about Gray being done in by "smallfry", imagine the outrage at letting them kill a the (possibly) strongest Human Wizard Saint.
 * If he killed Jellal for even half a page, he'd have a fan-girl riot on his hands.
 * Milli and Kagura maybe, but they got messed up badly enough by Ultear's speech already.
 * The Dragon Slayers (and the people fighting directly with them, like Mira) are most likely kept back for the coming chapters.
 * And every other non-FT mage dying is unlikely to leave much of an emotional impact.

Moving on to FT members:
 * With Lucy it's pretty much the same as with the Dragon Slayers, that Mashima has something planned for her, so he keeps her out of this particular event. And I'm glad he left her alone for once, since she had to endure enough suffering in this arc already.
 * Macao died right in front of his son. I don't know about you, but I was saddened by that.
 * While I don't much care about Droy either, I can see why he might have been chosen. In the Fairy Tail guild there are few people with such a close friendship as Jet and Droy, so I assume that Mashime thought that killing one and having the other bemoan his death would make people sad. Not because they cared about Droy, but because of Jet's sorrow.
 * I guess having Bisca and/or Alzak die would have worked even better, but with them having a 5 or 6 year old child, that was probably rejected as going too far.
 * Levy... now here we got something I have no answer to. Why didn't he either kill her, or have her join the bemoaing of Droy's death?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly a fan of this chapter (though I don't hate it either), but I can see why he chose those particular characters to temporarily die.