User blog comment:Iron.Shadow.Dragon/Nine Demon Gates Match-up Predictions/@comment-7418318-20131013082559

I was wondering about the "Gates" in the name of the team.

First I'd like to point out that with the way plurals are used in japanese we often can't really tell if it's gate or gates (as in singular or plural) unless it's specifically pointed out or clear from the context. So the teamname might refer to a single gate.

With that in mind it's possible that they all together are parts of a seal that keeps some kind of gate closed (repetition of Oracion Seis' body link and thus hopefully not the case), or that it keeps some kind of gate open and the members have to be defeated to close it again.

Alternatively they might draw their powers either from some kind of demon realm or from a demon they are connect with, which makes each team member a "gate" onto themselfs. I wonder if maybe upon their defeat in the current form they might transform into a demon, or maybe a demon might burst forth though that gate (since it's Fairy Tail the demon would just appear next to them rather than ripping out of them of couse...).

For now that's all I could come up with regarding the name if it was relatively literally chose. Of course it's also possible that the name is a metaphor for the role they'll play in the coming invasion