User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 472: Laxus vs. Wahl, Review/@comment-1153699-20160208202815/@comment-1153699-20160208215548

"Because it's Hiro" is more like it. And it's not just Laxus who won't die no matter what, even characters as unimportant to the story as Droy, Orga, Rufus and Frosch won't die. Hiro just won't let them.

I remember Hiro mentioned once in an interview that he "values life greatly". Gildarts survived Acnologia. Somehow. And FT came face to face with Acnologia twice yet no one died. That's just the way Hiro wants to write his story. Can't say it bothers me, though. I'm not really fond of characters dying. Especially ones we don't know much about or ones we haven't seen much of. That's also why I dropped Naruto btw. Itachi, Jiraiya, Nagato, Konan, Neji.. Shit was emotional. And not the good kind of emotional.

I'm perfectly fine with random, unnamed characters dying though.