User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/Fairy Tail Chapter 416 (Tartarus Arc - Last Chapter) Review/@comment-7240506-20150120053935/@comment-4829046-20150120131002

@2nd anon

Sounds about right. I would like 500, but who knows, to make it different from Rave, he might just make it so that the final arc is waaaaaay longer than the all rest(I'm looking at you Naruto and Bleach). As it stands, I don't see how though. Maybe shifting the narration to the legit CrimeS viewpoint simultaneous with the FT members' continuously with the usual throw-in of other guilds, will help in delivering a long arc but in the usual pattern? Would require some really powerful writing and characterization.

In Rave, the final battle got plenty of foreshadowing(Demon Kings and what-not) on how the scale might be, but here, all we know is to expect something of far greater magnitude than face, requiring ALL the guilds to come into it this time, and which will cause complete extinction world-wide. It doesn't seem to be Acnologia or Zeref's 'contradictory curse' because former looks to be inferior to an awakened Etherious Natsu Dragneel and latter seems to have stopped being in effect. Will need to introduce some new supporting antagonist figures. Would be kinda boring and repetitive to have old characters(Grimoire Heart and surviving Tartarus Demons) returning as overpowered Zeref forces and having mindless hordes of Demon-spawn with only 2 commanders at a time, would be reminiscent of the Juubi fight in Naruto.