User blog comment:Mangetsu20/All aboard the Feels Train! (FTC - 450)/@comment-3061966-20150831234405/@comment-4326112-20150831235542

Zico, as I told Alpha, you need to look beyond the surface.

First of all, this is a work of fiction and fiction shouldn't always be judged by those who live in reality (people with the ability to bend reality or teleport can't really apply to real life, can it?).

Secondly, this is seen before the eyes of those who have ceased being human. Mavis is whoknowshowold and her appearance is only foretold of someone who never grew up which makes sense for her character. It also paints it more tragic cause her mind had never fully adapted to a fully mature lifestyle. So when a horror like this is thrust upon her, she doesn't know how to handle it other than to simply RUN from the issue. Zeref was shown to having dealt with it in a similar way himself and it caused the deaths of so much he cared for.

This is a pair of people who don't have humanity left in them btu found humanity in sharing a life with each other. As the title of the Chapter suggested, its either you are alone in the world or with someone who can share your pain. This, finally, was a powerful and effective use of the theme love Hiro has been preaching to us since Chapter 1 of this series. Finally it has merit and meaning behind it because the characters are broken and tragic tellings that belong in a fairy tale story that'd you find in any library.

Even their mutual affection couldn't last more than a heartbeat. It was one of the most heartbreaking and cruel moments in this series. It wasn't exploitative, sexual or perverse. It was simply the returning of love to another that has openly accepted the one they cherish. But because of the love that was committed, Mavis herself couldn't live with the curse's contradiction that was placed on the pair. One or the other had to die and that's how it ultimately ended.

Seeing it as superficially as Fan-Fuel or a "New Low" would be wrong. For once we are not exposed to the hanging of meat sacks that are used as sex objects for our eyes to soak in. It isn't sick and it isn't wrong because it isn't defined by normal means. They are Immortals who had been burdened by losing humanity and the ability to live life normally, doomed to destroy all they cherish. Only Zeref ends up being the worst loser of them all, when he lost Mavis when he had begun to hope.

I hope you see that from my point of view it isn't as bad as you make it out to be. Again, this is just my opinion, but I believe there is a much richer depth in this Chapter than there has been in the hundreds of Chapters that have come before this. There is VALUE to be had here, and that is saying something coming from someone who regularly criticizes Hiro. Think about that.