User blog comment:Mangetsu20/All aboard the Feels Train! (FTC - 450)/@comment-3061966-20150831234405/@comment-4326112-20150903030210

-sighs- This isn't going anywhere.

Bottom line, as a Reviewer I base my judgement on what is currently presented to me and not what affects it will have in the future. I can't predict what outcome can be had until it is shown before me. While you are wholefully right in judging Hiro as a scum-sucking opportunist when it comes to posturing either gender to curry to Fan-Pairing fans like throwing meat to rabid dogs, know that Hiro also has potential for good writing.

Think about what this Story is supposed to be. Mavis is, for all intents and purposes, the Forecharacter of the series. She is telling a tragic tale of how she was cursed and what her Sin has wrought upon the world because of a choice she made. She has been a ghost of a person for decades, endlessly floating in the void. She may as well be an old woman by this point but that's not how Hiro draws her. For one, yes, it is a cheap scheme to cash in on Loli fans, but on the other hand I think this really embodies what Hiro really is.

A Child who never learned to Grow up or is unable to grow up. This is almost ironic in of itself as his Shitty writing is not due to him being bad in the sense he doesn't know how to tell a good story. Far from it, this Flashback Arc clearly depicts a well thought out series of sequences of time, events and people being put together for the right purpose. No, HIS Sin is telling himself NEVER to change the formula and to stick to the same preaching message while exploiting what he always exploited, whether its for action fanfare or eye candy fanservice. Love is the most powerful and dangerous emotion that can bring people together or push them away.

That is why the context of this union, which within the story's own context is a contradiction to itself. People who are forbidden to love less they steal life try to share that love for each other, even for a moment. Because of that, one or the other had to give and Mavis' heart couldn't take away what Zeref longed for more. In the end, Zeref is the wost loser of the two as he had to still live with his own tortured life, unable to die and unable to connect to anyone.

Was the kiss necessary? No, it didn't have to happen but I think it was used effectively. It was a symbolic lynchpin in the contradiction that the Curse used as a Catalyst for the death of Mavis and was a good utilized tool. Was this exploitation? Possibly, but it wasn't blatant enough for me to point it out. I've been with this series for awhile and I can tell when something is subtle enough to be poetically tragic instead of lazily exploitable. Sure, Hiro may "cash in" on the insane fanbase (I seriously think the majority of Fans who LOVE this series after the Grand Magic Games Arc are high on something) who rabidly foam at the mouth for "pairings" like this but I like to think this is more Shakespearan than something that might have induced a night under the moon.

Again, I say this as a Chapter Reviewer with the material presented before me, and not what happens in Tumblr or 4Chan where alot of these "fans" like to cultivate. I could really not give a damn about them. My concern are for the rational people on this site get to hear my two cents or my thoughts as I collaborate what I like to think as sometimes parodied material to serious text to the content present. I'm not here to appease to Pairing goers or to side with Hiro, but one should at least admire a speck of light in the midst of dull grey every once in awhile. I criticize Hiro alot, whether to my enjoyment or my dismay. But when I find something that can possess a flicker of good in it, I want to comment on it.

I respect your distaste to such mediums but I ask that you respect that I enjoyed this Chapter (and by extent, this current Flashback Arc) for its storytelling. This isn't me trying to jack off to Zeref and Mavis snogging. This is me enjoying a nice dark tragedy that started with good intentions but then descended into a horrible outcome. It CAN get back to normal Hiro bad from here on but I'd like to give benefit of the doubt. Think of it what you will, those are my parting words to you as we end this...conversation.