Iāve been thinking about this for a while now butĀ
Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest, the spin off to Fairy Tail should have been less about team Natsu and more about all the dragon slayers
Iām talking about the main 7. Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, Laxus, Sting, Rogue and Cobra. All of āem. Maybe even the exceeds.
An entire mission dedicated to defeating dragons? We have Seven dragon slayers perfect for the job. Why not send all of them??? Its weird seeing only two dragon slayers involved while everyone else are completely in the dust and cannot even be told about whatās happening on the job. Iām not the type of person to go āin this essay I will,ā take the damn essay. Here are the things we could have had:
New character interactions. Gajeel and Rogue talking more? Considering Rogue looked up to Gajeel and Sting looked up to Natsu, this would have been fantastic to see. More of Wendy hanging out and learning from her older dragon slayer peers. Laxus having to put up with a new environment after typically doing jobs himself or with the thunder legion.
All of the dragon slayers working together sounds like something their dragon parents would have wanted. We got it for the big bight at the end of Fairy Tail, why shouldnāt they keep doing it?
YāALL WANTED MORE UNISON RAIDS, RIGHT?Ā
New character development. Cobra is one of the characters we see the least. We donāt know how trusted he is by everyone yet because of that. This could be a great opportunity for a more appropriate, fleshed-out redemption arc. We could also, perhaps, actually learn about some of the characters pasts (cough cough Gajeel).
Considering how stoic Gajeel and Laxus seem to be (And we could include Cobra but we NEVER SEE HIM ENOUGH FOR THIS TO BE LEGITIMATELY TRUE in canon) it would be interesting to actually see them opening up at all, and opening up to different, new people. Not just Levy or Pantherlily. Not just the Raijinshuu.
Steering away from shipping fanservice. I like ships too, but the first manga had so much it pretty much dictated the plot during the last arc. They were poorly written or rushed. You can see it clearly in FT100YQ. We could finally take a breather from theĀ ābig four.ā
ā¦ā¦ā¦..Hell if you like shipping, these new interactions could lead to new ships or whatever. Thing is even if they grow to be extremely popular Mashima would likely never write it in. Homophobic? Absolutely. Probably for the greater good?ā¦.unfortunately.
Iām not saying he shouldnāt write them in bc theyāre LGBT, Iām saying he should probably not have catered so much to all those other (hetty) ships to begin with. This whole thing is Literally a Discussion for Another Day.
On god I love Lucy and Erza but man this is a HUGE opportunity missed. This could have been a really satisfying continuation of the Fairy Tail series considering how Fairy Tail ended without even explaining the back stories to a whole lot of important characters. We could have finally seen other characters in the spotlight. Instead, we currently have a whole plot being brushed aside and forgotten just so we can see even more of team Natsu and even more shipping fanservice for theĀ ābig four.ā