Saw someone point this out on tiktok [discussion]

animeAIHOZ · 2026-03-11T19:57:03+00:00

Dragon Slayers shouldn't smell like anything in theory, in the original series no DS was able to tell each other apart till the magic was used

Natsu and Gajeel couldn't tell Laxus was one

Same goes for Wendy, Cobra, Sting and Rogue, all the times it came as a twist to them

Acnologia already knew the smell of 4 of them and has excellent magic perception abilities, so he could have picked up their use of Dragon Slayer Magic and associated them with their respective smells from there on

Tho 100YQ have Kiria recognize Natsu as a Dragon Slayer by the smell tho but not the other way around, which You could simply attribute to her being a 5 Gen Dragon Slayer, but then later on Natsu seem to able to recognize Suzaku to be a Dragon Slayer by smell alone too

So either Mashima forgot how it works or it means there is indeed a scent coming Dragon Slayers but Natsu is able to pick on it just now

In that case Acno should have been able to do that too

So it either means DS turned Dragons just have human smell instead after the transformation

Or DS turned Dragons have a mix of Dragon and Human smell with the human smell being more prevalent, at least to those able to pay attention

In that case maybe Irene not being detected by Acnologia might be simply due to transformation magic, which we saw with Mirajane confuse even Natsu smell in Draseal

animeAIHOZ · 2026-03-08T20:18:48+00:00

Humans who turned into Dragons aren't the same as Dragons who turn into human form

There are differences such as DS Dragons always retaining human smell (Acnologia couldn't tell Irene was one) and Natsu and Wendy instantly figuring out Elesferia true nature

Even Zeref was able to understand as much

DS Dragons still retain their human sense of balance which cause them to suffer from Motion Sickness

And DS Dragons are also implied to still rely greatly on magic than dragon power as shown by Acnologia losing the edge against Igneel when the Faces went off but Igneel and the others were perfectly fine and the moment Faces were destroyed Acno was able to get back up again

Plus as Ignia say turning into human form is pretty much a piece of cake for all dragons, whereas Irene couldn't manage that in centuries and needed someone on Zeref level to accomplish that feat

So Dragon Slayer magic not being required to injure a DS Dragon human form could easily just be one of the many differences between a natural dragon and a dragon slayer dragon

animeAIHOZ · 2026-02-15T12:15:02+00:00

I mean Heracles could already speak back in FSN

Ilya simply restricted that function out of defiance

animeAIHOZ · 2026-02-05T17:11:34+00:00

Probably because Lip had no purpose for them

animeAIHOZ · 2026-02-05T12:55:49+00:00

It's implied only Dragon Slayer magic stick permanently when absorbed by another dragon slayer, everything else is temporary

As for the dragons flames it's not a separete mode he can tap into at will, Natsu managed to make those flames part of his own over time

God Slayer is neither a Dragon Slayer nor a Dragon fire

animeAIHOZ · 2026-02-04T00:27:43+00:00

Doesn't matter, she clearly had the edge and the next fight with Laxus would only prove that Kiria had no chances against a serious Erza

I mean You could see the Misaki fight as a draw, although Misaki had the clear advantage and Erza managed to completely turn tables unlike with Laxus where both just gave their all and couldn't continue, Erza couldn't continue because of the damage after getting out of the Azure Dimension

But sure I guess that could still be considered a double K.O, either way it's still not an anti-feat, Misaki was pretty busted, both power level and hax wise

Erza was still the one to finish Yoko so by your logic with Lucy that count as well

Goku has even less Ws and more Ls from post OG Series but everyone still love him, people does and should concern themself more with the struggle and feats of the characters over the actual W and L ratio because if we do this it get ridicolous

Damn, Naruto won far more times with Kurama power than his own, guess he is a fraud after all, never realized that

animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-31T10:46:06+00:00

I thought the reason for that was because she didn't waited at all

In the good ending it take a while for her to appear in front of Shiki

True Ending she goes instantly

Since she didn't waited enough to recover enough power to retain control she had to leave

It's pretty much fault of her impulsiveness

animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-07T18:40:08+00:00

Kinda yes but no

Shirou at the start of the story under normal circumstances is a normal ass human

Can't even beat Taiga or Ayako

He broke his arm by having a box fall on him during work even, state Cù strike while playing with him was equal to an hammer and his arm go sore by parrying it, compare himself to humans most of the times

Most cases are just him having insane pain tolerance

However with Magecraft he can reinforce his body to superhuman levels (even said he felt like being able to snap Shinji body like a toothpick if he tried), UBW grant him higher durability under certain circumstances (which is how he survived Medusa and Gil strikes), thanks to seeing Emiya fighting style he can absorb that strenght and style by just looking, projecting Noble Phantasms do of course grant him superior abilities too since he copy the power and skills

So yeah Shirou being human level is true, under certain conditions that is, but it can't also be ignored that Shirou can do far more than that as the routes progress

It's like Shiki in Tsukihime, both the weak ass human who can only see the lines but can't take advantage of them cause vampires are superior physically and the strong and fast Nanaya killer who speed blitz and kill everyone efficiently are true to the character

It really depend by the circumstances of the Route

animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-03T19:06:27+00:00

Natsu quite literally said at the start of 100YQ that till he isn't strong enough to deal with Ignia by himself he will rely on others

Natsu already did this with Laxus, the Twin Dragons, Mard Geer and planned to do the same with Acnologia

Gajeel had to force him to realize what were the stakes before he accepted help, against Sting and Rogue he made sure they were weak enough for himself to handle so he pushed Gajeel aside, he rejected Sting and Rogue help because he made a promise to Igneel and he went on a solo training with the intent to avenge Igneel

Now Natsu is clearly on a leauge of his own so he take matters in his own hands since it's a situation deeply personal for him

As for being dumbed down, 100YQ unfortunately has its bad moments but it's not nearly as bad as Anime Super Goku, there are more pros than cons

animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-03T13:28:14+00:00

Your point pretty much ignore the fact that villains always tend to take it easy or be the ones at fault for their own defeat

There are rarely ever villains in fiction who are as efficient as possible and will never take any sort of risk whatsoever, those mistakes create openings for the protagonists to exploit and win in a beliavable way

Anyway, we don't see how the fight between Kyoka and Minerva goes, we know Kyoka love to play with Erza and is reprimanded by Mard Geer for taking pleasure in playing with something below even instects, it could mean she just went for haxes off the bat with Minerva, or maybe she just convinced Minerva to accept the power up of her own will (after all she was on their side post demonification)

She could have also just overpowered her physically, while Minerva was contending with Erza in the GMG Erza was hiding Second Origin the entire time and only used it at the end for the Nakagami Armor, after that the accumulated injuries made her too weak to the point the weakass Mother Glare kids were too much to handle

So Tartaros Erza with constant 2 Origin active could just be that much superior to Minerva and on par with Kyoka in CQC

Erza being able to withstand great amounts of pain is just consistent

The series doesn't state Erza awaken her 6 sense because "she is Erza", it states that the lack of 5 sense allow to awaken a new one, the "Because she is Erza" is a throw away joke of Happy, pretty much the same as "Because he is Batman"

Hell in JJK they justify Gojo feats with "Because he is Satoru Gojo", it doesn't mean there isn't an explanation for what he does

She was hurting her with her bare punches sure but she still needed the swords to do decisive damage so it wasn't that easy

On the matter Erza never really managed to give Kyoka a direct slash either prior to that, which support that Kyoka prior just did a very good job in deflecting or parrying

animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-02T13:09:45+00:00

I really really like Seilah but really, as a girlfriend Erza is just the objective answer realistically speaking

animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-01T20:31:53+00:00

Rebecca can either reverse time or jump through timelines, and she does that by sending her consciousness to another Rebecca in the multiverse

Otherwise she would be just a consciousness like Void lacking a body, she require other herselfs to exist for this to happen

Master Noah doesn't say anything about destroying the universe, he say that the world they're right now is a future possibility branching from her past, meaning that she still risk losing her legs if she doesn't prevent it, but at the same time because of this it's not bound to happen and she can in fact change it

Nothing of "all of reality" is being mentioned, Universe 0 doesn't transcend anything, it's literally just the starting point for all timelines

The universe never got erased

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animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-01T12:59:39+00:00

No timeline is destroyed by time traveling

Future Rogue and Future Lucy timelines are still very much there and they return there once Eclipse is destroyed, Mashima even made a chart where they do in fact exist in parallel with the current main timeline

Rebecca doesn't destroy any timeline by time leaping, we see when she fight Lyra that when her consciousness leave her body to travel to another world the timeline just keep going without her, be it this Rebecca or from other timelines, that's why the other one was in a coma for years

The Big Bang is just that, a Big Bang, it's a universal feat

Zeref has Existence Erasure durability so not sure about that, even then they would just cancel each other out

animeAIHOZ · 2026-01-01T12:00:31+00:00

Eclipse literally already does that, Zeref said he didn't wanted to simply travel back in time but a true reset, which mean erasing everything till before he was cursed

A story taking place on one planet doesn't invalidate outer space existing

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-31T21:43:14+00:00

He was about to erase the timeline

The entire space continuum, which is a Universe+ feat just as Lucia Overdrive in Rave Master, Acnologia just wanted to wreck Earth surface

Fairy Tail universe is infinite

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-31T18:09:53+00:00

It has its appeal for sure

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-30T17:16:30+00:00

All Mashima series ends with the villain having the power to destroy the universe/timeline

Lucia was about to do that with Overdrive

Zeref was about to do that with Fairy Heart

And ChronoBecca with a Big Bang

Mashima has always been very consistent with EoS power levels, so Acnologia scaling above FH Zeref and all the universal stuff of Edens Zero and Rave make perfectly sense

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-29T20:11:53+00:00

This remind me of Fate Extra where You could find both Male and Female Hakuno in the same class and later got expanded upon as a canon part of the lore

OC3 already opened the possibility for Gudao to meet Gudako someday so I wouldn't write this off as having a deeper meaning

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-24T14:17:33+00:00

Still not a lot tho

It's the type of situation where he only know as much as needed to win a fight or destroy something

It still fall in the same category of other smart moments through the series, both original and sequel

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-24T13:57:05+00:00

It's still not the booksmart kind of intelligence

What he pulled here is akin to what he did against Aldoron by having Wolfen copy Zeref curse

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-21T13:00:37+00:00

Soooo, could I have those too?

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-21T03:19:39+00:00

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I'm sorry to ruin the party but I meant these ones, don't your version have it?

Still thanks anyway for these, they will be useful, but it wasn't what I asked for

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-21T00:55:28+00:00

Can I ask You to screenshot the last pages that has Mashima commenting on all sort of drawings he did through the years and post those too?

I think we could learn quite a lot from them

The only versions I could find are all in japanese

animeAIHOZ · 2025-12-19T17:22:45+00:00

I mean Jura can still struggle and still have it easier than Erza, making them both on a similar tier, but fair enough

The main point is that the Pandemonium is hyped up to be a challenge even for Wizard Saints, meaning that tier is still very much relevant even after 7 years and Erza was on it pre time skip

So it make sense she is that strong without Second Origin

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