Fairy Tail, Chapter 508: Pleasure and Magic
Seriously, Fairy Tail, go ahead and turn yourself into a full-blown hentai with actual sex instead of just implying it and drawing all these lewd poses while skirting the line. Seriously. I think how the self-censorship still tries to take itself seriously is a bigger insult than the flagrant fanservice.
We get some nonsense as some minor characters recap last chapter (we have memories of a goldfish, see), and Angel and Sorano continue their very tired 'yay sister' 'I'm NOT your sister but I'm happy anyway' and Lector and Frosch are doing their stupid two-man show that has gotten old for repeating the same old lines over and over again. Rakheid Dragneel, who's apparently Zeref's son, shows up.
He unleashes his magic, and... it's the power to cause people to convulse into orgasms. Women seem to be enjoying themselves with slight tears and well it's basically hentai, really, just without outright penetration. The men are more nggh nggh and uncomfortable, while Angel, Minerva and the rest of the women are clutching their boobs, squirming and just generally being extremely put into very fanservicey poses by this orgasm magic, which affects all who has experienced great pleasure.
In other words, Fairy Tail just confirmed who has ever gotten laid before. Which is everyone, apparently. It's one thing to see characters like Angel, Minerva, Laxus, Gildarts or Macao convulse in ecstasy, but it's another to see Mavis doing the same thing. Also, apparently Cana is a virgin... which is absolutely nonsense, I think. Yukino and the kids. Plus Warren.
Eileen is affected, somewhat, but not Wendy or Erza. And this interrupts whatever nonsense Mary Sue revelation that Erza and Eileen will have, which normally I'd be pissed off, but the orgasm nonsense is just a whole new level of bad that it's hilarious, and I just don't give a fuck about Erza and Eileen's connection. Who the fuck cares? Other than those retards making videos on youtube and acting as if "Eileen might be Erza's mother" is some divine revelation that anyone with two brain cells can't figure out.
Zeref tells Rahkeid to stop it, and Rahkeid then attacks Yukino, basically tentacle raping her with orgasm tentacles. Because yeah. Honestly all that's missing from an actual hentai comic is a tentacle down her crotch. Thankfully, Kagura shows up to free Yukino. Of course this just means that Kagura's going to be stripped and forced into an orgasm next. Oh, and Jellal apparently lost to August off-screen. Oh well.
Well. I don't know. What a stupid, ridiculous nonsense. It is entertaining, I'll give you that. Not good, not good by any stretch, but certainly very entertaining, just not in the normal means. I just don't know what to say. This insane wackiness is certainly preferable to endless chapters of repetition, that's for sure.
... yeah. I... I honestly don't even know what to say with this. Using wether or not someone's had sex as a plot-point/combat ability... I'm honestly just speechless. Normally I'd be enraged by something like this, but I'm more confused and incredulous then anything else. Why is this his power? How is this his power? Why let lose someone who's powers are going to debilitate the entire army including your own forces? What the hell made Zeref think this would be effective against Acnologia? What the fuck is wrong with Hiro Mashima's sense of suspense if he thinks THIS is the kind of power that would be a threat to Acnologia? Oh, god, THAT would have been the topper - seeing Acnologia get brought to his knees by orgasm power... just fuck all.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, it's just like you said - at this point, it seems like a thinly-veiled hentai plot. However, I personally still wasn't able to shake the feeling of repetition fully, since Rahkeid just feels like a male, hentai-tenticle version of Koyuka in terms of powers and abilities (they both augment physical or sensory sensations at their whims - the big difference being it's a male hentai instead of a female dominatrix. Hell, one of the alternate translations for this - albeit an incorrect one I think - was "Pleasure and Pain", pointing more to both hentai and to the irony of it being another palate-swap, Rahkeid being pleasure while Koyuka was pain). Not to mention the opponent is the token serious-swordsman girl just like Erza was in the Koyuka fight. Even what happened with Yukino feels like it was just rehashing how Erza got bound up and chained by Koyuka, if only in a more softcore(?) method.
Honestly, if they were going to go this route, they might have done it in a way more similar to Caster-Zero from Fate/Zero (prologue series to Fate/Stay Night) mixed with Yuuya Kizami from Corpse Party - someone who believes in making someone experience the hight of happiness before ripping it away to create despair, mixed in with looking down on humans as liars and a dishonest lot who are only ever honest or express their true selves when they're at the moment of dying, thereby seeing himself as "saving" them by "freeing" them.
Additionally, as a better foil to Koyuka and more complimentary to his zen-styled appearance, his abilities would have been better off being something that affected people emotionally rather then physically/sense based, like the Dementors from Harry Potter only inverted - making people experience their happiest points, then ripping it away with such speed or force that the shock either kills them or leaves them catatonic. I'm not even saying that's the best way to go (and I know there's better ways out there) - just that it would have been better then making Rahkeid, the apparent son of the big (not-so) bad, feel like an actual threat instead of a kinky zen-themed gigolo.
It’s just so stupidly hilarious that whoever is editing this even allowed this to fly. This feels like a plotline from a hentai parody or from a manga that’s actually meant to be, well, far more explicit than Fairy Tail. Like one of those weird harem mangas with tentacle groping every third page. It’s fine for those mangas because that’s their whole selling point, but Fairy Tail is supposed to be a shonen fighting manga. And then it has this orgasm magic. Yyyeaaah. I mean, I find August, Invel and Eileen to be boring because their magic is just ‘strong ambiguously-demonic blasting magic’, ‘ice magic’ and ‘random reconstruction nonsense as the plot demands’. Very boring, very conveniently suited to the plot… but this? Orgasm-induced death? Wow.
DeleteKyouka was honestly a bit disturbing and very much a way to get fanservice – albeit the BDSM ‘your pain turns me on!’ flavour instead of the forced-orgasm ‘I fuck you so well even though you don’t want it and you will enjoy my unwanted fucking’type. Kyouka’s also a bit more geared to torture that the BDSM thing just felt like somewhat of a bonus. Rahkeid is just 100% here to give us scenes of Angel, Yukino, Minerva and that one Fairy Tail girl with glasses scenes where they writhe and go aaah.
Shit, Yuuya from Corpse Party is a crazy psychopathic dude with a creepy sister complex, I don’t think he’s the type to make people experience happiness before creating despair. Unless I’m thinking of a different character. I haven’t read Fate/Zero, so can’t comment on that. Either one sounds infinitely better than this, though probably not as stupidly hilarious.
And a quick foray into Reddit and Youtube videos (that aren’t rightfully criticizing this chapter) has videos talking about how OMG Rahkeid is Zeref’s son hype. Like, really? How the fuck does this even matter? So Zeref had a kid, big whoop.
At this point, IDK if anyone else but Mashima edits it - and if it's not him, it's gotta be either someone really close to him or someone just as perverted. I mean, this stopped being a shounan a long time ago when the fights became mere formalities, but this was just another nail in an already-sealed casket.
DeleteWell, yeah, but the point still stands - for me at least, both characters felt like ways to get fanservice, only their methods were reversed; the first was a female BDSM that broke people with pain, and now this one is a male bishonen who just makes people orgasmic.
Well, it's more like I was advocating only some of Yuuya's character be used as an inspiration. That Rakheid would be more interesting if, exploring his character, he's shown to be someone who does what he does because he feels humans are something that need to end because they're a dishonest and scummy lot - and that (like Yuuya) he only feels they're open and honest with their inner feelings at the moment they're dying. Mix that in with Caster Zero - someone who gives people a taste of hope (in Rakhied's case, letting the person experience their happiest memories) just to make the despair they feel when it's ripped away that much more poignant. That would create a more interesting character; a priest-like character who does what he does because he actually thinks he's "saving" the people he kills, showing people their biggest spot of joy as their "last respite" before tearing it away so as to expose their "true selves." And yeah, it's not a perfect concept (taking from two other series like that isn't exactly indicative of big creative chops), but it's just supposed to convey how much missed potential this character had, to say nothing of the other Spriggans.
I've also seen people actually saying they find Rahkeid's power "interesting"... because they don't know how it works. Seriously, people asking what his power was and why it only affected certain people, as if how they reacted wasn't proof of that. On the 'hype' of Rahkied, it's kinda flat for me because Zeref kinda already gave a hint about that - he implied to Mavis before the battle that Rahkied was more his creation then progeny, since he was described more like a weapon or contingency for Acnologia. Or rather, that he was his 'father' only in so far as being the one that created him, like Frankenstine to his patchwork monster.
Yeah, the whole Tartaros-Avatar-Alvarez arc is an exercise in seeing a decent shonen manga fall apart. With Kyouka (and Minerva, and Flare, who all are FT villains with BDSM qualities to them) there's at least some attempt to justify it as sadism. Here it's just "Y'ALL BE ORGASMING, I BE MOLESTING YOU WITH ZEN ORGASM TENTACLES".
DeleteWhat you just described, taking two characters and lumping them together, would be far more interesting than... well, than every single character (except for Ichiya, Ichiya's fun) in this Alvarez arc, new and old characters combined.
Wait, Rahkeid was a contingency weapon against Acnologia? The mental image of Acnologia being defeated by being jacked off spiritually is so ridiculous that I actually want this to happen. People who are confused about Rahkeid's powers are either trolling, are under eleven years old so they don't know what sex is, or are just such losers that they're adults who don't even know what an orgasm is.
Well, I guess that's true - at least with them, they tried to PRETEND like there was some subtlety. Or rather, it just wasn't this face-slappingly blatant before. Yes, Erza and Lucy and... well, just about every female character - even 12/13-year-old Wendy at times - has been fanservice fuel at one point or another in the past, and nowadays there's not a chapter that lacks it, but it was never on the level of "hentai orgasm tentacles."
DeleteAgreed with Ichiya. I know a majority of the manga's fans hate him, but I actually find him pretty humorous because he's one of the few characters who's personality has to stand on it's own without being a sex-symbol (or rather, without being an attractive one like most of the characters are). He's unique enough that he doesn't feel like he classes into any set trope (or not as easily so) the way most of the other characters do (Erza = armored-tomboy with hidden girly side, Lucy = girly girl who's treated as relevant but really isn't, Natsu = guy who acts without thinking and never gives up, Gray = cool-minded lone wolf, Juvia = stalker chick, Gajeel = tough guy with hidden soft side, Cana = dirty-joking drunk party girl, ect).
Yeah, that's about what Zeref said in chap 494 for the most part. He even told Mavis that not only was Rahkeid this aforementioned secret weapon he'd been working on, but that he believed Rahkeid was equal to, if not potentially stronger then, Acnologia. Part of me wonders just how precisely his "powers" factor into that, though, since he doesn't particularly strike me as being equal in power to the dragonslayer that pretty much single-handedly wiped out the dragons. If anything though, I think some fans not getting Rahkeid's powers just goes to show how loyal people are that they'd disbelieve it to be the obvious - loyalty that, in my opinion at least, stems from what the series was rather then what it now is.
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ReplyDeletein all honestly, i am not that shocked of the power of bad guy n°69 . surelly because i have seen this power used in more siniter and deep ways .
ReplyDeletefor the deep ways ,i remember the final boss of fate extra ccc who , for her final attack , use the earth for ... something and the result , for what I understood , made the people who has been hit to have theirs live subkimate for a instant and made ascend to some pseudo nirvana .
it also fry the brain in the process.and the animation is hilarious . and i have discovered that is inspire by a real school of esoterism budhisht who name is "Tachikawa-ryu"
it's that sort of mixture of total bs and historical event that make me laugh.
for the other ways , just a quick google search to W40k will clear up thsi . it's not some obscure game with weird fetish on a dying console .
when at reddit , i consider rak-something to be a demon , and all of them are , theoretically , child of zeref ( or a clone ) .
i am more perplexerd by people that says (on reddit) that budhist dude power has no rapport with sex . after the tentacle porn that we have seen in this chapter .
some people are just blind .
There is a way to make orgasming or forced pleasure be relevant in battle. This is an exercise of using a final battle to give us lots and lots of fanservice of the 'being forced to come' kind.
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