thefairystales:

Here’s a bunch of old tweets from Mashima-sensei’s twitter about things that have changed from his initial ideas:

About the first master Mavis’ character setup; she was initially a guy. I didn’t know that Mavis was a female name. When I found it out by chance, I hurriedly made her into a female character. (source)

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The necklace that Gray always wears is from RAVE. I had tossed around the idea of making him the 10th or so rave master, but abandoned it. (source)

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In Wendy’s initial character setup, her personality changes when she gets angry. She had a split personality. I’m glad I abandoned that idea. (source)

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I kept forgetting where her name originated from, but remembered it when a fan from Spain asked me “Does Juvia’s name come from Lluvia (rain)?”. That’s right. (source)

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At the time of the (Great Eastern Japan) earthquake 2 years ago, I had drawn the battle between Juvia and Meredy. The initial plot had Juvia winning, but in light of how “water” was responsible for the unimaginable damage caused by the tsunami, I couldn’t bring myself to draw her attacking with water. The plot was thus changed to a battle that was settled by “love”. That’s the message I’d like to send. (source)