Her Magic is flat out boring unlike Mira's even though they both use Take Over,
Perfect AnalysisI wouldn't call Lisanna a useless character that should stay dead, but....she is pretty far removed from the main plot. Basically this is how I view her standing in the story compared to the rest of the characters:
Lisanna is the supporting character of the supporting character of the supporting character to the main character.
I don't dislike her it's just after bringing her back Hiro hasn't done anything important with her
Can't put it any better, she still sucks but that kyubi takeover was most impressive I've ever seen from her, all her takeovers suck hard compared to Mira/Elfman.I wouldn't call Lisanna a useless character that should stay dead, but....she is pretty far removed from the main plot. Basically this is how I view her standing in the story compared to the rest of the characters:
Lisanna is the supporting character of the supporting character of the supporting character to the main character.
I don't think shipping wars have anything to do with why she lost. Lisanna would actually be a more relevant character if there was a proper love triangle, but there isn't one. Touka has basically stolen that role from her.Totally wasted potential, allowed the shipping wars to castrate her character development. First real dope form she’s had, and she only got it so she could get properly shitted on by Lucy
Maybe she will get a chance against Diabolos provided those three aren't the weakest. She had more depth to her character in death.
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If she is Lucy's love rival Hiro sure hasn't done anything with it. Also one panel was when they still thought she was dead and the other right after she came back how about after that. To be fair what I said before could be said about most side characters in this mangaI agree that Mashima has mostly put her on the back-burner for much of the story, but that still doesn't take away her significance and role in the early part of the series, in my opinion. She may have a useless role combat-wise in the current story arcs, but her contribution to Natsu's development as a character as a child was significant enough to be considered an important character... and not a "useless" one.
Even though Lisanna's childhood relationship with Natsu and the Omake with Lisanna & Natsu raising the egg that would eventually hatch into Happy is technically not canon, Gildartz (Natsu's mentor as a child) heavily implied that the two were a close pair as kids.
Gildartz hinted at their childhood relationship in Chapter 166 upon his return from the 100 Years Quest.
Also, it's pretty obvious that Lisanna has always had great affection for Natsu, even if it did eventually dissolve from a crush to a close friendship.
As you can see, Lisanna was extremely excited to see Natsu in particular compared to the other FT members. Gray is also a guy, but Lisanna chose to tackle Natsu and embrace him instead.
My point is, if you really look closely at the entire timeline of the series, Lisanna had an impact on the main character's (Natsu's) development into maturity - of course, this is Natsu's level of maturity we're talking about lol.
If you really want to be technical, Lisanna's role could be considered as the main character's childhood partner (under the mentorship of Gildartz). And more jokingly, she can be considered the main character's lover's rival - that is, before Natsu and Lucy's relationship got more serious by the very end of the original series.
