Thread:SpectrumRay16/@comment-26091443-20150923010347/@comment-26363301-20151014055152

I get what you mean. Considering if Escanor's side story wasn't shown he wouldn't be my favourite character, Diane and Ban would be. It would also have gotten rid of all the hype. However, i think it might have been necessary to add that it somewhere before finding Escanor (Perhaps adding the side stroy in now would have been better?) In hindsight there would have absolutely no hype for Escanor (because nobody mentioned him) until chapter 125, where they said "we're off to find the last sin" and again in chapter 133 (I think) where Mel said Escanor was stronger. That would be our only info on Escanor and it would have made him very mysterius.

Out of all of them, the Merlin one made the most sense... and that is saying something. Considering that we didn't know where Escanor was it was impossible to say with enough concrete evidence that he would show up. If everyone said he "could" show up, i think the community would not have gotten so enraged by all this overhyping.

Well, if i'm being perfectly honest the though has crossed my mind on all occasions... except i had a different view of the one with Diane. My one for Diane was that he might help her because they were comrades/he went to go see what the massive power was (i didn't really expect him to help Diane). After the side story with Matrona, i was 100% sure that Matrona was going to come back though, considering it seem like her character couldn't just die.

Ban vs Galan and Merascylla... there was no way Escanor was gonna show up XD

The only thing that would let Escanor show up to help Ban there would have been if he found out about Galan's ability and merlin's body (AKA: 0.2% chance of happening)

The main issue here wasn't the character or when the side story came out it's because everyone said the wrong words. The hype train was steaming along the tracks with Escanor, but, when it came to a certain point everyone wanted the train to stop, simply because too many people worded their opinions in the wrong way. I remember reading a lot of people say "Escanor will show up and save Merlin" or "Escanor is going to show up and save Diane" If only they had used the words "could", "might" or something along those lines, we might not be in the situation where this happens. I will say i used to do this, but, i learnt how to formally express my opinion and now i am much better at using the correct words to display them.

I'll use an example of the consequences other than you be frustrated or course. If i go on a forum of perhaps a youtube video review of Taizai, there are people who are literally just sick of Escanor's existence or more accurately the people who use the word. Allbeit they do have common sense, they will read what you write. But, i was talking about how i didn't want Ban to die as my reaction to the latest chapters and i said something along the lines of "Escanor, i know you never show up when people want you too and Nakaba has some plan for you, but, could you not do what we might want and save Ban?" and some people lost it, i had to explain that i was: a) mocking the fact that Escanor never shows up when we want him to and b) that i really didn't want Ban to die (The rest of the comment i posted had more or less only Ban content, this is the only bit of Escanor i added) I later explained that teh likelyhood of those events happening were very slim and i also noted that Meliodas showing up would be more likely too. Sorry if i went on a rant or what seems to be one, this topic is very debatable, but, ta the very least people seem to be dying down there hype. If people could contain it, you might not get as pissed... but, i think it might be a combination of hype and lack of patience.

I know that Nakaba will write Escanor well, because Nakaba is amazing :D