User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 424: Avatar, Review and Commentary/@comment-147.4.36.65-20150317063639/@comment-147.4.36.65-20150318025546

From original commenter: I feel like we will see Lucy becoming more of a likeable character than she was in the past. Before, readers hated her for being nothing more than Fanservice, useless and annoying to the point where i felt like she was the next likely female character in line to get the same level of heat that Sakura got in the beginning of Naruto. I've always felt that Mashima could've utilized her better than that. its one of the reasons why Fairy Tail has frustrated me because the series is capable of being so much better but instead i am treated to an act of a mail in whenever I see Natsu hog the spotlight. The good news is that this is only the beginning of the saga so there is still time to show off how much stronger Lucy has become in the past year.