User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 337: The Golden Plains, Review./@comment-5580383-20130629004112

I hated this chapter as you can tell with my recent review being removed earlier  due to profanity ! Now that i  calmed myself  down, i'll gladly explain why  you're being far too kind to Mashima with regards to this chapter. Weak climax is a massive understatement given the vast disappointing regarding the entire series.

The main purpose of this arc was Humans fighting and killing dragons. The fact that the Dragon Slayers didn't even stand up to the Dragons well and the other human characters barely up a fight against the mini dragons completely and utterly undermines everything within this arc and series.

This ending was entirely bitter experience, there was nothing sweet about this chapter. Also mentioning Ultear just further pisses me off because if Mashima was going to pull this fucking bullshit off, why kill off Ultear ? Her death overall was almost as pointless as Gin's death because we didn't really see it pay off that well. We didn't see the humans all pulling off awesome attacks nor  did we see any turn around with the other Dragon Slayers  despite Gajeel mentioning  that he found the weakness of his opponent.

If anything, Gray dying or at near death and Erza not fighting further add fuel to the fires of my hatred given these guys are the main cast and yet casted aside as fucking fodder ,not even helping against Future Rouge with Natsu or using that time to pull off some awesome feats. Also in regards to Gray, there was no fucking end scene with him and Ultear which further angers me to no end. Ultear dies and Gray doesn't even have any final words for her, god fucking damn it Mashima. Also Erza not doing anything within the entire arc pisses me off even more given as you can tell, i'm a  very big  Erza  fan.

As for the Dragon Slayers being upset, they should be because Natsu was the only one to defeat both the Dragon and the Dragon Slayer controlling him. This doesn't make it better, if anything, this makes me angrier about the ending for now once the time comes, everyone needs to be saved by Natsu given he's the only one who increased his powers overtime within the fight and all the talent ,character development and potential is entirely wasted in the process.

At this point, even Acnologia can't save this seires. First of all, it's been established that only a Dragon Slayer has any chance of beating a dragon and given Acnologia is a lone wolf, i highly doubt he'll have minions to fight the other Dragon Slayers and non Dragon Slayers. Second, this striups away everything that enjoy about Fairy Tail the most, the teamwork and side character use. This makes awesome characters like Erza, Mirajane, Kagura and even Gildarts seem nothing more but complete and utter helpless fodder in the future and already sets the hopes low of a recovery. If anything, i've been dreading Acnologica's arrival because i know that no one would stand a chance even if they all fought together and now that only 1 of the 7 Dragon Slayers have any possible defense against him, this further turns this series into the very thing i hate.

Given how they kinda screwed up the training arc within the start of the timeskip and that was easily forgivable compared to this shit, i have no hopes of even the training arc going well and even then, it's going to border down to Natsu>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Dragon Slayers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pissant humans. Again i hated it in Bleach and i hate it ever more in Fairy Tail because it can do so much better.

I'll admit that Future Rouge showing more of his humanity was probably the only decent touch to this but it's instantly ruined by the fact that this battle was miles too short and anti climatic and i really wanted to see more development with Rouge and his future self as well as more of a elaboration and development with the Shadow subplot. It seems too forced, rushed and lazy of an excuse to make it seem he was entirely processed given Future Rouge was showing many signs of good intentions and seemed aware what he was doing as opposed to Jellal who was clearly brainwashed.

Another small redeeming  value was  Jerza shown together but  that  further enrages me to the fact that  we were promised to se them kick ass   but  we  don't  see that  either so it takes away any power and development with them and  really acts as a calculated fangasm moment (a  highly effective one at that )

For those who  question whether i'm a  real fan or not  due to the tirade  i went on this morning, i'm still a  fan of this seires  or at the very least the fan of Fairy Tail prior to this weeks chapter. I don't like this chapter or it's story direction and i fail to see how anyone can like this  direction of the plot but i guess  to each it's own.

Also the comments  regarding Natsu and Lucy  earlier and wanting them to die horrible deaths was just blind rage and misdirected anger, i don't really hate them as characters, i just don't like how they  stole the spotlight and saved  everyone in this forced, contrived ending. Hell, at one point, i even considered Lucy to be the best female character aside from Erza  so for me to turn on her like i did just  shows how Mashima really pissed me off.

So no, there's little to no redeeming value with this plot and if anything, it kills any hopes for this series getting better for now Mashima is repeating the same mistakes as Kubo.

Overall score -9001/10