User blog comment:Kiraofthesky/Anime filler/@comment-24613218-20150911032425/@comment-95.51.118.58-20150911181129

@WonderfulUnicorn

Nice one :D (also, I like your avatar - Claire was one of my favourite characters in Baccano!)

Yes, I believe it would be great if minor characters had both character and power development; if Lisanna wasn't just motivation to fight for Mirajane; if Elfman was something more than a heap of muscles and 'Otoko!' and was a cool character, like he was in... whoa, Phantom Lord arc. Long time ago. It would have also been better if Lucy shared some (okay, let's be honest - A LOT) of her screen time for so-called 'character development' (those two filler arcs were interesting because of everyone but Lucy - I LOLd when I saw Gray dancing, I loved Aries' new design, but Lucy's reactions were predictable, simple as that) with Natsu, and in turn Natsu gave her some of his screen time for power development (for 200 episodes she lost a lot of battles, and suddenly got a great power-up 'because I said so') It would do both of them a lot of good.

Thunder God's Tribe who wouldn't just be all over Laxus because they admire Laxus... more Evergreen, cause she's absolutely awesome and has funny interactions with Elfman... more Freed, because his magic could be really badass (not to mention he was a candidate for an S-Class Mage)... more Bickslow who had enough power to defeat Gray the other day...

...yeah. Not going to happen. I know.

(Still waiting for Natsu's character development though. It's high time we saw some other emotions besides his great joy and rage... like, for a longer time than 1-2 episodes?)