User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 525: Why Did the Emperor Never Love His Child?, Review/@comment-4829046-20170304191746/@comment-4829046-20170304192601

Oh and another matter.

So we JUST got out of the Mother-daughter post-natal thing. Basically it established that a mother would put her daughter before herself. (though to be very blunt, I bet a 100 bucks that she would have done the opposite if the baby was born with that scumbag sperm-dispenser's face but I digress)

Now we have a Father-son thing with similar childbirth complications involved. This one goes very differently.

Anyone get the feeling that Mashima is being too specific with the thematic content these past few dozen chapters? I mean, I'm glad that Fairy Tail is being one of the FEW Shounen that has so much familial aspect in it. In most stories we'd be hard-pressed to find this much. Even Dragon Ball, the first to popularize the super powered shounen Family tree, failed to get to that level.