User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 500: Fire and Ice, Review./@comment-27281341-20160906085027

LoL. This is horse shit. Hiro has fucked up his own work so much that there is no return. No matter what he does with Fairy Tail from now on, nothing will ever change the fact that the series have gone downhill. While i knew that Juvia wasn't dead, the execution of it was bad. Like very bad. Wasted panels.

Then Neinhart goes OHKO. Again. He must be having a contest with God Serena. Whi can get OHKO'ed the most. Seems to be a tie for now.

I never thought that Rave was better than FT. Especially in FT's beginning, when it was great, but i think that if we compare the current FT arc, with Rave's last arc, then Rave is at least 3x better. At least in Rave there was tension...

I have come to believe that Mashima plans only the general outline of his story and everything else, including the god-awful nowdays battles, is made up during the chapter drawing. It seems like he just want to rush things so that he can get faster to the points of the story that he has planned before.