User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 516: The Truth About Enchantment, Review/@comment-190.58.249.11-20170107175156/@comment-7418318-20170108084421

My reason for reading it...

First of all I like to finish series that I started and already read for more than a year. A series must either crash and burn absolutely catastrophically or make a massive shift in tone away from what I like. And it is very damn hard to piss me off or disappoint me enough to drop something entirely. But there is a different thing that happens to me some times with series gone to shit: I emotionally disconnect from the series. I keep reading it, but I have no investment. The bad moments just pass me by without eliciting any emotion. That way I can enjoy the good moments and don't mind the best. The downside of this state is that the good moments aren't as enjoyable as in a series I am invested in. Bleach was such an example. At some point the bullshit just threw me out of the series and I didn't care anymore, but I still wanted to know how it ended. Just to clarify: This isn't something I do intentionally, it just happens on it's own.

In Fairy Tail's case, the series hasn't become that bad to make me want to drop it or cause me to disconnect with it. That makes the good moments all the more enjoyable, but it also makes the bad moments painful and frustrating.

And Fairy Tail still has both, the good and the bad moments. Even this current arc, which is universally considered the worst arc to date, has some awesome moments among... along with the terrible and mediocre ones. Furthermore, as this rather controversial chapter showed, even after more than 10 years of making this manga and countless accusations or having become too predictable, Hiro Mashima can still surprise us.

TLDR (why is it a D and not T anyway?): As I said somewhere else here or last week. It's too good to drop or emotionally disconnect, but not good enough to fully enjoy (emphasis on the fully - ass a whole I still do enjoy it more often than not).