User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 353 : Nine Ghost Gate/@comment-8153438-20130929054704/@comment-7418318-20130929093833

But rather than being the reason for the "failure" the darker tone was one of the few redeeming matter in the GMG arc...

And the darker tone in the movie was great (even though the immolation scene took it one step too far IMO).