User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 428: When We Take Different Paths, Review and Commentary/@comment-26263257-20150413113803/@comment-26263257-20150414102014

@Real GodisMe

Yes, it is a usual path taken by manga writers. But this is Fairy Tail. It should be different.

Besides, Sasuke did not "turn evil" (whatever you mean by it). He has been "evil" right from the start. The kid lost his clan because of all the in-fighting within Konoha... and it had to be undertaken by the man he looked up to the most. He's been witness to his parricide... and it has marked him for life. He "turned evil" right there. From that point on, he was on a path to vengeance. From that point on, he was the Sasuke that lived for the entire duration of the manga. In his point of view, his times with Naruto and the gang was just an experiment to see if he could live a normal ninja life. I doubt he was serious in seeing Naruto as a rival (or even a friend). In the end, he knew that he would have to continue on his path to vengeance (though his vision for vengeance was narrow-sighted at that point since he thinks that the buck stopped with Itachi). Blondie was a nuisance to him since he always had to accommodate his "rivalry" mentality every time the mood strikes blondie. He only cared about beating Naruto because he saw it as just another step in the ladder to greater power. Blondie was never the end-all-be-all for Sasuke, as much as blondie wanted to believe it. He was "evil" right from the start. Kishimoto should have killed him off along with Itachi in their battle. The Uchiha clan deserved to rest in peace, and leave all the other ninjas to kill each other for "peace". The Uchihas do not have to suffer watching the entire ninja world engulfed in amateurish-diplomacy/moral-duplicity/pretentious-peace/phony-save-the-world stunts that have been happening. Kishimoto should have killed all the Uchihas off... All of them... and then he should have made Shikamaru the main character... BUT THEN, THAT'S JUST ME. :-)

Vegeta was "evil" at the start of DBZ, by the way. He mellowed down and started a family along the way. DIFFERENCE.

The reason why say that it has gone full Naruto is because Natsu is beginning to look phony like Naruto/JohnCena... and Gray is beginning to act like Sasuke without the emotional/psychological burden of Sasuke. Gray lost his parents (well, his mum... and basically his dad too since Silver devoted his entire life to devil-slaying magic). Deliora was long gone with Ur's sacrifice. That was a closed chapter in his life. He moved on to have a new life, as advised by Ur. He joined FT... In FT, he made friends and rivals. He saw Natsu both as comrade and rival. ...now suddenly, he has this obsession with END? Yeah sure, it's one of the reasons why his father went the way he went since END is part of Tartarus... and Tartarus basically destroyed in Silver whatever it is that hasn't been destroyed by Deliora already. But man, I do not understand why Gray would have an obsession with END. I feel like it's just out of convenience since the plot is already going a certain way.