User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 380: Hell's Core, Review/@comment-1359322-20140411162725/@comment-24066070-20140411171028

The length of a manga does not define it's quality, but of course it is true that it becomes more difficult to keep the quality consistent when the manga is very long.

It wouldn't really matter if FT continues for 100, 200 or 500 chapters, if the comming arcs and especially the conclusion are handled well, then the criticism will lessen or even disappear completely.

But I gotta admit that I also prefer shorter works that get to the point faster.

Gamaran has 195 chapters or so, but it has a great conclusion and I never had the impression chapters were wasted on pointless shit.