User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 404: 00:00, Review./@comment-4449950-20141012000503/@comment-4449950-20141014205924

Arg, gotta go to Uni soon...

"Not seeing how Silver's storyline doesn't make sense... Nor Minerva's"

They both made no sense on the whole. Silver was introduced as a Demon of the Nine Gates, was allowed to do what he liked and off-screen (to Gray) got angry at Gray and cursed his name. He then revealed that he was not a proper member of the 9DG (wut?), that he loved Gray and wanted Gray to try and kill him so he made up stuff about being Deliora and then changed his mind half way through and, fuck it, it was just all over the place. If he did love Gray, why make that comment when he froze Natsu? Why pretend to be Deliora? Why become a member of the Nine Demon Gates? If he disobeyed I'm pretty sure Keith would have been all "well, this shit ain't worth my time" and grabbed someone else. And don't gimme "he was controlled and had to act like that". If he was, how did he get away with trying to find ways to stop Tartarus, as he said he'd been doing for years? How did he get away with letting Happy and Natsu and Lisanna go? *sighs*

Minerva was the same. Declare pure hatred for Fairy Tail, get heaps of powers and vow revenge and then just... stop? She was like set up for ARCS to be having this ultimate evil (Sun Village anyone?) and it went nowhere, almost like the story was changed at the last minute. And because of the last minute change, her entirety was explained in a flashback before she just switched sides with no hesitation. Trust me, I defended the move even (go see my review of that chapter) but that doesn't mean it didn't make sense given everything she had previously done in the story.

To me, these feel like the kinds of things an editor would have the power to change. Hinting that Mashima should take a different route and then the man has to alter the story and facts don't meet as a whole even if they do kinda make sense in the individual chapters themselves. Or it's just Mashima not planning far enough ahead (though from at least my perspective he does plan, so this is where I look at the editor) so hasty changes are made.