User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 42: June 2015/@comment-3290324-20150702004148/@comment-3290324-20150704195650


 * 1) Actually, your point here is completely and utterly nonsensical. When Erza has a shitty fight, I hate her fights. And other Erza lovers, like Yummy, hate her shitty fights as well. As a matter of fact, on the very last issue of the magazine when me and Lidor were arguing about Laxus vs. Minerva, I even mentioned how bull shitty Erza's fight with Kyouka was. Similarly, when Natsu has a bull shit fight, I hate his fights as well. And what you seem to be missing is the fact that the fights are bull shitty is the logical reason to hate them. When Erza beat Kyouka without any of her five senses, you didn't see me praising her for a fantastic fight. No, I epic ranted about how terrible it was. So please don't try to make it seem as if I'm just this blind fanboy who can't realize when one of my favorite characters has a shitty fight. Because, believe me, I can.
 * 2) And no. Erza's fight with Ikaruga is literally one of the only times where Erza using her Flame Pants to win a fight actually made sense. Ikaruga sword allowed her to slice through all of Erza's defenses. So, Erza decided to switch all of her attention to offense. And when she did, she took Ikaruga down. It's that simple.
 * 3) And you honestly can't be blind enough to think that Gray vs. Ultear was "damn good plot?" Firstly, let's start off with your "psychological effect" argument. If you honestly think that Gray was talking about Ur intentionally to throw Ultear off then you must not have been watching the same fight that I was. Gray was just doing what Erza and Natsu and everyone else has done a thousand times in battle. Instead of just fighting their opponents, they get holier-than-thou trying to reach the inner good of the villain. That's not strategy, that's just being preachy. Secondly, Ultear just so happened to get knocked into a body of water that contained her mother and you don't think that was plot convenient bull shit?! Come on Sane! You're smarter than that. Gray's fight with Ultear was utter horseshit and you know it.
 * 4) And once again, I'll say: There are some opponents that you can't use your wits to outdo. Of course Erza had to win due to bullshit in her fight with Kyouka. Her abilities robbed her of all her senses. There was no way for her to logically push forward after that. So Mashima BS'd it. :/ Hell, do you honestly think if Mashima was smart enough to think of a clever, logical way to have Erza win her fight with Kyouka, he would've went for the "because she's Erza" route. :/ That's not to say there wasn't a way (all of us had a few theories for how he could've done it better), that's to say he didn't or couldn't think of a better way.
 * 5) And that's the thing though. Just because a character is very smart (like we are obviously meant to believe Lucy and Erza are), doesn't mean Mashima is going to show them using their intelligence all of the time. And him not showing it doesn't take away from the fact that they are very intelligent.