User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 475: Dimaria Chronos Yesta, Review./@comment-27792306-20160229222400/@comment-7418318-20160301190531

Agreed, but even without using her precognition, there ought to be other kinds of magic that would make her more useful than kicking people in the face.

To me it feels like Mashima gave Carla her Cat-loli-girl form only so he can cram in more panty-shots and other fanservice. There is such a great variety of magics she could have learned, almost all of them more useful than this transformation, but no, he had to go the fanservice route again.

And that is why Carla's current existence pisses me off so much. She's been reduced to yet another fanservice provider (which FT has never been lacking), she lost most of her intelligence in favour to going straight in and bash things (again, no shortage of such characters in FT) and her most useful abiliy is completely absent despite supposedly powering up (how the hell would transformation boost precognitive abilities anyway?)... and to top it off she's even more of an arrogant snob and meaner to Happy than ever before.

I liked her before second timeskip, disliked her right after it and came to hate her more and more each time she's in the manga...