User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 498: Gray vs Invel, Review./@comment-4449950-20160823113616/@comment-153.91.221.246-20160824181232

I completely understand you Carrot. I use to be madly in love with fairy tail, and I even enjoyed the Gmg arc even though it had a negative response from the majority, but ever since the avatar arc I don't get the same amount of enjoyment that I use to get from it. This arc has been by far one of the worst arcs that I ever read in any series, and it's been hard to find stuff about this arc that I like. I didn't even enjoy the fights from my favorite characters like Gajeel, whose fight left me greatly disappointed. Hiro just does not know how to write a good fight nowadays which is sad because you'd expect him to try and step it up since this is a war and the stakes are greater than ever. I think me not getting the same amount of enjoyment out of it also has something to do with the fact that I'm older now and I'm far more critical towards stuff that I read and watch. When it comes to shonen in general, I've been very bored with the genre as a whole lately because it usually ends being the same generic tropes and cliches that I see in other series; so it's not just fairy tail that I have a hard time enjoying now.