User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 544: You're the King, Review/@comment-1248963-20170715094959

Eh, could've been worse *glares at Bleach*. I think I would've been more satisfied with this if Acnologia had turned out a more interesting villain, but in the end he was just screaming "Blood! Destruction! Blood!", it was borderline ridiculous. They do say a story lives and dies by the quality of its villains and Acnologia was a massive disappointment. He had no depth as a character beyond wanting to destroy everything for... some reason. Did he even get a tragic backstory? I feel maybe it was mentioned dragons killed his family but if it happened it must've been terribly inconsequential because I'm not sure it happened.

A looong time ago I'd theorized that Zeref would get his redemption and the gift of death by sacrificing himself to help defeat Acnologia. Zeref was such a promising enemy when he was first introduced as a reluctant villain, but all that went away when Mashima decided to throw all pretense of complex writing to the wind and instead made him pure cackling evil, and the same happened with Acnologia. Then again villains haven't really had any pizzazz since... Edolas? With scarce exceptions, most villains from Tenroujima onwards were forgettable and boring.

I did find the Fairy Sphere part very neat, even if the whole motion sickness bullshit is still bullshit. And although the Dragon Slayer fight was predictably boring, the reunion frames were sweet, so I'm generally okay. It really could've been so much worse *glares at Bleach again*