User blog comment:Kiraofthesky/Anime filler/@comment-5894890-20150911165807/@comment-25111584-20150912150851

Mashima wrote the rough plot for the ECS arc though ... It's not just the execution of the arc which was bad, the rough plot was just as bad too. .-. Still like Mashima though. /o/

Plus, the first proposal for the KotSS arc was rejected by Mashima because he thought it was too dark. A-1 has to run the scripts past Mashima, so just blaming the studio for bad plot is kinda unfair, imo. ._./