User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 423: Do It All for Love, Review and Commentary/@comment-24039250-20150309235455

I knew people were going to flip when Natsu one shotted Bluenote. Honestly I don't see any problem with it. In One Piece Luffy and gang were beaten senselessly by a Pasifica, but then after 2 years of training Luffy and gang can one shot Pasificas. No one complained, in fact it was looked upon as awesome. Now we have Bluenote, who gave Natsu a run for his money 8 years ago, and now after 7 years and a 1 year time skip for the M.C, Natsu is able to one shot Bluenote. It's the same thing if you think about it. "But Bluenote should have been stronger too..", my response "He thought he was tough shit so he likely didn't see much reason to train." Sure there was Gildarts, but when you look at the majority of wizards in the world, Gildarts is likely the top dog and there are very few who are close to that kind of power. With that kind of reasoning there is no real need to train when you know 95% of wizards are nothing but flies compared to you. The 5% of wizards would be FT wizards (The important ones), Crime Sociere, some of the Wizard Saints, and Zeref. This fight happened to show us how much Natsu improved in his time of training. Honestly it makes sense since no one has really trained throughout the series, except for the time when they went for the tournament. Other then that, they got stronger through the fights they had.