User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 381: Where Demons Live, Review./@comment-24467372-20140418094955/@comment-3290324-20140419002255

You have to be joking right? In what world has Gray shown better endurance/durability feats? I've never seen him do anything that would even remotely suggest that he has them. And a better arsenal? Really? Mirajane hasn't been in half the fights that Gray has been in onscreen and she's still shown she's way more versatile than him. In fact, Gray is the least versatile of all the main characters. All he has is ice. He doesn't known any other forms of Magic besides Ice-Make. So the extent of his abilities is using a variety of weapons created by, you guessed it, ice. -__- Yes, he's soooo versatile.

And no, Mira hasn't been living up to her hype. But that has nothing to do with her strength. It's because Mashima has never given her a fight to do so. For a fourth of the series, Mirajane didn't have access to her powers. When she did finally get them back, she dog-walked Freed which was pretty much the best fight we've seen her in. After that, Mashima hasn't given her any good ones. In her fight with Azuma, she had already used up most of her Magic Power and she had to sacrifice herself for Lisanna, so she didn't get to show us anything there. Jenny and Kamika were fodder so beating them didn't show us the extent of her power either. So her "not living up to her hype" isn't a matter of capabilities, it is a matter of circumstances. She's barely put into fights and when she is she's not given decent ones like everyone else.

And your opinion on her being the weakest S-Class is also incorrect. Mashima has been consistent in his assertion that Mira and Erza are on the same level. Natsu isn't stronger than her and Gajeel certainly isn't. Natsu is the main character, and he's won countless battles with Nakama Magic. And your claim that he's somehow stronger because he's always getting back up and fighting is ludicrous. Mirajane, as a side character, can be pushed to the side, but do you honestly think Mashima would have Natsu on the sidelines for an arc? Don't be silly.