User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 337 : R.I.P Fairy Tail/@comment-203.87.139.100-20130629115903/@comment-5580383-20130629221320

You can say that again, rushed doesn't even begin to  describe this  arc. I thought the Grand Magic Games had a terrible  ending  regarding  Sting's surrender  but at least that  bullcrap ending didn't  negate the awesomeness of the Grand Magic Games overall, this  ending on the other hand  does and for a simple  reason.

At least back with the Grand Magic Games, every character was shown to be at their  A game and  we saw a great  use of side characters and main characters. Here we only  really see Natsu fighting and  maybe one or two panels of other characters if were  lucky.

Which is the primary reason  why i  resent this  arc, that and not enough Erza  action.

Yeah, then again come to think of it , Mashima has never used her right at all. Of all the characters in the series, Lisanna has it the worst. She was brought back from the  dead  and  it was a big deal at the time that  divided the  fanbase with  regards of  wheter she should've been brought back. I personally think it was a good move at the time and approved at the time however the fact she has been mismatched against  foes who are far stronger than her ( Erza,Azuma ) and wasn't  fighting in the Grand Magic Games  makes me  wonder  why Mashima doesn't  use her.

I mean she's  far from pitifully weak. We know she's at least at the level of  Cana and Levy who are  significantly on par with Natsu, Gray and Lucy. I mean, she was qualified to take the S Class exams for christ sake .Also, she's a secondary  love  intrest  for Natsu  given she's  like an old flame before Lucy  so  i wanted more NaLi screentime  but sadly she seems to have Hinataitis  and casted into the shadows while Lucy steals her spotlight. If Mashima really wants to make up for the failures of this arc, i better see more of Lisanna and  better see her do a badass  feat  much later in the story.

Levy is another girl that i want to see more screentime of. While clearly the weakest A class mage overall ( still on par with Lucy and Cana at the very least ), she  has  interesting magic powers and  with her brains, she can be the Shikamaru of this series.Also i  really want to see more  developments within her character and her bond with Gajeel to grow  stronger.

Which just  further enrages me. We have two  dragons we don't even know about Gajeel's opponent's abilities. Then again the other dragons, Revire  and  Scissor Runner are largely  unknown  in thier powers as well and  what  a waste that  was.

Cobra's return was awesome and i praised the  return  of him helping out  as  a  rogue, anti hero  dragon slayer   and was hoping  that they would  follow his character  development  within the Key to the Starry Sky arc  but  sadly no mention of that at all and   we don't even see  Kinna at all  so  bringing him back was  completely and utterly pointless if you were going to pull this  BS  in the  first place.

I only remember  2 to 3  panels of him at most,  he was  already disappointing within the Grand Magic Games with  regards of Laxus, the fact he had no real  screentime  despite  being a top tier mage  further pisses me  off.

Good question, they were only shown for less than a chapter and now they're  gone.

Agreed and this is my problem with the  Dragons immunity, i don't expect the  non Dragon Slayers  to kill it, however i expect an S Class Wizard like Erza or Mirajane to at least  strach one of the weaker dragons. It makes it feel too contrived, it's not  helped when  the  Dragon Slayers are  just as pitiful against  a Dragon either and helped even less that   they all had to be saved by one  guy.

Yeah, what was the point of Ultear dying again  ? Right to help the damn people fight better against the  Dragons. Hell at the same chapter, Gajeel  found a weakness within his  Dragon opponent and that's when i was  hoping that i'll see all the Dragon Slayers pull an awesome comeback  and hope those  6  chapter coming out in the next  2 weeks  would be all about the Dragon Slayers having their own  fights with each  individual  and this would all be  thanks to Ultear  but nope, the fact that the gate was destroyed  pretty much makes  her sacrifice  worthless and  the  fact that  Natsu could've smashed the gate without Ultear's help  even ruins the well handled  death and revival of  Gray.

Speaking of Gray, the revival was a bit too rushed and i was  disappointed slightly  by the  lack of  Juvia's  rage  however  after seeing that everyone remembers  what happened  within a minute, i was hoping that Juvila would still go on a rampage  like she  did in Tenrou Island because back then, she was thinking about Gray dying and  she  went incredible Hulk on Meredy  and that was all caused just by thinking about Gary's death. However with this rushed climax, Juvila's character was derailed.

Still not as enraging as Erza and  Kagura not doing anything notable at all, in the case of  Erza she had to be  recused which looking back at it  was a bit disappointing  but at the same time i  ignored it because this was also a good character development moment for  Jellal and Erza and we  did get a decent closure to the Kagura  revenge subplot with Milliana and Kagura  reconciling with Jellal  however with neither of them   fighting as a group,  this was all vastly undermined which again why i hate this chapter.

I hear you about  Meredy,  she must be  very strong now  given she was a  former member  of  the Seven Kin of Purgatory  and was shown to  be able to fight on par with Juvia and Erza and has  the ability to bypass Logica like defenses or rather any defense. I want to see if her blades can bypass even Dragon defenses.

Agreed, they all  trained  within the timeskip and we saw what Cana and  Elfman can  do now with training so  why were they still using the same abilities from pre timeskip   ? This is even more disappointing given it was well established that  Thunder Tribe were above Cana and Elfman  back in the Fantasia Arc. Cana was curbstomped by Freed's hax powers and  Elfman was defeated by Evergreen, shouldn't they have something even more impressive by comparison by  now ?

Mashima would need some massive  improvements to  recover from this  trainwreck  at this  point.