User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 457: Naked Battle, Review./@comment-1776824-20151019040912/@comment-1776824-20151019042708

Or more fights could be like Gray vs. Silver, Natsu vs. Future Rogue (round 1) Gray vs. Rufus (most of Gray's fights, really), Dragon Slayers vs. Faust, motherfucking Gajeel vs. badass Rogue,etc. where the characters honestly put up a very good fight and through either pushing through to close that gap in power, or by using their heads, they won (in the case of Future Rogue, it just established a difference in power and provided a lot of exposition), or it pushed the story forward in a non-bs way. It's like he has a handful of wonderful fights and then decides, "Can't have too many of those. People might actually start to think I'm giving a damn!" when the fact of the matter is he can't let go of the idea that he wants FT to be more light-hearted than Rave Master...which is why he made Tartaros the arc that was arguably almost as dark as certain parts of Rave Master and put FT into a situation where they stand to be absolutely massacred. This writing consists of the theme of hope bringing miracles, well I'm sick of fucking hope. I want good writing, even if it eclipses the fuck out of hope for years to come. >_>