User blog comment:Mode Sau/Fairy Tail vs Alvarez Empire/@comment-153.91.251.105-20151027114826/@comment-1359322-20151027121334

It's probably because of the GMG arc. Too many characters also played a role in ruining the plot besides the bad pacing. Right now we have the entire FT guild, around 37 members from FT. From Ishgar there's 12 + Zeref + 3 named subordinates already. Then there's the hinted Crime Sorcière & Acnologia intervention. That's around 61 characters already.