User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 428: When We Take Different Paths, Review and Commentary/@comment-26263257-20150413113803/@comment-26263257-20150413172625

I just hope Mashima can surprise us with a curve ball... e.g. Avatar turns out to be just a ruse as more than half of its members are former FT, GH, OS wizards that are just trying to lure Zeref out... and that everything is Makarov's plan... from Gajeel, Levy and Panther working for the Council, all the way to Avatar's creation...

Gray going evil is taken straight out of Naruto. I hate what those guys did to Sasuke's character... there was just too much heel-pushing in that series... and then they made Naruto's character into some PHONY-JOHN-CENA hero figure... and that just pi$$es me off!!!

One thing that separates Fairy Tail from the other manga is that the characters do not pretend to justify their deeds. They do not care if they are seen as villains. They have well-defined loyalties and priorities and stick to them as much as they can... The "nakama" moments are nice because they are not borne out of a sense of obligation to justify something... "nakama" just is... None of the characters see themselves as self-important that they would "save the whole magic world" from evil... that is one of the elements that I love about Fairy Tail...

This last chapter is straying from that, and is now dangerously veering towards a Naruto-like storyline.

I beg of you, Mashima-sama, please bring Fairy tail back to Fairy Tail.