User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 516: The Truth About Enchantment, Review/@comment-47.150.115.219-20161228043327/@comment-2214433-20161228172656

Ah, youth.

If I had a cent for every message of this kind, which tried to defend the series or its author while completely disregarding other people's arguments, I'd probably be able to buy a new car. Not to say that the other side of the fence isn't equally bad, gimme a cent for every 'nakama powah' statement and I can buy a house.

I usually choose not to react to such posts, but I cannot resist this time around, so let's see.


 * 1) Spoilers are bad. I still stand by my opinion. Trust me, there is a vast difference between reading a whole chapter in a language that you can understand than seeing a few random pages in Japanese that half of the fandom ends up misinterpreting. *looks at Mirajane dying* However, I kind of stopped caring and I just go with the flow. It is also appreciated that Yonkou ends up releasing a whole chapter now, but that's not really the bad thing. What is, however, terrible, is releasing a chapter whole two weeks before its supposed release date. Hey, you hero of justice, what would you do if the publisher cracked down on piracy once again, taking Yonkou, Mangastream down and even getting rid of the official Crunchyroll release as a result of these illegal spoiler release? Just imagine that hypothetical situation for a second. ;)
 * 2) Don't visit his website. Hey man, if that was the solution, I'd gladly do it! However, the information spreads everywhere and anywhere. I am not even gonna comment on your "advice" to cease using the internet, because it's utterly ridiculous.
 * 3) Mashima doesn't care. I'm sure he doesn't read your comments and never will. Good try though. I'm also glad to be able to attain a certain level of freedom of speech to be able to say: this chapter was bad. As a matter of fact, I actually own several FT volumes, along with other releases such as the artbook, so I'm one of the few who actually ended up supporting the author and the publisher in the long run. FYI, Wrath, the poster of this blog, owns almost all the volumes, so if there's anyone who should be allowed to criticize the series, it's him.
 * 4) I'm a consumer. The whole "go and write a better manga yourself" argument is so meaningless that it's actually cringeworthy. If you go to a restaurant and the food is bad, is the chef supposed to tell you to cook it yourself? I don't think so.
 * 5) As for the content of the chapter, I think you haven't really understood the main messages of the blog and its comments, so I'm not gonna bother trying to explain why we think this chapter was bad.