User blog comment:MiraMajin/Now that FT is about to end.../@comment-2214433-20170524202613

Hm, it's actually hard to say. I do agree that up till Tenrou, the manga was pretty entertaining. Acnologia's arrival is still one of the most WTF things (and the subsequent timeskip) I remember witnessing in a manga I was following weekly.

GMG was... well, I was one of those who actually enjoyed the whole idea of a reverse time skip: the whole world progressed while the main cast stayed the same. The tournament itself was pretty fun up till Tag Battles, basically. That is when it started going down as the worst arc to date (I didn't even mind Edolas that much, especially in its anime form). So after the whole disaster of Eclipse, I actually welcomed Sun Village as something that brought the manga back to its roots: a fun adventure, the main cast taking a job.

Then we have Tartaros, which is basically a series of ups and downs, a great part followed by a really bad one. In a sense, Alvarez is the same, except it has faaaaar more bad parts than the good ones. Unfortunately.

The breaking point - aka the moment when I just had to stop pretending that I'm enjoying the manga - was Juvia's fake death. Yeah, it came pretty late, especially compared to the rest of the people here, but in the sense of literature, I'm rather easy to please as long as I have my expectations set up accordingly.