User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 388: Erza vs. Minerva, Review and Commentary/@comment-24277053-20140613191002

On Minerva's backstory, it is okay, but it is not nearly as heart wrenching or epic like Ultear's backstory. Now that backstory turned me around on my feelings for the character. Ultear was THE villaness of the series, an embodiment of evil, though she did show hints of redamable qualties in Galluna Island, I had no reason to care about her and thought nothing could make me like her or care about her, but her backstory that blow me away, I was in tears reading that. She instant became a favorite of mine, a character that I didn't want to die. When she tried to commit suicide and Merody saved her, I was edge of my seat saying "Meredy please save her", and than the Eclipse arc when she sacrificed her time and may or may not be deal. I still don't know if the aging process left her a old woman or contiued and she died shortly there after.

Minerva on the other hand, first of all didn't have that moment of showing redemablity of get the audiance to think maybe she is not that bad like when Ultear put Galluna Island back together. Her backstory made me feel bad, but not rolling out in tears and really be emotionally invested on her living or dying. Her backstory I saw coming, it didn't blow me away.