User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail's Ending/@comment-5873677-20140630120833/@comment-4829046-20140630121934

I'm sure the "777, Layla's death in 777 too, dragons' disappearance/hiding, why Gajeel and Natsu can't pass through Freed's runes, what Zeref said to Natsu in the Tartarus arc" can be fitted into one arc or two at the most so technically it could be like Bleach and Naruto and just have a ridiculously long final arc. If we can call the entire series up till GMG the "Zeref Awakening Arc" then everything after the timeskip(or maybe after Zeref decided to destroy everything) can be considered as one massive overarching section but this time having fewer sub-arcs in between. Particularly nothing like Edolas ever again. I mean Edolas did provide something to the overarching story, but the OS arc provided more(like DF, Cobra, Gold Keys, Jellal, Wendy) despite not having any relevance to Zeref. I mean think about it, after the introductory arc, it was mostly Zeref this and Zeref that when not providing us with characters to be useful later.

Just something that just clicked to me. :/