User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 5 - A Moonlit Lake, Review./@comment-4829046-20141117141022/@comment-4829046-20141118111736

@SanLun I never disputed the intimacy part.

And the thing about flow is that it changes according to mindset. In my eyes, Zeira is just a little kid, and a kid who(if alive) went through most of her growth stages under a terrible influence(her father) or an equally young girl whose intelligence far surpasses her own. I know in manga this factor is mostly disregarded but fact of the matter remains. I don't really expect too much from her at this point, plus at that age, everything does 180s and easily work according to impulse. So yeah, mindset. It would be a different story however, if I had something to go on about Zeira that showed some proper inconsistency. Erza and Natsu are prime examples of great inconsistency. At times, Erza is super smart, at other times, she doesn't give a damn and just flails about in her Flamepants, and in her latest fight, the flailing actually worked, which is why all of us called bullshit. Natsu is worse, but he is the stereotypical action shounen MC, so it is expected. Zero is literally in its 5th chapter and we are wracking our brains over Zeira so I'm not really finding too much issue with her.

Again, Mashima's writing maybe at fault, but I'm trying to give him some leeway here. He is literally the only one to consistently give out weekly and monthly and all of the art is done by himself unlike in usual cases of partnerships. However, if I do see serious faults later on, then I'm calling him out on it. But Mavis is one of my favs and so is Zeref, so I think I prefer being more positive about this series ;D