User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 294: Battle of the Dragon Slayers, Review./@comment-5201137-20120806030546/@comment-3290324-20120808060023

-____- I think it's pretty obvious why people don't like Sabertooth. It's not because they aren't nakama loving. It's because they are cocky, arrogant assholes who apparently think it's funny to torture young girls. In addition to making one strip down naked in front of an entire crowd of people because she lost a match. What, might I ask, about that is enjoyable? At least to a normal person. :P And saying Rogue is nice is not necessarily overrated. When you're reading a manga, you speculate based upon clues given to you by the author. Everything is not black and white. Mashima was clearly hinting at Rogue being different than the rest of his guild. We are expected to pick up on those hints. And Kagura being a beast is overrated? Not by any means. That wasn't hinted. It was shown. She trolled Yukino without drawing her sword as well as purposely going easy on Lyon and Yuka and STILL giving them a hard time. If she would've tried, she could have trolled them with ease. Furthermore, her entire demeanor is meant to be taken as "beastly". She's quiet and powerful and doesn't take this competition that everyone else seems to be trying their hardest in seriously, once again, Mashima throwing us a big fat clue that she's beastly. Sabertooth winning would be the epitome of garbage. If Mashima were to make us hate Sabertooth that much and then let them WIN in the Grand Magic Games it would make the vast majority of Fairy Tail's fans pissed. Not something that mangaka's usually want to do.