User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 322: Gloria, Review/@comment-1454981-20130308195157/@comment-5668006-20130310190454

I don't read one piece or any of those other mangas by oda or amano so I'm not qualified to have an opinion on their writing style. The thing about the Wizard saints though is that I lost credibility for them after Makarov dominated Jose' with very little effort then again after seeing Hades destroy Makarov with very little effort. The wizard saint's title is given by the council who have proven to be incompetent countless times because of their blind hatred of FT guild so I really could give a shit less about their opinion on anything. Hades was not a wizard saint but was by far superior to any of the saints we know of, we have not seen these Ishval dudes yet so I could give a fuck less what oobaba says. Also, never disagreed with you about Jura being much stronger than Laxus, I'm just simply stating how I come to terms with Mashima's writing style and try to find reasons why these things happen logically. The only logical thing's i could come up with were that Laxus is much faster than Jura and had more heart in the fight so therefore that is why he won. I don't like taking the "FT won because Mash is a troll" road because then it makes the manga much less enjoyable.

I learned a while ago that "...if you can't change a situation, change the way you think about it. Don't complain." That is all I'm doing is rationalizing why they won. Does it make for good story telling when catastrophes happen? Hell yes, it reminds me of When Aizen utterly destroyed the Gotei 13 in Bleach and embarassed Ichigo until the latter's father showed up and saved him. Then later we have Gin die. That imo was good story telling because of the range of emotions it forces you to experience.

IDK what direction FT is headed but IMO the earlier Arcs were so much more enjoyable up until the Tenrou arc is where it started to get shady. I immensely enjoyed the first season and I'm one of the rare people who enjoyed the Edolas arc as well. All the earlier arcs forced a range of emotions.

The only other thing I have to disagree with you on though is that you find Natsu not to be strong, I disagree with that.