User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 514: Dragon Seed, Review/@comment-25111584-20161212114038

"Insult the mangaka's writing, not the mangaka." Oh dear, so tough to adhere to that in FT's case these days. But that rule should not be violated. >.< So I guess I'll just skip over the whole NaLu thing by explaining their actions in-universe as Porlyusica being one of the worst battlefield medics around and Lucy continuing to metamorphose into Natsu's dumb bitch. >.> So sad. I actually like Porlyusica. .-.

Everyone and their grandma will just scream NaLu or Fanservice!!! or a combination of both, but no one friggin' looks at the fact that one way to treat hypothermia is a direct body-to-body contact. No one considers the friendship between Natsu and Lucy which lead the latter to perform the act with no hesitation in order to help her friend.


 * The NaLu is bad because Mashima always does this. Lucy goes flying through the air naked and absolutely coincidentally crashes into Natsu. But of course that is simple coincidence and everybody crying foul is simply overreacting, yeah?
 * The NaLu stuff is bad because it is forced and demeans characters. You want to raise Natsu's body temperature? Have Lucy use Celestial Spirit Magic to summon Virgo to transport some medical equipment from the Celestial Spirit World. A thick quilt at the least, please. Or, if worst comes to worst, have Taurus warm up Natsu as he is infinitely better suited to that task than Lucy. Lucy has basically forgotten all about her Magic simply for this moment to occur, which is a gross insult to her intelligence.
 * inb4, "Lucy is conserving her Magic": Yeah, no. Not only is her friend's life in danger, she should also feel absolutely no significant drain from something as simple as this.

Honestly, it's far sadder to read apologist stuff which tries to ignore everything bad about a situation, especially when it far outweighs anything good. We know Lucy is extremely close to Natsu. That doesn't mean she has to leave her brain behind every time she is involved in a situation concerning Natsu. e_e

The Irene backstory is proceeding great... although admittedly it's only been a single Chapter. >.> However, given how pretty much every 400 years ago connection post-Tenrou has left me irritated, all the way from Zeref being introduced as a character to the Eclipse Gate requiring Celestial Spirit Magic to work for some reason to the retarded time-travel of the Dragon Slayers and the Heartfilias being involved in the whole thing for the heck of it to E.N.D., I actually have high hopes for Irene's recollections. Helps that, if you ignore Mashima's over-the-top portrayal of villains, she's part of the Shield quartet that actually have reasonable personalities given their positions. Although the other three are completely one-dimensional...

Score: 7/10. Would have been a whole 9/10 if not for the NaLu dumbfuckery. Not even mad that, despite being gung-ho about fighting Irene, Erza and Wendy are just standing around listening to her tale.

Would be genuinely glad if Mashima just steps over the entire Zeref-Natsu-Mavis thing like the stinking pile of crap it is and focuses his efforts on making Irene and Acnologia the big bad bosses. /o/