User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 516: The Truth About Enchantment, Review/@comment-190.58.249.11-20170107175156/@comment-1776824-20170108160610

Like I've said before, Fairy Tail is only consistently bad when Hiro tries to make it like Rave Master and then changes his mind halfway through. Fairy Tail originally had its own feel that slowly, but surely, disappeared during the Grand Magic Games, and that made it unique.

Unfortunately, it turned into a stereotypical shonen at that point, with the friendship garbage turned up to the Nth degree, the incredibly interesting side characters given false hope at shining, only to just fall off the face of the planet as soon as the main group appears, the shoddy attempts at making us feel suspense... But all that aside, there is still an element of the original Fairy Tail in it somewhere. Honestly, right up until about DiMaria's defeat, the arc was actually amazing. And almost consistently. The last 40 or so chapters have just been full of ass. So, out of a 516 chapter manga, I'd gander that maybe roughly 100 (plus or minus 25) chapters have been shit, which is about 20% of the manga, but the overall direction of Fairy Tail (until this chapter) has been clear. It has a goal that it had been building up to since Lullaby for crying out loud, and while it has gotten here, it hasn't been a smooth ride, but I've enjoyed the majority of the ride, is what I'm trying to say.

In my opinion, one terribly bad arc shouldn't make people drop the series. If you enjoyed the series up until the current point, for the most part, with some give and take for individual poor chapters, then like I'm doing now, I'd personally just keep going. Especially when the Wiki has been what someone like me has been doing for four years, and when I have spent hundreds to support the official release.