User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Wiki in the Anime vol. 1: Fall 2015/@comment-4449950-20160111085753/@comment-7418318-20160111183914

Then I'm weird too, since I liked it a lot too. ^^

I also enjoyed the whole inner struggle of Bishamon in season 2 far more than the actual sword-, gun-, dagger- and whip-fighting (and Lion fighting I guess ^^).

Not to mention that I've never seen any filler material and manga-to-anime changes that were put in so smoothly and with such quality and care that you aren't even aware of them being filler if you haven't read the manga just recently. Seriously I only noticed most of the changes after re-reading the chapters.