User blog comment:Kiraofthesky/Tartaros arc/@comment-25111584-20150116205520

I liked it a lot. Sure, it had its pitfalls, but started in an awesome manner, ended on an awesome note, and the content was also nice for the most part. Balam Alliance down, Dragon mystery solved, Zeref will now make his move as Natsu seems to have escaped the 'hopeless situation'.

Backstory for the Strausses. Gajeel and Belno. The Sabertooth closure with Jiemma's downfall. Juvia tricked Keith pretty well. All of these were nice. Minerva was severely disappointing, though she redeemed herself a bit by the only awesome thing (on the protagonists' part) in the fight against Kyouka. Silver was also pretty disappointing, but fine with it.

Natsu himself was ... not that bad. Liked his role here except when he was being a jerk about the Book of E.N.D. Loved Gray's role throughout, although IDSM gaining was pretty cheap. And, with E.N.D. still out there, wonder if his IDSM is temporary or not. Considering it's Ice 'cause E.N.D. is Fire, seems stupid if he doesn't have it against the Demon. Or maybe it has some limitations. Better have some, otherwise Gray and Lyon balance goes out the window.

The opponents were a bit disappointing. Poor Tempesta got completely trolled. Poor Kyouka got Erzaed. Poor Sayla got ... somethinged. Poor Torafusa ended up giving his opponent the power to defeat him. Franmalth was fine. Ezel was fantastic. Jackal was not that bad. I liked Lamy ... mainly because of the reason why Lisanna is one of my fav chars, reaction to all the hate they get. XD Keith was ... interesting. Didn't seem as interested in Tartarus as in his own experiments. Mard was awesome! Though he seemed pretty delusional. Nothing to say about Jiemma. Just that he's finally done with. E.N.D. was shy. Acnologia was nice. Zeref was mysterious.

Not that interested in either Lucy or Erza, so the former's awesome role and the latter's BS doesn't affect me much. So only really bad thing in this arc for me was the BS OS vs. Jellal fight and its nonsensical implications. Wonder how Mashima plans to handle that mess. Meredy was a bit annoying.

Finally, my favourite part of the entire arc:

Wendy vs. Ezel \(^_^)/