User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 255: Tartaros arc: Steel, Review/@comment-27087644-20151017153116/@comment-7418318-20151017153534

Erm... how is Hiro Mashima the asshole here?

He's the one drawing the manga, where the fight happened exactly like you wanted it to happen by your own admission.

The ones making decisions for the anime are A1, not Mashima, so it'd be them who are the assholes...