User blog comment:Godisme/Magical Barrier Particles/@comment-10956583-20131101101153/@comment-1359322-20131102033806

Yup he is, he's just recycling the plot after all. Because my brother started to reread FT once again, he finally told me something which made my theory of Mashima "recycling the plot" to be true.

Quote: Sun Village is just a remake of the Galuna Island with different enemy but same focus, an old enemy (Minerva, Lyon), an old friend (Atlas, Lyon) and Gray and Ultear (Gray and Ur). And now the Tartaros arc is moving in the same direction as the Phantom Lord arc (Friends hurt, FT starts war), so after the Tartaros arc, it'll be another Erza-centric arc.