User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 483: The Seven Stars, Review./@comment-83.253.78.244-20160425182428

In Bleach many people are complaining that its taking forever to defeat the 4 elite Sternritters but in Fairy Tail it seems like people want all 12 of the Spriggans and even the fights against the dead characters that Neinhart summoned to all have just as long fights that last many chapters.

Most fights in Fairy Tail have been 2 or 3 chapters ever since the manga started and so its not a new thing really and its obviously going to be the more important villains like Zeref, Acnologia, August and Eileen that are probably going to get longer fights. The longest fight in Fairy Tail that i can remember was the Mard Geer fight and smaller and less important villains in the other mangas get fights just as long or even longer often.

That the fights in Fairy Tail are shorter than in the other mangas does not mean the villains are weak at all. It just means that this series got a faster pacing than most other shounens.