User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 499: Gray and Juvia, Review./@comment-4449950-20160830081738/@comment-3987368-20160830132233

And you continue to miss the point as usual, so I'll spell it out: Mashima never got directly influenced by his fans to reverse any decision he's made in the way that Marvel was.

No, I'm not kidding at all. The Civil War comic storyline was horribly handled. Characters were very out-of-character, motivations were fleeting at best and the narrative was poorly structured in how in depicted the differing sides. The movie did all of those things far better as far as the important characters and ideology go. Deviating from the source material was a smart move in this case. Also, how did this and the death of Capt. America "save" Marvel at that time, exactly? Were they under financial stress of some kind? Even so, financial success means nothing as far as qualitative story-telling goes: trying to argue otherwise is just silly.

Oh, you like anything that appeals to you? How obvious. Nice cop-out by claiming you're not talking about yourself with that statement, btw. It's pretty clear you're backtracking though, so save yourself the embarrassment and don't bother pushing the issue.