User blog comment:Leek0421/Fairy Tail vs One Piece/@comment-5313432-20150813223247

For me, the major thing for me is the fights. Both series have cool characters with interesting powers, they've both got good humor, they both have interesting stories, but One Piece has much better fights. For a shonen anime, fights are pretty important. For me, their one of the main draws. Fairy Tail has had some good fights in the past, but lately it seems like Fairy Tail is either way more powerful than their foes and practically one shot them, or Fairy Tail is overwhelmed by their foes, only to be like "My friends give strength!" and then win for no good reason. One Piece is much better at having balanced fights, the major exception being Fishmen Arc (which was probably my least favorite) and the Punk Hazard arc (which, admittedly, only had two or three fights and was mostly a set-up for the next arc, much like the Water 7 arc was for the CP9 arc). Unfortunately, that meant we went an awful long time without a really good fight (although the fight with Vergo was pretty good), but this recent arc has made up for it with a number of good fights, though I wish some of them could have been longer. I'm hoping that the fights coming up in the next FT arc will be more balanced and make up for the lack of good fights we've seen in that manga recently, but as of right now, One Piece stands as the better manga in my eyes.