User blog comment:MiraMajin/Now that FT is about to end.../@comment-4829046-20170530141116

Despite its problems, I still say Tenrou was the last great. The anime version was sloppy, and I tell people to drop the anime at that point and never come back except for a couple of arcs like Sun Village, omake/LN adaptations, and some parts of Tartaros. Still, anime Tenrou had an expanded Ultear section, which I consider to be one of the greatest anime-only scenes in all anime. Also the OP songs are to die for. <3

I personally do not have any problems with arcs up to that point. Flaws? sure; but after rewatching several times, I still never get bored. Going back, it is actually more bearable than Naruto. Naruto had a great start, but fell short once Kishi took the scale way too far. Later developments made the initial bits very lackluster and cringey too. FT on the other hand, always has a certain charm. While not as philosophical as Naruto, it nailed the intimacy in emotion a lot better. Why do I bring up Naruto? Cuz FT and Bleach were the first long-running shounen I started after getting away from Naruto hype. I needed good enough reason to commit to another long series. God knows FT saved my week when Naruto and Bleach were being shit.

But yeah. Purely in terms of the manga, the whole thing started sucking a little ways into GMG. Too many unnecessary questions that ended up having little to no satisfactory answers. My hype was killed and thrashed. It's funny, it contributed to the particular point in my life where I discarded pointless hype and instead just wanted to consume as much as I could. Having a plethora of truly great anime and manga to fall back on really takes away the disappointment in other cases. Getting into Visual novels is even better, because you can get the definitive conclusions you want in certain cases where the original story ending and/or adapted version were garbage.

These days, I got so used to enjoying life in general that I do not keep track of weekly release dates. In other words, my disappointments do not last long. If I am not piqued by something, I do not bother saving pages from it(since hard drive space and all that) but I saved plenty from recent FT chapters because I still liked some developments. They got to me in a good way. As such, though I voice distaste, I am not really angry. I'm likely reading a masterpiece in the next tab after all. :P