User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 371 - In Which Hiro Should Just Quit Out of Shame (Tartaros Arc: Part 2 - Song of the Heavenly Dragon)/@comment-4728047-20140214214314

just from reading a series called Bakuman I am unable to join everyone in their hate bandwagon, as I know that, unfortunately and unlike here, the Mangaka doesn't have quite as much say in what happens as everyone seems to think they do (culturally, Japan isn't all that into individualism like America and much of Europe either)

they have their editors, who put in their opinions (which sometimes greatly influences what happens with the entire series, especially with new authors (I know Hiro doesn't count as a new author)), they also have the polls and feedback from the fans in Japan (and their voices are louder than ours, sorry guys)

I will recommend Bakuman to read, it's more or less written from the journals kept by the guys who wrote Death Note and is pretty damn funny

finally, I will say I quite enjoy the picture of the girls over there on the side (look to the right of the page people) & I wonder how Shou and Wally are doing (that was the Dandy-box guy's name right?)