User blog:Minticus Maximus/Does Fairy Tail get any better after the GMG Arc?

To those of you who may know me or have seen my work before, you’ll know that I am one of the few on the wiki that will defend Fairy Tail. While I still recognise some of the bad arcs and characters in the pre-time skip Fairy Tail (especially those Who Shall Not Be Named ), I still genuinely enjoyed the anime, and often it made me both laugh and cry with its well thought out story arcs. Sure it’s not the best anime out there, but it’s still one that made me feel joy and I couldn’t understand why so many people disliked it…

Having watched post-time skip, I now understand completely.

I am current up to the second fight between Rufus and Grey, the one that takes place in the library. And I am disappointed. The Grand Magic Games arc has been bad. Just… bad. Where I expected to see a bunch of awesome fight scenes, cool new guilds, and an interesting into the world of Fiore after the 7 year skip, instead I got… er… nothing.

The fights in this arc have been truly awful. Unlike some of the previous arcs, there is no struggle, no last ditch effort, not even coherence. Sometimes Sting and Rogue are completely unbeatable, sometimes they are complete pushovers. Sometimes Fairy Tail is the weakest guild in Fiore (side not: WAT?) sometimes they are so impossibly powerful that the fusion of Superman and Goku (Goperman? Superku?) could appear on the battlefield to fight Natsu and still lose. Heck, for some parts of the arc, I was cheering for Sting to win instead of Natsu. ''That’s a sign of terrible writing. While Nastu is fighting to restore his guilds name (still noble, I guess), Sting is fighting so his one and only friend in the world'' would not be treated like shit ever again. That’s way more compelling, and it’s only made worse when we see how Sting was absolutely obliterated when he tried to fight Natsu. Congratulations Hiro, you made Sting the underdog, and everyone loves the underdog.

And it’s not just the main characters. The Laxus and Raven Tail fight (fuck sake), the Jellal and Jura fight (FUCK SAKE) and the Mirajane and Jenny fight (F!U!C!K M!E!), they have all been TErRibLe!

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… Sorry, lost the happy, BUT THE HAPPY’S BACK.

I’ll stop myself here before I really get into a rant.

Having explained my reason for hating the newest arc, with its only real upsides being some of the awesome new and old characters (Millianna, a character from my favourite arc, and Kagura is badass), Michael Jones sexy voice (ohmygoddon’teverstopyelling), and the fact it’s still better than thatArc which Shall Never Be Named, I want to know if it gets better. I’ll still keep watching, I’m in too deep now, but for those of you who are further on, please, answer my prayers and tell me it gets better…