User blog comment:Mangetsu20/Double Order of Bullshit (FT - 459, 460)/@comment-30807545-20151108005530/@comment-4326112-20151108205732

Nah, but I understand where you're coming from.

In actuality, most of the things that Hiro is plagiarizing comes from not his own fanbase but from many legitimate series that are ongoing or finished awhile back. For example, the Grand Magic Games was a spin on the Shounen Cliche of Tournaments while the use of Second Origin was a way to put the middle finger to the Training Cliche of Shounen series. Even then, he tried to include TIME TRAVEL motifs without explaining HOW they time traveled other than the future is desolated by a soon to arrive evil (the Dragons being the Androids and the time travelers being F-Rogue and F-Lucy).

And I still believe that the Robots introduced in the last two chapters was just a cash-in on every boy/man's love of robotics and "machinas".

IN all honesty, as much as Fans would like to think Authors steal ideas from fanons, they generally don't know about them for long periods of time and only are told numbers in other countries. That's how little Mangakas know of their international crowds. They only know how popular it is locally, not globally.