User blog comment:Firegod00/In Which Fire Quits (FT 433 &434)/@comment-4326112-20150511190009/@comment-1759748-20150511213353

Your second to last paragraph is exactly why I'm quitting the series. The preaching of NAKAMA POWER IS AMAZING AND ALWAYS WINS is getting lethally poisonous, and I just have no tolorance for a series that just preaches shit instead of providing drama, a feeling of worth to the characters and a reason to read the story other than the damn fanservice.

A great man once said that to be a writer, one must likewise be a sadist. You have to break your characters to see what they are made of. That is the creed that I live by as well, in my works. It's like a tabletop RPG. The DM's job isn't to let you win, it's to make you fight for it. And Hiro, unfortunately, constantly drops that ball. He's the antithesis of a sadist. There isn't any drama at all, save for a few sparse moments in the story as of late, and what little there has been, the FRBAWL prediction holds true, within five chapters, Natsu gets his way, period. It's heartbreaking as a manga fan, to know that shit like this sells millions while honestly good shounen are thrown to the wayside (ie, Psyren).