User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 383 - In Which There Wasn't Much (Surfer Lucy)/@comment-3061966-20140514023956

Why is Makarov even in this arc? He hasn't done shit despite being the most powerful person in the guild. It's just bad writing to have him being useless. Mashima is really forcing his characters to suffer a bit too much with the way he just ignores Makarov.

This has been a pretty lame last few chapters, but for what it's worth, I just caught up in Bleach and Kenpachi's fight was leagues worst. It's gonna be another asspull win engineered by Mashima.

This arc is turning into garbage just like the rest barring like Phantom Lord and Galuna Island. It's not like I ever regarded Fairy Tail as a quality manga despite being a fan, it was always a weak series after its' first 30+ chapters, but Mashima is unfortunately just doing what he does best -- being a terrible storyteller.

And of course I get no Laxus panel time, because Mashima decided he was too powerful to be kept around and made him go selfless. And Gildarts is nowhere to be found.

The only upside is that Mashima stays on point with the quality of his art, color pages, and color spreads. I've actually gotten sick of One Piece's color spreads, they are all the same and are just a bore now. I hope Mashima doesn't fall into that with his color spreads. But, then again, OP feels like the only Big 3 manga I have faith in right now to not fuck up its' legacy like Naruto and Bleach have. But, that's not relevant.

This chapter was hardly passable, Aha.