User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 383 - In Which There Wasn't Much (Surfer Lucy)/@comment-4326112-20140510044519/@comment-4072803-20140510160603

I'm sure Eiichero Oda got negative backlash for killing Ace. I'm sure he did for killing Whitebeard. But he still did it for the sake of the growth and development of his protagnist. And, I view Fairy Tail like I do Naruto at this point, though I'm not sure if anyone else feels the same way. I LOVE the universe, and I enjoy seeing the possibilities it has. I just happen to heavily dislike the characters that live in it (or at least the ones that we see), because of what Hiro's doing to them. The problem isn't with the universe (most of the time), it's with the characters.