User blog comment:Ash9876/Ashy's Reviews - Fairy Tail 481: Historia of Corpses/@comment-30807545-20160412123403/@comment-25152698-20160412155714

Though, with all due and respect, what more of a purpose could Simon have served? I mean, his being involved in all of this nearly killed off Jellal, and in the process, looks as though it finally rounded out Kagura's feelings toward him (no, they're not besties, but it's a start). In terms of what he has achieved, Simon's presence allowed his sister to grow and progress as a person, and to us, as a character.

The characters who were up against Neinhart, with the exception of Kagura, are both too powerful and smart to directly fall prey to something like that in my opinion --even if it's a scenario rich of nostalgia-- so really, having an extended emotional hissy-fit over Simon's return would've thrown it off course some.

Also, why does the involvement of CPR bother you so much, lol? No one in their right mind would ever legitimately ship Kagura with Jellal. It's called trolling, something I myself had some fun with on chat the other day in regards to exactly this. Fans react in all sorts of ways; I find it ironic that given how much you troll the series yourself that you'd have a problem with it, lol.

But yes, I too thought back to Naruto for a moment with the whole CPR ordeal, and to me, this sort of stuff is always intentional. I mean, come on now, Hiro could've done just about anything else, but no, he explicitly wanted Jellal and Kagura to lock lips. Same case with Naruto; Kishimoto was feeding the fan-base. But like I said, does this canonize the two as a pairing? Lol, of course not.