User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Hiro Autograph Session - HOW?/@comment-4326112-20141025010608

I honestly think it's just Japan that's keeping it going. Much like how One Piece is THE #1 Anime/Manga series in Japan as it has been for the past decade (it's the modern DBZ hype that Oda's inherited), Fairy Tail has a...eh...similar air to it that pretends it's like One Piece. If you think about it, Natsu isn't too far off personality-wise from Luffy, which makes him more of a cardboard cut-out character than he already has been.

Hiro has cleverly wrapped a killer formula along with an art style that is infectious and character designs that are enticing. It's something everyone in the East loves and adores. People in the West, however, have SOME people (namely us) who have more than a good amount of PERSPECTIVE to see through this BS guise. Hoenstly, you shouldn't let this borrow you. Shounen Authors are pretty popular there, and I don't see it that shockingly enough an Author from the Top 20 Ongoing Shounen Jump Publishing series is getting a chance to autograph his shit.

It's just sad that someone as degraded and fallen as Hiro gets to have a Autograph Session -sighs-