User blog comment:Mangetsu20/All aboard the Feels Train! (FTC - 450)/@comment-3061966-20150831234405/@comment-3061966-20150903123645

"While you are wholefully right in judging Hiro as a scum-sucking opportunist when it comes to posturing either gender to curry to Fan-Pairing fans like throwing meat to rabid dogs"

"For one, yes, it is a cheap scheme to cash in on Loli fans"

This clearly went somewhere if you transitioned to saying stuff like this, which are far more honest than your previous posts.

"know that Hiro also has potential for good writing."

I haven't said otherwise. Anyway, this debate isn't about Hiro's writing skills, the overall quality of the flashback, or even about storytelling. It's about the shameless use of a physically underage girl, you even accepted it was a ploy to the loli loving crowd.

This isn't about you enjoying the chapter and I don't need to respect that you did, but I wasn't really saying you enjoying it was some sin given most of it was good and untainted. I already said it was good up until the that disgusting scene, so that's enough admiring a speck of light "in the midst of dull grey" for me.

"Was the kiss necessary? No, it didn't have to happen but I think it was used effectively."

It was effective in pandering to loli loving creeps. You know, the type that like hentai with little girls? You've admitted this to be true.

Again, I don't need a run down on the meaning of it all, I know all that already and it doesn't negate the issue at hand. You seem to think I've ignored the context and the details of the scene, the build up to that moment. I didn't, I'm saying all that is rendered irrelevant when Mashima crossed a line he didn't need to cross.

"This is me enjoying a nice dark tragedy that started with good intentions but then descended into a horrible outcome."

A nice change of tone, but my position hasn't changed.

At the very least, we both enjoy the vast majority of the flashback.