User blog comment:Mangetsu20/The Best Fairy Tail Chapter This Arc...?! (FT - 488)/@comment-26459999-20160610160838/@comment-4326112-20160610185204

Angel wasn't exactly "forgiven". She outright still has evil in her core. Did you not see her look threateningly at Lucy? She wanted to rape her, given the way she strutted forth, pulled on her BRA and leaned in close. It's not like she could stop her, and Natsu was incapacitated...-thinks this has been made into Hentai already-

But yeah, I get what you mean, but I don't think it applies to everyone. Kagura was misguided, not evil, so it was more of her coming to terms that her vengeance was not needed. Sherria was an impressionable child that was brought up into dark ways so I can excuse her "redemption" by way of touching Juvia fight.

Brandish and Minerva though?

Brandish had some "reasons" thrown in but they were heavy handed, forced and completely excuse the fact she's on the opposite side's military. Vendetta is erased cause magically defying Aquarius is there to make her a bitch >.> wasn't fond of that.

Minerva...OH FREAKING HELL THIS WOMAN IS A DISASTER OF A CHARACTER! Motivations aren't shown hardly at all but shallow as, "Strong rule the weak, blah-blah-blah!" and we don't see any hint of her childhood till she has a PATHETIC fight against Erza. But after she gets her ass kicked, it's okay she was a bitch cause let's welcome her into the fold of Sabertooth, the incredibly misguided cousins of Fairy Tail. UGH STUPID IS SO UNDERSELLING THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF HER CHARACTER!

The only real valuable women in this series, for me, are characters like Edo-Grandine who's a sage woman with awesome old fashioned healing expertise; Levy, who has the most convenient type of magic known; and Lucy who is our story's Main Protagonist (Despite Natsu hamming it up on every panel he can), Narrator and wielder of a host of Celestial Spirits. She's the best written character who gets underrated by the cast surrounding her at times and will sometimes get pulled into the dumb, "Friendship" wagon cause, "We must make hot women good people!" >.>