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Originally Posted by mtgowns
^ Maybe we could've had a small arc to address the "training" part. Dunno, some adventure where they find some OP dudes but through the power of nakama they break through (not serious) (maybe).
I dunno, maybe something more interesting. I don't get worked up over it but I think the whole training part could've been made into something far better.
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Not likely. Training in Fairy Tail is basically at the same place that training in Dragon Ball was around the time of the Cell Saga.
More specifically what people likely are thinking of when they say they wanted "training" is training like Naruto and Hunter x Hunter get. The "Here's a basic ability of your power that you really should have already known if it weren't for circumstances/plot. Use it to develop a new technique for your skill set." The problem is that's training for callow youths. For characters that started the series at the bottom, with essentially no power, no skill set, and are working their way up.
That doesn't work in a case like Cell Saga DBZ. Goku already had an essentially full skill set. He didn't need to master a bunch of new special attacks, he needed to increase his base power.
The same largely holds true for Fairy Tail. Natsu and Gajeel already have a essentially complete skill set of Dragon Slayer techniques. Gray is proficient with his chosen style of Ice Make. Erza proficient with her armors. Etc, and so forth. There are a few exceptions, but in general they all already possess an essentially complete skill set. Which means the boring, magical equivalent of strength/endurance training to increase their base power is what's required. For example, the training that Lucy was doing that amounted to meditation. For the ones like Lucy and Elfman that do need some expansions to their skill set, it's pretty much just a matter of study and practice. They don't need to be taught a new way of doing things, they just need to apply their existing skills. Again, something best left to a training montage.
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Originally Posted by MechR
Putting aside whether it's parallel to cheating/doping, it's still lame that the cast's single largest powerup to date came as a freebie out of nowhere. It devalues the natural growth from all the life-or-death battles they'd been in up till then.
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While a far more reasonable complaint than complaining that they're cheating by getting a work around for a problem only introduced for the sake of comedy, it loses a lot of weight in light of the fact that "the natural growth from all the life-or-death battles" has never been a theme of the series. If it was, sitting down and training safely for three months straight to get all the power increase they would require would be just as equally devaluing to the theme.