[Kaijo]

Originally Posted by C.A.

The manga has been fine all the way until Edolas arc for me, where it seems that things start to go too easy and inconsistent. Like Lucy didn't know why she could use magic, later revealed that she ate X-balls, which is the instant cure for Earthland magic usage, it was such a cop out that even fan speculations came up with much more interesting ways to solve the magic seal.

I'll agree with that point, in that it was handled badly. Not a major issue to me, though, all things considered. I do expect some mistakes in any series. I will say that I do have a limit, though, and if too many slip through such that it goes beyond my limit, my like of a series goes down.

After that Nakama power went through the roof in Tenrou and characters behave terribly especially Kana. And in the end we have that time skip which would have been ok if there were actual developments and proper establishments of what happened in the 7 years. Mashima expects us to believe that Fairy tail would endure 7 years of abuse from Twilight Ogre without retaliating even though Max was stronger than Natsu now and could probably even defeat Twilight Ogre by himself.

I don't see a problem with Cana myself; people who are under emotional duress, can tend to behave irrationally. Yes, she acted badly, but it was a great character moment for her. It showcases that not all of our heroes are immaculate do-gooders 100% of the time, and that they can mess up.

Nakama power, well, I'll just say that the series has basically established that Nakama power translates to something real in this world. It's an interesting take. I mean, it's usually a staple in shonen series, so Fairy Tail is just making it a bit more literal.

Lastly, regarding Twilight Ogre, remember that we have issues of quality vs. quantity. Twilight Ogre was a bigger guild, and might have had stronger members (and probably did). By the time it got to the point where TO was revealed to be douchebags regarding the money, FT was likely fairly small and TO was much bigger. Even if Max could take down those five guys, there is more to consider. That is, TO as a whole was more powerful than FT as a whole. Also, they could put even more pressure by threatening Romeo, ie, "don't cross us or something might happen to your son, Macao."

Once Makarov and the S-class mages returned, though, the power tipped back in favor of FT. Also, the council frowns on combat between guilds, and Macao simply may not have chosen to risk it, given that FT was shrinking; it could have been forced to disband.

And in this 'Grand Magic Tournament', an event similar an Olympics of magic, has seemingly no ways to prevent cheating. Are we supposed to believe that Gray is so weak that he couldn't get a single point? In the whole stadium there are at least 3 Wizard Saint level mages and many S class mages and yet no one could sense or even see the piece of hair around Asuka except for Lucy who's the furthest Fairy Tail member from her. And then the same powerful mages couldn't sense who or what stole Lucy's magic and she didn't complain about it either.

I'll partially grant this, which leaves us with the possible conclusion that the Tournament organizers are in on the cheating. Remember, from the audience perspective, Lucy just failed to cast her spell, thus would be hard to prove cheating. Maybe Lucy herself felt she just failed and thus deserved the loss.

As for the hair thing, I think it would be expected that the audience would assume some risk by watching it live, and it was Lucy's choice to not fight back when the girl was threatened.

As far as Gray goes, his contest wasn't about strength. He simply failed. His opponent, the RT guy, apparently had a way to track Gray that we aren't aware of yet, mostly because we don't know his magic. But RT has entered this contest (and suddenly been approved as a legit guild?) purely to humiliate FT. They don't care about winning, as long as FT is humiliated. I gather RT and the tournament are working together in that respect, or that some kind of deal has been made. I'm fairly confident it will all be explained. My theory is that the tournament is using RT as a diversion to hide it's aims. Or that RT is using the tournament for that dark purpose.

There were so much terrible writing going on that even though this retcon of all so called 'real/ true/ matured' Dragonslayers are weak to vehicles is so bad, it still wasn't as cheesy as most things in the previous 50 chapters.

I'll have to disagree, due to the above. I haven't really had strong issues with any of the arcs thus far, and this arc is far from done, so there is much left to explain. I will agree that this DS-motion-sickness thing feels like a bad retcon, but I'm waiting to see what is done with it. If this arc ends without it being really explained, then I'll have an issue with it. Even if explained, I do feel it steals from Natsu's character to be the only one with motion sickness.

At first, I almost thought it might be something to do with how particular dragons bestowed their magic on their students, if Wendy was the only one without and also being much younger. Did the other dragons, or Grandiny, do something different with regards to their pupils? The Edolas Wendy was much older, so it feels like Grandiny might have done something that froze Wendy in time a bit, thus saving her from getting the motion-sickness aspect.