@GiantGuy:
I don't think so. In the Sabaody arc of One Piece, new chapters also skipped to new scenes all the time. For instance:
Chapter 595 end: Sanji kicking Duval in the face. Chapter 596 start: Straw Hats have suddenly left Duval's base with Keimi, Pappug and Hatchan and is sailing towards the Sabaody Archipelago.
Chapter 597 end: Pappug tells everyone that the World Nobles will call an admiral if anyone hurts them. Everyone is shocked. Chapter 598 start: The Straw Hats are on a completely other Grove, beating bounty hunters, not mentioning the World Nobles.
It's clear that while Rogue and Sting were talking (the last chapter focused mostly on them, you know), Natsu just challenged another Fairy Tail member to a fight like he always does. Max agreed.
But that's truly terrible writing: It's all nice and that, that Max is now as strong as Natsu because all the non S-Class mages seemed underpowered at times. But then don't freakin' MAKE IT SEEM that they are just as weak as 7 years ago and excuse the fact that they were not beating up Twilight Ogre with "they didn't want to resort to violence" (yeah right, Fairy Tail has brawls all the time for no apparent reason). If Fairy Tail continues its style, Max will soon be a fodder background character again while Natsu, Lucy, Gray and Erza handles the enemies with Wendy as supporter even though he fights on almost the same level as them.
Maybe I was confused because the guys wanting to challenge Natsu last chapter were so unmemorable, as were these jerks, that it didn't dawn on me they were two different groups of people.
…....I think.
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@Black:
So basically the group went to the old lady's house to ask if she had any deus ex machina lying around that they could use… -_-
I loled, hard .
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@Chinascare:
because we read about Fairy Tail because we care about the fodder background characters?
I'm glad Max is strong now but yeah hes still the guy who had a broom shoved up his ass to me
I think this is as good a moment as any to ask: who the hell is Max ? Have we even seen him before ? I at least have residual memory of Macao existing and having a son, this just doesn't ring any bells.
Just like that guildmember who was the snake of that OS guy, got turned back into a human by Makarov offscreen and was never seen or focused on or even pointed out to us in the actual manga.