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Geez, it's as if Bleach and Fairy Tail are written by the same person for the current arcs. Introduce villains that are made to look threatening, check. They leave after causing damage, check. Start of the second face off makes things look like the enemy is in favor, check. After the main character does their first thing in the second stand off the tides change, check. Villains are in fact chumps, and are taken out with no problems and were never a threat to begin with, check. At least Fairy Tail has the decency to not to show a bunch of training, and at least there are more expressions than bored and angst.
No, this is actually worse.
Compare the Tenrou Island arc to this:
2 random fodders take out Gajeel
Glasses guy takes out Elfman and Evergreen
Hades kicks Makarov´s ass
Azuma destroyes Wendy and Teleport guy
He then proceeds to destroy Mira
Even the wins Fairy Tail obtained were somewhat hard. Natsu actually seemed in danger against Zancrow.
Azuma vs Erza was a fairly decent fight
Glasses only got beaten by the reinforcements.
The only battles that felt like asspulls were Bluenote, Meredy and Hades. I thought the rest was handled decently, by FT standarts at least. Zoldeo was disappointing, but it was not terrible. I didn´t expect a lot from Kain.
Now this…
Laxus destroys Tempesta. It wasn´t even a fair fight. Gets knocked out because the plot demands it.
Natsu vs that guy was pathetic. It was so pathetic that Happy pulled a Pell. He actually pulled something worse than Pell. At least we thought Pell sacrificed himself and were left some weeks thinking that. Happy survives an explosion and gets an... afro?
The rest of the fights have just been boring and unispired.
The highlights were Gajeel vs Torafusa, and i guess the ending of Juvia vs Keith (only the ending, the fight itself was pretty bad).
None of the opponents ever felt threatning (except Torafusa). All of the fights were either handled too fast or the opponent just left underwhelming.
The most dangerous moments always came from something else than the enemy. At least in Tartaros, the bad guys actually won some fights.
In here, Laxus gets beaten by poison.
Fairy Tail gets neutralized by random goo thing that came out of the island that was actually a monster.
Wendy is about to die! Because something is about to explode.
I dare to say that these guys were handled worse than Raven Tail.