I liked the post fight scene. The guy with Future Sight complimenting the guy who cant about how hes looking into the future. Katakuri falling on his back which signals he truly is defeated. And Luffy showing his respect. Its just such a shame that the fight didnt lead into that at all.

The arguments about Luffy winning due to durability/endurance are nothing more than a giant No Limits Fallacy. If Luffy took 10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000 or w/e amount more hits, people would still defend it by saying "Luffy has stamina and endurance, therefore its okay" But clearly it isnt. Luffy being made out of Rubber does not justify having an endless amount of damage thrown on him and then being completely fine. Katakuri has taken less than 1/10 of the damage that Luffy has received. Katakuri has shown to be superior to Luffy in basically every single aspect of the fight. Yet he lost, because Oda cannot make a fight end logically to save his life.

If this was between individuals who had the same power roughly like Gear 2nd Luffy and Leopard Rob Lucci, then I wouldnt have a problem with this. Because it clearly was a back and forth that could go either way. But the gap here between Katakuri and Luffy was simply too big for this conclusion to the fight to make any sense. If Fairy Tail did this we would rightfully criticize it. If Natsu was getting his ass kicked 90% of the fight and then somehow starts defeating his opponent, we obviously would call it out. Yet because its One Piece this gets a pass.All Oda would have needed to do was simply have Katakuri stand over a defeated Luffy, but because he is honorable and respects him, throws him outta the Mirror World so Luffy can meet up with his crew and escape Big Mom. There. The hype of Katakuri remains intact, and the plot continues just like before. Then when Luffy faces his next foe in the next arc, he can say he got stronger from his loss or w/e and continue like normal. Everything resolved nicely.

I just like my fights to make sense. Its important. Its what keeps things believable and allows for tension to exist. When fights end in ridiculous ways where the MC clearly shouldnt have won, the tension decreases.

Heck, not to mention the whole flashback with Rayleigh talking about how Haki gets stronger in the middle of a life threatening fight is just basically Odas way of pulling powerups out of nowhere during a fight as the plot demands it. But notice how it will only affect the good guys and not the bad guys. So clearly this universal rule of Haki isnt so. Heck, I dont even recall Fairy Tail trying to give that type of explanation as to why somebody who gets his ass kicked 90% of the time ends up winning in the end. Even Mashima wouldnt blatantly tell us that, because obviously that would make us criticize it as a way to pull plot powerups out of a hat. (Of course Mashima did a bunch of other terrible things)

Kill me now

! Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This is officially the worst fight in this entire god damn series. This actually was even worse than Eileens fight. I cannot believe it.
! So remember how last chapter I was saying how this could either go 2 ways, 1, the bad way, with August being actually defeated by a single attack, and 2, the good way, with August actually getting back up and continuing the fight because his backstory would lead us to conclude that he shouldnt be down yet right? (If Mashima isnt a hack) Well guess what!? HE COMBINES THE TWO TO MAKE THIS UNHOLY SYNTHESIS OF PURE GARBAGE!
! So August gets back up. This part is good right? He is clearly not down for the count, he is raring to go, he can still kick some ass right? ESPECIALLY WHEN GILDARTZ SAYS HE CANT USE HIS MECHANICAL ARM ANYMORE RIGHT!? This should naturally mean August can just go back to kicking his ass again right since Gildartz cant counter him anymore right?!
! FUCK NO! HERO MASHIMA STRIKES AGAIN WITH HIS SHITTY WRITING! Instead August decides to go into final desperation mode to use an attack which will guarantee kill him and attempt to kill everyone in the world. WHY!? WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU NEED TO DO THIS AUGUST!? YOU ARE UP! YOU CAN GO BACK TO FIGHTING AND KICKING ASS! GILDARTZ CANT COUNTER YOU ANYMORE! WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU THINK YOU NEED TO DO THIS?!
! August still hasn't even used the magic he has copied all these years. He even has the audacity to talk about how much magic power he has WHEN HE DOESNT EVEN FUCKING ATTEMPT TO USE IT EXCEPT IN SOME FINAL DESPERATION ATTACK! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? WHY WOULD ANYBODY THINKS THIS MAKES ANY SENSE AT ALL!?
! And dont even get me fucking started on how August pulls a god damn Eileen and kills himself. We all knew that with his backstory that he said he could only be defeated by his mother Mavis. So what actually happens? Did Mavis use some spell on August? Did she even hug August? Did she even acknowledge August as her son?! FUCK NO! August just looks at her and says "WHELP THATS MY MOM, GUESS I SHOULD GO KILL MYSELF, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO. GUESS I WAS JUST BULLSHITTING ABOUT MY DEVOTION TO ZEREF AND COMPANY LOLOLOL"
! How the fuck. Seriously. How the actual fuck can somebody defend this shit? HOW? HOW!?!?!
! 'I AUGUST, THE STRONGEST OF THE SPRIGGAN 12 (Like that title actually means something lmao) WILL NOW KILL MYSELF TO KILL ALL OF YOU WHEN I DONT ACTUALLY NEED TO, AND THEN PUSSY OUT AT THE LAST SECOND SIMPLY BECAUSE I SEE MY MOTHER. HEAR ME ROAR!!!!"
! And then the Zeref and Natsu interactions at the end…you know what? Fuck it. Im done

I cannot accurately explain all the negative emotions I am experiencing right now. After reading this chapter, seeing various posts on various sites, I think I can honestly say this is the worst fight in the history of this series, and yes even topping the Kyouka fight. I have had multiple thoughts on the various levels of increasingly terrible things that happened in this chapter, so many different angles to go from, that I really have no idea if I will be able to encapsulate them all.

! So first off, Erza actually destroyed the fucking Meteor. The Meteor that was more powerful than Jellals strongest attack, and probably the strongest attack that Eileen had to offer, was just defeated by Erzas 1 arm strength. What am I supposed to even be feeling at this point? This completely shits on Jellal making him look like such fodder, it completely shits on Irene that her strongest attack was defeated by a single arm of Erza (How easy would this have been if she was at full strength?), it completely shits on anybody expecting any sort of logical consistency to this manga. There were so many different ways Mashima could of gone about this to have Irene lose but still maintain her hype, but he goes with the worst ways imaginable.
! But guess what? It gets even worse.
! Not only did Erza defeat the Meteor, she is coming down after Irene herself! Yep! After defeating her strongest attack, she now still has energy to want to attack Irene in her Dragon Form itself. Now I was getting angry and sad, thinking Erza is about to 1 shot Irene, but luckily Irene reminds us the reader that her slash shouldnt be able to hurt her because shes a Dragon and Erza doesnt have Dragonslayer Magic to penetrate her scales. So I naturally cool myself off and feel some degree of safety, but then the next panels send 100% horror to my mind. I see Wendy getting back up, thinking to myself that 'Oh God she is going to somehow enchant Erza again and this for some reason is going to defeat Irene". But wait! I remember earlier in the fight when Irene was still in her human form how even Erza with Wendys Enchantments couldnt do jack shit to Irenes durability, so I felt safe again. Until I read what Wendy said.
! "Enchant Erza's blade…..with Dragon slayer Magic...!"
! Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me. My heart dropped. I couldn't believe it. First off, that Mashima was actually was going to make Erza defeat Irene, but more importantly than that, he just asspulled Wendys magic into making Dragonslayer mages completely fucking irrelevant.
! I cannot truly explain how terrible a decision this was. I mean this has catastrophic implications for the writing of this series. How the fuck does Wendy know how to do this? How come Irene does not? Why didnt Irene do this in her flashback? Would have saved her people so much. But just think about this. Dragonslayers are absolutely meaningless with the advent of this feat of Wendys. There is absolutely no need to have Dragonslayers anymore when all you need is simply to have battle mages use weapons that have been enchanted by Wendy or somebody else with Dragonslayer magic. Dragonslayers are now not unique anymore, their powers are worthless now when they can be so easily replicated via Enchantment.
! But anyways back to the fight. Now once I realized that Wendy enchanted Erzas blade with Dragonslayer magic, I had no hope left from that point. UNTIL I REMEMBERED THE PAST. In a glorious memory, I remembered that during the GMG arc, even with actual Dragonslayers fighting actual Dragons who should be weak to them, to be damaged easily by them, THEY STILL COULDNT DENT THEM AT ALL! With this memory intact, I confidently turned the page, thinking this should naturally be a repeat, or at the very least, do a minor amount of damage to them, especially considering how this is an almost dead Erza with broken bones who only has the use of her arm arm.
! And then. It happened. The most traumatizing thing somebody who cares about powerlevels could witness. And that was Erza slashing and making Irene suffer and bleed greatly, with 1 single slash. I couldnt fucking believe it. But wait, even though she just did serious damage to Irene which is absolutely fucking insane considering Irenes previous durability feats IN HER HUMAN BASE FORM, she should still naturally be ready for some sort of counterattack or something of that sort right? NOPE!
! SHE REVERTS BACK INTO HER BASE FORM! SERIOUSLY!? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT A BROKEN ERZA JUST SINGLE HANDEDLY (no pun) DEFEATED IRENE'S APEX FORM? HER DRAGON FORM? WITH 1 SINGLE SLASH? ERZA JUST DEFEATED A DRAGON! NOT EVEN ACTUAL DRAGONSLAYERS COULD DEFEAT A DRAGON. HOW DOES THAT FEEL DRAGONSLAYERS?
! I couldnt believe it. An actual Dragon. Defeated by Erza, in her state. To me, at this point, it doesnt even matter what happens afterwards, because Irene at her Apex was just defeated. Her strongest form was defeated by Erza with Wendys Dragonslayer Enchantment, when by all logic and feats we have seen in this series it should just not be possible. I could't even care less that Irene was still standing after the fight, Erza already won in my eyes.
! But anyways we continue. Irene is still standing, grabs her sword and is about to finally put this Mary Sue piece of shit outta her misery. Maybe I can ignore everything that happened previously is she could just accomplish this feat.
! But no. Oh God no. Irene is stalling. Why? What in the fucking fuck could possible make her stall after everything she has said and done. And then we have a flashback. Oh no. Oh God no. Mashima is seriously doing this isn't he? he is actually going to try and make Irene seem good somehow? I read the flashback, she is about to do the Enchantment onto Erza until......Smile.
! What? What is this? What the actual fuck is this? Why the fuck are you having this random thing for Smiles? WHAT THE FUCK.
! Back to battle. She is complaining about Erzas smiling. Well w/e, she is some stupid emotional hag, Erza at the very least is down for the count. Wait. What? SHES GETTING UP? HOW!? WHY!? Its okay to stand fucking down! She even has a sword piercing through her now!
! Immediately have flashbacks to how Kyouka is defeated. Please God no. Anything, please fucking no.
! A HEADBUTT? Seriously? Look at that damage! Look at the blood that Irene just lost from that! An almost dead Erza just did more damage with her headbutt than she could do with her sword powered up by Wendys Enchantment. Just think about this for a second. This is the same Irene who just got done showing those insane durability feats from earlier where she tanked that Erza powered up slash on her forehead like it was nothing! She was still smiling! It didnt effect her at all except for a little blood. Even Wendy didnt give a shit about it when she went into Irenes body. Clearly that flash didnt do jack shit. But now Erzas headbutt does this damage? God dammit!
! But wait. Irene still isnt down yet! And it looks like Erza is now on the ground not being able to do anything again. IT IS FINALLY OVER. ERZA HAS FINALLY LOST. IRENE WILL KILL THIS STUPID CUNT ONCE AND FOR ALL! Irene even managed to make the sword stuck in Erza vanish and come right back into her hand!
! Wait what?
! Irene was able to teleport the sword outta Erza and into her hand? Wait Wait Wait Wait. If she could have done that at any time then.....why.....why......why.....WHY THE FUCK DIDNT YOU DO THAT AT ANY TIME PRIOR TO THIS? YOU COULD HAVE ENDED THE FIGHT AGAINST ERZA BEFORE IT BEGAN IF YOU SIMPLY DID THAT. ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT TO SLASH YOU IN YOUR DRAGONFORM. WHY!? The Character induced stupidity is so fucking insane I cannot believe it.
! But anyways, back to battle. So finally Irene will stab Erza. Finally this fight will be ove- Stabs herself
! "How utterly pitiful....It seems that in the end, even the mightiest sorceress in the empire....despite having taking countless lives...was unable to take that of her own daughter" Sigh
! Why do i read this again? Do I like giving myself headaches? Do I like feeling drained like I just got done some mentally intensive task or something?
! Flashback commences, Irene never thought she killed Erza, in fact she left her on the doorstep of some family or church or w/e, completely eradicating her previous statements of she thinking Erza was dead. And she did all of that because of her fucking smile. God help me.
! Irene is the biggest bipolar disorder candidate I have ever seen. What terrible writing to have somebody completely do a 180 in a flashback and then do a 180 in the now. I've had enough of her. I cannot stand her existence anymore. Even after typing all this out, I still have some things I need to highlight, but god damn do I feel so worn out.
! End rant.
! So Im basically done my review of the chapter, but I want to refute some of the points I see where people try to defend this chapter.
! 1. "In the GMG arc all the characters were weaker, and in this arc they are stronger, so its totally okay for Erza to be able to defeat Irene as long as she had dragonslayer enchantment."
! This is such complete bullshit and you know it. Whatever power increase they gained in the time from GMG arc to now, does not then somehow mean they can now defeat Dragons in 1 shot, let alone beating them at all, let alone doing any serious damage to them. As we saw in the GMG arc, mages who are specialized into defeating Dragons, COULDNT EVEN DENT THEM. You cannot tell me with a straight face that you think Erza gained so much power from that time that she is now able to CASUALLY DEFEAT DRAGONS SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE HAD DRAGONSLAYER MAGIC ON HER SWORD. That is so monstrously ridiculous. Combined with the fact that Irene should probably be considered stronger than 90% of the rest of the dragons, considering she has Enchantment on her side and is the Sage Dragon, and this makes it look even worse.
! People who are actual Dragonslayers couldnt even defeat a Dragon before Erza did who never was one. How pathetic is that? Not only that, but how pathetic is it that Erza CAN FUCKING 1 SHOT A DRAGON. I am absolutely baffled that you people think this makes sense. Especially when Erza was so completely damaged. The gap in power from GMG Erza to Current Erza should not be so monstrous that by merely adding Dragonslayer magic to Current Erza, she can fodderize top tier Dragons.
! 2. "Irene was still standing at the end of this chapter, therefore Erza and Wendy didnt win"
! While on a technical aspect that may be true, but the bottom line is that Erza defeated Irene in her strongest form. Irene was not able to go back into her Dragonform, nor she was using her normal magical blasts like before. As far as Im concerned, she lost from that point onward. Hell she even looks like shes about to keel over any second.
! But thats really beside the point. The point is that Erza and Wendy should have never stood a chance in hell against Irene. Yet they did. Not only did they, but it likes that brought to down to 1% hp left. If Erza and Wendy are 100% knocked out, then Irene looks like she is 99% knocked out, as far as Im concerned, thats a win for Erza and Wendy. They should have never even gotten this far in fight. The Power levels make no goddamned sense.
! End Refute.
! But with the advent of Wendy Enchanting Dragonslayer magic onto items, what does this do for Acnologias hype. If a broken bones Erza can casually defeat Irene Dragon Form with 1 single slash. What hope does Acnologia have? All Wendy needs to do is allow every mage a weapon that has DS magic to it, and then Acnologia is fucked. Mashima has royally screwed over his manga with Wendys ability here.
! God Irene is just such a terrible villain. If she didnt have her dragon form, she wouldn't have even put up as much of a fight offensive wise as Ajeel did who could 1v1 Erza. God dammit all.
! Sorry for the gigantic rant. Im sure there are still things I wanted to say, but Im on fumes here. Im sure I was getting random and out of order during the middle of this to the end. My only hope is that August somehow doesnt get shitted on. (Who the fuck am I kidding)

Copying my comment from mangahelpers

! Im sorry but, I have to go all in critical of this chapter. Even from some of the other critics on this site, I'm surprised the majority of them seem to think that Irene has somehow had 100% of her hype redeemed, when I think its nothing close to it, but still some degree of it. The reason why is this.
! Why did Irene need to turn into a Dragon? Seriously. She should be able to stomp Erza in her human form without ever needing to be a Dragon. She already showed couple of chapters ago that her durability is absolutely insane, even greater than Erzas I would say, because she took a powered up Erza slash via Wendy to her head and it did absolutely nothing except have her bleed a little. She was completely unfazed by it. Even when Wendy was in her body, she never commented on it, she was more concerned with the boobs than the head damage, which leads me to conclude that the damage was basically nothing.
! So with this in mind, why does Irene think she needs to go into a Dragon Form? Erza hasn't done anything to make her feel like her attacks were greater than her Defense. Irenes durability is absolutely insane which puzzles me as to why she struggles.
! Now on to her Offense in her human form. How the hell is Erza able to dodge these gigantic explosions? As Ace shown, these blasts are gigantic yet Erza is able to either dodge them or tank them, I assume its dodging, but it still makes no sense to me. Erza should be badly damaged and not able to move around so much. How in the hell is Irene having so much trouble hitting Erza, (Even though she did it multiple times in earlier chapters) when even Ajeel had no problem defeating Erza 1v1 if not for the cannon? Am I really supposed to think that Irene in her human form is less of an opponent for Erza than Ajeel? This is insane!
! Now onto her Dragon Form. I am glad that all it took was 1 single swipe from her Dragon Form to semi KO Erza and breaking her bones (Though we all know its meaningless because shes Erza). However the fact remains she wasn't able to do that UNTIL she turned into her Dragon Form, which irritates me.
! But after her swipe of her, thats when we get even more CIS from Irene. Instead of doing the obvious thing which is blitzing her and stepping on her to kill Erza, she decides to do this super omega attack Meteor which simply gives Erza time to get up. (Granted the act of summoning a Meteor from outer space is cool, and its even stronger than anything Jellal can do) Which I remind you, she supposedly had all her bones broken, yet she is able to move her right hand (Oh wait, its not just her right hand, its her whole arm and back muscles included, so why does she even bother lying to us her bones are broken and she can't move?).
! She then somehow propels herself upwards (Some armor on her hand or w/e maybe? Dunno, but its ridiculous regardless) and then gives another friendship speech, and asks for the Masters help to defeat this Meteor. All the while Irene is being dumbfounded that she can move at all.
! I mean all I really have to ask is this. If Irene was able to do everything she has shown, EXCEPT for going into her Dragon Form, how would her fight with Erza have ended? The fact that she has to turn into a Dragon to defeat Erza doesnt increase her hype, it decreases it for me in a way. But then again in fairness, the fact that irene does indeed have this power, which is her power not just some borrowed power of somebody else, does sort of regain some hype I guess. Regardless if shes a Dragon or w/e, its still her power, and with her maximum power, she has shown that she should crush Erza.
! (But once again I have to remind myself that she should be able to do this even without her Dragon Form)
! Now about the Meteor potentially being destroyed by Erza? Oh God help me.

So assuming that Eileen in Wendys body is around like 80% of her max, since in this chapter she realizes her magic power didnt decrease as much as she thought, shouldn't her magic blasts against Erza knock her out? The reason I ask this is because didnt Erza need help to defeat the Sand Spriggan? And even then, she clearly was knocked out or exhausted at the end of it? If this is true, then shouldn't Eileen in Wendys body be at least that strong power wise? How is Erza able to continuously tank all of her attacks?

And whats worse, at the end of the chapter, Mashima is clearly going for a "They are both heavily wounded" type of vibe, which really shouldnt even close to be honest, considered how Eileen took that powered up hit from Erza like it was nothing. Hell even Wendy was able to operate that body like it was nothing, shit even the first thing she notices about the body is her boobs, not the blood gushing from her head from the slash.

But sadly Erza is in her red pants, so we all know whats going to happen here. And remember, these are the pants that make her Attack at her highest, which definitely happens, but it also makes her Defense at her lowest, which never fucking happens. Shes going to tank more hits from Eileen, the strongest female Spriggan, one who even Acnologia acknowledged somewhat.

August doesn't seem like the dumbass that Eileen is, but is there even a shred of hope that he could make up for this?

Wish I knew this chapter came out awhile ago.

Anyways, Mashima continues with his shitty fighting formulas and having power levels go all over the place.

1st off, as soon as Irene was saying "I THE IRENE was wounded?!" Like why are you even fazed by whatever shennanigans Erza and Wendy pull off? What happened to all of your magical abilities you have shown previously? All you did was fire 1 lazer beam thing and then couldnt dodge anything anymore.

2nd, Irenes outburst of "Its not fair!?" Like once this line was said her character just hits rock bottom, if it wasn't already before. Its like being a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum. God damn how many years have you been alive? How have you not matured in any degree whatsoever?

3rd. The whole Negate your spell and then Negate your negate. Wtf. Why is Wendy able to do any enchantment to anywhere remotely close to Irene? Second, Cancelling out a Cancel? Really? Why not Cancel out the cancel of your cancel?

4th. That final slash Erza had on Irene. So let me get this straight, A buffed up Erza via Wendy, is able to slash you straight down cleanly on your head, and you DONT find a way to easily annihilate your opponents? I mean this durability feat of Irene is insane really. If she was able to tank that hit without any defensive enchantments or w/e, she could have clearly annihilated Erza with some type of attack there. I mean that durability feat should easily show that Irene is on a completely different level than Erza, but nope.

5h. The whole trading bodies thing. This is just character/plot induced stupidity at its finest. Its clearly Mashimas attempt for Irene to have a plausible way of losing because shes in a weaker body. And dont be fooled by the "tad bit weaker" line, that weakness is obviously going to come into play. And especially with Fairy Tail, with its power of friendship, its easy to see Wendy overcoming this because of friends and whatnot. I mean how fucking dumb can Irene be? She could just kill Erza and everybody else, and THEN take Wendys body, but no.

You know, I remember back like, the first 25 or 50 chapters of Fairy Tail, and I honestly would say I thought those were better beginning chapters than most shounen. I was easily pumped up back then. But for obvious reasons, the story gets progressively worse.

In fact, I think mashima is really amazing when it comes to the beginning of things. Like the beginnings of stories, arcs, characters, fights, plots, w/e you name it, The 1/4 of the way into w/e it is we are talking about. Its just when it comes to the 2/4, 3/4 and final 4/4s of whatever thing it is about it just gets progressively worse.

The beginning of the characters with all their charm, the beginning concepts of Fairy Tail vs W/e enemy, the beginning of arcs, the beginning of individual fights, the beginning of S rank, the beginning of the 10 Wizard Saints. All of the beginning concepts of Mashima are great, its just he cant deliver ever

This was such a fitting end to Toriko. The 2nd to last chapter gave us the emotional ending, and the final chapter gave us the open conclusion, more adventures await Toriko and company out into Space. Going to miss this series. I remember Toriko having the best chapters of the week during the Dressrosa saga of One Piece, constantly showing why it was great.

Infinitely better ending than Bleach and Naruto, thats for sure

Such a shame it got axed and rushed. You could tell Shima had so many more things he wanted to show.

Going to miss KOL going YOOOOOO 24/7 as well.

I know its petty of me to hate on somebody elses success, but I really do despise Mashima.

These Spriggan 12 with all their hype being meaningless, even Brandish hyping them in the same chapter and then a couple pages later we see some of them get BTFO.

Invel completely destroys Gray last chapter. Gray gets mad, somehow overpowers Invel, Invel goes into super powered form, yet Gray still beats him…..with 1 fucking punch. Oh and apparently he absorbed the Ice from invel in order to use that attack? Why the fuck can't Invel just do the same? Why are the Spriggan 12 such fucking glass cannons?

Brandish being the dumb bitch she is trying to play both sides. I mean its one thing to have a character who questions their actions, but its another thing to constantly make the side you stand for worse off because you refuse to finish off your enemies. Also love the fact that shes probably been in numerous battles for her country, and never once gave a damn about questioning doing what her country wanted her to do, but only now when she has to go against Fairy Tail, she has the nerve to tell August to THINK FOR YOURSELF! You never had a problem following commands before, why start now? Why would you think you are even right? Oh wait, because its against Fairy Tail.

Brandish can't use her magic against this Enchanted form of Jobberhart for some random reason. But Natsu has no problem in his Base Form knocking his ass out.

And don't even get me started on Juvia not being dead for even 1 fucking chapter. God.

Not really sure how somebody could have a problem with the past 2 chapters, but then not have a problem with the previous 10-15. Im in the exact same position I was in before. Being hyped up for the next chapter.

Pure unadultered hype.

Also, this series has some of the most in-universe context insults I've ever seen. Telling somebody they have been on a diet in the Toriko world is a grade A insult.

I liked Gajeel in the beginning too, but sadly after Natsu threw him away during GMG, it went all downhill from there (Hell, probably even before then, like when he fought the fodder of Grimoire Heart), but as soon as this 3rd fight of his in a row ended with "Absorb enemy power -> win 1 shot" I couldn't take it.

He literally has the most predictable fights in this entire series. Mashima did the same EXACT thing 3 times in a row. Not even Erza or Natsu can be criticized in that way