It does not surprise me that you are trying to put other manga down just for your to show precious one piece to be better. SMFH.
Considering quite a few people got upset about this Fairy Tail chapter, including people who actually
liked this arc (I know, cause I myself did) I find it really odd that you choose to go for the age old "oh you One Piece fans just put other manga down cause you're such rabid fans" argument.
I try not to meddle too much with these petty flamebait debates you guys have, but I do tend to read most of them. It genuinly annoys me how somehow liking One Piece & being very critical of other manga somehow means a person is just a rabid OP fan putting other stuff down
because they want to make OP look good, or whatever it is you're implying.
I'm pretty sure I'm not talking just for myself when I say I don't
want to dislike Fairy Tail. Heck I actually really enjoyed the last few chapters to a degree I haven't liked FT before.
But the same complaints BO and a few other people are voicing are
exactly the sort of stuff that makes FT's position on my favourites list extremely questionable, because it completely overrides my suspension of disbelief.
This
in no way relates to FT's relative position to OP. I didn't decide to bash every single flaw OP had when I realised I like HxH much better. Because I feel both series manage to stand on their own merrits.
I notice that in your argument there's a lot of cheap shots about BO liking One Piece & his complaint not being literally correct because the Mage Council isn't there.
But that's hardly the point of the complaint at all. The issue in the latest FT chapter is that we're supposed to believe that in
the biggest magic tournament that has been featured for years and years, it's
this easy to cheat, badly and blatantly too.
Now we might not
literally know how powerful the mages organizing this tournament are, however, if you think about how the tournament started & how insane the magic
behind the events thus far has been and compare this level of magic to what we've seen in the series so far ... it's intense.
You can't possibly argue that the organizers behind this tournament, capable of creating entire towns out of thin air & making hundreds of near-perfect clones that manage to amaze other powerful mages aren't capable of detecting
extremely obvious cheating by a guild that isn't even that powerful.
Obviously this is what we're supposed to believe, considering that's what happened in this chapter. But it makes absolutely no sense in light of the powers
shown.
I won't even start about the implications of them not taking any preventative measures against cheating. It's pretty clear raven claw isn't even the strongest group in this tournament, their entire reason for being here is to give Fairy Tail an unfair disability because they keep getting trolled. So if a fairly
average guild like Raven Claw is capable of breaking the rules without consequence.
What sort of implications would this have regarding the tournament as a whole? Could a character like Rufus just use his memory magic to help his allies win each match without anyone noticing or caring? If this last chapter is anything to go by, yes he could.
And this is where it really starts becoming a bigger issue, because everyone knows Rufus won't cheat his way to the top like that. The
only reason this sort of cheating is happening
at all is because it's meant to give Fairy Tail an undeserved underdog position.
That's the part that makes this so annoying, rather than making Fairy Tail the underdog through a sneaky yet
clever means, the cheapest trick in the book is used. But under these sort of circumstances that shouldn't be possible. That really feels like lazy writing to me.
Sure there's a billion ways to rationalize
how it could logically happen, but the moment a reader starts to question it that alone is enough of a problem.
