undead_blopa said:
Made me lol, but still
WolfWoods said:
People just don't understand what filler is supposed to mean.They think battle shounen are supposed to have battles on every single chapters,or else it's called dragging or even a filler like now.Battles are important,but we just got a bunch of fights on this arc,now we need a brake to develop characters and rest a bit.
Normally we only get these kind of brakes right between arcs.And we do seem to be between arcs now too,but since the new arc will probably come right away,there won't be much time for these things.Even so,Mashima gave us these nice brake stories here,so nobody will miss it.There's nothing much different from how FT always worked here,so there's no need to complain.
No one actually complains about the side stories being bad thing, in fact I actually like them, but the timing can't be worse. This is not some "nice brake stories", it's just Mashima stalling for chapter 300 to make that "awesome revelation" or something.
I agree that the timing is bad,especially the first one,since it could just have been normally included in the story.The second story could have come before too,but he probably wasn't thinking about this on the right time.My point is that at least we got them.We don't know how the story will change from now on,but these kind of things are good.
And a lot of people actually complain about the sidestories being bad.Just look at the chapter 298 thread.The Mashima stalling thing is just how you see it,and I do too.But it doesn't matter,does it?We'll get to the main story next week already,at least we got those nice side stories to read before that.