metsujin said:
I'm confused, I'm defending this because people say only the main characters get spotlight, well yeah, isn't the role of the supporting characters to support the main ones???
I mean, I know that, it happens in everything. People just like others characters better and want them to shine more, and I don't disagree I would want to see more of them too, but some supporting character get to shine too, not as much as the main ones, true, but they do.
The point is not that the prots are having the most screentime, the problem is "How the supporting cast get´s treated in favor of the main cast".
Jiraya in Naruto is a support character he still was stronger than any of the MCs including Kakashi for half the manga.
Hiro is constantly trolling his characters for the sake of the Main cast, "outside of filler" that´s important, many series like to do that during Filler and One Piece has a Luffy fetish. But Luffy is established as the strongest member of his crew, it´s consistent.
It´s implied that Gray is equally strong as Natsu, but Gray has several loses under his belt. Natsu has one troll loss against the owl guy during tower of heaven that´s it.
Gajeel the other Rival, get´s basicly always trolled alongside Elfman, Laxus and Mira.
Don´t let me get started on Mystogun and Gildarts.
Fairy tail has by far the worst most inconsistent powerlevels from any battle shounen I´ve come across till today. And Hiro knows to do better. Hiro wrote Rave and the powerlevels were consistant in that, some fights were boring cause oneshots, but the guy who got beaten got replaced by someone stronger so it was ok. And don´t get me wrong there was some really bad writing. Acapella Island was atrocious, but he never failed to get his powerlevels right in that series.