*sigh* I'm extremely disappointed with the new chapters. It has been absolutely everywhere. Look, I get it. I get excited and rush chapters when my books end, but we don't want rushed, plotless chapters. Well at lest I don't, take your time like you've been doing! Suddenly everyone is having a long lost parent or sibling or friend. I'm sorry to say the magic of that ended with Natsu and Zeref and Gray and Silver. The characters that died are supposed to give a new meaning. Somehow the only major character that have stayed dead were Future Lucy and that's not counting the movies. Gajeel? Bringing him back is fine, Lisanna, Zera, and all those other guys affected the storyline zip! Character deaths are supposed to be a new retrospect for the characters but if you just bring em back the meaning almost disappears! Hiro Mashima I love your work. I just don't love what you've been doing to it recently. The arcs are so long and extended and the silly moments I used to adore are few and far between. Not to mention everyone still doesn't know about Aquarius, hasn't questioned Natsu, and suddenly these new characters are pooping up faster than you can say "Fairy Tail". New characters are important to storylines but some of these new characters hardly affected the story like Juliet and her sister! The extent of their role was gossiping and giggling, fighting Mira for 3 pages, and then poof. Gone. And Natsu, Happy, and Lucy, the main characters, have been showing up less and less and honestly it's frustrating. The battle scenes have been getting less and less impressive and so I urge you to stop and take a breath. Think about what you are planning, how this will affect the story, will it be worth spending time on comparison to the scattered plot, and how will this affect the character them self. Please Hiro Mashima, go back to how great it was! Where i could spend hours reading and watching it without caring.