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That's one of the reason why I was never enthralled by Fairy Tail. Mashima is decent in terms of choregraphy - although he heavily rests on his laurels - but when it comes to impact and paneling it's atrociously bland. Strategy being almost always an afterthought doesn't help.
Since August in the only Spriggan Twelve left it's hard not to sigh thinking how disappointing they were, be it in power or personality. Mashima is even worse at writing villains than he is at writing main characters.
Strategy isn´t a deal breaker. Bleach barely had ever Strategy and One Piece also rarely utilizes it. I agree on your other points. Had to look up the definition of paneling and this is actually the answer for me.
To give an example. Oda puts alot of text into his panels and while you´re reading through them you are fed bits and pieces of sometimes valueable and sometimes enjoyable information, like comedy. Naruto on the other hand utilizes less text, but better angles. The action feels vibrant almost animated during it´s best sequences.
HxH cheats through his atrocious art by putting in a plethora of text that it´s more akin to reading a book, but nonetheless the reader is being occupied.
Strategy has nothing to do with it. It just lacks details in the backround or the characters movement you´ll notice while reading and when he takes away all the text there is nothing left. You just click through them.
I have read several Naruto chapters and had to reread the same page multiple times to actually understand the full extend of every detail of information that´s been communicated through the panels.
This on the other hand is just Character A punches character B, Character B blocks and punches Character A who blocks now and throws him. There is no flavor to be found, no creativity.
It´s like watching a boxing match between two inexperienced fighters , though I´ve gotta give them the edge due to being real and therefore animated.
