2012-01-15, 06:23 PM
Screw the magic tournament taking second place, the entire ARC is taking second place. :/ The training, the time skip, the tournament...I don't mind it though. The stages like these in this kind of story are usually the ones that bore people the most and lead to an unsuccessful arc. I like that the author is trying things that other mangaka NEVER do. (reverse time skips, training periods that take 3 chapters, preliminary stages that are large in scope yet end extremely quickly because it's irrelevant) It means he's focused on what he really wants to get out of this arc (and more importantly having all the main characters show off their new magical powers) before it gets boring.