Well i doubt there is any fact in you not liking this manga thats even remotely related to this chapter. So why bring it to chapter discussion?
-About the Coco smile, shes the only be happy character besides Happy. < the name says it. Other then that the mouth expression is what is the most significant in the manga apart from other bodyparts ofc ^^. If you dont like it dont read it. Just dont bug people that like it with it.
-The friendship part well yes its in it, its what makes FT FT agian if you dont like it dont bug people who like it with it. We already know this...
Other then friendship there are a few other themes you clearly forget...
-destiny
-mystery powers (dragonslayer magic says it all no?)
-the year the dragons disapeared 777, also the year that Lucys mom suposedly died < again a mystery element.
-Ultears involvement + Zeref still alive, possibly the final showdown enemies.
And im forgetting tons of story elements wich all make it a good manga, yet you only pick the friendship part. Well isnt every manga in its core about friendships, take the mother of all manga (Dragonball) wich has the same basic understanding (in this case the Z fighters)
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Maybe its a good idea to start a (i hate manga thread) and make a subthread for every diff manga, go there and post what you dislike, just dont bring it to the chapter discussions. < final entry.
When a chapter is out, one of the first thing guys usually post here, is their first feelings about this chapter. I posted it, I didn't even want to go further than this until some kind of mockery. My explanations, even if it turned to be off-topic wasn't "bashing" at all. I don't know what happened here while I was sleeping, I guess some people were too frustated.
Nothing in my words or explanations meant that I hate the manga. You just interpreted it wrong. Besides the eternal argument of "If you don't like it, don't read", man you can read something even if there are things that annoy you, otherwise in what kind of world are we living ?
Again I've never said that the manga is crappy, don't fall into the dark side of the fan. Besides I just can't skip the part that I don't like, since I must read them in order to see that they exist.
Now about the smile stuff, Coco speech about "infinite smiling" is not wrong itself, it's the whole stuff about it in this manga
lately. The mangaka keeps talking about it in many chapter covers. I've never see this kind of obstinacy in the other shonen, even One Piece. Now when I read it from Coco's mouth, I'm not thinking "FUUUCK YOU MASHIMA", it's more like "geez, again.".
The theme of friendship is not a problem itself,
once again I know it's a shonen. The problem is the way Mashima is putting it in front of my nose for now, he is having a too basic approach of it. When I read Dragon Ball I don't feel like the author was keeping telling me "friendship is good !", besides there is a big part of self-mockery here.
You're saying that there is ton of mysteries in the manga besides friendship. I know it, but that wasn't my point. And all argument seem based on the wrong fact that I hate the whole manga. I don't hate it. I'm not also a "big fan" of it.