So, you actually agree with me: Kagura lost (partially) because she didn't have the will to fight and win. In the end Kagura is a ruined mage because of her single-minded purpose of finding and defeating Jellal. She has never even fought him and I doubt she knows too much about his powers (heck, even we in the audience have never seen what he's really capable of). Jellal, on the other hand, has seen a lot. I doubt Kagura would have had a snowball's chance against him with her single method of sword swinging, no matter how powerful. She has wasted her life as a mage thus far. Who knows how powerful she might be if she had trained and grown sensibly, but it's pretty safe to assume she would be more versatile and powerful than now. At least she could have kept her head cool.

Erza also doesn't always win. She couldn't win against Jellal, for example, and needed Natsu to save her. Obviously she didn't have the will to win against Jellal in particular.

Saying everything is due to bad writing is naturally true, but everything in fiction is due to writing, bad or good, in general. We won't have much of a discussion here if everybody only posts such a comment instead of using their imagination.

Poster1: [link] "Bad writing."
Poster2: "Good writing."
Poster3: "Bad writing."
Poster4: "Bad writing."
Poster3: "Actually, good writing."
Poster1: "Still bad writing."
Poster5: "Bad writing."

Yeah. A really interesting episode thread. Might as well close down the forums.