User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 524: Black Future, Review/@comment-2214433-20170225111656/@comment-203.215.120.229-20170225142545

It's one of those things that have been bothering me for quite some time: in a series that heavily features magic, August for all his reputation as 'king of magic' has never been given ample opportunity (the chances he got so far are too few) to demonstrate his versatility and wisdom, as if all that is just meant to be background never to be seen lore (and even then the lore and rumors are lacking in vivid detail), for the purpose of generating unfulfilled hype. What's worse, he keeps getting sidelined (especially by Irene and the spectacle she brought), Zeref never assigns important tasks to him on-panel despite being given the title of general, and his imminent downfall is set to happen just as the main villains are making their move.

I guess I feel... betrayed by this development. But then again how does one rightly portray knowledge of 'all magic'? Perhaps August should have just been billed as a generic wizard in the first place.