User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 474: In the Moment of Complete Silence, Review./@comment-75.185.208.176-20160223185805/@comment-25324252-20160224182053

You are misreading the interview then. He said he had hoped Lisanna was alive but Mashima never said it was because of this that he brought her back. The anime director even said when Mashima brought her back, what he had planned went up in smoke.