User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 397: Steel, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20140826180318

It was an ok chapter to me. It had it's goods and bad parts.

First of all: Levy is so cute! Good to see that she can use solid script even underwater. yes, it makes the kiss feel a bit fanservicey but it's like a guy said in another coment, Levy may not be good at making decisions in battle. I still hope she get a true fight before the end of the series. Also how they can comunicate underwater is pretty obvious to me: Soulmate telepaty! Okay, No...

I don't get how changing the density of your body makes you as hard as diamond, maybe it has something to with carbon thing, it's not like I know anything about chamitry but let's get along with it. Gajeel not being totally immune to the water is a good thing as he is just as much human as Natsu.

About the flashbacks I really don't know how to feel. It's nice he having someone that sort of cared about him before he became a FT I don't feel like it was really needed for his development, just knowing that your friends and rivals are about to die is enough for him to defeat Torafusa with all of his might. Also just my opinion but I think Hiro is'nt really good at drawing crying people.

And what I'd like to see some explanations is, how can Gajeel absorb carbon from the water? Is he doin it activelly or pasivelly? Gajeel isn't the brightest person in FT so I don't think he knows how to make steel using carbon. And don't it require heat?

Well, Torafusa is defeated and the water levels quickly lower, my guess is that Torafusa needed to constantly summon water because the excess was leaving the building like we saw in the last chapter. Anyway, even with the water levels down and with Levy's air I think we still count Natsu, Lucy levy and Juvia, as well as the rest of FT minus Gajeel, Levy (who was still conscious to a extent) and Makarov as out for the next chapter (not sure about Erza nd Minerva and the Twin dragons were in an open space if Irecall right). You can't recover from poison and drowning just some minutes after the source of the poison is no longer near.

My guess for the next chapter is that Gajeel will try to fight Tempest but will fail due to exaustion and then someone else will come to the rescue maybe OS. MY best alternative to it is having Levy fight then cast Solid Script: Dark Hole and OHKO Tempesta. Why not, right? Well, this is it thanks for reading.