User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 477: Transport, Review./@comment-7418318-20160314173643

For me this chapter was rather enjoyable. Not great, but certainly enjoyable, even despite Natsu turning up.

Usually I would mind Jacob being so arrogant, but since he did back his arrogance up with actions, I'm fine with it. He did take out quite a few FT members and the guild master in one fell swoop.

I liked how Lucy attacked without warning here. Some people might complain about her choice of attacks, but at least she didn't start monologuing or screaming to get the enemy's attention like so often in the Shounen genre and that is something to be appreciated in my opinion.

Also a kick with enough force to catapult a person across an entire room, delivered at the back of the neck would be lethal to the vast majority of people, so it's quite possible that Lucy went in this fight with killing intent. Either way, nice going Lucy!

When that male shadow turned up, I had some faint hope that it'd be Mest who thanks to also being a Spatial Magic User was able to escape from Jacob's trap, but with there being a scarf the hope was tiny... and quickly dashed.

Oh well, at least we know that Hiro Mashima didn't forget Mest existed. I started to have my doubt about this. ^^

That Natsu is going to fight here is something I'm not happy about, but him waking up just in time to "save" Lucy is just plain annoying. I put the save like that because a dagger through the fore-arm wouldn't have been too bad of an injury (by Fairy Tail standards and compared to what Lucy took in the past and kept fighting), so it's more of a nice gensture from Natsu than anything fully significant to the fight.

And the speech about Lucy's head being too little to go around was just plain stupid and creepy.

I really don't get why Mashima named this chapter "Transport" though. Sure there was a "transportation spell" of a kind used, but there must have been plenty more fitting titles than this. "Deception" for August making them believe that the radar works when it doesn't would be the first one jumping out at me. Hell even "Respect the Elders" would have been a better title I think.

I hope and pray (funny thing to say for an atheist) that at least this time Lucy will be allowed to do more than cheer on Natsu from the side-lines. With Natsu just waking up from almost dying there's a chance that he's weakened enough to need help, but I won't expect too much.