User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 313: Champion's Scenario, Review and Commentary/@comment-24.87.61.44-20130104190625

I agree, at first I thought it'd be another wasted chapter because it would just be all talk, so I'm happy that we were brought back to GMG half-way through. (I think talk is important but after that cliffhanger from the last chapter, nothing's more important than Erza vs. Kagura vs. Minerva)

WHICH DIDN'T EVEN COMPLETE ITSELF. Because Minerva is one dastardly strategist ._. I was hoping for more out of the title "Threesomes" (ie more threesomes ._.) but maybe it was a mistake on the translator's part and it was just supposed to be "threesome"? Anyways, at this point in time, I'm still going with Minerva can take the abilities of the 18 combat gods because there is no other explanation that does it for me. Dimension Magic can make sense, but only for some of her abilities. Where would the heat have come from in the Naval Battle? And the energy blasts she uses?

Not exactly the kind of insight of character profile I was looking for in Kagura, since all I saw was Kagura getting angry at Erza for caring about someone she was enslaved with at the Tower of Heaven. I thought maybe Kagura would use some MAGIKZ because she got angry. ERMAHGERD KAGURA. USE MAGIKZ! However, I do enjoy that Kagura is super-ever protective of Millianna since after the tag-team battle she seemed cold and distant towards Millianna; maybe she doesn't know how to express her feelings? Probably.

Gajeel mentioned that the plan was not going to how Mavis predicted it. Would this be due to Sting's and Minerva's individual plots? I mean we all know that Minerva is a cunning person, and she hasn't participated much in the GMG actually, so it'd be viable to think that she can make plans that the First didn't anticipate because there was limited "footage" on her. Also, we know that something will cause an upset in GMG, I think that FT already caused an upset when they got one point over ST (even though at the end of the third day I think ST was tied with Lamia) and Raven Tail was so far ahead of the competition on the Second day it's not even funny. But yeah, I don't see how there could be much of an upset, UNLESS Kagura manages to kick everyone's asses because so far only Mermaid Heel is down in points (if you couldn't tell, I REALLY want Mermaid Heel to get some points!) but honestly, I feel like if it weren't for Kagura and Millianna being on MH's team, they wouldn't have gotten very far. Looking at the battle and competition scores of MH, the only two to get 10's for MH ARE Kagura and Millianna, I think everyone else got 3 or less? Scratch that, Risley got 6 points on Chariot. But seriously, it doesn't seem like other than Kagura and Millianna MH is very powerful. It only has two members left AND is in a deficit of points. As much as I want Kagura to shine, I don't think her guild would be very powerful without her.

(FYI Steel-type is resistant to Dark-type, so even in Pokemon Rogue is at a disadvantage ;P) But back to Gajeel. It's Rogue's long awaited match with Gajeel after saying his name like 6 million times (in bed) I MEAN over the entirety of the competition. ANYWAYS. I'm hoping it won't be turned into a joke like the tag-team match was and I'm hoping that finally Gajeel and Rogue will hit the spotlight because they seem like secondary members with how little anyone mentions them (but then again, I suppose everyone knew that this would be their only match-up XP)

And then we get to Laxus and Orga, another long awaited match-up that everyone predicted. Mashima was basically spoon-feeding the match-ups to us before hand (though the three-way battle was a bit of a surprise, actually). I like that Laxus has placed "Fairy" over "God." I thought he might ask if Orga can slay a Dragon, but I suppose Fairies work too ;P

Then Jura just watches with his goatee, Lyon isn't even in sight, nor is Gray, and Juvia + Chelia are still being trolled by Mashima. I'm actually kind of hoping that Gray shows up to save Juvia and then face Lyon (who's probably stalking Juvia anyways) and maybe Jura? I think that'd be interesting, a four-way battle. Seriously, I really like Juvia as a character (not just for her Water magic either, she's a sincerely interesting stalker).

MASHIMA GIVE JUVIA MORE NON-TROLLED PAPER-TIME. I mean, Mira, Cana, Laxus, Elfman, and Gajeel, all "Major supporting characters" have (or are going to have) their share of the spotlight! Some of them already take it without even doing anything (coughLaxuscough)! GIVE SOME OF DAT TO JUVIA AND SHELIA.

But anyways. Kagura vs. Erza when both are kind of beaten-up seems interesting, I'm hoping it'll take more than 6 pages in the next chapter since it's the titular fight, but it'll probably finish in the next chapter so that Mashima can move on to the other fights he's begun drawing.

Maybe Minerva can't take things that the person's holding? Like when she stole Lucy's keys, she wasn't holding on to them. But Kagura and Erza hold onto their swords, so maybe that's why she doesn't take them?

Anyways. GAAH Thursdays can't come fast enough without school being next week ;_;