User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 496: Forward, Review./@comment-25111584-20160801144008

Finally you bring the rants and raves back! \( ^_^)/

A fight between God Serena's eight elements and Gildarts' Crash has so much potential to be friggin' epic! Trust Mashima to butcher it in favour of a mindnumbingly boring Ice vs. Ice & Water. And an Ice & Water team makes no sense at all! e_e

Hated the Chapter, so pretty much agree only about the Invel battle thing. Ironic that, athough our reasons for dreading that are completely different. Considering he's my favourite Shield, I'm just frustrated by the fact that the rationality and intelligence he has shown till now will suddenly all disappear and he'll get curbstomped by the unholy combination of Ice Idiot and Water Whore, most likely after a lot of mediocre action and with a sickeningly shippy (and regarding the worst ship in FT, at that) conclusion. Would say I'm prepared for this, but I'm not. Just desperately gonna hope I have to eat my words. ( ._.)/