User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 315: Rosemary, Review and Commentary/@comment-24.87.61.44-20130120011551

I wish you luck in your endeavours to study ^.^

But anyways. I was excited to read this chapter, and then I stopped being happy when Plot Armour was requip'd. Seriously, like one panel for Erza's rematch with Kagura? That was so freaking lame, I couldn't even comprehend it.

Rosemary = the village they lived in. That was a pretty sweet move by Mashima, I will admit. I enjoyed the back story, Erza being from the same village as Kagura and Simon was kind of nice, but I feel like that came out of nowhere, just as much as Erza helping Kagura hide. Like, it seems like a good device, but it wasn't mentioned any time prior to when it needed to be important, and as such seems like a dues ex machina to me. I mean, if Kagura had said in the previous chapter, "I managed to get away because another girl helped me" or something then I wouldn't be crapping on it so hard, but all she said was, "I managed to get away." Character development points = 0. For both her and Erza.

But wait! Kagura begins crying because she realised how much her hatred of Jellal was consuming her! And just as she's about to confess that she lost the fight, she gets stabbed! Character development points are STILL 0! Although, character psyche/development for Minerva is now like +10 points for this chapter.

Erza pulls her nakama face and gets a -10 points for character development. Seriously. Nothing new happens to Erza. I'm a big fan of Fairy Tail, but Erza hardly grows as a character. Her fight with Asuma was fine, and giving herself up to prevent the Tower of Heaven's explosion was great too, but with 315 chapters and only 2 events which allowed for character development is not enough for a major character role. (I could also get into Natsu, but he's currently growing in GMG, surprisingly.)

Anyways, Minerva gets all high and mighty and it's fucking amazing. I'm not much of a Minerva fan, but I have to admit she's great at being the villain. I just wonder how Millianna is doing right now ;_; that poor kitty. And honestly, she's gotten more character development in her passed 50/60 chapters than Erza has the entire series. (Perhaps that's a hyperbole, but Erza is an incredibly static character.)

Despair probably means we're going back to the Lucy Rescue team, but I can always dream that means Gray gets hurt and Juvia gets crazy bitch on whoever hurt him. Juvia needs dat screen time ;_; It could also be Mermaid's despair over losing Kagura to such a cheap move. We could see Igneel and the other Dragons preparing for the Ryuuosai, Iunno how sad that is, but it could be. It might be Gajeel/Rogue, since Rogue seems like an emo person, although he's got a warmer heart than Sting does, and all he says is "Gajeel". We could shift focus to Sting, since he's as depressed as the inside of little girls who "#cutforbeiber". ANYWAYS. Hope that it's not just me thinking it when I say that Erza is as static as electricity ._.