User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 480: The Northern Gravestone, Review./@comment-59.92.59.215-20160404152242

Such a conflicting Chapter. As a standalone, it's pretty great. However, when considered a part of the arc and FT, it quickly becomes ridiculous... This might get long...

Brandish: I might never have liked her, but that's because she just isn't my type of character. However, she at least had a certain type of believable and consistent personality. Now, she's... what? She used to find everything absolutely tedious, right? Only had time for cute things? Then I'd expect her to either doze all day long in prison or maybe borrow a book and read. Not try to provoke her guards, save her enemies' lives and, above everything else, bother giving her enemies the time of day, the whole (ridiculous and plot-convenient) Marin and past-plot thing notwithstanding. She's basically lost all her character. Another victim of Mashima not really giving a damn. *sighs*
 * Others might feel that her actions are not OOC. Well, opinions differ and I can't convince you otherwise. Likewise, you can't convince me otherwise. /o/

August: Yeah, whatever. After the lack of tension in the battles against five other Shields, I have no interest in any of the remaining ones. August might very well have an awesome battle, but, unless somebody from a supposedly sailed ship dies, I couldn't really care less. .-. On the other hand, I could potentially hate this battle if Makarov, Gildarts or Cana die. Or, even worse, Gildarts and Cana team up. D:

Northern Graveyard: As a standalone... BLOODY AWESOME SCENE, ESPECIALLY SINCE I CAN'T SPOT MINERVA IN THERE! \( ^_^)/ However... Then we have the Twin Dragons losing miserably. Seriously? FT always sucked at power-scaling, but this easily takes the cake. Sky Bitches having no problem in standing up to a Shield, but the Twin Dragons get totally defeated? Mashima, plz stop with the infuriating wanking of characters. >.>
 * Laxus: Imma so hax that, even with my body falling apart, I can match a Shield who can single-handedly fire Etherion.
 * Sky Bitches: Shields of Spriggan? We eat those buggers for breakfast. Without milk.
 * Would be cool if this is one of Midnight's ploys... but then that would be speak quite badly about the Shields' intelligence... not that the likes of Dimaria gave us any sign of possessing any. >.>

Neinhart: I thought he'd be an awesome, dour guy. Somebody serious who'd go for the kill (August and Bradman still in the running there). We just got Rustyrose 2.0. Don't care.

Historia of Corpses: Nyahahahahahaha~ Mashima seriously can't stop turning everything into a farce, huh? Bring together the Angst Triangle, then have them fight somebody who can manifest a Simon simulacrum? How bloody convenient. Y'know the worst part? This Magic would be absolutely fab if not for the sickeningly transparent intentions.
 * Mashima has seriously forgotten how he wrote Jellal's evil phase, right? The guy ruled with cunning, not through fear. His slaves were, for all intents and purposes, just that: slaves. But he was charismatic enough to make most of them his followers. It was after his rule began that events like OS' formation became possible. He was evil, but he wasn't destructive! Sure, he might have made a few people unhappy out of necessity, but, for the most part, manipulation was his preferred method. Most people believed him to be benevolent. So... what friggin' sordid tale of corpses are we talking about here?! I normally don't allow my distaste for FT to extend to Mashima, but Mashima is definitely to be blamed here. :/
 * And all that had to be done for this to be good was to remove Erza and Kagura from this team. Seriously, add Gray instead and this would be awesome. Heck, even better if Jellal manages to defeat Neinhart alone, but Gray gets completely broken and runs away to become a baddie after being damned for his very existence.
 * Off topic: And I want Gray to be broken and die before the end of the arc oh-so-very-much. 'Cuz, honestly, the guy has no real role in FT anymore. Only the incredibly flawed 'an MC fights one of the tough opponents'. Despite the somewhat cool battle, I hate Gray vs. Rufus due to this. Imagine my hatred towards a similar situation in a chaotic war involving the most friggin' predictable enemy of all. It makes me retch to just think about it.

Meredy: Leave those three cowardly dumbfucks and go help your foster brother NOW! >.<

--Sane Lunatic, the guy who just can't seem to stop hating FT Chapters these days, yet refuses to stop reading FT or stop commenting about the Chapters.