User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 351: Eternal Flame, Review./@comment-4449950-20130913044605

Am I seriously the only person here who liked the chapter? >__>

The cover was awesome! I really like Lyon and that last sentence about him not really fawning over women but raising eyebrows when he did so with Juvia was great, because in all honesty when he suddenly fell for her I was a bit surprised, because I thought it was weird for his character. Glad to see it was ;D

As for the actual chapter, well, it was just so much better than the last couple of weeks. The Eternal Flame is frozen, which is great, and Gray ran from that monster rather than fighting it, which is great.

I mean, how stupid would it have been if the Flame wasn't frozen and they just used it to melt the village? Or if Gray had turned and gotten rid of that cyclops/bird/slug/tadpole/Cheshirecat/wtfeverIdunno creature? That would have been shit... so what happened was more preferable by far.

And then, THEN, just when I thought Mashima was going to pull some shit and undo these good points by making Gray pull some BS and unfreeze the Flame, it disappears altogether! >:) YEEEEES!! *thumbs up* Suck on that Gray! Look what you've done! I hope Flare gives him at least a slap for making the village guardian disappear.

And now that the only seeming hope -the Flame- is gone, and some evil is approaching, I can only hope all shit will break loose next week :D

So, not an amazing chapter, but definitely better than everyone is saying it is... :/