User blog comment:Real Godisme/Chapter 476 Review/@comment-25111584-20160307171559/@comment-25111584-20160307193015

@Nick: The main concern here is that this is completely contrary to Sherria's current personality. Completely out of character. Sure, as you said, there might be a future where this personality changes and she obtains great power, but... isn't that like saying that Happy might one day obtain the power to solo Acnologia and TO can unlock that power? Infinite possibilities, after all. ._./

Also, as I mentioned, what about other characters who have no reason to ever fall behind Sherria? At what point in their lives do you expect them to defeat an opponent of the level of a Shield of Spriggan? I definitely never expect them to. This event seems like spitting on them. I don't mind rearrangement of the power scales. Jellal becoming stronger than Gildarts, Natsu becoming stronger than Jellal, Gajeel becoming stronger than Erza. I can actually see it. But I can't see Lucy becoming stronger than Cana through ordinary methods. Similarly, I just don't see why Sherria should become stronger than TGT or the others, other than Mashima simply saying that it is so. Character development is thrown in the trash. The way her character has been written till now is completely ignored. That's... not good.

Also, this is hardly the only reason for hating this fight. There's many others, like Ultear's idiocy, Ice Idiots' inaction, Sky Sisters' stupidity (and arrogance, imo). Dimaria basically being nerfed 'cuz FT has to win no matter what. Then there's the whole sacrifice, which I don't really get what the fuss is about. Diabetes seems to be more of a pain. The absolute retarded strategy which sends the goalie to the forefront right from the beginning of the match. Chronos' exceptional lack of actual ability. Dimaria's lack of anything that would make her seem to have any actual combat capabilities aside from hax Magic. A huge amount of other things which make this battle incredibly bad.

I love Ultear. I love Wendy. I love Sherria. I love Dimaria. They are all on my favourites list. However, their actions in the last three Chapters are so incredibly frustrating that they all dropped of that list and three of them have even made my hate list. And the implicit inactivity of the Ice Idiots has dropped them to my hate list too. I think I deserve a bit of overreacting. /o/

@Lord: It depends on the type of sacrifice. Don't want Lisanna to solo Acnologia just because she's willing to give her life. Would rather have Laxus OP Acnologia. This is nowhere near that level, but I'd rather have Laxus actually think through his fight and win than Sherria basically OHKO her opponent, no matter the sacrifice (which I don't think is that great anyway).