User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 522 & 523: Gray's Trump Card & Is Destiny Burning, Review/@comment-25111584-20170218071635/@comment-31.132.65.54-20170218155107

@Sane Lunatic Props for the points you made on Zeref behavior. He apparently knows the enemy, but doesn't take any countermeasures against them (like with Makarov and Fairy Law). And the cliche villain -I'm going to tell you my plan, because you are going to die anyway (and I'm going to fail to kill you)- trope. Yeah, Zeref is virtually a dumb caricature of his former self at this point.

Ultear disrespectful treatment shows what a load of crap all this nakama talk is in this manga. All that "Live for your friends, don't die for them", "Rely on your nakama", "Don't leave them" ect. only matters when a main character is involved and it is conventional for them. Gray can sacrifice himself how many times he want, because Natsu will always arrive to stop him and even Ur will appear in his subconscience to encourage him to live. But when Ultear want's to give away her life for the greater cause she is all to herself. And after everything is done she is left behind with no recognition and everyone forgets how much they owe her.