User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Episode 263: Tartaros arc: Soaring in Ishgar, Review/@comment-24277053-20151212131339

Wow what an episode, first of all Mard Geer great power that is going to kill Zeref, Natsu and Gray completely no sells it, makes him looks laughable. And knowing what I know now in the manga and I will say it without spoiling anything, but what is the point of all this, what does Mard Geer really trying to accomplish?

We see some extra not in the manga, such as the other guilds, in the manga the only other guild we see trying to stop Face is Blue Pegasus, everything else is all extras, I wonder was this more stuff that Hiro had to cut from the manga, or did the anime team decide to add that. Great to see the other guilds, Mermaid Heel with Kagura, Lamia Scale with Jura, Lyon, and that bunch, the rest of Sabertooth is also here as well, even Quarto Cerbes is included even though Hiro buried and pissed on everyone in Quarto Cerbes except for Bacchus with the guild card covers in this arc, and even Twilight Orge who just does a classic epic fail.

Gray unleashed a new attack on Mard Geer, he is now half demon, and Natsu has to put the final blow, and Mard Geer is defeated, looks like Natsu and Gray are going to fight for the book of E.N.D. and they both want to follow their dad's wishes, sorry Gray but I am trusting the judgement of Igneel someone who once the dragon king long ago to know more about the book of E.N.D. than Silver who was just some dude.

Face if activated however Mard Geer is defeated before he can take advantage, however no magic is bad news, as Ishgar is in ruins, things are not looking good when OMG the other dragons show up. This is what I have been waiting for. I don't know why Igneel didn't have them all gang on Acnologia, instead of fighting him alone, the glory hound, I guess we know where Natsu gets that from. Ha ha ha.

This has to be one of the best episodes of this arc, and next week, oh man the feels.