User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 473: Red Lightning, Review./@comment-1776824-20160215141101

ANALYSIS TIME

The Good
 * The name of Laxus' attack. It's pretty cool. Raikou Akamikazuchi is also another way to say something like Lightning Emperor: Red Lightning/Thunder (sort of like Roaring Thunder). However, stream has it as mercury fulminate, which is an explosive that was used once upon a time to ignite other explosives in percussive caps. In other words, it basically caused the friction that ignited gunpowder. Either way, lightning that is blood or lightning that is explosive both ultimately are "lightning that surpasses lightning" or whatever the fuck. Lol. That part made me laugh.
 * Laxus using Jutsu Shiki in such a creative way? It was kind of cool. Just a simple rune that anyone could use, but it could have been used in a better, more effective way.
 * WAHL MOTHERFUCKING ICHT

The Decent
 * Laxus getting hit with lightning. You'd think Wahl would have seen he's a Dragon Slayer that can absorb lightning when he analyzed him with Weakness (as we saw him capable to do when constructing soldiers), but I guess the "forgetting" was what gave Laxus the magical strength to pull off his shit-show. And don't argue, "It was the proxy," because Wahl created that proxy in exact image of himself, and he was fully aware of everything it was doing. Even apparently acting through it from a distance.
 * The flashback was okay.

The Bad
 * The entire premise to this chapter. Let me explain. Magical Barrier Particles are poison. They are anti-magic. They feed on what Ethernano in the atmosphere they can get, contaminate the rest, and when inhaled, eat the magic inside your body and leave you with a sort of "super" magic deficiency disease, which kills you if not treated immediately. I say super because Makarov's was treatable due to his disease being caused by another wizard. Laxus, the Raijins and Yajima needed blood samples because it was so potent, and it came from a biological source. So now that I've refreshed your minds as to what Magical Barrier Particles are, let's take a look at this chapter and see that the creator of the series retconned his own particles into a substance that acts not only as poison, but also as actual barrier particles. This doesn't make any sense. It has barrier in the name? Is that it? I'll look into what Kodansha USA calls these bits of poison, but basically Wahl disables Jutsu Shiki, which apparently contains the exact opposite of magic itself, which also cures Laxus' poison. Umm, no. Sorry, but I don't usually forget what your shit does, Hiro. Especially when I wrote "poisoned by Magical Barrier Particles" a gajillion times.
 * Lightning that surpasses lightning? What? Okay, so he added an explosive element to it...somehow. So it's lightning that is more explosive/lightning that has blood. It's not like Gray's ice at all. Gray froze his own blood (ice is a solid state that any sort of liquid can obtain if you freeze it) because Arc of Time can't touch the time of organic material (without a cost, as we saw). Therefore, his ice could not be melted. Here? IT'S STILL FUCKING LIGHTNING. At the core it is lightning. Wahl is immune to electricity, right? And yet here I see something that at the core is still electricity working on him. I'll have to wait for the raw to see if it's Lightning Emperor or Mercury Fulminate (that means nobody make the goddamn page, ffs). This is literally a combination of the two scenarios I saw playing out: use lightning until it works; or hit him really, really hard.

The What-Could-Have-Been
 * If the Jutsu Shiki had a rule or something associate with it that took effect before Wahl could deactivate it. Like make the barrier's rule, "this barrier cannot be dispelled until one combatant has died," thus forcing Laxus and Wahl to take each other out with Wahl's Etherion, or anything else that would basically force Wahl to be caught in his own blast. That would've been awesome. Also would have contained the explosions.

Overall, the little bits and bobs don't make the entire premise of Laxus' victory any better. The chapter is still shit. He just had Wahl do all that stuff so we'd have something to wank ourselves to and feel, "Oh, okay, yeah I guess the chapter wasn't so bad because of Wahl doing stuff," but I wholeheartedly disagree. Everything Wahl did was meaningless. Why? Because in the end, no matter what, all Wendy and Sherria have to do is beat Dimaria, and boom. Laxus is back in action by the end of the day. Together, they can heal anything.

 Score : 2/10. Why do I bother getting my hopes up for a fight anymore?