User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 467: Mother's Key, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20160104215322

What to say about this chapter? It was pretty meh I guess? I spoiled myself on the "big event" so I don't know if Aquarius coming back is supposed to be shocking. To be fair when I saw that she was coming back this chapter I thught that it would be because of Brandish's actions or something like that but it looks like she can come to the real world without the aid of a key just like Loki, and to be fair this disapoints me a bit. It's like all the emotion, all the feels from that chapter were for nothing.

Brandish's reason for wanting to kill Lucy are definetly suspect. I mean, yeah Layla could very well be an evil mafia leader dominating Ishgar from the shadows and mercilesly killing all who oposed her, like Brandy's mother and we wouldn't be able to refute that because of how much we know her, but so far we've been led to believe that she was a nice lady, helping Zeref, the dragons and all that. Killing someone who you presented with a valuous present unless she had some serious reason to do it and in the end it was just haded to the one it was intended anyway? Can't see that happeneing. What I can see happeneing is that Brandish's mother was "evil" like Zoldick, or was against the openeingof the gate and died trying to prevent Layla from doing it. Alternativelly Brandish was just too young to understand what happened and/or was tricked by someone about the circunstaancies. After all, how did she end up on Alvarez?

ABout the good things on this chapter, well, we had Dimaria and that's always good, and she's fighting Kagura, that's predictable of course Erza will join soon, and I just noticed but he choice for pants aren't thee best IMO. And I guess I'm starting to get a bit bothered by her obsession with Brandish, I feel like it's starting to go from cute to creepy. Also I like Wahl's style. He seemed like one of those annoying bosses in games that keep attacking you from out of range while you have to deal with his annoying minions.

And I don't know if someone besides me thought about this but now we can sort of pinpoint Brandish's age (no? Then I guess I'm just a bit strange). Judging from her apearence at the flash back and our knowledge of the timeline, about 20 years of Layla's retirement, plus the time for her mother to die, plus 7 year timeskip, plus time after they come back, GMG and Tartarus timeskip, let's put 1.5 years I would say she is about 33-35. Yep, older than we thought.

Nothing to say about next chapter, flashback incoming. also hope Hiro can give us some good explanation on Aquarius being back. Bonus points if he invoke the diferent time for the spirits and Aquarius say that she didn't miss Lucy because for her it was only three days.

Happy new year Raven and every one else!