User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 518: Master Enchant, Review./@comment-24367018-20170121123557

Ok, let's have a half-pissed reaction to this chapter and see if booze causes it to be tolerable...


 * 1) Cover page. Is Happy. wfc? Not me.
 * OK, Irene with blood dripping down her face whilst fuming is a good image.
 * 1) Big explosion. Yawn. This coming from a pyromaniac that loves explosions I might add.
 * 2) Meh.
 * 3) Selfish ramblings. Nice boots though, never really appreciated them till now.
 * 4) Irene letting her actions be clouded by rage. Not always a bad thing, but it ain't working for her in this instance.
 * 5) Crap translation of a friendship speech is even worse than well translated ones O_o Poor translations are meant to make things funnier though! DX
 * 6) I feel like a Dragonforce song pun should be made at this point... Nope, can't think of one.
 * 7) Repeat previous.
 * 8) And again. It was cool the first time seeing Irene go all dragon, doesn't quite have the same impact the second time.
 * 9) O_O Holy crap someone actually broke Erza! About goddamn time someone managed that! :D
 * 10) More villain monologuing... And trying to make us believe Erza is up against the odds. Yeah, no. Not falling for it Hiro.
 * 11) Madara, Jellal, and about 300 other characters called; they want their spell/power back. Though it is cool to know that Jellal's not the only one that can use SEMA.
 * 12) Piss off is it impossible. Stop being over-dramatic woman.
 * 13) Yet more doom-mongering and down-playing the odds.
 * 14) And all of a sudden I'm reminded of Weird Al Yankovic voicing his lyrics backwards perfectly in Amish Paradise for that one scene in the music video.
 * 15) Ok the Titania speech was pretty cool. Even I'll admit that.
 * 16) Aaaaaaand now she's ruined it.
 * 17) As for what your daughter is doing Irene; screwing your introductory arc over yet a-bloody-gain.

All in all. No. Booze does not make the chapter tolerable. 4/10 would not booze read again.

And before all the fanboys and girls start with the whole "if you don't like FT, don't read it" shit, I would just like to point out that FT is my favourite manga series. Bar none. Erza just irks me a lot for being a permanent perfect foil to every single bloody villain/antagonist/antihero that's put in front of her. And it's just boring now.

Honestly what Erza needs to be redeemed, in my personal view, is to lose a fight or two or to never win another fight ever again. Never before has the phrase "learn more from defeat than in victory" been more apt for a character.