User blog comment:B214/Chapter 500: Fire and Ice/@comment-29874610-20160905143117

Well, this chapter had it's up and downs. But first of all I am new here so - Hello to everyone! I decided to start commenting on chapters, starting with the 500th, so here I go.

First of all, as I thought, Brandish didn't want to kill Lucy and Natsu. What I like about it though, is that she decided to ONLY spare them, and kill the others. That means she didn't automatically join the Fairy Tail side, which means that she will get some good development, and that is always good. Dimaria seems to feel betrayed by Brandish, so I'm quite interested to see how things unfold in the next chapter, considering how she felt about Brandish. So that's a good thing as well. Also I'm glad that the black eyes were explained - it was Eileen's enchantment all along, and I knew that. However I thought that he himselft is an enchantment, but it turns out that she enhanced him instead. Which is really cool, and brings Elieen even higher up in my ranks.

I'll be honest - I was quite hyped to see Neinhart all enhanced with power. Especially considering the fact that he is the weakest of the Spriggan. And then comes Natsu... |-( To be honest I love seeing Natsu fight, I love Natsu as a character, BUT I really hope that he didn't just one-shot Neinhart. He already got one-shotted by Jellal, which I can forgive, but PLEASE don't let him get one-shotted again.

And now about the Gray and Juvia part. I prefer to look at the brighter sides of Fairy Tail, and look for the good and not the bad. Especially since Fairy Tail is getting so much hate everywhere, EVEN on this forum(and here I thought that this would be the one place where people don't complain that much). But Juvia's revival was BS. And no, it was logical and all, but all the fake deaths are starting to bug me. When Gajeel was revived it bugged me a bit, but i stll loved the chapter of his "death" - it was so emotional and as I think it's still one of the best chapters of Fairy Tail. But this is really going overboard. I understand that Hiro tries to show how dangerous this war is(because EVERYONE seems to complain that it isn't), but Juvia dying and getting back in 1 chapter is BS. However, I did like to see Gray rage - even though Invel got defeated, Gray going full on out was cool and emotional. Invel's armor was cool I guess, but what I'm more interested in is - can Gray use it now? Because that would be a cool mini-powerup.

And at last the end of the chapter. Invel revealing to Gray that Natsu is END. Something I waited for so long!! I cannot wait to see Gray's reaction next week. That will be something that we all predicted and we all have been waiting for.

And so, to the conclusion. Personally, I really liked this chapter. It wasn't phenomenal, but it wasn't bad either(except Juvia BS). It had its good moments, and at last felt like we are moving on with the story. But I'm a bit dissapointed, because I imagined something epic to happen. It's not everyday a manga series gets to 500 chapters you know! And Hiro usually likes to put big plot twists/points in landmarks like that. So as a chapter it was good, but didn't meet my expecations. The reveal was worth it though!