User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 493: The White Dragneel, Review./@comment-4449950-20160713020037

Might as well add my five cents, even if it's mostly negative and what not >__> Kinda wishing I had something positive to say, but I'm not gunna make up crap to try and praise something I don't like. *goes to re-read chapter to comment*


 * Meh cover. Kinda sick of "Juvia in a revealing outfit waiting for Gray" covers. I wanna see other, non-FT members :/ Virgo made me laugh though lol XD
 * Oh ffs, this is why I remember hating this chapter. I've said it before and I'll say it AS MANY FUCKING TIMES AS NEED BE, but Mashima, god damn it, you DON'T have to make all the bad guys assholes for them to be bad guys!!! Like... seriously. Antagonist is not defined in the dictionary as "asshole". Someone doesn't need to be an asshole to be an antagonist, they just have to be against the protagonists. Please, for the love of peace, stop making pretty much all your bad guys to something stupid like strip their opponent, threaten to mutilate them, look at their apparently defeated opponent and then decide to mess around with them because "I'm so strong" rather than kill them, or have them unneedingly assault someone (or crucify them, in this arc) for the sake of highlighting that they are bad. They are against FT, the protagonists. I am automatically going to side with FT. Zeref wants to take over the world, that makes his underlings "bad guys" for me by default. In fact, I'd like it more if they had interesting reasons for following this bad guy. THAT'S WHY ULTEAR WAS SUCH A GOOD CHARACTER! She was doing bad things she disliked because she thought if she helped Hades she'd go back in time and erase all the bad anyway. She was interesting and a genuinely unique character. This bland BS of "let's prove the bad guys are actually bad" annoys the shit out of me and Irene has now been officially scratched from my potentially good 12S list... leaving... well, no one really at this stage. I like none of the Spriggan 12 so far, which is downright sad because I've always been able to find a few bad guys in each group that I kind of like. I just think it's sad Mashima had to fall back onto this old, worn out method he has and degrade Mira at the same time by stripping her and pretending to kill her and all that shit. *sighs*
 * On this note: Mira dying and being saved in the same chapter >__> *sighs again* Bad enough we had the stupid spoilers guy causing idiots to go mad at the thought of her dying, but it wasn't even worth it.
 * More Spriggans fighting amongst themselves. Gods, you'd think Zeref could hire a bunch of strong Mages who aren't 5 year-olds right??
 * The bit with Angel and Yukino was nice imo. Good to get more of a justification for Angel's being in CrimeS. It gives more meaning to her personal journey, and not that she's just there because her comrades decided to join :) Plus, crying Angel is cute~
 * Uhhhh, shrinking a hole after it's been put in someone's chest doesn't save them. Unless Brandy can now regrow human tissue and organs with her Magic .-. I don't even get how what works... did Mira's broken organs stretch to fill the gap left... or regenerate... or...?? o__O
 * "The 12 are gathering". Sooo... actually or just in phrase? Because if actually, does that mean Jellal didn't beat 9heart and Ajeel is still kicking and Bradman's back? Please... no...
 * Larcade Dragneel? Oh boy >__> Just how many relatives does Natsu have kicking around? Might as well call in Sally, his sister, Micah and Francine his cousins and Aunt Cassy Dragneel, his great aunt .-. This had better lead to something good, or I swear...